Testing one, two, testing one, two. Let me know if everybody can hear me. I'll put the slide up in a minute. Wonderful. Let me know if you see this. Everything, excellent. There I go. I'll be right back. Hello everyone. Welcome to the 7-1-9 Center Central. I welcome to everyone who used the drug case today. We want to thank again each and every one of you that was a voice earlier of our host presenter. And we'll be starting promptly in just about a minute. Again, this is Online Trader Central. I want to welcome each and every one of you. Paul Lange is also here with us today. Again, this is Online Trader Central, your host and presenter, Melissa Arbaugh. And with that, let's begin. Percussion, drummers, are you ready? And with that, ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together and welcome the host and presenter for today. Please welcome from thestocksquish.com. Please welcome Paul Lange. Kevin, thank you everyone at Online Trader Central. Welcome. My name is Melissa Arbaugh. Some of you already know me and I own a company called The Stocks. Wish for those of you that do not. And we're going to talk today about trading on the side of institutional money and how if you do this, you can make substantial gains in the market. Some people get into training because they want to do it for a living. Some people do it because they want to make extra money. The reason that I initially started out as a day trader was because I wanted to change careers. And you really can make great money in the market if you know what to do. It's one of these very specific types of things. And we're going to talk about that today. And we're going to talk about how if you know and can pinpoint the side of power money in the market because that's really what institutional money is, you can earn a very good living. I want to point out the rainbow here. I actually took this picture from my phone. Isn't that fantastic? This is the Hudson River. So beautiful rainbow here, springtime in New York. If you have any questions, you can email me at melissa at the stockswush.com. And you can feel free to ask me questions as we go along here today. I have the box window down in the corner. I'm going to be flipping back and forth. You can also call me at 929-3200 gap. And I encourage you to go to YouTube and subscribe. I put a lot of webinars and a lot of market updates and plays of the days on YouTube. That's probably the best social media site to follow me on. So many of you are here today because you have no idea what to do with your trading. But some of you are here today because you are looking to make more money. And the 300,000 was in the title of the webinar today because a lot of people say, wait a minute, why does he amount of money that could sustain me and a family of maybe two kids in say even New Jersey, New York or wherever you live in the country in the US or if you live outside of the US, a lot of people need to make a certain standard of living in order to support their families. And some people are falling short of that in the last few years due to the economy. You can trade for a living if you want or you can trade the market. The strategy I trade, which I'm going to talk about actually only happens in the beginning of the period of the day. So between 930 and 10, you can trade this strategy and be done and still do another job. So if you have income goals and in the last few years, you're not achieving them, you might want to think about something else. You have to think about if you're earning really what you're worth, meaning can you continue sustaining and giving out XYZ amount of energy to a company, for example, and not really getting the payoff? Maybe you're not getting the raise as you deserve. I don't know, whatever your situation is. But if you're in a situation where you need to make more money between now and the end of 2016, you still have time. Why is it only me? You've got a good seven months left in the year. And if you're falling far behind shy a little bit of your income goals, you've got to look at saying, how can I ramp it up? Maybe I can do something else. That something else could be a part-time job or it could be something like trading the market. It only sets up in the first half an hour of the day. If I don't take a trade by 10 a.m., I'm not in the trade on the day. And I always say to people, you know, how committed are you to your financial future right now for the rest of the calendar year? Are you committed? And sometimes what happens is people start out, they have their New Year's resolutions, they have their goals, then the year starts out, it's into February, March, they're falling short of their goals and then they kind of just give up. Well, there's seven months of the year left. You don't have to give up. You still have plenty of time to turn your situation around if you're not making the money that you want to this calendar year in 2016. I mean, you got to ask yourself, like, are you in control?  Are you in control of your own financial situation? And are you really at the point where you say, wait a minute, I'm not maximizing my own true potential. I could be doing something else. And oftentimes it comes back to what do you believe? What do you believe you're worth? What do you believe you're worth and do you believe that you can make more money? Well, making $300,000 a year in the market is possible. It's actually not that much money when you look overall about the money that flows through the market. It comes out to be about 25 grand a month. So if you break it up, and we're going to talk about this today, it ends up being with size, a few trains. And we're going to talk about something I call chunking it out. Once you know how to make money, the amount you make is simply a function of what you risk. So you determine what you want to risk, that gets you to the goal of how much you want to make.  Most traders think that this number is only attainable trading for hours every day, but that's not true. Again, I'm saying it's a very specific time period. This is where the institutional money comes into play. Institutions take positions on or off into the open. So if you catch those moves with the power of money, then you have the capability of making the money that you need without sending it in front of the computer until four o'clock every day, which I don't do. The idea of trading all day is not the way to do it. That's not the way to make this kind of money in the market. And we're going to talk here about how it's just about a couple of trades. So $300,000, it sounds like a lot of money because maybe you've never made this much money in your life. But actually, if you look at it as a whole, break it down. Again, I call it chunking it out per trade per week, per month, it's very doable. I just talked to the trading room about this actually this morning and I said, you know what? I'm working on a sheet that I'm going to give everyone. It's a goal sheet. And I never thought of this before because I have this for myself and my mind, but I never really wrote it out for the Rome people and my traders. But you know what? I'm going to give them an actual little goal sheet. You write it down. This is how you do it. This is above and beyond the GATT worksheet that I give everyone who does the class. When you think of chunking it out and breaking it down, then it becomes doable.  But it's not if you look at your overall broad market and how many stocks trade and how much money flows to the market every day, which is billions of dollars. And then for you to do it personally and pull this money out of the market, it's very realistic if you break it down per trade, per week, per month, okay? It comes out to be about six grand a week if you're looking at 50 weeks a year and there's 52 weeks in a year, but then there's holidays. Like I don't trade the week between Christmas and New Year. And there's times that the market is obviously close. You can Google it if you want to see the days in Aztec as closed. But it's approximately $1,200 a day if you look at it like that. I look at it even more of a different perspective, which I'm going to show you here. I look at it as, again, per week or even per month for myself. But if it helps you to look at it per day, it's $1,200 a day. So you could take 1,000 shares or something, 1,500 shares or something, the stock can move $1.50, boom, you're out. That's it. It's the amount of share size. Again, we're going to talk about that in reference to the risk. And here you can see. So I mean, this is an average, but I'm usually looking about a dollar move in the stocks that I'm trying to get into or make unless they're very cheap. So a dollar 20 times the share size of 1,000 is $1,200 profit. 60 cents, if something moves 60 cents, which we're going to look at some trades today that did only move 60 cents, didn't move a buck. 2,000 shares would be what? $1,200. 