Hey everybody, this is Brian. Welcome to the second Flutter tutorial. I know it says Dart here, but before we really dive into Flutter, if you remember from our previous video, we actually have to learn the Dart language first. Don't worry, it's pretty painless, so we're going to just click on language. We're going to go to tour, and this is what I'll really be working from, although I won't be following it verbatim, but I want to definitely point you to where you can find additional information here. So tour of the Dart language, they walk you through what is a basic program, and we're just going to actually open IntelliJ, create a new project. We're going to make a new Dart console application, and let's call this a varetest, just because I'm horrible at naming projects. And this will take just a second to load. I actually don't know why this is so slow. I have just an ungodly amount of RAM and two solid state drives. This is actually my PC I use for video gaming, so I'm not sure why this takes a while. But while that's sitting there churning in the background, what we're going to really cover in this tutorial is what is a variable, what is a constant, what is a final? There's a distinction there, and it's a little tricky. And then some of the built-in types, you can actually click on that built-in types, and you'll see there's numbers, strings, bolines, lists, maps, runes, and symbols. Not going to really cover these last two, but you can definitely look them up in the official Dart documentation. All right, so now that we have got our brand new Shiny program, let's just run this and make sure everything builds correctly. If you followed along and you've got the same setup as I do, you'll see Hello World 42. That's actually kind of funny. It's funny because of a book by Douglas Adams called Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, where the ultimate answer to everything was 42. So we're going to remove that import statement and remove the print statement. Just save and run it again, and you should have absolutely nothing there. That'll be a good starting point for us. Now, structure of a Dart program, you can see how the main.dart file is in the bin, and this is our main statement or our main function. This is the entry point to the application. So we're just going to say print Hello World. What we're doing here is we're calling a function. You've probably seen this in other videos, and if we just save and run, you'll see, sure enough, it says Hello World. But what's really going on here under the hood? We have a function which we're going to cover in a future tutorial that works with something called a variable, which is right here. Hello World is actually a string variable. So what is a variable? A variable is simply something that will change over time. So variable is actually scientific term, something that will change over time. So we're just going to say var something. Whoops, if I could spell Hello World. So what's really going on under the hood is Dart is creating a new variable with that information in it. So this and this are exactly the same thing. You can save, run, and it does literally the same thing. To kind of drive that point home, you can actually press dot after Hello World, and you see it brings up all of the other functions in the string class, which if all of that sounds like voodoo nonsense, don't worry, we're going to cover all this in future tutorials, but you just need to understand that a variable is something that will change. To drive that point home, you can say, oops, hope if I spelled something right, cat's rule. Now if you're dog lover, you can put dog's rule, I won't come find you, but the point is we've changed this. We've made changes to it. Now on the flip side of that, a constant is a scientific term that means it is constant. It will never change. So we'll say const, what do we want to put here? We'll just say nope equal one. So if we try to take our nope variable here, and I should say nope constant and make this a two, notice how there's got that little red underline and it starts complaining. And if we even try to run it, it's going to crash. And it's going to say, cannot assign to final variable, nope. Now what's going on here? We call this a const, but it says final variable. So there's a little bit of information you need to know. And I found this really great article. I'm just going to put this right in the code. But the difference between final and const is it's tricky to understand and you won't really get it until you really get into the language. But I wanted, you know, right up front to tell you there is a difference. If you're writing your code and you're following along say in another book and you say final, nope one, nope equal two, essentially you're doing the same thing, quote unquote, you have something that you cannot change. And it's going to complain every time. And if you try to run it, let's comment that out, you'll see that. Yes, it still crashes. Cannot assign to final variable, nope. Okay, let's comment that out. By the way, if you don't know what a comment is, a comment is just something that the computer completely ignores. It's there for your enjoyment, if you will. A lot of times programmers will comment code as they go. So you can understand it not just from a machine perspective, but from a very readable human perspective. So anyways, back to this variable, if something will change, constant and final cannot be changed. So what's the difference between constant final? This article sums it up the best. Ignore static for now. But final means a single assignment. A final variable or field must have an initializer. What does that mean? Basically, it means that you have to give it a value. So for example, if we just comment that out, you can see how it must be initialized, you must actually give it an initial value. Let's try the same thing with nope here. Notice how nope is also complaining, must be initialized. So you understand what an initializer is, and because it's a constant or a final, it has to have a value starting up. Once assigned a value, a final variable's value cannot be changed. Final modifies variables. Basically, it takes the variable and sets it in stone and says, this will never change. For example, a constant would be the sun. Unless it explodes, it is a constant. It will never change. Or I should say it's a final. It'll never change. A constant, however, has meaning that's a bit more complex and subtle in dark. Cons modifies values. Notice the distinction here, values. Final modifies the variable where constant modifies the value. When you look at these two real quick here, this is the variable, this is the value. So let's go back here. A final modifies the variable. So final modifies this, the variable, where constant modifies the value. So you can pass that constant around to other constants. It will always remain a constant, but you can pass it around with a different variable name, whereas a final is final. That is the only time that can ever exist in that. So if we try to do a constant no-per, see how we're getting an argument. No-per is already defined. You're going to get that anyways. But that's really the distinction. And it gets really deep. And like I said, you're not going to truly understand it until you get really good with dark. And you end up in those cases where you need to understand the difference between the two. But I'm going to take this particle and throw it in here, just so we kind of have that as a reference. What is this? Cancel. All right. So which one should you use? I use const just because it suits my needs. And until I get into complex applications, I won't really need to know the difference. Now, if that's not confusing enough, there is that other one called static, which we'll get into in future tutorials, which really deals with classes. And that's why we're going to cover in future tutorials. So, onward.  