We are going to talk for the next two days about arguing. How many of you like arguing? We have liars in this room. Let's start over. How many of you when you argue you want to win? If your hands not up you are lying or you need counseling, one of the two. We are going to talk about arguing men and women because right now as we are here outside Orlando, our nation is having a huge argument that impacts you, your children and your grandchildren for decades to come. And how we respond to that argument as believers is going to dictate our national policy on abortion, doctor-assisted suicide, even the definition of marriage. And here are the two major questions we're arguing about as a nation tonight. Number one is truth true. In other words, is moral truth real and knowable or is it just a preference like choosing chocolate over vanilla? Secondly, what makes humans valuable?  And those two questions of truth and human value are driving all of the political debates you're seeing right now on those issues. Now, I've already noticed that some of you are taking notes faster than broke people at a Dave Ramsey seminar and you're welcome to do that if you want to. That was a joke, an attempt to bond with my audience and it went down faster than the magic last year. But anyway, don't worry, I'm a Lakers fan. You think you got it bad. We are going to supply you because I'm going to email to Pastor Rick exhaustive notes on everything I'm going to cover with you. Meaning, if you think you can leave and not come back tomorrow, your salvation's riding on it and I'm a Calvinist. All right? No, seriously, we're not going to give you those notes. We're going to take names when this thing is over and those that were faithful to the end will reap the reward of the notes. Anyway, we are going to provide you with these notes so that if you feel like, hey, I've covered something too quickly or you're going, wait, I really wish he could back the train up a little bit and just go over what he just said.  You'll be able to refer to it. There's footnotes, there's source material in it, meaning you're going to be able to check it all out. And that's all going to be available to you and we will see to it. You get that and we'll give that information out tomorrow. The question of truth and the question of human value are driving our national debates over abortion, over the definition of marriage and over cloning and embryonic stem cell research. And to give you an example of where we are as a country, let me just describe for you what happened before we moved from Los Angeles where I had lived most of my life to Atlanta in 2004. At that time, my son, Michael, my youngest son was five and I had him in Northridge Park in the San Fernando Valley pushing him on the swing and a well dressed woman puts her daughter in the swing next to Michael and says, what do you do for a living that you can come to the park like most dads can't? How come you're here and they're working? And I tell you folks, I don't like to get into it with people when I'm not on the job. I don't want to fight with you when I'm not out speaking. I want to coach Little League.  I don't want to fight with you. So I gave a cop out answer. I do lectures on bioethics. Nobody ever asked what that is. She said, I don't like abortion. Uh oh, we're into it now. What was the key word in that sentence? Like, I don't like abortion. I think it's bad, but I'm glad it's legal because I don't want to impose my beliefs on others who disagree. You've heard that, haven't you? Like every day. So very gently. And by the way, one of the things I will say to you this weekend is we are ambassadors for Christ. We're not sledgehammers for Christ. We are ambassadors. That means we're gracious. We try to be nice. And when we're not nice, we repent, right? All right. So very gently when she said, I, you know, just, I don't like abortion, but I don't want to impose my views. I said, can you tell me why you're personally opposed to abortion? And very gently she responded and said, well, I'm opposed to it because everybody knows it's killing. You want to guess what my next question was? Can I repeat what you just told me? You personally oppose abortion because you say it's killing, but you want it to be legal to kill unborn humans? And she just pushed your daughter for a few more seconds. There must have been 10 seconds of pause and she turned to me and said, you know what, you're right. I did just say that and I don't like how that sounds now that you've kind of unpacked that for me. She bought into the notion that when it comes to moral truth, you should no more claim you're right than if you were talking about your favorite flavor of ice cream. Welcome to your world, men and women. This is the world you live in. On the question of human value, there is a professor at the University of Colorado by the name of David Boonen. David Boonen has written the most intelligent book defending abortion you will ever read. David Boonen is not a flamethrower. He is not the politician you've seen breathing fire on television. He's not the street activist who shouts at anybody who attends church on Sunday. This is a guy who actually has a great deal of affection for pro-life people. He actually thinks they're more thoughtful than a lot of people on his side of the issue. Here's his book. Here's how he opens his book, which is a defense of abortion. He says the following. I'll paraphrase it for you. On the desk where I wrote this book, there is a series of photographs of my son Eli. In the first photograph, he is only a few hours old and he's wearing a hat to preserve heat that he wore home from the hospital.  In the next photograph, he's at the beach along the Gulf of Mexico, his wispy hair blowing in the wind. In each of these pictures says David Boonen, we are looking at the same little boy. And then Boonen says this, get ready. In the top drawer of my desk, I keep another photograph of Eli. This one taken 24 weeks before he was born. The sonogram image is murky, but reveals clearly enough a hand outstretched toward the mouth, thumb extended toward the lips, and says Boonen, there is no doubt in my mind that this image also depicts the same little boy just at an earlier stage of his development. And says Boonen, there is no doubt the thesis I will defend in this book is that it would have been perfectly permissible to have ended his life at that point. Does it get any more personal than that? Boonen says, that's my boy at the embryonic stage. That's my boy right now. Same guy. He didn't evolve from an embryo. He didn't come from the blob of tissue. That was him.  And until you have desires says Boonen, you have no right to life. In other words, your value as a human being is not based on whose image you bear. It's not based on the fact that you're simply a human being. It's based on the functions you perform. That's the worldview battle going on right now in our culture. And we wonder why kids are okay with pot. Let's think about this for a moment. Why is marijuana okay with millions of so-called Christian kids? I know I speak at their worldview camps. You want to see heck break loose? Make the point that you shouldn't be smoking pot and that just isn't acceptable as a Christian. Well, why not? And you know why they question it? They have no idea what it means to be a being who bears the image of his maker. And as a result, it's in anything goes definition of human value. Why do people make a big stink right now about whether you identify as a man or a woman? Because human nature is up for grabs. Objective meaning is disappearing from us. We will talk about that tomorrow. Definition of marriage, the same thing.  And we are going to have to know how to make a case for the pro-life view on hostile turf. And we are going to have to be people who are equipped to engage. And to give an example of what I mean by this, when my son Jeff graduated high school in 2009, I took him to the beaches of Normandy, France. When my kids graduate, they get a dad kid trip. And it just so happened, this worked out well. I was going to be speaking in England anyway, so you know, hop across the channel. And we went to Omaha Beach. How many of you have seen Saving Private Ryan? Remember the first 40 minutes of that film, how gruesome it was? The first wave of Army Rangers that hit the beach that day sustained nearly 80% casualties, injuries and deaths. Why? Number one, the tide charts were wrong. The guys were dropped into water that wasn't shoulder deep. It was, in some cases, 20 feet deep.  Those that don't drown live, but only by ditching their weaponry. Now they have to run across the beach unarmed with no weapons while they're being fired at with inflating fire from the sides and from the front. And we're looking this scene over. Jeff and I are looking this over, and it's like no way. And Jeff said, dad, let's go down to the water. Let's wait out into the surf. And let's come back toward the beach the way our guys would have. Yeah, we're talking an emotional moment. And of course, the French tour guide with no sense of diplomacy whatsoever is yelling at us in French, hurry up, you're holding up the whole group. I'm like, hey, babe, we saved your butts in this war. We're staying right here to enjoy this moment. But I couldn't help but be struck about what it would have been like to run across that beach without having what you needed to engage a well entrenched foe. And men and women, that's where we are as Christians. We have to know how to make a case for life that can engage that culture in a way that is attractive, winsome, compelling.  And this weekend is about how we think biblically about the key issues where the battle lines are drawn right now. Abortion will spend tonight talking about abortion. I will lay out a case for the pro-life view. I will deal with five bad arguments that people raise against the pro-life view and tell you why they don't work. And then tomorrow, I will deal with the single biggest objection not only to the pro-life view, but to your Christian faith, the issue of relativism. What's the most popular bumper sticker in America today? You know what it is. Co-exist. Why is that bumper sticker so popular? I'll tell you why tomorrow. I told you you were all coming back. Then we're going to get into some really interesting areas where we as Christians not only need to think biblically out there in the culture, we need to think biblically right here within our own churches. We're going to talk about reproductive technologies. You want to know emotional pain? Have you ever spent time with a couple that wants to have kids but can't? I am telling you that pain on a 1 to 10 is a 13. I had one couple tell me they'd rather have cancer than have to walk through what they walked through. In fact, the wife had had cancer and she said this was worse. So how do we help people in our churches think biblically about reproductive technologies that assist couples having children? Then, if it hasn't happened to you yet, it will. You will walk a loved one through their final days. I just did this with my sister five weeks ago and I walked through what we're going to talk about. When is it okay, if ever, to withhold treatment?  