30 cents, 4,000 shares, $1,200. Usually the size that I'm taking out, the advanced level I'm trading out for eight years is between three and four and 5,000 on most stocks. Now there are some very cheap stocks that I trade that I will take 10,000 shares or more. And yet there are also some very, very expensive stocks that are over $100 that I will take, far less than 2,000 shares. So it depends on the price of the stock and then it depends on the size, but you're looking for the move. That tells you to move times the share size for the money you make. But if in your mind, mentally, you know, this is the goal, the monetary goal and you break it out, this is how you hit the mark. This is how you hit the 300K, okay? And this is like common sense. Common sense tells you that many stocks would volume move in the market at least a buck a day. Even more that move only 50, 60 cents and even more that only move 25, 30 cents a day. I mean, you could Google almost anything to see that stocks move 30 cents. So you have to conceptually think about it. And again, these moves are likely to happen every day and happen every single day. And let's look at one here. This is Target. Target, well-known company, everybody knows it. In fact, there's a lot of retail stocks, companies that are having earnings out this week. This is a daily chart. For those of you that have never traded before, this is a daily chart. So every bar here depicts a trading day, calendars down here of what's happening in Target. Now, I trade a strategy that is based on looking for what institutions are doing. How do I know what stock to trade? I figured out before 9.30. And if I figured out before 9.30, I'm good to go so that by the time the open hits at 9.30, I know to take the trade and I get into trade and I can make money quickly in that 30 minutes. Now, what happened here? This stock opened here in the morning, approximately 76 something. I'm gonna show you here the day before where it was. Now, this had an earnings up. It was up here. So the night before it closed, like it's 79 something, I think it was. The next day, it was much lower. When it opened at 9.30, there's something called pre-market data that you can see in a chart. And if you have a chart, you set it up. I'm not showing this here, but you can look at it and then you could see the stock is actually much lower all of a sudden now. In the morning, it could be eight o'clock in the morning whenever the time you're looking at your chart. And you see it's much lower. I have a method to determine what institutions are gonna do with it. Are they gonna buy, target that day or sell it? And that's how you know what direction to take the trade and you're looking for it, okay? Now, this is a five minute chart. You can train on a intraday chart that's a one minute, two minute or five minutes. I really prefer the one minute chart, but Target had a good setup here on a five minute chart on this day. So we're off the daily chart now in a five minute. So this is how you're taking the position. We were talking about your goal. Your goal is to get a move in Target, $1.20, 60 cents, whatever it is, that's what your goal is. You're trying to get, here is the short in the Target. So you would have rated this gap, looked at it and said, what am I doing? I'm looking for to determine if an institution is gonna sell the stock in Target or buy the stock in Target. Well, my system, the class I teach, the method that I advise for myself tells you, wow, this is a short. So then you will short the stock on selling action from the institutions, okay? Does everyone get this? And I feel free to ask questions and looking in the box and not seeing any questions. But if anyone has questions, you can ask me. So here's where you went into the position and here's the drop, okay? And here's the open actually where you get the confirmation of the sell-off right-hand tier of the open in and Target. So the answer was 76.69, were you shorted? You will put a stop, what does this mean? A stop means that if it goes over that price, you won't lose any more money than that. You will get hit out of the trade right there. If you take 5,000 shares of this, your risk on this would be what? Approximately 1,050. So this amount needs to be the same or close to the same for every trade. If your goal is to make 300K a year, you're gonna wanna risk about this amount. Everyone follow me. Now in this case here, you see the stock moves almost 70 cents. And if you had taken the trade, you could have made 3,450 bucks. It actually went past that. I'm gonna go back here. It actually went further, but the target really was 76. It kept dropping. It kept dropping in here and actually kept dropping the next day down, okay? Anyone have any questions about this? I know for those of you that have ran you to trading, you might not understand what I mean. This is what I teach in the class, but the general concept is that you would see Target in the pre-market before the US stock market opens at 930 and you would determine that institutions are gonna sell it before the market opens to know to watch the chart into this period here in the morning to take the trade. Does that make sense? I'm gonna go back here. I didn't miss any of those questions today. Okay. So let's keep going. Now, going back to what I was saying, you're looking for a sell-off if you're shorting. We're gonna go over along here in a little bit. If you're looking to go long, you will buy the stock, but in the case of Target, you're looking to short. And I actually prefer to short. For many, many people that know me, I prefer to short. I've always preferred to short. I think selling action happens much faster in stocks versus people that choose to buy because there's panic that comes into a stock in selling action, all right? Now, how much money you make is going back to what I was saying. It depends on the money that you risk, okay? And that's determined by the amount of shares you take based on the entry point in the stock. Like I was showing you, 69 by 90, all right? And so if you're looking for a target of 76, the whole number, you're saying, okay, I can make the approximately 69 cents, 70 cents. If it goes past the target, I might make a dollar. It did go past the 76 dollar target. You learn all this in the class, but all of this is based on something called advanced technical analysis, which is how you reprice action in charts, okay? So what you're trying to do is find one good trade a day like that, like the target. You can do other trades if you want to, but I find that you make more money and are more consistent and trade better if you take only one trade a day or at the most two because once that money is there, say you make over $3,000 in target, you've got your goal in for the day. Two trades like that a week, boom, you are on your way to making $300,000 a year. So you only need two targets a week and there's five days in the week you can trade. You follow me? So again, it is about chunking it out. How do you know what to watch target or how do you know what to watch any stock specifically on any day? Because of the strategy I'm looking for that is pinpointing the institutional positioning, okay? So it's really following the big money. Big money institutional money funds the big boys and that really means what it means, people that are running hedge funds, people that are running banks, okay? People that are taking big positions in the market that have millions and millions of shares that move stocks. I mean, everyone's hear has heard of Apple, okay? That's a well-known traded stock. Lots of banks and hedge funds are in Apple. They're invested in Apple. Some might be shorted, some might be long, but that's what I mean for example, I always trade stock that's heavily traded and I always trade stocks at a volume, okay? So we're talking about banks, institutions that take big positions, all right? They take large positions and they move the stocks. And whether they get in it for the long-term or the short-term it doesn't matter, we are looking to do it on the day. I'm a day trader. So what I'm teaching you is how to day trade in and out quickly in a one-minute chart. All I'm doing is following the move that that institution's gonna make on that any given day. I might be in a trade for two minutes, one minute, three minutes, five minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes. That's it, and then I'm out. If in the long-term, Apple for example, or in the long-term let's go back to Target, if in the long-term Target isn't a short, if the long-term Target actually is higher, it doesn't matter to me, I can short it on the day and make money and be done and have that money in my account and be flat it completely with the profits, even if the stock rallies and ends up making a new high in a week or a month from now. The nice thing about day trading is you don't have to figure out what the institutions are doing in the long-term. You absolutely don't. You only have to be right for a couple of minutes. It is about being right for that small, small period of time and I will tell you it is far easier, far, far easier to predict what stocks are gonna do in the shortest amount of time than in the longest amount of time. And now just think about what I just said here. This is common sense. Common sense tells you if you could predict where something's gonna go between now and two minutes from now, or predict where something's gonna go between now and two months from now, or predict where something's gonna go between now and two years from now, what would you say it's easier predicting? Between now and two minutes from now. In two years from now I think it happened. A presidential election will be elected a new president in the US which will affect the market somehow, some way. New people will be in charge. We're talking two years out. Nobody knows who's gonna get elected. All kinds of things could happen over the world that would change the US market. Economic reports. So there's so many things. So looking far out two years from now is more challenging to predict than in two minutes. So that's why day training is great. And again, the kind of money you can make with it so quickly is fantastic but you gotta take the size. Now let me look at some questions here, hold on. Carrie is saying is your system based on an indicator? No, it is not based on an indicator. I'll talk about this in a little bit more, Carrie, but I'll just tell you that my system is a self-created system. I made it up myself for myself. I never thought I'd teach anyone. It's based on the daily chart. I just look at a daily chart of the stock and I go over 26 points that are on the daily chart to determine if it's a short or a long. But I'm not looking for a perfect score. I'm looking for 20 points or more. If the stock gap's down, Carrie, and the stock rates 20 points or more, it's a short. If the stock gap's up, Carrie, I'm looking to go in the direction of the gap if it rates 20 points or more. So I'm always looking to go in the direction of the gap, but it's gotta rate 20 points or more per my 26 point daily chart rating system, which I'll talk about a little bit more, but that's the gist of it. So there isn't an indicator. You're not buying any indicators here. You learn it in the class. You manually do it. I have a worksheet you fill out. And this is what I was talking about. You actually will fill it out in the worksheet. Check, check, check, check, check, the ones that you have. Ameron wants me to go back about the target. Is that what you want me to go back to here? I gotta watch my time here. Are you talking about target strain? Let me just look here. Ameron, I'm not sure. Hopefully I'm pronouncing your name wrong. He's asking me about this bar, I believe. This is a doji, you're right. Again, I don't call bars by particular names, but there are books out there and candlesticks. And he is