It's changeable versus not changeable. In this tutorial, we're going to be working with things that change or variables. There's different variable types. Notice how in the front I put there or const or final, that's the type. Well, there's a lot more types here. So we're going to get into numbers. And they are, well, numbers. Yeah, exactly what you think they are. So we'll say numb. And we'll say age equal 12. Why not? Now, if we type AGE and hit the period, you see that we go into that class of scope, and we get a whole lot of functions. This is a lot of built in functionality. In Dart, everything is an object, much like in Java or other languages. So because everything is an object, you can actually go in and get reusable code something somebody else has already written, like we can round, we can double, we can convert floor, ceiling, ABS to string, is it not a number, etc, etc. Now notice here on the right, you see some words like int, double string, what are these? Well, that's the return type. So that function is going to return a double where this function will return an integer. So you know automatically what you're going to get. So as you would expect, because this is a variable, let's add 20 years to this. It looks like 30 years to this. Why not? We're going to just print the age out here. So you can see how now it is 42. And I'm kind of doing this on the fly here. So you see how it says age is 42. If you put the dollar sign inside, you can actually reference a variable outside. If that makes no sense, let me repeat it. What we've done here is we've created a string variable. But inside that string variable, we're referencing an external variable called age. See how that works. Otherwise, what you would need to do is actually go whoops, plus age. Now notice how the argument type num cannot be assigned to the parameters type string, because this right here is actually a string. If you hit the period or the scope operator, you will see that you have options or functions from that class that you can choose from. So we actually got two variables we're working with here, this variable and this variable. So it's kind of matter of preference. Some people like doing this. Some people like doing that. Do what's comfortable to you is really what you should do. And just in case you were curious, if you're going to do it like this, you just say age dot two string, and it converts it to a string for you automatically. So you can actually let's do like this. And we'll run it just so you can see age is 42. I'm going to put it back the other way, just for the purpose of this tutorial, though. So I actually got a little ahead of myself here. So a boolean, we're going to actually jump backwards in time here. And we're going to say boolean is working equal false. A boolean is like a light switch. It's either on or off, true or false. And we're going to say is working equal true. Booleans are very helpful for certain things like, for example, let's go back to our age example here. If we want to say is infinite, is age infinite, it's going to return a boolean value. And it's going to tell us whether or not that number is infinite or negative or finite. All right, let me check. Somebody messaged me. That's the problem with doing videos real time. I don't edit my videos. So you'll see a lot of seeing here, a lot of craziness going on here. One thing we should really be aware of is that there is more than one type of number. For example, an int would be let's say cats, the number of cats I have actually don't have any cats right now. So I'm lying a little bit. And then there's a double. And let's say pi equal 3.14. So what's the difference between an int and a cat? And these are big, big, big, big numbers. You can actually go out to the Dart documentation and you'll see integer values generally be between negative two to the 53rd power to two to the 53rd power. That is a huge number where a double is a 64 bit double precision floating point numbers as specified by the IEEE 754 standard. That's a mouthful. Basically what you need to understand is almost all numbers that you create are going to be converted either into an integer or a double depending on what they are. But both integer and double actually inherit from the number class. What does that mean exactly? Well, what it means is that if you say age dot, you'll see all these things like round to double to end to floor, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. What inheritance does is if we say cat dot, you'll see that it's inheriting all of those plus it adds a few little extra. So an inheritance is think of back to scientific terminology, you inherit your genes from your mother and your father. Everybody does unless you were born in the laboratory. But anyways, we won't get into that. So you have parts of both your mother and your father. So for example, an integer has parts of num, a double has parts of num. Pretty simple. We'll cover that more when we get into our classes tutorial, but just understand that there's essentially two different types of numbers. There's integers and doubles, and you can use the generic num if you don't know what type of number it actually is. See, it won't break anything if we do that.  It says it has to be a double. All right, now we get into the really fun stuff strings. I don't know if you guys can hear that. It's actually it's I'm in Michigan, and it's just starting to get cold and snow and my neighbor is now just trying to get their leaves up and I can hear them like yelling at each other. It's kind of funny. So so we'll say string title equal. Hello world. So what is a string? A string is a sequence of characters. What is a character? A character would be these individual letters. Now you should note that I think there's 200. We're on the internet. So somebody will correct me if I'm wrong. 255 different characters, not all of them are actually human readable. For example, the space is a character, a tabs a character, zero, not the numbers there, but just nothing is a character. Things like that. So a string is a sequence of characters. Now if you want to work with unicode, spoiler alert, you'll need to work with something called a rune, which we're not going to cover specifically in this tutorial. We may cover it in future tutorials if there's like a huge public outcry for it. All right. So you get now that it's a sequence of characters. What can you really do with this?  Strings let you do a whole lot of really, really cool stuff. For example, you can say title equal. Oops, my kittens. Just why not? I had no idea where I was going with that. And we're just going to say print title. So you can actually build strings. There is a class out there you should use called a string builder. If you're going to actually start building strings, it's much more efficient than working with a string directly. But for this tutorial, we're going to just cover strings. All right. So back to this. What do we want to do? Let's say we want to play around with this thing. Let's actually... So we're just going to have this say hello world. Right here. Let's say we want to know some values out of this thing. Let's say we want the... We want to extract part of that string. Substring. So we want to start index. Let's say we're going to start at zero and we want the first four out of this thing. Let's run this and you'll see that nothing happens. Because we're not actually changing this variable. We're actually calling a function that's returning a variable. So let's grab this and you'll see the first four is... Whoa. That's kind of dark. I didn't mean to do that. The first four is hell. Sorry, ladies and gentlemen. But what we're doing here is we're grabbing a substring or the first four characters. Now, you can see how the four characters are outlined there. What is this zero? Well, under the surface, this is really a