You could foresee it hastening death. Is that ever okay? What do you do when your dad or mom is in the final stages of cancer and that feeding tube is actually prolonging and increasing their suffering? What do you do in that situation? These are questions we as Christians have to be able to articulate biblical answers to and we're going to do that. Then we're going to get into what could be in our final session the most interesting one. What does it mean to have a human nature and is it ever okay to enhance it? Is it ever okay to alter the biological part of our nature to make us able to do more stuff? Now, as you can see, none of this will be controversial all weekend. Yeah, I'm equipping all of you for Thanksgiving table next year, right? Where I know I will not be invited. Anyway, that's where we're going to go and you're going to get exhaustive notes on all of this. Let's start tonight though with the issue of abortion. Everybody get ready to write down the three most important words when it comes to the issue of abortion. Are you ready? Three most important words. You've got to get these down and I need you to pay very, very close attention to each word. Ready? Okay. Word number one, syllogism. Let me spell that for some of you. Some of you just looked at me and said, I didn't know we were doing Greek and Hebrew tonight. Syllogism, S-Y-L-L-O-G-I-S-M. Syllogism. Word number two, make sure you get this. Syllogism. Anybody want to guess what the third word is? Yes, syllogism. So what's a syllogism? A syllogism is simply an argument put in a formal structure. How about this? Socrates is a man. There's premise one. Premise two, all men are mortal. Therefore, Socrates is mortal, right? Socrates is a man. All men are mortal. Therefore, Socrates is mortal. That's a syllogism. Premise, premise, conclusion. Guess what? Pro-life Christians have a syllogism and it is vitally important you know how to stick to it like glue. And I'll explain why before we're done tonight. Here's your pro-life syllogism. Premise one, it is wrong to intentionally kill an innocent human being. You're free to write it if you want, but it will be in your notes. I just thought I'd share that is. Premise one, it is wrong to intentionally kill an innocent human being. Premise two, abortion intentionally kills an innocent human being. Therefore, what's our conclusion? Abortion is wrong. Premise one, it is wrong to intentionally kill an innocent human being. Premise two, abortion intentionally kills an innocent human being. Therefore, abortion is wrong. Now that men and women is what we call an argument and argument is not insulting someone and saying you're not very attractive and neither is anybody else with your family name that's an insult an argument is where we actually lay out an argument a case for our view and step one is having a clearly defined syllogism premise one and by the way we lock the doors at the end of each session and nobody leaves till they recite the syllogism so you really are gonna you know remember the old eagle song you can check out but you can never leave tonight you don't get to leave until you know that syllogism premise one it is wrong to intentionally kill an innocent human being premise two abortion intentionally kills an innocent human being therefore abortion is wrong and we're going to look right now at three key questions that will establish the truth of that syllogism and its validity as well the first question we're going to look at is what is the unborn the second question we'll look at is what makes humans valuable and then thirdly we'll ask the question tonight what's the point what's the point so let's look at that first question what is the unborn our culture believes men and women that abortion is a complex issue abortion is not a complex issue it's psychologically complex but it's not morally complex here's what I mean by that if you know a 14 year old girl who's pregnant and her boyfriend is going to dump her her parents aren't supporting her her school will kick her out she will lose the opportunity to earn good money because she now has a kid she'll lose the opportunity to go to college do you feel sympathy for her of course but does it follow there's no morally correct way to proceed whether abortion is right or wrong starts with the question what is the unborn can we kill the unborn that depends what is the unborn my friend greg kokal of standard reason has a perfect illustration to get to the heart of this he says imagine you're at your kitchen sink one night washing dishes after supper your back is turned and your five-year-old boy comes in while your back's turned and says to you daddy or mommy can I kill this some of your legs go no they would never ask such questions would they little girl over here going yeah those little boys in my class do that all the time well you see this ring on my finger here it's been there for 30 years 31 years this october where i've been married to the most glorious woman in all of christendom for that amount of time and we have a son who is 26 us army son 25 us army we have a son 19 and a daughter 15 and i want to assure you that i have personally heard the question daddy can i kill this times without number and almost often his hands are around his brother's throat when he's asking the question daddy can i kill this what's the first thing you want to know what's the first question out of your mouth as a concerned parent not why what what does he got cockroach snail fire ant do whatever you want don't show your mother neighbor kitty whoa and brother by the throat you have issues correct you would never in a billion years say sure son have at it till you answered that predicate question what does he got i know some of you're going wait a minute this church brought this dude in from atlanta for that it's simple but it gets us right to the heart of the abortion controversy can we kill the unborn yes we can if if what if the unborn are not human i've done debates on college campuses my most recent debate partner has been malcolm potz you don't know malcolm potz but malcolm potz was one of plan parenthood's first international medical directors he was the guy who got great britain's abortion laws liberalized in 1967 he now teaches a population control course out at berkeley and once a year i get to jump on the plane and fly out to that bastion of conservative thought out there to debate him in front of his own students and i love it i got 660 of his own students sitting out there i have nothing to lose in that gig nothing there's two of them who think like me the rest don't he's got everything to lose and in our last debate i was supposed to speak first he preempted me he walked up to the podium and he said to his students scott is here today because he wants to jam his religious view down your throat in fact he thinks he's got the answers to the whole universe scientists don't know when life begins philosophers don't know when life begins theologians don't know when life begins but scott knows in fact he's so certain of it he feels he has the moral authority to take away your choices and i find his arrogance appalling it was great to be at berkeley that day he had 20 minutes to give an opening he took about two minutes i had 20 minutes how much time do you think yeah i took it all here were the opening words out of my mouth which if he had bothered to research me he would have known i was going to pull this on him i said ben and women i agree with everything dr potz just said he's right abortion should be legal through all nine months of pregnancy no questions asked he's right pro-lifers like me ought to butt out of this issue and let every person make up their own minds he's right that no laws should govern the woman's autonomy he's right that religious people shouldn't take their theological views and impose them on others i agree with everything he just said he's right if those two pro-life girls i just mentioned they passed out at this point if what if the unborn are not human and if dr potz can use the science of embryology to demonstrate that the unborn are not one of us and philosophy to show us that even if they are we have no duty to value them i will concede this exchange because i'm more committed to truth than i am ideology in fact men and women i'm vigorously pro-choice on women choosing their own religion choosing their own husbands choosing their own careers choosing their own cars the pets they want to own the car or the homes they want to own i'm pro-choice in all that but some choices are wrong like intentionally killing an innocent human being simply because he's in the way of something we want that's a choice the civil society should not allow but if dr potz can demonstrate for us empirically that the unborn are not human i'm with him do you think he took me up on my little challenge now here was his reply i repeat scientists disagree with theologians theologians disagree with philosophy philosophers nobody knows when life begins they all disagree with each other that was his rebuttal men and women you do not need a degree in rocket science to see the flaw in his thinking how does it follow that because people disagree nobody's right did people once disagree on whether women should have the right to vote there's a dude going back there you know i really wish we could go back to those days no i won't point him out though he's running my microphone that wouldn't be a good thing no i'm just kidding he looked back to the wall no it wasn't you there was no dude that was just another one of those jokes that went it was magic but anyway um did people once disagree on whether the earth was flat around did they once disagree on whether african americans were citizens with rights did it follow there were no right answers the absence of consensus says hadley arkis does not mean an absence of truth but there was a deeper flaw here notice what doctor potz said we don't know if the unborn are human therefore we can kill them if we don't know if the unborn are human should we be killing them if you're driving home tonight you see what looks like an old black coat in the road but it could be an elderly gentleman who had a little bit too much to drink at the pub are you going to run the code over or err on the side of caution err on the side of caution or to borrow an example from former president ronald reagan if you're out hunting and you see bushes rustling in front of you and you don't know if it's that deer you've been after or your best buddy do you open fire not unless you're dick cheney right you err on the side of caution there's no way you're gonna open fire pastor that's my only political joke that i'll try to throw in here unless i forget if we don't know if the unborn are human we shouldn't be killing them it's that simple you gotta answer the question what is the unborn before you answer the question can we kill the unborn and you know what the problem is men and women millions of americans never answer they don't even ask the question what is the unborn they simply assume the unborn are not human i'm going to pick on you for