saying, what are you doing here with this, Melissa? It is a doji, okay? That's not the reason I shorted this here, or Paul, I think, called this one in the room. Anyways, this is not the reason. The reason I will tell you is the gap, or you wouldn't do anything with this at all. I mean, that's number one. The gap tells you're in target, it's a short. You're not gonna look to go longness, although you can see here that some people might have gone longness, and then they got stopped out under the low of the dead. But this is a rally that doesn't go anywhere. So it's nothing to do with the doji. Yes, it is one, but sometimes doji's flip. Sometimes doji's drop. So this is a neutral bar. The definition of a doji is neutral. It doesn't have a directional bias. It's flat. So you might not know to short it or go long in here with this jiggy here, but it's the idea that the stock couldn't go higher. But it is only because of the gap rating. I've got to be clear on that, because you're not gonna, first of all, you wouldn't short every doji or go long every doji, and you wouldn't short any rally failure or buy any support hold. It has to be in the overall strategy. That's the gap, which is found on the daily chart, like I said in the morning. And let me see where we were here. But good questions. You can keep asking me questions, that's fine. Now, here was one, okay, this was back from two weeks ago now. I think this was, bae, this was a great one. Again, you're looking for the stock to drop and determine what am I doing with this? Am I gonna go long and am I gonna short it? It was a short. So I rated the gap per my system and it's a short. And here you see it falling, and it was a short on the day and the stock kept dropping. How did something like this stop? This is a cheap stock. So you can load up a position here with something like this. Again, you're looking to take size, size, size, size, and that's how you're getting the numbers. You're gonna make $2,000, $3,000 a trade and sometimes more. And that's how you get this number of 25 grand a month. This stock rallied first. This was a great call because it rallied first, fell, rallied up again, held, and here's the short. But ultimately you were looking for the gap in Fay and saying, what is an institution gonna do? Are they gonna buy it or sell it? And I'm telling you this is a great call because you might have thought that this was a buy, an institution to buy because this first bar in the stock here was the open of the day at 9.30 is big. It's actually big. It's a big bar. What tells you that to buy this, even though the bar of the day in the open is big? The gap, the gap here. Oops, hold on, sorry. This, the gap that happened in here right before. This is into the open. So this is happening pre-market and you rate it. And if the rating tells it's a short, then you know it's a short and you know what the institutions are gonna do. If you can't predict that with the gap rating, you might have thought to go long this. In fact, I know traders did. I know traders did because the stock rallying fell and massively sell off through the low, went to a huge target on the day and the first bar was green. So you can't, you can't, you have to know what you're doing with this. You have to know what you're doing. And again, this is why people come to me and say, I wanna learn how to trade Melissa. If you don't know what you're doing with this stuff, you wanna know whether to buy, say, or go long it. A shorted. And if you don't know what to do, you can lose money in the market. If you take a trade, you know what to do. So the whole idea of hitting these numbers, these income numbers are what? You become an expert. You become an expert in it. Once you become an expert in it, then you can plop on the size by taking two, three, four, 5,000 shares. You can take size and risk $1,000, $1,000 in a lot of money. That's a rent for some people, not in New York, but in many other places, it's a mortgage, okay? In other states. But the point is though that that's a lot of money, okay? And you gotta know that you're gonna be right a high percentage of time. It's about probabilities. Again, this goes back to the common sense mentality. High probabilities tells you high probability say is a short on this day. Therefore, you take the trade when it sets up with the risk. How do you know? In the morning pre-market at 9.30, you are going to rate it. If it rates 20 points or more as a short, you short it. Or vice versa if you're going long, okay? This is a good trade. I'm showing this trade in here because I shorted this here at 14.30 with size, 5,000 shares, risk $1,250. And actually I got out of this, I'm not at the target. I got out of the first target, it was a little early. It dropped and broke in here and then went to a bigger number. So you could have made your whole goal for the week. And this one traded, you'd held at the target. And it actually kept going. I actually got out of this a little early, but I was so happy with the money I was up in it. And you never know, they could bounce. And I got my goal in and I'm done. That's another very important thing. Many, many people don't understand. Wait a minute, you know, what is your goal? If your goal is really to make $300,000 a year and you've made your goal and you're up in the trade, it's never over to the fat lady sings, get out. You know what I'm saying? So you have targets and you got to watch them. And there were several targets on this, but this was the first one. It did go to the bigger target though. It didn't actually be held at, you would have made over six grand. This is a nice call. Let me go back here. Yes, it's in the context of the gap. Every single solitary thing that I do always has to do with the gap. When I say I have 100% conviction, I absolutely love this thing. It's all with the gap. These entries I'm showing you, these one minute charts, if you said go look at Apple today, go look at this today, go look at the market today Melissa, go look at the spy or whatever. If it's not gapping, I'm not doing it. If it's not a good gap for my system, I'm not doing it. You can get up in the morning and look at thousands of stocks in the market. Many, many things are completely unplayable. There's many, many things in the day you can't even trade and you won't make any money and you won't be able to figure out what to do to predict them. How am I able to figure out what somebody's gonna do to predict them to take it on a one minute chart between 9.30 and 10 a.m. because of the gap, which I have plenty of time to figure out in the morning before the open and you can also figure it out at night because stocks gap at night after four o'clock when earnings are reporting, there's some stuff tonight. You need to have that strategy intact before you do any trades like this on the one minute chart. Don't start shorting every rally or doji or whatever or going along every supports. This is another common error for people that are already trading. I know we have a mixed group tonight. Some people are traders and some people are not traders but the point is that if you are a trader you can't do every setup like this on something unless it's a quality gap. They want all work, I'll tell you right now. I mean, I'm just telling you right now. This is trial and an error that I went over this when I figured out my point rating system, the 26 point system to know what ones I could do these types of setups with and they don't exist out there all the time on many given days. I only do one trade a day typically, maybe two. You only need one though and that's when I'm showing you. This is how you get to the number. So you've got to follow a structure in a system. It's based on the institutional money. I don't know what you're talking about. Emmerer has asked about ABC Correction. I don't know what you mean by that. I have no idea what you're talking about like that. So the answer is probably no because I don't know what you mean by that but I am looking at the context of the gap. I like our saying it's about chunking it out though. Daily, weekly, monthly goals and this is for me. I think in my mind chunk it out, chunk it out, chunk it out. Who's a girl in the trading room actually? She's made her goal for the month. She's set in seven days. From now until the rest of the month she's only risking like a quarter percent of what she normally would in the trade to keep her goals intact for the month. I mean, I don't do that but I think that's great. So whatever you need to do, you say you make 25,000 in the first two weeks of the month if you want to take the rest of the month off, you can. You've got to wrap your head around it by being reasonable. And being reasonable, being responsible. Two great trades a week, making 6K gets you there. You limit your losses and you don't over-trade. And you don't trade when nothing meets your criteria. You stay away. Say you were a big trader and you work for one of the hedge funds that's taking a position.  