list of characters. We're going to cover lists here in a few minutes. But lists are zero based indexes, meaning it starts with a zero instead of a one. So this position right here before that H is zero. Zero, one, two, three, four. That's how you get those four characters. So substring starts with zero and then we tell it how many characters we want or you could start at a different one. So for example, let's say we start at one and now we're going to get some gibberish eel with a space. That's not a good example. Let's do two. That's really not a good example either. Let's grab five characters. Why not? Hello. So you can see... Oh, you know what? We should cover other things as well. Let's put this back the way it was, just so I can really freak people out when they download this code. And let's say we want to... I'm really doing this video on the fly here. So bear with me here. We want to replace all. So we're going to say title equal title that replace all. And we want to get rid of the L's, the uppercase L's anyways, and replace those with Z's. As you can see, we've got these two Z's in there now. Pretty neat. Now, one thing you can really do with a string that's kind of interesting is you can play around with it. So we're going to say string, book my world's issues in a day. What have we done here? You notice how instead of using single quotes, we're using double quotes. You can use those interchangeably. It doesn't really matter. And you would use those for specific instances like this where you want to put a single quote in there. This could also be written as let's say string, book two. Notice how it's got that slash in front of the single quote. That's called an escape sequence. You would use that for specific things like, for example, this is a single quote. So anything after the escape is the sequence we're going to inject into the string. For example, let's say we want to do a slash n, which is a new line terminator. So let's print these two out. I'm going to print book. And then we're going to print out book two, just so you can see the difference here of what we've done. And you can see how my world's issues in a day and then my world's issues hard to turn are actually new line in a day. Now on some platforms, like Windows, I think it's Rn instead of just n. So it gets into some platform specific stuff there. But you can see that really it doesn't matter whether you single or double quotes, and it's kind of personal style and preference on which one you use. All right, so now let's get a little different here. And let's say string names equal, just going to make some names there. And we're going to assert something. Now assert is a special function in Dart that will say this must return true, whatever we put in here has to return true. So let's say names dot, oops, contains. And we're looking for Heather. I hope if I put that at the end there. Notice how each line has to end with a semicolon. That tells us that we are at the end of the line. Very funny, huh? So when we run this, nothing happens, but we've done this assertion. So let's say just random junk in here and we try to run this now. Notice how it'll air out. Names contains whatever is not true. So that'd be a good way of testing your variables. Let me put this here. So we're going to talk about lists next. Lists are a list of objects. So let's say list. And you notice how the IntelliSense pops up and it says there's this weird bracket with an E in there. What was that? Well, this is called generic programming. And what it allows us to do is reuse code. And we're going to get into this in future tutorials just right now understand that we have to give it a value type, or I should say a variable type, sorry. In this case, string. So we're going to say list equal names dot split. Split's going to take a pattern. And we're going to split that based on the comma. So what are we really doing here? If we examine name dot splits, I'm sorry, names dot split, you can see how it's returning a list with string. So a list is going to be a list of objects. In this case, we want a list of strings we were could easily have said integers or doubles or even, you know, there if we don't know what type it is. Actually, I don't think it would allow us to do that. But in this case, we're just going to use a string. So think of a list like a, what's a good example here? Think of a list like a shopping cart. Shopping cart, you just throw anything you want in there. But we're saying a specific type of thing. So in our shopping cart, you can only put strings. We don't want to put integers or doubles or anything else. We only want strings in there because we're going to want string shopping. If there is such a thing. So from our list, we can then pull items back out. Or we can just examine the list. So let's say we want to know what's in our list. Save this and run it. In our list, we have Brian Heather, Chris Carl. Let's say we want to get the item at or I'm sorry, the element at the second index. Because remember a list we talked about this is zero base. So the second one, zero, one, two, is Chris. Now you can also shorthand this as most people do and say list bracket two. That way you don't have to do the element at does the exact same thing under the hood. You see how we got Chris there twice now. Now from here, let's say we want to add to our cart. We want to add a string here. So we're going to add Bob. Bob's been a good boy. He can go into our little shopping cart of strings. And let's print our list out again. And you see we now have Bob at the very end. Now let's say we want to add somebody, but we want to add them in the list, not at the very end. So we're going to actually say insert. And notice how it's wanting an index and a string element. So insert, we're going to insert this at the first position. And we're going to call this. I need a name. I need a good name. Back to our hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. Let's just say we're going to add forward. I should have added Slardie Bart fast, but yeah, let's actually do that. He's a character in the book. I love that book. It's funny. So we're going to print our list out and you'll see how in the first position, because it's a zero based zero one, we have now added or inserted Slardie Bart fast. So what if we want to know where something is? Let's say we want to print. I can't type. So we want to know the index of let's say Carl. Why did that return to negative one? Let me play around with this for a minute. Did I misspell something? There we go. So Bob's at the fifth index. Why did that say zero or negative one for Carl? That's weird. Obviously I have a boo boo somewhere. That's interesting. I'll have to figure that one out, but basically index of gives you the position of where they are. Let's actually play with this a little bit here. Figure this out. So we're going to say there's a little function here called for each and what for each we'll do is it will list out every single item in the list. And we're going to say for each. Give me just a second here. This looks like voodoo magic. I will explain this in just a minute. Oh, semicolon expect. Oh, dupe, dupe, dupe, dupe. All right. That's what's going on here. So if you look at our list here, we've got Brian, Slardie Bart fast, space, Heather, space, Chris, space, Carl and Bob. That's the problem. That's what's going on here. Remember how we split it based off of this. So what we should try to do here, what is the name of that? Was it trim? Let's just do this easy way. I'll have to look it up, but I swear there was a function in there. You can do that. Let's remove those. The spaces in there, right? What I was looking for here is name. I'm sorry, names. trim. Trim will remove the blank spaces. I was hoping to do that per item, but I think it's going to be more of an advanced topic. I've also got a cold, so I'm not going to really fight