a moment but i reward everybody i pick on no don't look over at him i'm gonna pick on you um now do you have a brother what's his name jaron and what's your name lydia have you stopped beating your brother jaron jaron yet have you stopped beating him you did okay was that through prayer and deliverance or how did that healing come about i didn't ask you that have you stopped you have okay i'm glad you have now was that a fair question what was wrong with the question by the way free book for you see me afterward i reward everybody i pick on everybody's i could just see everybody going yeah man would somebody attack me yeah i could just see it now yeah yeah so was it a fair question why not what did i assume did i prove it did i give any evidence i just assumed it and people do this with the unborn all the time how many of you read the book the adventures of huckleberry finn those of you that maybe it's been a few years i think it's chapter 32 or 23 i can't remember which huck being the adventurous boy that he is has been out messing around all afternoon he's late for supper and he knows aunt sally is gonna hammer him and so he puts together a lie to get out of getting in trouble he knows aunt sally will pound him to dust so when he shows up late for dinner he says oh well ma'am we would have been on time but we had to take a steamboat to get here and the steamboat blew a cylinder head i mean complete lie aunt sally says well did anybody get hurt no ma'am they killed a negro but nobody got hurt aunt sally says well that's good because sometimes people do get hurt whoa what was just assumed about the black man that he wasn't one of us on the anniversary of roe v wade two years ago the president of the united states celebrating the supreme court case that gave us abortion on demand said the following today we remember a day that all americans should take joy in because said the president get ready here's the quote because this is a nation where everyone deserves the right to pursue their own dreams what was just assumed about the unborn that they're not one of us the president didn't argue for it he simply assumed it i'm going to give you a little tactic now that will help you when people assume the unborn aren't human sometimes they do it innocently they don't mean to they're like that woman at the park they just haven't really thought deeply about this issue but you need to flush that assumption out into the open c s louis said the most dangerous ideas in our culture are the ones that are simply assumed those are the most dangerous ones so let's take a look at this assumption that the unborn aren't human and let me give you some examples of how people do this and then i'll show you how this tactic works you'll all be doing this in your sleep by tomorrow it's it's real easy it's called trot out the toddler every time you hear an argument for abortion the first thought i want you to have in your head is this would this work as a good argument for killing a toddler if the answers know what are they assuming about the unborn that they're not assuming about the toddler that the unborn aren't human like the toddler right now please listen to me very carefully for a moment we do not use trot out the toddler to argue the unborn are human like the toddler we're going to do that in the next step the first thing we're doing is simply framing the argument here's a little piece of advice from debate coaches he or she who frames the exchange wins it that's true everywhere but marriage we're really guys the best thing is to just say i repent i'll do better next time and things tend to go better is that your argument sir somebody next to you is turning beat red but that's okay so let's try this let's frame the argument using trot out the toddler somebody says to you how come you don't trust women to make their own personal decisions you've heard this and you're thinking okay wait a minute i i don't hate women i'm not for a war on women how do i convince this person i don't hate women wrong question what i want you to do instead is put your hand at about knee level and the first words out of your mouth need to be these pretend i have a two-year-old in front of me his parents want us to trust them to rough him up in the privacy of the bedroom should we trust them to make that decision what's the answer going to be no your reply two words why not well because he's a human being your reply one word said melodically ah some of you can say that better than me when i sing things die but you might be able to really pull that off ah if the unborn are human like that toddler should we kill the unborn in the name of privacy or trusting women any more than we'd kill a two-year-old for that reason oh that's different the unborn aren't human the toddler is ah that's the question we need to resolve before we talk about choice before we talk about privacy before we talk about trusting women we've got to answer the question what is the unborn nobody kills two-year-olds in the name of choice and who decides do they unless they're really in trouble up here right so they're assuming the unborn aren't human and trot out the toddler flushes that assumption out into the open where it can be dealt with so let's try it somebody comes to you and says well what about a poor mother she's already got eight kids by eight different men she's pregnant with the ninth she can't feed the eight they're welfare kids they don't even go to school and you're going to force her to bring another kid into this world another child into this world that she can't feed stop right there what did they just assume about the unborn notice their language bring another child into the world do we accept that proposition she already has a child right the question is what is she going to do with him so trot out your toddler i have a two-year-old in front of me his parents can't afford to feed him in fact the family budget for the remaining seven children would be a whole lot better if we simply eliminated the poverty problem by eliminating the extra mouth defeat should they be allowed to kill the two-year-old to make the checkbook balance at the end of the month in other words when human beings get expensive may we kill them what's the answer going to be no you can't do that your reply some of you are too anxious for the eye could just see it in your eyes or you're about ready to come out of your chairs no not yet why not well because he's a human being ah ah what not aha ah if the unborn are human like that toddler should we be killing the unborn in the name of economic hardship any more than we kill a toddler for that reason well that's different the unborn aren't human the toddler is ah that's the question we need to resolve first before we talk about privacy choice economic hardship yada yada yada everybody with me so far let's try one more somebody comes to you and says well wait a minute if we allow or if we disallow abortion we're going to have all these unwanted kids running around that are going to grow up abused and abandoned and you're going to tell me that the more humane thing to do would be to allow child abuse rates to swell rather than deal with this problem before they ever come into the world stop right there what's just been assumed about the unborn that they're not human because by the way if the unborn aren't human or if the unborn are human isn't abortion bad like child abuse is bad yeah so they're assuming something let's flush that assumption out into the open i have a two-year-old in front of me he's been roughed up already and by the time he's five he's going to be really roughed up by abusive parents would it be okay to kill him now to prevent him being roughed up later what's the answer going to be no you can't do that your reply why not well because he's a human being ah if the unborn are human like that toddler should they be killed in the name of unwantedness any more than we'd kill a toddler for that reason that's different ah that's the question we need to resolve are the unborn human like that toddler now by the way have i even yet argued the unborn are human no i have not i'm simply setting parameters around the debate and why am i telling you to do this why am i telling you about a syllogism here's why when abortion comes up in discussion have you ever noticed it goes off in 30 different rabbit trails this is how you keep people on message this is how you keep the main thing you focus like a laser beam on the question what is the unborn let me answer it for you what is the unborn now pastor i am not going to go to the bible to answer the question it's the wrong place to go the room just got real quiet we're not going to go to the bible we're going to go to the book of Mormon no just kidding um i won't get everybody up that was tempting to snooze right now they all whoa all right get ready we're going to go to the science of embryology and let me explain why the question what kind of thing is the unborn is not a theological question it's an empirical question like asking what kind of thing is a dog or a or a fish right now we're going to do bible don't worry okay but not yet let's first ask what are we dealing with here and here's what the science of embryology tells us and i will footnote this extensively in your notes from the earliest stages of development you were a distinct living and whole human being from the earliest stages of development you were a distinct living and whole human being everybody hold your hand like this for a moment and i want you to start plucking skin cells off the back of your hand go ahead just give yourself a good pinch if your neighbor's not doing it grab some cells off the back of his neck or something i don't know all right congratulations you just sent a couple 100 somatic cells hurling to their deaths on the table in front of you did you know that each one of those cells contains your entire DNA encoding in fact we're going to be able very shortly it's not a question of if it's just a question of when very shortly we're going to be able to take the the nucleus of one of those DNA cells in your body and we're going to be able to clone another living human entity from it okay you just sent a couple 100 of those puppies hurling to their deaths did you just commit mass homicide no you didn't and you know why these cells on the back of your hand are merely part of a larger human entity you they are not distinct whole living entities the way you were when you were an embryo the way i was when i was an embryo that's the science of embryology well of course people are going to raise objections let me just run you through some these will be in your notes the first thing they'll bring up is twinning why that early embryo could split into two up till 21 days that embryo that starts as one breaks into two how can you claim it's a whole living being from the very beginning when it could split question how does it follow that because a living entity splits that it wasn't a whole living entity prior to the split is anybody here ever cut a flatworm in half what do you get when you cut a flatworm in half two flatworms does it follow there was no flatworm prior to the