It's a piece of junk on the earnings or whatever. You decide that you're selling it. You would have a criteria as a trader, as a professional for the hedge fund for why you're selling it. You wouldn't really nearly say, oh, we're just selling target. No, you wouldn't have criteria but the criteria would be based on hedge fund criteria which is much, much different than what we do. I'm looking at the price action in the gap that's already being created by the hedge fund but the hedge fund had created the gap in the first place which might have been at five o'clock the night before when the earnings reported on target for example, I don't remember if a target was at nine in the morning but you can go look it up. The point is they may have said, wait a minute, they missed expectations by this much. Therefore, we had our criteria that we are going to sell our position and target this many shares and we're going to exit it because it didn't meet expectations. And see, this is how they figure things out but that's not how I figure things out and that's not how you figure things out and we're not hedge funds and we don't need to figure things out and we're not mad at you. Millions of, millions of cherished positions like goodness, my goodness. I mean, that's, you know, that would be a lot of stress but this is not that much stress because I'm in and out so quickly and it's just a couple of thousand shares and I know that's a lot as a day trader but it's not really, I mean, it's not really any get used to and I've just been doing it for so long now. The idea of only taking 100, 200 shares is foreign to me. Now let's look at Jack. I'm showing this chart in here because it's a long. It's a long and I called this trade in the room but I'll tell you, I didn't do it. I didn't do it but I called it. I saw the entry, some people did it in the room. Again, as I was saying earlier, I prefer to short stocks but I'll call along to the room and everyone's in the blue moon, I'll go long but this was a long. It was an earnings gap. So the stock closed the night before the red candle stick here, it sold off on the day. Closed in here, rent $65, gapped up. Gapped up here to 72 bucks. What are you gonna do with this? Will you get up in the morning and you rate it? Is it a long? Is it a short? Anyways, it had a huge move, okay? Huge move on the day. A stock, let me go back here. A stock cannot close at $65. Open at $72. Now just listen to me here, this is common sense that seven bucks differentiation up. Rally on the day, I forget the high of the day, it was almost 76, not quite. But let's just say for example here, it was 76. Rally on the day, $4. So we're talking seven plus four is what, $11. Something cannot go the previous day, okay? Close at one number, make an 11 point move into the close of the next day without what? Institutional money moving the stock. We can have a trading room with 5,000 people. We never make a move like that in the stock. And by the way, down here is volume. You can see the volume bars. So this is what I'm talking about people, okay? But how do you know it? How do you know to take the trade? Here's the one minute chart. This hit really quickly. Again, I didn't do what I called in the room and some people did it. Take the trade, it's long and it rallies. Big move up in here. And again, what are you doing here? You're taking the trade, this is 9.30, this is 9.31. Look at the time that you're out. Boom, out. I mean, you're literally in and out, in and out, in and out, boom. It's just, I mean, you wouldn't have been done with this trade in a couple of minutes, not even 15 minutes, not even 10 minutes. So I did not do this, but people in the room did it. If you have a risk between $1,000 and $1,200, $1,500, you would have looked to take Jack, it had a bigger stock, because again, this is a $70 some-dollar stock. You would have bought the stock at 72, this is where I called it, stock is at under, because you're going long, 71.25. Share size is 2,000 shares, and that at risk is 1,500. Target, really, the first target was 74, but it flew up here over the number here, over 74.25. But I'm telling you, it actually went higher, but again, this is the move you're looking for every day. In and out, in and out, in and out, in and out. So quickly, okay? Then it did go to 75. It actually did go to 75, and it went past that. So you could have made $4,500 in this trade. Again, I didn't do this one, because I went for the short, but you could have. And this again, was one trade, okay? Two and a half, two and a quarter amount of risk per the risk, because you risked 1,500. For some people, this is the amount of money they would make for the entire week. But if you have a goal, and you say, my goal is to make $25,000 a month, you know? One or two of these, here you go. Any questions about this? Again, I prefer to short. But the nice thing is that I'm just looking for the momentum. I'm looking for the momentum, you know, created by the big money. And as soon as I see the trade set up, I take it, but you gotta know what to look for ahead of time. You have to know what to look for ahead of time before the opener. You'll never get that trade. You'll never get any of these trades, because they said they could set up a 930, 931, 935. So I'm predicting pre-market before the open, what stocks are gonna do? Only a couple, based on my system. Here was another one, staples. Another retailer, hit hard last week. Beautiful move. This was a good short. So the stock here, again, you have, this is a daily chart. Going back here, you see this February, March, April, May. Going back here, stock closed the night before. I wouldn't really call this a doji. It's too big, but you could say it is, I guess. Closed up here around 10, 30 something. 10 dollars and some 30 cents opens in the morning at what? Boom. Under nine dollars. So you get up and you rate it. And you rate it and you say, what am I gonna do with this? Is it a long? Is it a short? What? Okay. And you look at it. It was a short. It was a good short actually. And this had a huge move for the stock. Massive, okay? You get the rally, boom. Shorted, drop. This, you save yourself. Well, this doesn't look like that much of a thing. It's 40 cents, it's 50 cents or 60 cents. Yeah, but this actually was huge. This didn't even go to the overall bigger number, which was 825, 815, $8. Still hasn't got eight bucks, but probably will. This had a massive move in the day here in the morning before 10 o'clock that you could have made money that it didn't even matter that it went to the target or not. In fact, you've been taking the train here and got out here. But here was the money move in this. Again, time of the day, you have to know. You see some people bought this. How do I know the price rally? You've got green bars here. If you looked at this in the daily chart here, you might, and didn't know what to do. If you didn't take my class, and this is how people lose money in the market and they say, oh, whoa, it's me. I don't know what I'm doing. Well, you know what? Then learn it. This isn't a long, but you can tell that people went long at, how do I know? The stock open hit over the high end rally. Why did the stock drop so hard at the fastest big red bars? People getting stopped bad by buying it out of the low. See? People have tried to buy these steps here. And here they try to buy them. Stock closed at the low of the day. This was a short. Later, even it was a short. But I'm telling you, it's so easy to make money if you know what to do. You can't short of a rally. You can't buy a set up like this over the high. You have to know what the gap is. Again, it goes back to the question someone was asking earlier. It has to do with the gap and the daily chart. And if you don't know what to do here, you'll lose. If you know what to do, all the money that you wanna take depends on the size of your position. So, oops, where did that go? Now, something like this was just cheap, which is staples. Again, you can take more size. Based on the buying power here, price of the stock is $8.79. Stop is over $8.86. If you risk the same amount in all your trades, $1,000 risk, approximately you could have taken 15,000 shares of this. That sounds like a lot. But trust me, you get filled. And a stock like this with volume to get filled. You gotta be able to say, I'm gonna take the trade with $1,000 risk though. What if you only wanted to risk 500 bucks? If you did this trade, you could have made $7,350. You could have made more than your goal for the entire week if you had it with the size. I was talking about the syndrome. I don't know if it was Friday or if it was today. I don't even remember anymore because all my days run together. It's like this chunking it out concept and stepping up the size. Me personally, I'm gonna go into the next quarter earning season and do it. Like, you know, treating now for eight years and I risk between $1,500 on my trades. But I'm in such a groove now. And I just know, even if I have a loser, I know the next three will be winners or six will be winners or whatever. And we are gonna talk about one losing trade in here today so you can see that's not all trades work. But I'm telling you, when you know the system and you're doing it, and I've been doing this for eight years, you're fine with the risk. And I've even to myself, I said, you know what? I'm stepping it up. And Staples is a very comfortable stock for me. I don't think I've ever lost money in Staples, but this actually had two trades in it which we're gonna go over both of them. But you pick a strategy, which is the gap, you zero in on it, find all the stocks that are gapping. You can pick ups or downs. I'd like to do the shorts and then you use the system to rate them. Even though stocks can move all day long, they really, really have the institutional move in the morning. It's into the open. Now that could be at 931, it could be at 935, it could be at 945, but when I say open, I mean the first 30 minutes of the day. That's what I'm talking about because many hedge funds or banks say we've decided we're gonna dump our positions in the morning. Their traders are out there at their desk at 6 a.m., 7 a.m. in the morning. Two and a half hours before the days come out when all the econ reports, most of the reports in the morning in the market are done at 8 a.m. and 8 30. And people are watching them. And sometimes they don't know what they're doing until after those econ reports come out. So you get new gaps then. So while the stock market is closed, which is from 4 to 9 30, stuff happens, you have post-market data and pre-market data. That's where the gap is occurring. Someone asked me a question about an intermediate gap. There is no such thing. I'll show you it again in a daily chart, but the gap is outside of the time that the market's open. If we didn't have it in open and closed, then there would be no such thing as a gap. Sometimes people ask me and they say about the forex market, okay? The forex market only is closed once a week. So you really would only ever be able to use my system for that once a week. You wouldn't have as many gaps. The reason the US market is so great and so fantastic is the fact that you get gaps that happen every day, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. So funds and institutions and brokerage trading divisions have no control over the forces that make a stock gap at the open, but they decide what they're doing actually whenever they have the criteria of what their earnings reports say or the news reports say or the econ reports say or sector gaps even. There were many retailers that gap together because one bad report may be in earnings for something may affect everybody else in the sector, all the retailers, or you'll have it sometimes with the banks, okay? Now here