through the cold medicine to do it. So when we run this now, you'll see how there's no spaces in there. And if we go back to putting Carl in there, I think Carl was throwing an air, and so was Heather. You'll see now that it is at position four. So back to this list for each. What in the world are we doing here? So we're taking our list, which is this thing here, and we're saying for each item in the list, and then we're doing an anonymous function, and we want a V or a variable, and we're going to print that. I know this is a bit of an advanced topic for people that are brand new to the language, but those of you, you know, really great iron veterans who have worked with multiple languages are probably loving me for this right now. Just know that you can do these kind of things with Dart language, and that makes it so elegant and so nice. And it makes troubleshooting things a little bit easier too, as you can see. So anyways, finally, maps. Maps are a little bit different. We're going to say map, and we want to give it, once again, we're doing generic programming here. We're going to say string and an int, and we're going to call this ages equal. And what a map is, is you have what's called a key value pair. So we're going to say Brian and 43. Man, am I 43? I'm getting old. I was just playing Call of Duty. That explains some things. Why I was just getting completely smoked on Call of Duty by some of these players. Literally, like I shot a rocket at some guy, and he just laughed at me and like stabbed me in the face of the shovel. So it was not fun. I actually thought about just uninstalling the game at that point. Fortunately for me, though, Carl also plays video games, and he is older than me. So thank you, Carl, for being my friend. Anyways, so what we're doing here is we're actually building a map or a key value pair. Uh oh, somebody's texting me. This looks important. You can wait just a minute. So the key value pair is going to a lineup. We have the key and we have the value. And in here is our actual map. Now, it's called a map because you actually have two lists under the hood. These names are a list or the keys. And these values are a list called values. So let's just say print ages dot keys. You'll see Heather or I'm sorry, Brian, Heather, Carl, Brian, Heather, Carl. Those are the keys. Notice how it's a list. Now let's say print. Whoa, did I hit caps lock? Sorry for yelling at you guys. Print ages dot values. So you can see how we have two distinct lists here. So what a map does is map those or correlate them. This one maps to that one. This one maps to that one. That's why it's called a map. All right, so how do we work with this? How do we really extrapolate data out of this thing? Well, let's say we want to get the value of one of these keys. So we're going to say print pages. And then we're going to say Brian, my throat to get a little sore. I've had this nasty cold. It's just really driving me nuts. So there's 43. So you can see how Brian maps to 43. And we've got the value of Brian using that key. We could also do something like this. And we can say ages dot keys at element zero. So we want to get the first one. Whoops, maybe that isn't really working well. Isn't defined by sure. Really? I thought I could do that. Element at. Let's do it this way because I said so. And it does the same thing, basically. But now I really want to know why I couldn't do this. You think you could do this? Did I screw something up? It's probably because it's got these double blocks, which leads me to my next point. It's just a fairly new language, so things will evolve over time. I expect something like that would actually function at some point. All right, so how do we actually add in here? So we're going to say ages dot oops, actually, let's do let's say ages. Give me a name mark equal marks in his fifties. So we'll say that. Then we can print ages mark. Let's save and run this bad boy. And you can see there's mark in his fifties. Now just for giggles, let's say we wanted to do something like we did with this list here where we do a for each. So we're going to say ages for each. Notice how it has string int fat arrow into void. If you have no idea what I just said, we will cover all of that. I promise you in future tutorials. And for this, we're going to say K and V for key and value. And we of course, because this is all one statement, need to end that with a semicolon. That looks crazy nuts, doesn't it? If you're used to other languages. So what we're going to do here is we're going to say print and then do this. So you can see that for each item in our map, we're saying key is value years old. So Brian's 43 had this 24 on and on and on. Pretty neat, pretty simple. So that in a nutshell is working with variables. And I realized we kind of got off base on a few areas. I apologize. I've got this bad cold medicine going on. But if you ever want to know more, you can definitely go out to the Dart Lang page, dartlang.org, and look at the Dart tour language, excuse me, Dart language tour, and definitely check these out. One other thing you should note is you can click on libraries tour of Dart libraries. And you can see the built in libraries, Dart core as it's called. And you can get much, much more information out of all these things. You can get some really good examples. This is something I really have grown to love about dartlang.org is it has all this information baked right into the webpage. So I don't have to spend five, 10 minutes, you know, looking up on Stack Overflow or Expert Exchange or anything like that. You can get a lot of great info out here. So definitely check this out. That being said, thank you for watching. I hope you found this educational entertainment entertaining. And before you go, the source code for this will be out on voidrumbs.com, also on GitHub actually, there's a link to it on my website. And be sure to check out the voidrumbs Facebook group. There's 1700 other developers out there. And that's it.


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Hold on, this little PowerPoint just, I just locked up.  It just froze. Wait, there we go. Can you see it now? It froze for a minute. Okay, we're good. Excellent. All right, does everybody see this slide here? It says picture, which side of the picture fits you best? Successful people are unsuccessful people. Do you see that? Or you know what I'm going to do? What's going to happen again, because both of the hot comments touching my PowerPoint and I don't have time to have Kathy fix it. So just hang on. I'm going to minimize the screen here because it's going to happen another time if I don't do that. But I'll still be able to see questions. Okay, that should do it. Anyways, which side of the picture fits you best? We have two slides. Successful people on the left and then unsuccessful people. And I'll leave this up here a minute so you can look at this. This is actually very interesting. One of the things that I find interesting about this in reference to trading, because this is a general looking at successful or looking at unsuccessful, a lot of people, and again, I talked to a lot of traders, have some of these qualities that are in the unsuccessful people list. And I thought, well, that's interesting. What do I mean? What might some of those qualities be? Fear change. In other words, doing a strategy they've been doing for a while and it doesn't work and they're losing and they're afraid to change it or learn something new or spend money to take a class like mine to learn something new. What else? Blame others for their failure. Sometimes people want to blame the stock or the market or whatever if they don't make money in a trade. Say they keep a journal, but don't. Again, this is important to track your results when you're trading. Here's another one. Think they know it all. This is not a good quality for traders. It's always good to