split you'll also hear people say well wait a minute women don't grieve miscarriages the way that they grieve the death of a newborn or toddler well first of all those people are out of touch with a lot of women i know and a lot of men i know they're just they're out of touch because i will tell you the heartbreak of that is real and it's good for our churches to rally around people who've suffered that and love on them because they have lost a family member i know we don't intuitively go there we tend to think that it's different but you know what they've lost a family member and that's not easy and i wish i had an answer for why god allows that i don't but it doesn't change for a moment they've lost something of dear value to them but the argument goes like this from our friends out there women don't grieve miscarriages like they do newborns who die all right let's say for a moment they were right they're not but let's say they were how do my feelings about something change what it is if i got a message when i get back to the hotel tonight indicating that one of my own children had died tonight will i feel worse about that than hearing on the news that 500 children died in india today from malnutrition does it follow my kid is more human than those children no my feelings about something don't change what it is you'll also hear people say well nature spontaneously triggers miscarriages nature it seems has no problem with abortion okay when you hear that is dr potz tried to lay on me when i debated him you're dealing with someone who's really really ignorant of basic biology and quite frankly i expected better from an md how does it follow that because nature spontaneously triggers a miscarriage that a the children in question were not human or b we may intentionally kill them you see the problem here earthquakes happen in third world countries thousands of people are killed does that justify mass murder it's an example of what we call the is ought fallacy just because something is the case doesn't mean it ought to be and yet many of our secularist friends have bought into this another one you'll get is that sometimes pregnancies develop into molar pregnancies or tumors that embryo so the argument goes morphs into a tumor how can we claim then that it's a human being from the very beginning anybody who tells you that is really really ignorant about embryology let me put this to you real clearly molar pregnancies do not start off as complete living human organisms the way you did at the embryonic stage and then morph into tumors they were tumors from the very beginning how many of you know the alphabet song twinkle twinkle little star okay guys come on just nod it's all right you learned it in kindergarten we're not going to hold it over your head now i won't ask you to sing it and i'm certainly not going to sing it but don't those two songs sound the same when they first start off but what happens after the fifth measure you quickly learn they're not the same song in the same way molar pregnancies do not start off as embryos and change into something else they never were embryos they always were molar pregnancies and anybody who tells you different doesn't know basic embryology one last objection you'll get the burning research lab oh this one's fun it goes like this you prolifers don't believe your own rhetoric you don't believe those embryos are human because if you did you would behave differently and i'll demonstrate you don't believe it pretend you're in a burning research lab in this corner by the light over there below the light is a newborn baby in this corner over by the exit sign is a vial full of frozen embryos this building is an inferno you do not have time to save both you can either save the newborn or the vial full of 12 frozen embryos where are we all going we're all going to the newborn and by the way that's the right decision and our critic then says see even you don't believe those embryos are human because you automatically went for the newborn there goes your whole case question how does it follow that because i save one human over others that the ones left behind are less human pretend this building is on fire and i have a choice of saving all of you or my 15 year old daughter emily rose who is going to fry yeah yeah i won't shoot you on the way out but i'm saving her first because i'm her dad and i have a responsibility to her i don't have to you i'm getting her out first then we'll come back does it follow you're less human than she is because i save her first not at all these are all very bad arguments against the pro light view i do get one though that i think we could maybe just use a little help on if we're honest and we look at a picture of an embryo at maybe the 10 cell stage and it looks just like a little ball of cells it's kind of hard to think wow that's one of us because our intuitions don't naturally go there but let me see if i can reorient our intuitions a little bit pretend you're on a safari this is an example from richard steth and it's the pre-digital era and you have in the year 1970 a polaroid camera does anybody here under the age of 45 know what a polaroid camera is no you're not i think some of you are raising your hand thinking you're under the age of 45 i hear your confession but you're saying it so does it make it so are you teaching word of faith your pastor what's going on here now polaroid cameras for you young ones the way it worked when your parents were growing up you shot a picture and it recorded it on this stuff called film and you had to shoot 36 or 24 exposures then once you got all the pictures shot you took the film out of the camera and you drove it to the far corner of the supermarket parking lot to this little shot called photomat and you would drop the film off and you'd wait a month for your pictures to come back half of them overexposed that was the unbelievable horror we lived in prior to your smartphones now pretend you're on a safari it's 1970 you're on a mexican safari and you have a polaroid camera because the polaroid camera was the answer to the photomat problem you'd shoot a picture it was a very ugly looking thing really it was it looked like satan who invented it it was really ugly you'd shoot the picture but it would spit the picture out and it would be a white piece of paper and then you'd just wait and then it would you'd shake it a little bit yep and you'd wait and about 90 seconds to two minutes later your picture emerged you didn't have to go to photomat it was right there you're on a safari you shoot a picture in this mexican jungle of a black jaguar jumping across the trail in front of you nobody shoots pictures of black jaguars but you got it on your polaroid and while you're waiting i come up to you while you're waiting for the picture to emerge that you just snapped i ripped the polaroid camera out of your hand i yanked the paper out of the camera and i tear it up are you mad at me yeah you are what if i said to you the following what's the big deal no jaguar there in that picture that was just a white paper with a brown smudge on it is that going to get me off the hook you're going to look at me incredulous and you're going to say brown smudge on a piece of paper are you kidding me the jaguar in the picture was already there we just couldn't see him yet in the same way men and women you were already there from the one cell stage we just couldn't see you that is the science of embryology


You know, we're going to get started here. If everybody can hear me and see the slide. Very good. Welcome. Kathy's going to put my email in. If you have any questions, you can always email me at Melissa at the stockswush.com. OK, Kathy, if you can put that in the room. Today I'm going to do a brief lecture. We're going to talk about how you can earn a living one hour day-day trading. Now, you know, a lot of people are interested in making money in the market. I must clarify that active trading is not the same as investing. OK, investing is I'm going to buy this stock and I'm going to hold it for weeks and months and years. OK, that's not what this is. Excuse me, active trading is you may buy stocks. You might short stocks. And you're in them maybe for a couple of minutes or even an hour, maybe less than that. Or you could do options, which we'll talk about an option trade here in this webinar too, which you might be in it for a day or two. But either way, you can actively trade the market and be in and out in several minutes, not even an hour. But that's not investing. It's trading. So I call it chunking it out. You chunk out the money. OK, you pull it out of the market and you stick it into your account. And that's really what it is. OK. And if you have any questions as we go along here today, you can always put them in the room. OK. So anyways, you can watch me in Fox Business, Fox News. I also appear in CBS. I just did a CBS radio interview today. So I'm making the rounds. OK, talk with the market the market found today. And we'll talk about the market today as well. And if you'd like more information, you can call me at 929-3200, yeah. And you can also email me at Melissa at thestockswish.com or follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or Skype. So I mean, many people are here. Some of you are recognized. Your names are not. You haven't done the class or have enjoyed my group. Some of you, I see some students in here. How many of you are trading right now? This is a very volatile time for the market. You could take that one of two ways. It's good if you're an active trader and you play it in the right direction. It's not good if you play it in the wrong direction. But I think you have to be focused no matter what you do. Whether the market's volatile or not, you still have to be focused. But I will say that from pretty much January 1st up until April 30th, the market was just rallying. And you could have gone long tons of stops and made money without blinking an eye. It's not the case right now. And it's not the case most of the time. NAB said no, not trading yet. All right, well, it's a good time to start. I called 2019 in December. In January, I thought this would be a volatile year, but then it was very quiet for the first four months of the year, but the year isn't over. So May has begun. The volatility has begun. And that means the way I look at it, okay? Again, I'm trying to explain this. It's opportunity, volatility equals opportunity. That is how I look at it, okay? And again, if you have any questions that go along in here, let me know. Excuse me, so for those of you that don't know what I do, I focus on stocks that are gapping. So we'll do a quick lesson here on what is a gap. A gap is a difference between the close and the open. So here's a chart, it's a day chart of the spine. This was today, I clipped it around three o'clock. The market on Friday closed here, boom, gapped down. So closed here at one price and gapped down to a different price. So what is a gap? A gap is a difference between the close and the open. That's all that it is. So stocks can gap up, stocks can gap down in the case of the market here, which is a spy, which is EETF for the S&P and gap down, okay? So what I look at is the first 30 minutes. Really, I'm very focused, 9.30 to 10 a Eastern time. It's a very important part of the day between 9.30, 10, 10, 10, 30, okay? You get big moves in stocks and the market in that period when they're gapping. Now that's not everything that you'd ever train. It's only things that are gapping, okay? And again, any questions, just write it in the room. I get this question a lot.  