was a continuation. This was the day of the original gap in Staples. And then here's the follow-through, beautiful. I mean, look at that. So on the one minute chart in Staples, this is not even the first day. I showed you the first day. This is the second day. Stock drop fell, rally back, set up again. You could have shortened this for two days down. Two days you could have shorted this. Another beautiful, beautiful move that you could have done with huge profit. And guess what? Same target. Same target. This actually broke and went lower, but you're looking for the same target. So the one day you could have made over seven grand in Staples, the next day you could have made $2,700 in Staples. In two days, you could have made in Staples $10,000, risking two. So that's five to one. So if you, now just listen to me here. $10,000 is a lot of money to make in two days. You had to risk two grand to do it. You did it in one stop, two days in a row. Same position size, same target even, not the same entry, but the same concept of the strategy, which is the gap, same stock, okay? You had the money from the first day. If the second day the trade failed, you would still have been up. If you lost $1,000 on this trade, the second day you still would have been up. Still would have been up six something. As it turns out, the second day in here worked. So now you're up 10 something. So if you risk $2,000 to make 10, that's a five risk to reward payoff. That's really good for day trading. And that's literally almost half your goal for the entire month in two trades. That's why you can do sometimes two trades, like let's just say the third day, and I'm gonna show you one in here that didn't work. This was last week, we're not there yet. Well, let's say you make five risk units. One trade, one day doesn't work. You lose in it, okay?  You're still made four risk units. Do you see how this works? So this is how you get to the point of actually doing it where you are making money in the market. It's not about doing a million things. If you look at one thing per day and focus, focus, focus with size, you can do it. And just the problem is that many people don't, but that is exactly what I do. And it's exactly what I'm teaching people to do. So the big money at the open is what makes the move. Whether the move is in staples at a cheap price stock and it moves 30, 40 cents, or a big move is something like target or moves a buck. Making money is about finding the correct trade, the correct directional bias consistently over and over and over again to know the direction of take. And you gotta know the direction of bias. You can't go long a stock that's dropping, you'll lose. You can't short a stock that's rallying, you'll lose. People that tried to short jack got run over like a chop. People that tried to buy the thing, guess what? They lost and I showed you that. Stocks that gap up are not necessarily bullish and stocks that got down are not necessarily bearers. Traders think this, sometimes this gap feel concept that I don't wanna get too off track here, but people believe that works, it doesn't. It just doesn't work, okay? And any questions while we're going along? Okay, let me just quick look. So trading successfully means focusing on taking trades with institutions. That's how you're gonna do it. And you wanna be on the side of institutions and it increases your odds to make profits because institutions make stock trends and the market. Institutions move stocks either up or down. And if you wanna get paid, the key is to be on the side of where these institutions are taking their positions on or off, that's what you wanna do. If you are trading with institutions, not only are you on the side of momentum, you're also trading with professional traders. As I was saying earlier, they're not sitting at their desk like zombies till four o'clock, okay? They're just not. And you shouldn't be doing that either. So this is why this is a great job for a full-time job as you the rest of the day to yourself. And if you have another job, it's great as a part-time thing you can do on the side because you have time to do the other thing. You only need 30 minutes. As an individual trader, you'll be more successful if you trade like a professional and just work for yourself. And ideally, this is what you wanna do. If you are like, well, this might work, it's 50-50. I don't take trades like that. I never take trades like that. I say I have 100% conviction this is gonna work. It's absolutely, it's gonna get sold off today.  I mean, I've heard of all kinds of things, but when I'm looking to short something, I'm saying this is gonna just go like a crazy person down today, I've gotta get in the trade and 100% conviction is gonna work. There's no 50-50 in my mind. Could I lose? Yes, that's why I put it in a stop. That's why I have to stop it. If I take 10,000 shares of something, I'm gonna stop it. But the point is that I have a high odds profitability of that it working. I never believe 50-50 or I don't take the trade. I wouldn't take the trade with $300 risk or $200 risk if I thought it was 50-50. If it meets the criteria, 20 points or more, I'm doing it, I'm doing it. And if it doesn't, then I'm not. This is where the structure of the professionalism comes. You wanna make 30 grand a year? I don't care what you're doing, you better be good at it. Very few jobs out there where that pay that kind of money that you're staying, whatever it is, trading or anything else. So my system focuses on the daily chart of a stock to determine base to the price of the stock is being bought, sold or shorted. And again, you have to look at it with a system. Now I was talking about a trade that failed. Let's go over, it was fossil. This is a gap that I rated to, you could actually have looked at to short this, but it didn't work. Now I'm gonna show you. Stock closed up here on $40, gap 10 to here at 27. You get up the more you say, let me take a look at this thing. This was in earnings. The stock actually dropped, set up. Stock was over the high. This is 930, 931. If you had done this trade in here, it stopped you out. And that was it. You couldn't have done it again. It failed on the third bar of the day. So you would have lost a thousand bucks if you risk a thousand dollars. Now going back to what I was saying, say you did the two staples and you lost in the fossil, you still would have been up money. You still would have been up like nine grand. So you will have some trades that don't work by virtue of necessity of the fact that some things are happening in the market that are not predictable. But if you have a system that is reliable, consistent and predictable, a high percentage of the time you can make money and win. A lot of people ask me, I always say my system is about 70% win ratio, but I will tell you that I've had people track in the room and say it's over 80%. Either way, it works way more than it doesn't. So you take the hits like in a fossil when they don't work and you book the money like in the staples when they do work. So I'm gonna show you here. The entry here was really here. And the stop was here, but it flew over it in this bar. Stop was 27, 25. You can see it went right over it. So if you're risking a thousand or 1500 bucks, you would have had 3,500 shares. You would have lost $1,500 if you risked it in this. And it was a good gap, so you might have, but it failed. It failed at 932. That's it.  Again, this is something they teach you.  You're down $1,500. You just book money the last two days or the last week or whatever, stop. Pull it away. So you didn't make any money on this trade. You took a loss. This is part of it, but the criteria sets you on what you're supposed to do and also when to pull back and stop. So in that case with a fossil, the follow-through of the sell-off did not happen on the live day. It happened in the gap and it didn't continue to sell off on the live day. But that stock has continued to sell off. I will tell you ever since that gap. You could look at that as a swing trade, but you're looking for the footprints of the money. They happen in the gap and then you rate it. And so if the stock rates 20 points or more per my system, you short it as a short if it gaps down. If it rates 20 points or more, you buy it as long as it gaps up. You only have to focus on what the power of money is doing. That's how you make money in the market. These people, the trade penny stocks and stuff like this, I don't know how to make a dime. I really don't know how to make any money at all. It's too much risk and too small of things with not enough volume. I want stuff that moves. Some stocks I trade are $20, $23 price points. They'll move to three, four, $5 in the day. That's the way you want to make money. I mean, $1,000, like I said, it's a good amount of money right in your mesh, but I'm not risking, you know, $5,000 to $6,000. So you've got to know what a professional is doing and where you're taking it. And I always say in an ideal world or perfect world, you don't want to have to do a hundred different things, a hundred different trades, a hundred different strategies to make money. Now, I've been doing option trades. You can also use my method for swing trades. I day trade daily, but it's all based on one strategy. It's all based on the gap. So even the different types of trades I'm taking, like options or day trades are based on the gap. One strategy, not a hundred trades and not trading all day. And again, like I said, I'm done every day by 10 a.m. And I don't care what the market's doing. I look at the market, I love to look at the market and I talk about the market and do market videos and I look at the QQ business five, but whether the market's running or falling, it doesn't matter to me. I might hold something longer if it's falling, but that's about it.  