learn stuff. And down here is another one too. Don't know what they want to be. Very important. Do you really want to be a full-time trader or do you just want to half assing it? And then the last one down here never sets goals. You do have to set goals and we're going to talk about goals today, all right? And specifically, if your goal is to make $1,000 a day, we will discuss that in the trades today. So obviously, you want to be over here with the successful people. Someone that continuously learns, someone that sets goals and develops life plans, keeps a journal once those succeed, keeps all of these things that I'm talking about when I teach about being organized, okay? And accept responsibility for their failures. You know, when I take a trade, it's my fault if it doesn't work. It just doesn't, you know? And I don't have anyone else to blame because I'm writing my trading room. I'm doing my trades and if something doesn't work, it's it. It doesn't, okay? So this is very, very important to think about. And you can be honest with yourself. You don't have to tell me or say anything. But I think this is important. And usually people are a combination of some of these, but the qualities over here of the successful people is what you want to have, okay? So keep that in mind as we go along. So would you consider yourself successful or unsuccessful as a trader or basically even more than that a person in life, meaning that you have friends, family, money in the bank, a career that you enjoy, you sleep good at night, you're not a worried person, you're healthy, okay? So think about these things. What sets the two apart from successful to unsuccessful? And again, we're talking mostly here today about trading. And that list was important. You can go back and look at it. A lot of it has to do with expectations versus goals. First of all, a very goal-oriented person. Very, very goal-oriented. I have goals for myself. Sometimes I have very high goals for myself, but I do set goals for myself and everything I do. I might even have a goal like what I want to get done in a weekend, okay? That's really like my personality. I'm not saying you have to do that. But I have goals for myself, for my trading, for my business, and then I have also personal goals. So your goals may be financial, but they also may be personal goals too. What I've found now since I've had the business for the last four and a half years, I've been teaching people. If you have expectations, which many traders do, you will often be let down.  You feel disappointed. You feel in that unsuccessful people portion on this right hand side. You feel like unsuccessful if you don't meet the expectations you have for yourself and then you judge and criticize yourself, okay? Because we usually judge and criticize ourselves more than others. So having goals is much, much better. So if your goal is $1,000 a day, that's good. We'll talk about how to get you there. But having the expectation is not good. When you set a goal for yourself and achieve it, you feel good. This has a lot to do with your mental state and it is important to feel good in your life and in your trading so you can continue to move forward and do something with your life and be successful. When you set a goal and don't achieve it though, you feel bad, okay? If you want to reach your highest potential, it's important to distinguish the difference between the two. Expectations versus goals. So what are some examples and how can you accomplish this in your trading? A great example is what we're going to talk about today.  Be mad, criticize yourself, criticize others, whatever. If your goal is to make $1,000 a day, then write down a plan of action, how you're going to achieve it because you may not be able to do that right now, today or tomorrow. Why? Why might you not be able to make $1,000 a day, today or tomorrow? A, you may not have a good strategy, but B, even if you learn my system and learn how to do it, you may not have the size account to be able to take the trades to make the money. Or you may not have the money management skills, okay? Or you might have some negative things in your head about past experiences you've had in the market. Or you may not understand sizing or whatever, whoever, whatever it is. So, for example, if you have a $2,500 proprietary day trading account, which you could have with $25,000 in buying power, if your expectation is to make $1,000 a day and you don't achieve it, you're going to feel bad. But your goal could be to make $1,000 a day. But how are you going to build that account up so that you can take the risk so that you can make the money you want? Is what I'm saying making sense? So, I had a student that was here for some training for the last few weeks. He left. I have a different student here this week. It's like night and day, the two difference of the students. But the student that was here last week, I gave the student a goal.  Once you have it to that amount of money, which means you wouldn't be able to take any money out unless you want to, if you want to get it up quick or you have to, or you would take longer to give it up, taking out your profits, get your account up to a certain amount so that you can risk a certain amount so that you can make your goal going forward. Okay? Instead of swinging for the fences for the expectations. So, this is really, really important to think about the difference between these. Now, I've been updating this for the last few webinars, putting the trades that I've called in the room in the last few weeks. And I have the ones, the current ones out at the end of the webinar. But it's been averaging around 80 some percent. Some weeks I did the webinars, it was 81, some it was 84, some it was 80 something. I always tell people it's over 70 percent to be conservative. But my system in the last six weeks, I've only been tracking it for six weeks really to put it out in webinars. And I'm eventually going to get on the website has had an 81 percent win ratio. What does that mean? That means you should expect to win an eight of every 10 trades. That is a high win ratio.  And the new people are just learning. And so some are on a demo. But this is what you should expect. If you come with me, you can have a goal to set that up for yourself. Okay. Well, if I want to make this much money, and I know that eight out of every 10 trades or seven out of every 10 trades works, then therefore I'm going to risk this much to make this much. So you kind of have to back it off knowing what your goals are, looking at it like that. Instead of doing something and feeling bad that you can't make the money that you want to make right now, if your account size isn't going to give it, whether that's the buying power or whether it's the amount you can risk. And when we go through the trades today, we are going to talk about buying power because I've had some questions lately about this. And I really think that many, many people don't understand the difference between day trading and investing, because some of the some of the trades here and even today the examples are some or some expensive stocks cost was one cost go we'll go over today. And even BBY, which was over $42 a strike, some of these stocks are not cheap. Now I trade things anywhere from, you know, $5 could be up to $100 bucks cost was expensive. That's not normal for the room. But I would say the range of most of the stocks that I trade or call in the room even for options or day trades are between $5 and $65. Okay. And we will talk about this as we go along because positions when you take a day trade really, you should be trading with margin. Now any questions so far as we're going along. The point I'm trying to make that is that making money trading is real. Your goals are real. And it is okay to have goals and it's good to have goals. But make sure it's what you have in your mind is not an