Yes, yes, you can. It may be something where you don't understand it, but then you ask questions or you just don't get it. Then you have to ask questions or maybe you'll get everything that I say. You'll sign up for the class and you'll get it all like that, okay? But the fact is you don't have to have an experience to be an active trader. You can do my class that I teach once a month. It's this weekend, May 18th and 19th and you can learn everything about the whole system in the two days. It is a full on 16 hour two day class, okay? But you don't have to have prior experience to trade. You don't have to have a college degree in trading. There is no such thing. You don't have to have a degree in business or finance and that's the beauty of the market. It's a free opportunity for you to come, free meaning open to anyone, experience level, anything. You just have to have the money to trade. You have to have the motivation to do it. You have to have a right system. And then of course you have to have the cost for my class. But trading is one of those things where you can do it anywhere in the world, anywhere then you live. And a lot of people like to trade the US markets because of the volume, because of the volatility. There are other markets out there to trade but a lot of them are slower, okay, slower going. So one of the things that's important to be successful whether you're trading for one hour a day or longer is you have to have a strategy. It's key to be successful. Very important if you wanna make money the market. You are not gonna be consistently profitable if you don't have a strategy. So this market as I was saying from May 1st through today has been all over the place. We drop, we fall, we rally, we drop the next day. If you don't know what to look at then you're probably getting killed in this market. But again if you do then you can make money and profit but it's all about the strategy for me, the system, okay, the system that I created that's called the golden gap. And I look at that system and I rank gaps in the pre-market, pre-market. Now you can also look at gaps at night, okay. In fact, the market may be gaping right now. In fact, let's look at it, hold on. Let's see if the market is up or down right now. Let's just take a little doozy. Let's look at the spy. I don't know why I did have that up. Hold on, where did we close? Oh, we see we're down, we're down. So we closed 280.96, we closed 280.96, and we're down. So we're down right now. Look at this, we're following as we speak. So you see the price here, 280.32, doing 280.36. You see this is where we closed over here, 280.96. Market's down. Does everyone see that? This is live. And again, I don't try the after hours, but this is live. It's 4.42, market closed at four. Everybody see that? Tell me if you see it. I'll go back to the PowerPoint, hold on one second. Any questions? Let me get the slide back up one second. Any questions about that? So the market is down tonight. Next it's about consistency. So consistency, the strategy, consistency, consistency is gonna help you particularly in 2019. Why? Because as I said earlier, it's gonna be a volatile year. So you don't want to miss opportunity when it comes and also you don't wanna be up money and then knock it out.  It's very, very, very, very, very important when you are trading to understand what you're doing particularly in these wild times, okay? Make sense? So how can you make money in the market? It's consistency in the strategy, money management and following a system. So for me, I really think that active trading in and out is fun. I like doing the work in the morning. I also like having the rest of my day to myself and I also like the idea that I can work from home. So a lot of you may go into your office or your job but the beautiful thing about trading is you don't have to go downtown to Wall Street. You don't have to live in New York if you wanna actively trade. It can be anywhere in the world, okay? We live in an electronic trading system. You can pull up your charts right now and see the price and guess what? We all have the same information. That's a beautiful thing. You open up an account at a broker. We all see, oh, the spy is down tonight. If you pull it up, boom, 2835 or wherever it's trading right now, okay? So this is really a great job. You don't have to be in New York. You don't have to be in the United States and you don't even have to trade all day, okay? Any questions? So trading in the morning Eastern time, talking about the market open, which is 9.30. If you can focus between 9.30 and 10, if that fits your schedule, you're gonna do fine, okay? Now, if you're at your job, you gotta be able to log into your computer or something and be able to take trades from your work desk but we're looking for the fast moves and we're gonna go over today's trades in this webinar tonight, at least the day trades. Not the actions, but the day trades today. There were two day trades today and they were in and out, in and out, in and out. Now, you could have actually held the moves today longer because the market fell and everything was pulled down with it but most of the time we're looking to get in and out quickly in the morning, all right? If you like the idea of working from home and if you like the idea of working for yourself, then this is something that you might wanna look into and that's what I'm here tonight and I will also answer anyone's questions if you have any questions about trading. But the ultimate lesson and the takeaway from today no matter what you decide to do, if you do decide to get engaged in the market, I think is have the proper focus and I always say it can be perfect for one hour a day. Just turn off your cell phone, do not check your email, close the door wherever you are in your home or office and do not talk to anyone and don't get distracted. I don't have the TV on. Turn the television off too. You have to be focused, okay? The market moves quickly. That's not a bad thing but it means that you definitely have to be focused on what you're doing and this is one of the reasons I like to prep. I like to prep myself in the pre-market, okay? So I'm very focused on what I'm doing, the time of the day and I'm watching things in the pre-market and I'm also focused on only one strategy. Now, what is the general philosophy of my strategy? I'm focused on institutional money. I learn how to read institutional money and price patterns and gaps and that is what I do, that's what you come and learn from me, okay? I read price. I read price action and gaps. I see movements ahead of time in charts and how do I do that? Because I'm reading the charts data, like I just showed you in the spy and I do something called price forecasting. So forecasting is the use of historic data to determine the direction of future trends. Businesses utilize forecasting to determine how to allocate their budgets or plan for the anticipated expenses for an upcoming period of time. This is typically based on the projected demand for the goods and services they offer.  Well, it's similar when you're looking at a chart and a stock chart, you're looking at a historic data and you're saying, well, I'm gonna determine the stock is gonna go there based on past price action, past price data and again, that's why you have to have charts. So what I do is something called technical analysis or it's advanced technical analysis because I'm looking at the gap but I'm looking at things in the chart and I'm determining in the pre-market if it's going to move up or down and that's how you know whether to go long or short, okay? But today the trades were shorts and I focus mostly on shorts but really what I'm reading is institutional money. Institutional money moves stocks, it moves the market. It's big, big money, hedge funds, big professional traders, okay? Follow me. So any questions so far as we're going along in here? Kathy, are you there? I just sent you a message too. So a lot of people wanna do this and they wanna get engaged in the markets but you have to understand if you get involved what you're getting into. Someone said today, oh, the China news. I don't trade news. Yeah, you can be aware of the news if you want to but you don't make decisions based on news events. You don't make decisions based on earnings. You make decisions based on price action, okay? So if you change to come and learn from me this is what you're gonna learn, okay? It's education that you're paying me for my time and you're paying me for my information and education is important, is important in anything you would wanna do as a professional career. I never understand why traders think that they can make money the market without proper education but many people believe that they can and that's why many people lose. You have to take it seriously. You don't wanna look at trading as gambling. That would be very detrimental to you personally, financially and just emotionally because if that's how you read the market and look at the market, you're gonna end up just failing, okay? So the intelligent choice, the higher choice is to learn, to learn and to understand and also have a goal and know why you're doing this. Like I don't know why every one of you is here tonight. Bottom line is some of you I recognize you've been following me for a long, long time and have not done the class. So why are you here? You're thinking about doing the class or thinking about trading or you're trading now, you're failing, you're losing. You have to decide why you're doing this. Are you doing it to make a little bit of extra money?  That's not a good enough reason being bored.  This is one of the reasons why the market is set up that you have a few amount of people at the top making lots and lots and lots of money and a lot of people at the bottom that are losing and most people will always lose in the market because they have these unrealistic dreams that they can take a small amount of money and make a million dollars. That's not realistic. While it is realistic to make money and profit from the market, you absolutely must take it seriously. You absolutely must know what to do and you can make a lot of money in the market depending on your risk but you have to risk a lot to get there. So how do you get there?  