This is not a gambling mentality. If you look at it like a professional person, you will get there. And many people just don't have the time or energy to lose thousands of dollars struggling to try to make money teaching themselves how to trade. I did do that for myself, all right? It ended up working out, but what if it hadn't? That's a hard road for people to just throw themselves in the market with their money and then just take gambling pot shots at things. This is a serious business. It's a serious business because every time you take a trade, there's a potential you could lose. But every time you take a trade, there's a potential you could win. So what do you wanna do? Do you wanna win or do you wanna lose? I wanna lose. So I set out to create something that has a high probable odds of working that I could do one trade a day and be done quickly. I don't know my money at risk for a lot of time. And I'm so nimble on that one minute chart that I can make several thousand dollars in minutes. And it's fantastic. But you wanna learn what you're doing and take a class instead of throwing your money in the market because you can lose if you don't know what to do. And it is something that you have to be an expert out. So I teach a class. The class is called the Golden Gap course. You don't have to worry about the market. You're done every day in the morning by 10. You only have one strategy no matter what you use it for. And yes, this philosophy of enjoying life is actually very important.  I had no free time. I don't know when I realized it when the mortgage industry started falling or when it was. I had a client call me on Christmas day, Christmas day about a mortgage. I said, I'm with my family. I'm like, this is it. I'm just done.  And that's where I was at. And I said, I got to find something else to do. So, you know, Saturday and Sunday, if I'm not teaching a class, I'm off. It's a beautiful weekend in New York this weekend. I could enjoy it. I'm not chained to my job, okay? So the Golden Gap course that I teach is a 26 point rating system to find the best doc to trade each day. It teaches you how to enter and exit the trades but you've got to learn the rating system. Then you learn the entries. I teach six in the class. I teach targets. I teach you how to get the entries right for the risk to reward. And this is a huge benefit of being in my room. I'm very good at entries. The course teaches you price analysis and technical analysis on an advanced level. So it's an advanced class. The fact that you've never traded before if you've never done it doesn't mean you can't learn, you can learn anything. You can learn anything at all. In fact, one of the things I teach the class, if you want to email you the class outline, you will learn how to maximize your potential within yourself and your brain. You will push yourself.   That's how you turn around and you're making $300,000 a year. You know, you want to be out there and doing it, you can do it. You just got to learn it and you push yourself but you can do it. This is what I'm saying. But you got to be smart about it. And part of being smart about it is learning first before you take the risk. And in fact, learning is more important than anything. Sometimes I talk to people that'll have the money for the class and a trading account. I say, you know what? Just take the class, practice on a demo for a little while, get used to it, learn the information before you run out and open up an account. I mean, if you want to, that's fine, but I'm saying, you know what? The most important thing is learning. The course teaches a more proficient way to re-support their resistance in the right direction, which point in fact today was a great example for that target to you. And the course teaches you to focus on one good strategy and a detailed matter so you become a good trader. My class is a complete system. You would never have to take another class, but mine if you wanted to learn how to successfully day trade gaps in the market. And I truly believe that it's one of the most powerful strategies that exist. Whether you do it for day trading overnight, but as far as day trading goes, you get so much momentum into them because of the institutional sell-offs for shorts or the buying for longs that you can make money. I mean, you can make money. Otherwise you're pretty much scalping and trying to pull 10, 20 cents out of something every day, which would drive me nuts. Even the stocks many days that aren't gathering a volume and tons of shares, you're looking, you're like scalping them. And that would drive me nuts. I like the money and I want it to move. You get the move in your favor that happens big with the institutions moving it. Like I said, it's the only thing that can possibly move it. So my class is a two-day course. It's this weekend, May 21st and 22nd. It is a full two-day course on how to strategically find, pick and play a stock sort of professional bearish gas. I focus on the shorts. So the class is live online. Give me anywhere in the world and take it or retakes it free. So if you want to trade before the next quarterly earning season, which is third quarter, you would want to do the class this weekend, learn it, get acclimated to the strategy with small size or a demo, or if you're ready to go right after the class and think you can do it immediately with this kind of risk, go for it. I'd be in the room though and get my trade direction on the trades and the calls. Let me just see if we have any questions here. Nope, we're okay, we're all good. I never can write anything down if you have any questions. It's just want to say a couple of things here before we close out.  You know, a lot of times we get to our lives and we have choices, we all have choices, things we can do. You could take my class, you could take another class, you could take a training class, you could go out and learn something else to do for extra money.  You have many choices in life. When you think back to the things that really were pivotal decisions that you made in your life, good choices. When you look back and you say, what was the mindset at the time that I made that decision to go down this road versus this road? Or vice versa, guess what? What about at times in your life where you made mistakes and you made a decision to go down one road and then it turned out to be a mistake and you wish you would have gone down the other room? You know? Go back and think of that, remember that time in your life when you were in a thought process where you made a bad choice or a good choice? And you think about it and you're like, if I could have done XYZ back two years ago or three years ago or one year ago, where would I be now? If I had done something differently, like not made that mistake or if I had not gone down the road that I did that would have put me on the road that I am now. What price would you put on it? If someone had said to me, and this is crazy but I'm gonna tell you this, if someone had said to me, it would cost you, Melissa, this much money that you would have to lose in the market before you've learned your system at the time, this is years and years ago, I have no idea what I would have said because at the time I thought, well, I'm really smart, I'll figure this thing out quickly but it took me three years. I'd probably actually looking back may have said no that I wouldn't do it, that I wouldn't lose the money or spend three years of my life. But it didn't work that way. I just threw myself in the market and time went on and on and on and it took me a long time to figure it out.  And sometimes, that's what it is about. You take the leap and the leap is a leap of faith and you say, I believe that I can put myself in a better path in my life and I believe that a positive outcome can come from this and that I've made good decisions in the past and they've worked out for me and if I hadn't taken those chances I wouldn't be where I was today. For example, for me, if I hadn't taken the chances that I did in the market I wouldn't be where I was today. Pat's saying, yes, it's $5,000, $49.99 is the class. And I allow free retakes. It's a 16 hour course Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time. And again, it's online. If you wanna sign up, you need to email me for the sign up papers. You wanna email me and sign up as soon as possible to secure your spot. I don't have to with your people in the class. I have a very individual teaching training and mentoring for people. So I don't take a large group of people in each class because I wanna be able to answer everyone's questions and not have the class till midnight. Some classes, I think the longest class I had went on till eight o'clock. This was years ago. And I said, you know what? I have to take a certain number of people each class because otherwise it's too long of a day for me to teach. But the sooner you sign up, the better. But you get to retake it.  And so this is a nice testimonial here. You can go and read about the testimonials here on that website. Paul, if you wanna put the testimonials website in the room, you can go read some stuff, some testimonials from prior students. But I'm teaching a class also in June. It's called the wealth manifestation class. This is an important class that teaches you how to think about money. I wouldn't say it's necessarily a motivational class per se, although it is. But it talks about your brain. It talks about some motivational things. And it talks about money and how it can have a negative or positive impact on your life so that you make the right choices. And this is really important if you were doing something in your life that involves finance and specifically risk because you're risking money in the market. So this will be a day course during the week, 12 to three. I don't have the date yet, but it will be in June. You look at this class for free if you sign up for the Golden Gap this weekend. Now, does anyone have any questions for me? Again, this is the website if you wanna get some testimonials. Let me look down there. Does anyone else have any questions? And if you would like a trial of the training room, you can email me at melissa at the stockswush.com for a trial, then sit in on the room this week. I have some people that are doing really well with me. I talked about Trader Gower earlier who had made her goal in the first seven days of the month and I have to email her. I'm not sure how long she's been with me. I know it's at least two years. It might be more than two years that she's been with me.  You know, you work it out, you make it work. If you could know that by June 1st, or let's just say you're brand new, let's say it took you to July 1st to make this kind of money in the market, would you be willing to invest the time and energy and effort and money in learning it? If you knew you could make 25 grand per month starting July 1st, would you do it? What if you're really slow, never looked at a chart before in your life? What if you might need till August 1st? September 1st, wouldn't it still be worth it? September, October, November, December, if you can make an extra 100 grand training the last four months, even if it's gonna take you time, were you doing the class a couple of times, doing the practice strains with me, not risking $1,000 quite yet because you're still new, wouldn't you do it?  