expectation instead of a goal. So this is where the nitty gritty comes about. And I'm not going to lie to you and say it isn't hard for people because I can hear it in people's voice. I can tell it is people want to be there where they want to be right now yesterday with trading. And gosh knows, some of you have been trying to make it make money in the market for years, probably longer than I've even been trading, which has been about eight years. But the fact is you have to take it seriously. Part of the seriousness is investing your time and commitment into learning something and getting good, whether it's taking a class like mine or going through the process. And part of the taking seriously is sometimes to set the goals and know that you may not be able to do exactly what you want and risk the amount of money you want right now today because you may not have it available. I had a person. He's not a trader. He's into the class. He's saving. But he saw a video I have on YouTube where the student that was here made $1,800 and four minutes last week. He was in the BBY trade and we'll go over that. Anyways, the person wants to make $2,000 a day. I say, okay, great. The person that's $2,000 to open up an account.  It's not that you can't make $2,000 a day trading. Of course you can't, but not with a $2,000 account. So that person has to set goals for themselves now in order to achieve that. If his goal is to make $2,000 a day, then that's what he has to do. And that means taking it seriously. And also part of this means not believing some of the crazy stuff. And I know because I'm on a lot of email lists of places too that say turning $500 into $100,000 in like two months. I mean there's all kinds of crazy things out there. And I'm not saying that people can't hit the lotto per se or the jackpot, which is what it would be if you took a tiny, tiny risk and made $100,000 in a trade or $30,000 in a trade taking like a $200 risk. I'm not saying things like that don't happen in the market. Anything is possible. But that is not a consistent way to trade to think that you could make an exorbitant amount of money risking a tiny, tiny small amount over and over and over again. So part of the seriousness of it is looking at what reality is, which is that you have to work hard and you have to learn something in any upset goals. And setting goals is actually a good thing. It means you have a plan. It's okay if you achieve your goals in six months or one year. The problem is when you have expectations and you don't achieve them right away is you start to feel bad and you want to give up. And then guess what?  And I find this over and over again when I talk to people. You got to be serious about what you're doing. So following a high probability system combined with money management is taking it seriously. And what I do every morning is I go through my system, which is a checklist. It's a 26 point rating checklist. And if you did my class, you would learn the checklist and you would go through the points. And again, like I said, I tell people 70% high probability. It's over 81% for the last few weeks since I've been tracking the trains. The money management is important too. What does that mean? It means when you're up, you get out. Okay.  So my system is called the golden gap system and it finds and spots institutional money in a stock. So you know how to trade it and when. And in what direction? A big flow of money going in a certain direction is what moves the market. Stocks and it creates momentum and sets the trend in charts. So when you're looking for institutional money, you're really reading the side of power in a stock. Are people selling it? Are people buying it today? Okay. For example, the market could have fallen harder today and didn't. Guess what? The market actually helped today. I can't say I was surprised because all in all, the market is very, very bullish, but the market could have fallen today and guess what? It didn't. The bulls are in control of this market and it looks like there's no letting up. So anyways, if you want to be in the side of where you're going to make the money, you want to be on the side of the power. Who's buying it? You want to be long if the stock is getting bought and you want to be short something if the stock is selling off. And institutional money, what I mean by that is banks hedge funds and they're in charge. And you will learn how to read that in my class. So it is really about becoming an expert and every trader and every level must learn how to do whatever strategy they're going to do and become good at it. And actually becoming good should be your goal. The money is a goal. We can't deny that. Again, I can't deny that for myself. When I take trades, I have a certain amount that my goal is. I usually look at it per week or per month, but the fact is that being good is also a goal. Okay. And that has always a goal for me. And I was able to achieve that. So I'm good at gaps. I'm good at really reading charts when they gap and predicting where the stock will go. And that's what you will come and learn from me. And it's something that is applicable to day trades, options, swing trades, and you can use it for ETFs or stocks. When you understand how to read a chart and you also believe in yourself and you know that you're really good at something, when you have to take a loss on a day, maybe even two losses on a day, you won't feel badly about yourself that you didn't meet your goal that day. You will know that you will meet your goal the next day or the next day or the next day. In fact, I say that very often in the room, if we have a bad day and somebody doesn't work, I say, you know what? Tomorrow, Mark is going to give it to me. It will. And then it often does. Okay. Because I have a positive and optimistic attitude, I have an attitude of a successful person like we talked about at the chart at the beginning. Okay. Now, this is a great, great example. This is target of conviction, being an expert, knowing something, having been good as the goal and institutional money on top of that. This chart is, I could do a whole class on target. Okay. Now, what happened here? This was a loss for the room, for the day trade. It failed, but the stock rated well per my system, but it was a loss. Okay. And guess what? I knew that the chart would break. It did. It did the next day, and it really broke full on today. So very often when I have a, when I have a gap in my system that rates per my 26 point system that doesn't work right as a day trade, very often they follow through in the longer term trend. So you could take it as a swing trader and option. So I call this as an option after the day trade failed. But if you did this as a day trade, as a short, you lost, but it was a good gap. Many traders out there again would look at this and think that this was a long and that the failure of the stock to follow through short on the day meant that the stock would rally, rally, go over the high and rally and fill the gap. That is a ridiculous absurd thing and the improper way to read a chart because institutional money sold this gap and it was in charge of the chart. It's just all that happened. The reason that it didn't follow through in the day here as a day trade short is because no more sellers came in on this day. They sold off into the gap. This is the people in charge. They waited and then they sold off more after and sometimes it happens. Okay. But you never lose conviction in what you do if you know you have a high probability system and if you don't meet your goal on this day, you say, you know what? I'm going to meet my goal. Doing it as a swing trade. Doing it as an option trade. Okay. And we'll go over that more. But let's look at this. I really squished this together. This is the chart going back since 2011 of target. This is TGT. Okay. I think you put the ticker symbol in the room. You can pull it up in your own charts. I just want to show you here where this gap, it's so small here, but you can see it. This was the gap that happened back in here. Crap, I forget the date. It was the 28th. It was February 28th. Okay. So it had earnings and the stock gap down. And I want to show you the overall chart of this. Okay. It's a beautiful chart. Okay. It's not going to fill this gap in here. Now, this doesn't mean that it won't ever, ever, ever fill it, but it ain't going to happen anytime soon people. Okay. Okay. So again, there is no such thing as a gap fill, as a strategy to do that is playing who's in charge of the movement of this, which is the money. That's what I'm really talking about, because that's what moves stocks. It's being sold off. The whys or wheres or hows or twos or whatever I don't care about.  