Okay, $200 a day is $1,000 a week and $1,000 a week is four grand a month and that isn't nothing. That's a decent profit that's almost 50 grand a year and if you're losing, losing in the market, that's real money. While 50 grand a year may not pay your bills or 48 grand a year may not pay your bills, it still is a great start and can build an account up in your equity to a position where you can start to risk more. It's great to have big dreams but you need to have to be able to take the steps to get there, okay? And a lot of people aren't willing to do that and that's one of the reasons many people lose. They wanna jump head first into something and take all their money, not learn what to do, risk it all, risk the farm, I say, I call it and then they lose and then they have nothing in the end anyways, don't know what to do and lose the money that they put up in a tree. So you saw that really with a lot of people trying to do crazy trades in Uber. Uber fell on the day and Friday I called that, I called that it was gonna fall when it was rallying, fell Friday, fell today, God knows where that stock goes and so many people were buying Uber, oh, this is price so low, this is an amazing price for this. Again, all of that has nothing to do with anything with the chart. There's nothing to do with the price action, there's nothing to do with actually happening in the actual chart, makes sense? And anything with a short amount of time data like Uber has is really just speculation but you could read the price action from Friday and you could have read the price action today to determine that it was not along. Any questions so far? Quiet group here tonight. Hello, hello, am I talking to myself? Is anyone alive? Alrighty, well let's talk about the rating system. The rating system is what I teach in my class, that's how I determine the directional bias of the stock that I'm trading, whatever would happen to be and that's how I knew for example that the spy was lower, okay, today. There we got a couple of people that are alive. Kettle corn's alive, now this typing. Anyways, I look at a 26 point checklist, okay? A checklist that tells me, and again I'm looking at the daily chart, it's telling me this is lower, this is higher, okay? Now for example, the market's down right now tonight but I have no idea where it opens tomorrow morning. We could keep falling, the market could rally tomorrow. We could rally from here, we could open higher tomorrow, I don't know. So I typically don't really look at stuff that much and figure anything out at night. I'll glance at it but I do the work in the morning, okay? So what experience do you need to do this as I said? You don't need an experience at all. Sometimes people are better off not having to do other classes before me because they learn things that don't work and then they have to unlearn them. Now how long does it take? You can do the class, you can start trading immediately. I say practice on a demo if you've never traded before for at least a couple of days, at least a week. Didi is here, Didi is finally getting into it, I think. Didi, Didi did the class a little bit ago, she was brand, brand new. So you have to go easy on yourself. Baby steps, I wouldn't be in a demo for that long though. A week is okay, a month is okay if you're really new but you should start to trade. $50 a trade, $100 a trade, okay?   And also the motivation that someday you might be a professional trader if indeed that is what you want. Again, you have to know what you want but for a lot of people, they are trying and attempting to trade the market and very well many people are throwing money into the market and they don't really know what their end goal is. You do need to know what your end goal is and you need to know how are you going to get there. Okay, you're gonna do this, this, this, this, this, this. And I say here we are, we're in May, it's almost June, May 13th it is, we're halfway through the month of May, almost June 1st, so we're not quite six months into the year, okay? We're about five, four and a half months into the year, she still have plenty of 2019 left, a million, million days to trade, left in this year to learn, to trade, to know what to do. Lots of time for the experience, okay? But the nice thing about this strategy is it's a short time a day, okay? So what will you learn from me? You will learn how to rank gaps on the daily chart. You will learn a high probability of directional bias for the entire day. You will learn how to look at something that has a big move of the day to predict that it will. Okay, we did TVA today that ended up having a very big move. I said that if the market falls today, TVA will go to 12, it broke 12. You will get early confirmation, looking between 9.30 and 10, 10 a.m. for the move and precise entries with follow-through and a good risk to reward target potential. And that is important because you want to have that risk to reward. Now again, we're looking to get the moves in the morning, but every once in a while you will have the market with you. And this only works for the stock market, I don't know what you mean, are you talking about currencies? Since we're looking at gaps, currencies, the currency market, the forex market, if that's what you're talking about only has one close and open every week. So theoretically, you would only be able to have one gap a week to even look at anything. So I don't think that that's enough. I don't know otherwise and that what you mean. Futures, you're looking at what? You're looking at the market. So yes, you could apply this and if you decide to do my class and have previously traded futures, I guarantee you that your analysis of the overall market will be greatly improved through this system. So you could apply it and use it for that. Many people want and choose to trade forks and futures because of the leverage, because of the amount of money you need to start an account which is very small in the leverage you get. That should not be a deciding factor in why you want to trade. You can make a lot of money trading stocks if you get the direction right because of the move. Yes, you need cash to do it, but you can open up a proprietary day trading account with $2,500 and a while you can open up a futures account with maybe 500 bucks, that shouldn't be the reason that you go in that direction. But you will learn how to read the market better from this checklist I've read the market, better than anyone that I know and better than anyone I've ever been on TV with in three years. And it's because of the way that I read gaps. But you shouldn't necessarily go to trade forks or futures because of the leverage. That's not a good enough rationale to trade that. I get where you're coming from but again, goes back to the philosophy.  There's some other places out there that tell people that and people believe it. And as a result, people throw the $500 and the very fast $500 that they have left into the market, they lose it all thinking they're gonna make a million or a hundred grand in a month or a year or a day. It doesn't work like that. And so don't you see why then the people at the top keep getting richer and everybody else keeps getting poorer because they're throwing money into the market because you have 500, 500, 500, 500, 500 and one trader at the top is saying, oh, come on, give me the money, give me the money. When you win, you're taking money from somebody else. So because XYZ is out there saying you could take $500 and make a hundred grand a month and you could take $500 and make a million dollars in two years, people believe that. That is insane.  I'm amazing at what I do.  Stop believing that nonsense. That is the very reason why the people at the top that know what they're doing keep getting richer and richer and richer because they're taking $500 from the 100,000 people that that person is telling people that they can do and it is false. Do you understand that the dream of making a million dollars in the market is fully alive. If you only have $500, what is your priority? What do you need to do? Well you better start saving money. Get a part-time job. Save your money so that you can take my class and open up an account that you can start out doing the normal things and then you can risk $100 a day and then you can risk $200 a day and then all of a sudden like I said you're making $48,000 in a year and then you can start to risk more. Then you can start to make $1,000 a day. Then you can start to make $2,000 a day and then after you're risking several thousand dollars on the trade the very idea of making a million doesn't seem that far away. But if you are starting out at a very small level it is totally unrealistic that you could hit those big numbers at any length of time. It is completely absurd. And I am ever amazed that people believe that nonsense and yet they do. They do. Do not buy, don't drink the Kool-Aid. Stop drinking that Kool-Aid.   All right, where was I? So share size to make a living. Again, everyone's risked a lot. Everybody wants to leverage. Yes, yes of course if you take 2,000 shares of something and you short it and it drops a dollar what are you gonna make? Two grand. But if you take 200 shares of something then you short it and it drops a dollar what are you gonna make? 200 bucks. And if you only have $200 to risk then you only have $200 to risk. You can't risk 2,000 if you don't have 2,000. If you have 200 you can make 200. So you look for the place and you set it up with a proper risk to reward and I do tell people and I teach people we use stops.  Stops protect you, okay? Makes sense? So the process I go through is I get up in the morning and I rate the gap. I rate the gap using my checklist. And this is what you learn from me. So I got up this morning and I rated the gap and I rated the gap in the spy. So the spy looked very inviting today. Very, very good. It looked lower. Okay, so I rated it. The spy rated 20 points per the golden gap range system. Mark it close here. Gap down, boom. This was a short. Okay, so that you caught a bought a put today which is an option. You could have shorted this as a day trade. So these were puts I called last week and I just wanna show this trade. This is not the trade from today. I'm gonna go back and show you the seven. Here was the seven. The market was lower in this trade from this day into Friday. Here's the drop off. This is another way to trade this. Again, if you're looking to avoid the leverage situation then open up an options account. You only pay what the cost is and the cost of this trade was about 80 cents. 80 cents for one contract, that's it. You could have bought one. You could have bought two. Two would have been 160 bucks. And again, you still could have made money. Okay, so do options instead of doing the futures or something if you have a limitation on margin. Anyways, the cost of this trade. Again, this was a seventh into the end of last week. This trade is off and I'm showing you how it worked. 80 cents, 80 contracts for an advanced risk was $6,400, sale price 330, $20,000. Now you would have needed 6,400 to take that trade but the return in investment is still the same regardless of your risk, 313%, over 300%.  So in this case here, or 313% is what I'm saying. You turned it over over three times. So if you had $640 risk you could have turned it over more than three times into a profit of 2,000. And again, what if you couldn't risk $340? What if you could only risk $320? What if you could only take four contracts and risk $320 in this trade I called last week? You still could have made 1,000 bucks risking 320. Again, turned it over more than three times.  