The commitment level, the mental commitment is required and the financial commitment obviously to pay $5,000 for the class, but you can do it. And I mentor people and I'm helping people. And there may be a time when I'm not having the time to mentor people as much, but now I do. I have many, many projects going on, but this is something that I really value, which is my class. I take a lot of pride in what I do and I've touched people's lives. I've taught people how to trade and make money in the market and that, I mean, that's fantastic. Many places out there teach people stuff but not how to make money. I mean, I consistently have people in my room that are doing well now for years making money like for real, it's pretty great. I have to do more trader videos and put them on my YouTube site of other people besides myself to help people see they can do it. I think people know that I do it to follow me, but they're not quite certain if they can, but I'm telling you, I'm a regular person and other people are regular people and doing it too. You can do it. And what the time element is for you to make 300 a K a year, I don't know because I don't know you that well. You can call and talk to me or ask me questions, but I'll help you along the way. But if you knew you started on this road, the sooner you start on the road, the sooner you're gonna make the money. Whether it takes you a week or a month or six months or three months or two months or one month or one week or a year, if you knew you could get to that point, the longer it takes you to get on the road, then the longer it takes you to make the money and then you lose momentum. And then what if I'm not teaching the class anymore?  You got seven more months left in a year and you wanna make it good and financially stable for you. A lot of people have stress in their lives. I'll say this one last thing, I know we're running out of time here, but a lot of people have stress in their lives and in their relationships and marriages.  So it's just, it's all me, whatever I make or I spend, it's all on me. But people that are married have big problems sometimes with finances and relationships. And I hate to see that for people, okay? I hate to see that for people. You wanna have the least amount of stress that you can in your life. Yes, sometimes it means you gotta do something different, get out of the box, take a class, learn something, spend money, but if it involves less stress in your life in the long run or even the short run, why not do it? It just takes too much of a toll on you, the longer that financial stress is lag on people. Okay, everyone, any questions? Any questions from anyone? Good group today. Fabulous. All right, thanks so much for having me, everybody. Thank you. Email me if you're interested in the class or you'd like a trial to the trading rep. Thanks, Kathy. Have a good night, everyone. Thank you.


What's up my beautiful babes? You are looking so gorgeous today. There's always one question I get asked after I'm fully done styling, cutting, and coloring my client's hair. And that question is, how did you do that? How did you style my hair like that? People think it's some kind of crazy voodoo magic that all of us hairstyles have that we can blow out the hair beautifully and get rid of all of your frizz and make those perfect beautiful beach waves or straighten it till it's silky and soft and smooth and shiny. It's no voodoo magic girl. It's just good technique, okay? And if you just watch today's video and follow along with me, you will learn how to give yourself a perfect, flawless, professional looking blowout at home to yourself. It is not that hard. You just need to put the right skills in place in order to get the correct results that you want. So today I'm going to teach you all the techniques that I have learned throughout the past.  I also worked at a blow dry salon briefly like five years ago and working there and doing 10 to 15 blowouts a day really, really taught me how to do the perfect blowout on any hair texture or hair type. So I'm going to teach you about the kinds of brushes I like to use, the kinds of products I like to use, the kind of sectioning that I like to use when doing a blowout, and a bunch more. So if you guys want to learn how to do the perfect blowout on yourself at home, then stay tuned and let's get it started. Alright, so here is my model for today. Say what's up? Hi guys, what's up? She's ready to get her hair done. Her name is Viola. By the way, you guys, everything I'm using in today's video is going to be linked below. So let me go over the supplies real quick before I start. We're going to need a comb, just like any kind of comb, but like the comb is closer bristles on this side and then the farther away ones on this side for nice sectioning. Then I have some clips like this. These are really good for when we set the blowout. That way you don't get any creases on the hair when you put the clips in it. So these are amazing. These are by Harry Josh. And then if you don't have those, you don't want to spend the money on them, they're kind of expensive. You can also use like a dumbbell clip, just a regular like clip like this. They make creases in the hair, but they work. And then we have brushes. You have like three options really. You have a brush like this, a flat brush. You have a ceramic brush and you have a bored bristle natural brush. The differences between all of these are I usually use a flat brush. I'm trying to do a very flat, laid, silky, smooth, straight look with no frizz. This because they are better for smoothing up frizz. But I find that these are just a lot easier to use in general because they are ceramic. They heat up.  This is definitely my favorite. Then we have a natural bored bristle brush, which is great. Like I keep saying to get rid of frizz, but this does take a lot more work and you have to really pull out the hair and keep going and keep going and keep going. But the end result is definitely, definitely beautiful. So if you have a lot of frizz in your hair, the bored bristle would be great for you. But if not, I think this is universally great for 90% of people out there. And then, of course, you can also have a brush that has the ceramic bristles and the bored bristles combined. But I don't know, I just haven't really found that those really work that well. Maybe it's just me. I don't know. I don't really love them. And the longer your hair is, the shorter your hair is, the bigger or the smaller the brush you want to use is. You guys know the deal. If you use a big brush, it'll give you less of a curl. That's basically it, okay? That's just like the real basics. I could keep going and going about this, but I'm not going to bore you. I probably already am. So yeah. And then, of course, we're going to need a blow dryer. I'm going to use the Dyson. I've talked about this many times in many videos. It is expensive, but it works amazingly and never breaks. And it's very lightweight. And then, I will show you guys the products I'm using as I go along. So I definitely recommend if you're doing this at home to yourself and you're getting out of the shower or whatever and you wash your hair, definitely keep it wrapped in a towel for at least 10, 15, 20 minutes or as long as you possibly can because you really want to get that excess moisture out before you blow-dry it. That's going to really cut down on the time it takes to blow-dry your hair. So I'm going to just wet her down today. And so after we have that wet or decently towel dried if you're getting out of the shower, the first step we're going to do is put some product in. Okay?  That sounds kind of obvious, but a lot of products do put a lot of cold in the hair and it feels kind of gel-like. So I just use a nice smoothing product. This KeraSauce product that I is like my holy grail called Discipline Fluidizm. It's just like a spray smoothing serum. You're actually supposed to spray it in your hands, but I don't do that. If you want to do that, you can, but I just do a very light spray like this on all the hair and then I brush it through so it gets everywhere.  You can see the video linked below. And then on her ends, I'm going to put a little bit of serum just because usually people just have really dry ends. If your hair is long and all, your ends are probably crusty. So I'm going to use Nutritive Olay Relax, just a very little amount of this because a little goes a long way if this product is very heavy. I'm going to rub it on my hands and focus just on the ends like this, work it around the front of her hairline because usually people have a lot of frizz up here. The hairline is very important to get a lot of product on. Just don't overdo it because it can easily get greasy. Okay, and now I'm going to do something a little bit weird and different. I am going to use Invisible Dry Shampoo by IGK. That way she has a little bit of a product at her root and it'll give her a nice volume and texture when the blowout is done. But if you do not want any volume or texture on your roots, just skip this step. But it's good if your hair is extra flat and you can never get body or volume in it. This will work out for you very, very well. Just random sections. Just going across and do like one or two passes with Dry Shampoo. Don't put too much, just give you nice volume. Especially right here at the crown. It's very important to put this done, done and next step. This step is really important. This is the step that I see people missing out on a lot and it's going to really speed up the time. It takes for you to blow out your hair. You're going to want to get 90 to 95% of the moisture out of your hair before you even start using the round brush. Okay. This is going to depend a little bit on your hair texture. It's like super, super curly. You're going to want to get out like 80% of the moisture. Definitely don't do a hundred because you won't be able to get that curl out when you start to pull it with the round brush. So University I'd recommend just doing like 90% dry. That's a very important tip right there to save a lot of time on your blowout at home. To get volume in her hair, we're going to blow dry in the opposite direction the way her hair grows. So we're going to blow dry this way, rough dry this way, rough dry this way, rough dry the hair forward. Okay. Let's do it. You can also at home just flip your head upside down and start blow drying it. That's also an easy way to do it. Perfect. So she is now 90% dry already. And then we're going to give her another brush just for that. All those tangles go away. Her hair is very, very tangly. And here is the next most important part. I'm working a section of hair. It doesn't need to be perfect. Just we're going to section though. Oh girl, she's tangled. If you're wondering if I'm this rough with actual clients, the answer is yes. You're going to pick your desired part. I'm going to do the middle, but this will work anyway. So the most important thing is to start around the hairline because that is where most of the phrase in curl is and that is where most of the hair shows. So what we're going to do is called a halo section.  