You can read up online. You can do whatever you want. But at the end of the day, what I do is rate the gap and analyze the gap and look at the chart. And I'm very good at predicting this. This is a great, great call. Okay. To know that the chart would break and know that it would so soon without even rally. Okay. So how am I able to do this? Doing one thing over and over, becoming good, being an expert. This has to be part of your goal as well. As I said earlier, besides the monetary goals you set for yourself, you have to have a goal for yourself that you're going to learn how to read charts right. Once you get that down, the world is yours. It's only as much as you're willing to risk that we'll be able to cap your income that you can make in trades. And we all have different levels of amounts of money we're risking. A lot of that has to do with our available cash, you know, what our expenses are, who are responsible for, the spouse or siblings or parents or kids, okay, or mortgages or car payments. But ultimately, the sky's the limit for you once you get good at something and learn how to do it. So like I said, my system is called golden gaps. Now for those of you that don't know what a gap is, I'm going to go over this here in very basic, basic terms, even though I've been talking about gaps, I'm just going to review it. What is a gap? This is all that I do. Okay, I don't do any of the strategy at all. A stock gap. So when the opening price today is different than the closing price of yesterday's trading, a gap is a break in price action for one day to the next. There are bullish gaps and there are bearish gaps. It just so happens that I like to do the bearish gaps because I like to short. I like to short because selling action happens quickly in stocks faster than buying action, okay. Now to look at this here, again, what is a gap? It's a difference between the close and the open. So four o'clock target closed up here at around 66, whatever, this was the night before and the 27th and the morning, boom, gap down here to 57 something. So a gap down, I don't know, eight dollars plus overnight. So you could rate it with my system. How do I find them? You find them on a scanner? You can find them anywhere. You can go on to Yahoo Finance wherever you want. Gaps happen all the time. There's stuff scapping tonight, stuff scapping tomorrow morning, okay. But this is a gap. It closed here and open here. It could have closed here and open here. It could have closed here and open here. It could have closed here and open here. It could have gapped up. You could have rated it to go long. I'm always doing the gap in the direction of the gap. So in other words, when I saw that this wasn't going to work and it stopped out, boom, I was off of it. I'm not buying this. And as you see, that would have been ludicrous because it didn't follow through higher. And people that did go long here thinking it was a gap fill for swing trade, guess what? They had to exit their position. They were down today or yesterday even on the Friday. And that's what helps this move as well, people, besides the fact that it's really being sold off by institution. So do you see here how people were down?  It doesn't work. You're looking at this whole thing here when you're rating the gap in the morning with me. And that's what helps you predict it, okay. So it's easy to see now, but it's hard if you don't know what to do or what to look at. And I'm sure that even people in the room, because we took a loss on that one that day, you know, wonder, gosh, people probably didn't do the put. But the fact is that it was lower. Okay. In fact, Eric said, oh, you know, I saw it rally. He's a student here this week. And then he didn't do the put. But do you see it worked was a really good trade. All right. So gaps have huge opportunity because they spot money, the directional bias of where the money's taking it up or down. And you play it with that. And that's how you're going to make money. Now here was another one. What is this? This is a gap. This actually had two gaps last week. You could have played in both directions, which is crazy. Again, I prefer to short. BBY closed here, boom, gap down. You could read it. This one did not have the follow-through lower the day after the short, which worked perfectly. It gapped up and rally. Anyways, this was the short on the day. As you know, I like to short it worked out well. So what happened with this one? This is a one minute chart. The stock closed here, gap down, open, boom, short it, you're in, get the drop. So how do you make $1,000 a day? You take enough size in this to get a move in this between 9.30 and 10 that you can get a move that will go to pay you. So for example, if you're looking for a 50 cent move you take, what? 2,000 shares is 1,000 bucks. If you get a dollar move and something you take 1,000 shares, it's 1,000 bucks, but you don't get a dollar move in everything. And also some things you don't want to hold to get the whole dollar move. So I think 50 cents is a good average. Again, you have to be able to afford to take the position. But if you shorted this here, here was the stop, boom, you got the move. The short price was 42.60. Risk, this is an advanced risk. 3,000 shares were 1,200 bucks. Profit, this is at the first target, which was $42. Even though it went past this, I think by like 20 cents, you could have made $1,800. Again, beautiful trade. You're in it, boom, you're out. That's it, done. This was last week on March 1st. So target didn't work in the 28th as a day trade. BBY worked as a short day trade on this day. Target was the put then, the next day too on this, as a short to the downside. And actually, I remember now the target was up in this immediately on this day here. It was up like 20 cents into the option on the second day. So you see how you put together these kind of movements by really focusing in on the gap, one direction of bias, which I prefer to short, like I said, getting in quickly, getting out quickly, and taking the size. And if you can't afford to take the size right now, then you have a goal that you're going to. And while you're going through the process of learning, you're building your account. And this does not have to take, like I said, months. It could be a few weeks, so you build it up. Any questions from anyone? Now, this was going back here. I'm going to show you the loss in the target. This was last week too. Target closed, boom, dropped. Okay. This didn't work as a short on the day, as I explained earlier. What happened? It wasn't crazy when it flipped out. And it was interesting because the stock opened a rally and it set up and it was boom, boom, boom. If you were shorted, you were up a little bit, but not a lot to get out. I think one or two people got out of the room here. Anyways, it looked good. It looked good. It looked good. It looked good. You're up still in here and it's getting late and it's 10 o'clock and you're up, but it's getting late and you're not out yet. And you could have gotten out here if you lost patience, but anyways, here it stopped out. Anywhere you had to stop here, it got you out.  