Now, typically what I'm looking for in a trade is I'm looking for one turnover. Okay, 100% return on investment is good or 100% risk to reward if it's a day trade. But in this case here, I've been making some huge calls and some of these have gone over, over, over, where you're turning your money, whatever amount you take, 300, 600, 6,000, whatever it is, and you've turned it over to make it a lot. Okay, very important. Very important. This is how you're making your money work for you. You don't make your money work for you when you take pot shots in the dark by expecting to make 100 grand in a month with $500. You make your money to work for you by being smart. By being smart. I cannot stress enough how vital and critical it is for you to be smart when you are making trading choices. And that's very often why we only look at one or two things a day. Three is a lot. Three is a lot to look at for me. One, mostly maybe two, okay? Anyways, here was the spy. Again, drop today. There was a day trade I called in this. Beautiful, beautiful day trade market gap down. This was Friday night. This is a one minute chart. Closed here, gap down, open rallying and called the market here to beautiful point short, boom. Have you shorted the market right here? Fell again. Make money in one hour. Here's the market open. Don't do anything, don't do anything, boom. Short is here, boom. You could have taken it and been out in 15 minutes, 25 minutes, or you could have held it down more. Now I did tell people to be aware that the market could fall all day today so you get a little bit of money in the morning, early, and then hold the other half down. So anyways, entry for this day trade. Again, in and out very quickly was less than an hour if you took the whole thing off or you could have booked half and held the rest down. 280 to 90, 2,000 shares. Again, an advanced risk, 1,800 bucks. If you exited the first half, we lowered the stop, 2,135. Second half down to the drop, 2,805. You could have made $4,400 today risking 1,800. That's a nice trade. Again, what if you couldn't risk this to make this? Then fine, 200 shares would be $180 risk and you could have made 440 bucks today. And actually you could have made more if you held the whole thing. But I thought it was a good idea to piecemeal out of this market today, the way that it's just been crazy. I do think it's always good to book money in the morning. But do you see here how? I mean even $500 a day, $400 a day in five days is two grand a week. You do not have to risk this type of money if you can't afford it. Now if you can, do it. Do it if you can, okay? But the point I'm trying to make is that everybody is at a different placement in their life. But this is the consistency. Looking for the gap, raiding the gap, raiding the, watching, focus on the time of the day, looking for the setup. One symbol, two symbols, make sense? Now this was the second trade here. Actually this was the first one before the spy. This was Tiva. Tiva closed here, gap down, open, dropped. Again, we were in this very, very early in the morning, okay? Drop, boom. Some people got out here. If you held it, could have made a little bit more. Drop. And again, this ended up going crazily, crazily lower today, which I thought then because of the market. But if you wanted to book money early, you could have been out of Tiva here in five minutes. You could have been out of Tiva here by 10 a.m. Show a very nice move. And if you are able to take the Golden Gap course, you are eligible to join the live training room. I call the trades live in the room. Both these trades, I called in the live room today. You would have gotten the exact entry. You would have gotten the exact stop, okay? But either way, you must do my class to join the room. Why? Because I want people that are serious. I do not want people that are not serious, okay? You have to be serious about this if you want to be successful. And I'm building successful students, successful people, okay? I can't make you successful. You have to be motivated to do it, but I can teach you the information I can tell you this is what you're gonna have to do if you want to be successful, okay? And follow, listen, very, very important. Listen as questions follow. Anyways, this was the daily chart in Tiva. Closed here, gap down, open, fell. Again, this went crazily, crazily, past every target that I had. It did end up breaking 12. Any questions about the trades today, spy or Tiva? So here's what we did. Short was 12.82, boom. Anywhere you got in, take it. 7,000 shares, this had plenty of volume. Again, we trade stocks that move. Names, you know, this was a news, news gap. Risk, 1,960, exit, 12.58, boom.  That's important too. Profit 1820, risk your reward, one to one. And that's good for a day trade. Now, what if you have a small account? Again, 700 shares, 700 shares. You could have made $182. What is wrong with $182? Nothing, questions. Any questions so far? So anyways, I do everything based on my golden gap rating system. I get up in the morning and I rate the gap. If the gap rates 20 points or more for the 26 point rating system, then I decide to look for the stock, watch it into the open and see how it sets up. I focused on between 930 and 10. I'm focused on between 930 and 1030, okay? So the focus is to make money. Make money, make money, make money. You have to take it, book it, take it, get out. Again, this is not long-term investing. This is chunking it out. Now, as I was saying earlier, one of the reasons why many people find day trading so hard is because they get lured into the money and then they lose focus. There's so many different stock symbols every day. They don't know what to look at. They don't know what to focus on. They don't know why. I call it conviction, but it's really the confidence. It's the confidence in the system itself and that helps me make the calls. But if you are interested in day trading, you have to understand this isn't investing. This isn't buy and hold. And very often, like I said, we're short. We're betting, you can call it betting, that the certain stocks that we trade are lower, okay? We're looking for the move. I call it the money move. You get in, you get out. You get in, you get out. And that's what I mean. It's fast. It could be in five minutes. You could have been in and out, even five minutes. You could have been in and out of the market in 15 minutes or you could have held the market all day. Sometimes things do go to the dream target, I call it. You never know. But I think that making money is very important. And so you have to be wise about your choices. You'll have another trade tomorrow. It's about taking more winners than losers. You wanna win more than you lose. If you win more than you lose, you'll be up, okay?  There we go. Now that's a good decision. Excellent. He's getting a round of applause tonight. And you're going to do very well. So part of it is that. And I think when you just kind of say, okay, well this girl knows what she's talking about, therefore I'm gonna do the trades. I mean, you really have to, if you're so new, okay, or you're new to gaps, even if you're not new to trading in the market, if you don't understand gap analysis, you have to just say, okay, I'm gonna just trust the process of life. And that's what you have to do. Okay, I created my own system. It took me more than three years. And I also have been doing this for a long time, 11 years. But it's 11 years just in one thing.  One thing. And that is phenomenal. When you think about the fact that many people are doing tons of stuff, they're jacks of all trades out, maybe doing stuff for a longer than I'm alive. But to do one thing and nothing else for 11 years is pretty phenomenal. And that is part of the reason for my own success and why I read things so well. Like today I got up and I knew the market was lower, okay? But I still go through the process and I still rank the gap. Okay, any other questions? Any other questions so far? What was I gonna say? Okay, so if you're one to do this, okay, as something for serious as a career, okay, in your life, I say learn it. Again, start where you can. Set your goals. Where they wanna make $500 a day, $1,000 a day. And then you get to the point, okay, where you're doing it, doing it, doing it. And then all of a sudden, you'll be where you wanna be.  It's like, okay, well, you never played tennis in your life before and you're like, well, I think I'm gonna play in the Wimbledon. I think that's the next, no, the, what's the first match of the year? The one in France. The first big, no, actually, the Australian match already happened in January. Well, it's in Wimbledon. You're like, well, I'm gonna try out for Wimbledon and you never played tennis in your life or you got a month to train. You have to be realistic, okay. And then when I say the word realistic, everybody gets, listen, the fact that it's even possible, realistically, that you could make several hundred thousand dollars in the market or even a million dollars in your life, in your lifetime, trading an hour a day and even from home. The fact that it's even possible at all is amazing. Okay, does that make sense?  Okay, that's where the magic happens and it all comes to place. So, if you've been thinking about trading and you wanna do and you can email me if you wanna referral for a broker, but quite frankly, you can trade at any broker. If you are setting up an options account, you don't need a margin account. If you were doing a day trading account, you can do a retail account or you can do a prop account, okay. You can open up an active prop account with $2,500 and you can open up an options account with $2,000, okay, that will be non-margin. So, there's many places you can go as long as you have the charts and you can take the trains and put them on. I'd say if you're gonna actively day trade, you need a broker with a good short list, but there's so many places out there to be. We do not trade penny stocks. They don't have enough volume. They're not trading with institutional money. They're worthless. You're never gonna get rich doing that and again, that's another failed misconception. Another misconception that people are out there saying you get rich trading penny stocks. No, that's nonsense. This is, they're very risky, okay. Trained companies and things that you know. You know Apple, you know Boeing. You've heard of the S&P, you understand? Tiva maybe never heard of it, you can Google it. Trains with lots of volume, been around, okay. Any questions? So, when we're doing these and I call the entry, I may say 10 by 50, well that's 40 cents, but you have to know your share size is gonna be different at every trade. So, you say 10 by 50, 40 cents, we take 1,000 shares, you're risking what? 400 bucks. 