That gives you a halo, not too, too much hair. I'd say like an inch in the front and all the way around. You can keep going. Doesn't need to be perfect once again.  That is a halo section. Okay. This is going to be really good for you guys with curly hair out there or wavy hair or any hair at all. So we're going to start right in the front over here because she has kind of like the situation where her hair wants to go this way. I'm going to blow dry her hair with her part there. But if you really want a lot of volume and right in the front of your hair, I would blow dry this section up like this instead of out like this.  And before we start, let's just do the basics of blow drying.  You're always going to want to follow the brush with the blow dryer like this.  Okay. So I'm just going to show you guys how I'm going to blow this out right here. And then I will explain after how I did it. So what I just did first was get all of that frizz out of the top section of her hair and make sure that her hair is going in the right direction. So I literally put the blow dryer almost on her scalp towards the bottom of her hair and just really went up close to that scalp. That's super important to get all that frizz out. And then you put the blow dryer behind the brush like this and you rock it out.  Alrighty, let's do it. One other thing that's super important is to really pulverize the ends because that is where a lot of that moisture sits and a lot of that frizz will stay in it. If you do not smooth these out enough, it'll just, you won't have that perfect polish blow. That is the difference between a professional blow and a person doing it at home wasn't ready what they're doing is those ends. They have to be beautiful and smooth. So just keep on working them until they are really, really smooth and get all the way to the end. All right, now that we're done with that, I have it all rambled up like that. We're going to gently pull it out and then comb it out with your hands a little bit, not too much because you have moisture in your hands. You don't want to pull the curl too much. You're going to rabble it back up the same way it was on the brush. All right, and then we're going to set it like this. And again, if you don't want too much volume in your hair or curl, you don't have to do this part. This is optional. And then I put that clip right in the front right there. All right, that is our first section done. I'm going to repeat that on both sides all around your head and then I'll show you guys what our next step is. And over here, super important part again, pull this hair super taut, okay? Really, really put tension on that and then get really close to our hairline and put a lot of heat right there to get all that wave and kinky curly, nasty mess out of the front hairline. And I like to alternate the curl direction. So this one is going forward and the one on top is going backwards. That's going to make it so the curls don't attach to each other when you let it all down. You don't want a big clumpy curl. It's just not cute. Alternating the curl is going to give you more body. There we go. That is the first two done. Look at those beautiful, beautiful little pink curl set. Gorgeous. Okay, we're going to keep going. I like to do three on each side. Should be enough. We're going to really cut down on your time, not doing too many sections. Don't overdo it. Definitely make sure you work the hair slowly too. I think people really go fast too much. Just go slow, slow and steady wins the race. Another way of releasing the hair is going like this, wrapping it out. And then you can leave it like this to set on its own. But I'm not going to do that today. We're going to pin this up and hair actually takes about 20 minutes to completely cool off. So, bam. Okay, so that is the halo section all finished. Now moving on to the top of our hair. We are going to section it out. Let's see here. What are we going to do? We're going to section out a little square up here. And this is the crown section. That's going to have all the volume in it. That is the crown section. We're going to pin up everything else around it. So it gets out of our way. Just like that. And we're going to take zigzag sections. That way when you release the hair out of these clips, you don't have any harsh lines. So just a light zigzag, harsh zigzag. Whatever you want to do, whatever you're feeling that day. All right? My judging. And then we're just going to make sure we blow the hair up straight and do the same kind of curl thing and then set the curl again. And definitely make sure you are blow-drying at the root on every different side. So we're going to get the front, we're going to get the sides, we're going to get the other side, and then we're going to get the back. This is easier to do on a client. So you don't really have to do that on yourself. Mainly the front is the most important. Leaving a little bit of frizz in the back of the hair is actually not a bad thing. It ends up giving you more volume and it doesn't go down during the day because you've had that little bit of frizz underneath protecting your hair from going flat. But the front of it is smooth. That's all that really matters. That is the top all done. Now moving on to the last three sections. There's going to be one on this side. You can always do like zigzag sections. One over here, one on the other side and then one directly down the back. That is the next section right in the back and then these are the two other ones. All right?  So it's just the same as the other few sections we already did. All right. So there we are the finished set. There's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven sections. There are eleven sections in total on our head. You do not have to do eleven sections at home. You can do like six. This is how I like to do a nice blowout and now I just do a light, light coating of hairspray and then we'll release all of the curls and we'll shake it out and then I'll show you guys how we style it a bit. Definitely make sure you let this cool down before you take it out. You can leave it in as long as you want. You can sleep in this. At least if you're in a hurry, let it cool down for five to ten minutes. That is very important because the curl is not going to form unless you let it sit for a little bit or you can take a blow dryer on the cool setting and just do a blast of cool air real quick just to get this really, really setting quick. And then let me get the hairspray. Just very, very light mist of hairspray. Just like that. All right. Now comes my favorite part of all releasing these curls. So we're just going to take them all out one by one. It's pretty self-explanatory. And just let them go wherever they want. There's no better feeling like taking a set out like this. Oh, look at those beautiful, soft waves with no frizz, baby. That's just how we like it. Take all these out. Stunning. You can transform any hair no matter how damaged it is. If you do this set correctly, it's going to give you gorgeous, gorgeous, fabulous volume. Now, a little trick I like to do before I really break through my hands is put just a little bit more oil on your hands. That way it goes through the hair while you're breaking it out.  But otherwise, if you're doing it on a client, you can just go like this.  Yes, the sound effects are necessary. You definitely have to do that. Okay, this is just breaking it up and then we're going to reform all the curls. But you don't want any lines showing where you section the hair. Break it all up. This is the super important part. Don't be scared to do this. Um, hi. You can leave it like this. It's awesome. It's a very light, tousled wave. That is some volume up there in the crown. I mean, we can flip her.  And you know, guys, this is a mannequin, so it's not really like what's going to happen totally in real life. You're not going to get these harsh lines like she has. She does have a plastic scale. Don't tell her, but she does. But that's why you get these really, really harsh lines right here.  If you want like a perfect, perfect blow, you're just going to take these sections, do a little tiny comb action, and just reform the wave with your hands, just like that. All the waves are going in different directions. So we're not really going to hold too tightly. Give a nice little tease to the crown. Ding, ding, ding. Love that. Home that out. Reform that wave. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is a blow. That is how you properly do one. Look at this nice little crown area of volume she has. Beautiful. Check out what netherial goddess she looks like now. So fab.  So there you guys go. That is the majority of the techniques I had to share with you today. Hope you guys enjoyed this video and found it very informative. And I hope you guys can take these practices home with you. You probably already are home. So maybe not take them home with you, but use them at home. Definitely check out my latest merchandise collection, the I'm Extra collection, available at finder.co.brat. That'll also be linked below for you. And one more thing. Give this video a like and subscribe if you enjoy it. Thank you guys so much for watching today.  And I will see you all next time. Peace.