2,000 shares, you're risking what? 800 bucks. So, the share quantity for every trade isn't the same, but your dollars and cents risk should be, okay. Your goal though should be to chunk it out. My class is $6,000. Your goal should not be where you're worried about paying off the cost of the class. You should be concerned and focused on winning and consistency and learning it and booking money. You will far exceed the cost of my class, which is $59.99, far exceed that if you follow the system and do it right and you're focused right out of the get-go. And again, you may have done things in the past that didn't work, you have to let it go. I don't think anyone's ever born and all of a sudden gets up and they start trading and making money in the market and most people take classes and don't learn what to do until they find the right person and they'll lead to the right person that tells them what they can do when they find that person and they follow that person and they learn from that person and hopefully that person becomes their mentor, okay. This was from Marty. Marty did the class, actually ended up doing the class. First he signed up for the options newsletter, then he made money and then he ended up doing the class and he's doing pretty well. So eventually Marty will start to day trade. He did do the class. I think he was surprised.  There are no prerequisites for the options letter. A lot of people are transition, signed up for the letter, taken the options trades like I just talked about the first trade on the spy and then paid for the gap class but I do think it's important to learn first. I will always think that I think it helps your confidence definitely. So think about if this is for you, there are definitely pros and cons to trading. One of them is that you may have the challenge of again opening an account, having the money for that and paying for the cost of my services and my information in the class but the benefit is that this could turn into be something great for you and that's what risk is all about. You will never know unless you're willing to take risk. I have to laugh. I mean, I've had all kinds of people come out of the woodwork lately that have been following me for a long time, signing up for the options letter, signing up for the golden gap class this weekend. They've been following me for years. I've had people that some guy called me the other days and follow me since 2012. I almost fell off my chair. I remember talking to the guy seven years, seven years ago, I talked to the guy. I remembered him and I thought, oh my lanta. You know, if it took me this long to make decisions, I would not be at this point that I'm out of my life. I'm the kind of person to have a personality that I am very motivated and I'm an action taker and I don't take a long time to make decisions but I realize that people do. People sometimes take a long time to make decisions. I don't think that will ever serve you in life. I think when you're willing to take action and you're willing to trust your own judgment and you're willing to take risk in life, it can pay off for you. I don't think you're gonna get ahead unless you're willing to take risk in life and you definitely have to be willing to take risk in the market if you wanna make money, period. Whether it's a small amount of money or whether it's a big amount of money, you have to be willing to take risk. You're not gonna take any risk if you don't take the trades and the only way you can take the trades is with cash. I mean, I was telling a girlfriend the other day, I said, can you imagine if I had that type of personality, I'd never be where I am in my life? So think about it. You can go outside of your comfort zone a little bit.  So it's about financial freedom and doing it and you can work from home. So I teach a class, it's once a month, it's called the Golden Gap System. It's a 26-point professional bearish gap rating system. The purpose of this system is to help you evaluate your gap to trade each morning using a checklist. This checklist tells you what to trade, when and in what direction. The 26-point checklist predicts direction of bias and a stop, okay? NAD says you can be right about that but people probably aren't all that willing to change. Well, then I don't know how they're gonna get ahead in life, then they really are grabbing on to, then they really would rather drink the Kool-Aid but that's not gonna turn them into a successful person. And NAD, you've been following me probably since 2012, at least 2013. I recognize your name. I recognize your name, I recognize RS's name. I recognize some of your names here. You've been following me for four, five, six years, if not seven. I don't know what to say.    And not only that, you have to have the right attitude. You have to be motivated to do it.  You gotta go out and you gotta create them. You have to create the opportunities yourself. And part of that is saying, you know what? I am willing to change. I want a better life. I'm tired of losing in the market, you say to yourself, I'm tired of the status quo. I'm tired of this job. This is annoying. They abuse me. They're using me. I don't make enough money and I work too many hours and I'm tired every night when I get home. I wanna work for myself. I wanna do something different. Whatever, whatever it happens to be, I don't know, I'm just saying those things. But I'm saying that no one knows but you.   That's my two cents on that. So the golden gap checklist is what I teach in the class. So the class is called the golden gap course. The classroom May is May 18th and 19th, nine to five Eastern time, class of the class is 59.99. US dollars, the class is online. You can be anywhere in the world and take it, okay? Anyone of any questions about anything, anything and all so far, great lecture here today. Now let's check out the market very quickly here just to see what's going on. We're still down, we're not down crazy but we are down about 50 cents. Let me look at the queues. Whoa, where are, this, we are way more down. The queues look lower here tomorrow for sure. Look at that, any questions from anyone? If you want to try out of the trading room, email me at melissaatthestalkswitch.com for a trial for Tuesday through Friday, classes this weekend, deadlines Friday. If you want any more information, you can feel free to call me 9293200 gap. Does anyone have any questions? Good lecture tonight, NAB, I know you've been following me forever. In fact, let's look it up.  I'm gonna tell you exactly how long you've been following me, just so you know. Do, do, do, do, do, what is today? Today is only Monday, gosh, why does it feel like Wednesday? I'm tired already, it's been a long day. NAB, I was right. You have been following me since March of 2013 and I started the business at the end of 2012. You have been following me almost since the beginning. Yep. So there you have it. Not sure what I could possibly say to you tonight. That would be any different of anything I've said for the last six and a half years. You've been following me now more than six years. March of 2013. Somehow you found me and signed it for my list. I knew I recognized your name and RS too.   Corn, I'm gonna email you after I just saw your note. Yeah, Kelekorn, I will email you. I will email you as soon as I hang up here. Listen, have a great night, everyone. Have a wonderful night. I will see you, some of you in the room tomorrow and Kelekorn will email you right back. Thanks, Kathy. You're welcome. Oh, I forgot one more thing. The Trends class. The Trends class, the deadline. Again, if you want to do the combo is the Friday, May 17th. You save $500. Everyone, we want to thank you for coming out to our online trade and special tonight. Kind of thanks to our host, Mr. Moston. Anyways, the Trends class, you can do as well with the combo 64.99. The deadline for this is Friday, May 17th. And then the May offer is signed up for the Golden Gap course by May 17th. You receive the Gap options, it was letter free through 1231.19. Same tuition price. This is a huge deal. I've had some huge calls in the letter. Again, $59.99, deadlines Friday, May 17th, okay? And again, no prerequisites for the options letter that's $49.99 a year. If you're interested in that, email me. But I'm telling you, to get the class and the options letter free to the end of the year is huge, okay? All right, have a great night everyone. You're welcome.


This weekend, the Boston University cycling team competed in the 2015 Beanpot Cycling Classic. The race was conveniently located for the Terriers at nearby Tufts University, but the race drew teams from across the country and as far as Canada. After a snowy start to their season, the cycling team was excited to get back on the road. I mean, I'll be honest, yesterday was my first ride outside of the season and it was in a race. So it didn't go great, but it was fun and it's nice to be back outdoors. I mean, today is a gorgeous day, so we're not complaining. Several new team members saw great success on day one of the cycling competition. Yesterday in the time trial, a lot of our brand new riders, intro riders, freshman, got top places in the top 10, so that was amazing. And Eric Lowell placed on day one of the competition. This was the second race of the year I raced the weekend before, but yeah, that was my first time placing, so it was pretty cool to be able to finish that well. The novice cyclist has high hopes for the remainder of the team's season. Really excited for the rest of the season to get some more chances to improve my position, kind of try to move up in the field. For the BU News Service, I'm Hallie Crumbleholm.


Good morning, everyone, and welcome. This is Melissa Armo with the Stock Swish Revealing Cate, which was the Stock Swish Play of the Day, which was a golden gap. And it rated 21 points today and was a very good gap. It was the only thing I did today, and I'm very happy. And it worked. The target was $19. It did not quite get there. It got within $0.19 of it. I could add a little bit earlier than that. But again, I'd like to trade the morning and be done. It does look good to go to $19. Took the trade, boom, got the drop, stayed with it, rallied up. You could have taken more, waited, waited, waited, even waited through this when it didn't break the low. Dropped, broken here. Looks amazing. Still looks like it's going to keep going, OK? Had a really nice move in this helmet. And again, what do I look to do? Take the trade in the morning, get the move into 10 o'clock. Between 9.30 and 10. Every once in a while, I'll have to hold something down a little bit longer, which I did today with this. It looks fantastic. And you could still be in it, but I'm not. Again, 10.30, things don't go straight down in one line. And I'd like to trade the morning and be out. Really nice trade. So glad I did this today. It's not quite earnings season yet, but getting geared up. Very, very focused. I'm so focused. It's incredible. So if you're interested in learning what I do, if you're interested in trading and making money, trading my method, and doing the one pick a day that I do, expertly, I might add, of all the gaps today. This is the one that I did and picked, and it worked. Email me at Melissa at stockswush.com. My class is April, 8th and 9th. If you want to make money trading, you can do it in the morning very quickly, and you don't have to trade till 4 o'clock. So nice move in, Kate.  Have a great day, everyone.