So if you had risked an advance risk, 2,000 shares, you would have lost the full amount. You would have lost 1,100 bucks. Okay. And you just would have stopped. It's okay to take one trade and take a loss. There's nothing wrong with that. In fact, again, as I was talking about your money management, your money management could be that you take one trade a day, win or lose. That's it. And you do the options when I call them and that's it. And when you're up, you get out of them. Done. Okay. The law of probability is for my system is well over 70%. You learn my system and you've got to combine it with good money management.  For example, if you were in something else, there wasn't anything else going on right now and the options besides the target call. But if you had been in something else, you could have gotten out of it if it wasn't working and threw the money into target. So you play hard the trains that are working as day trades or option trains or swing trades.  You take the stops for the ones that don't go right away in the morning. So the money management is just simple but implementing it is something that you have to have written down in order to make the money. Any questions so far about anything anyone's saying? Let me know. Now the next one here was Costco. This was a wonderful, wonderful move that the stock had today which is very interesting because the short in the room was Friday. It had the earnings and I didn't call an option in it. And I should have. I should have. I was so busy Friday because the student was here till five o'clock and then I have another student here today. So I never really got around to calling or doing an option in this and this had the move. The biggest move in Costco was today and it got down today as well. So you could have rated the gap today. You could have played it today as a day trade. You could have played it as an option today. You could have played as an option on Friday. It worked Friday as a day trade and we're going to go over it. But do you see here how there's so many different ways you can play it? When the gap rates good and it sets up and works you can do it in every way that you can. And that's why if you don't have even the time. If your goal is to be a full-time trader but you have a full-time job right now and you can't be in the trading room and day trade every day, money through Friday, then learn the system, apply it to swing trades, apply it to options. If your goal is to get an account up to 25 grand or to cut back your hours or change your schedule, then make a goal. Do the options trades. You're sitting on the sidelines. You're not making any money at all and all these things are just collapsing. I mean look at this. So far so good? Okay, Kathy. Anyways let's look at the Costco. So Costco ran up here, gap down. This is a short. I'll go over the day trade here. It gap down again today and had a monster move. And who knows? I didn't even seem where this closed today. This may even be lower still. Okay. This fell today in the market rally so this really is weak.  I will tell you though the chart in Costco is still along. It is a bullish stock. It's still in the uptrend but you could have played this for a quick move on Friday and today. And you might have another quick move in it this week. I didn't really look to see how it closes. If we have time we can tonight or I can do a video tomorrow. So let's look at the day trade. It's closed here. Gap down. Boom. Open rally. Doot. Short it. Drop. Some people got out here. Really I felt that the target was 170. It did take a long time to get there. Anyways the stock rally back held held held dropped. Broke broke the low. Again this took a little while but it worked. It did go to the target. It broke it a little bit. Target was 170 and you could have gotten out. A dollar 40 was the move. Okay. And if you had risked an advanced risk of 1200 bucks your profit would have been $1680. Now what again if you can't afford to risk $1200 then risk $600. If you risked $600 or half this and took 750 shares you would have made 800 bucks. There's nothing wrong with 800 bucks.  The entry was still in the morning and it just took a while to go. But do you see here how this then really broke today? Again the raining system tells you. You go with the Golden Gap rating system. It tells you how to play it. And there were people here in the morning and this and we saw it. We saw it in the room because it took a while to go. They bought it over the high. They bought it in here. They bought it in the support on the daily chart and they even tried to buy it in here because the stock took a long, long, long, long time until it finally pushed down. But it did because the people that were in charge of it and again this isn't the chart isn't broken in the long term pattern but this today on the day of the gap which was Friday and also today for the gap down the control was to the downside. I think we're trying to go along something like this in support. You're losing. You're losing money. Okay. Any questions about this Costco? Really I just have so much going on. I should have called an option trade in this for everyone. The last two days have been really busy for me. With students. But you know you learn how to do this. You can do them on your own. You could you could almost do everything that we do like I said as a lot as a as a next day down. Any questions from anyone so far about these trades? So what do I do? I find gaps in the morning. I rate them using my checklist. I qualify them. I don't trade them unless I've rated the gap. The checklist tells you what to do. Either you shorten it or you go along it or you don't do anything. And it tells you what to look for in the price of the stock. It's how I can see that something like Target would break and even Costco too. That they weren't long to do on the day as day trades for longer term and how you can make money actually following something and playing it through. So it's all in the checklist. This tells you everything you need to know. And like I said if you don't have the time to day trade you can apply it for overnight or options. Some people love doing the options. Some of them are very volatile. I've called some really profitable options and things like Google and Amazon and BABA in 2016. They don't all move as volatile as some of those high flyers. Like Target just moved into the strike and passed the strike. The strike was 57 so it was you know 100% profit turn around. But you do get ones that there's so much time value built in that you can really really make a lot of money on them. It's all in the gap though. That's how I find everything. And it's not about doing gap fills and I know many people look at things like that and it's not about buying something into support and I know people things look like that. It's not that simple. If it was it'd be very easy to read a gap. And I'm not saying it's hard to read a gap but I'm saying you definitely have to know what to look for and if you don't you're probably looking at the wrong thing. I'm predicting where the momentum is going to come into the stock and in what direction. The volume, the momentum and all you have to do is take the trade in the right direction when you do and you can get it. Sometimes when I'm doing these things it looks like I'm shorting in the air. Costco is a great example here. This looks like you're just shorting in the air if you look at the daily chart. But here is the trade. So it's the daily chart that really is telling me what's going on. Where's it going to go? What's it going to do? And where's it going next? You can wait till the stock does something and then take it but your entry is going to be late. You'll basically be scalping it and you won't be able to make good risk to reward trades which not everyone that we do is a huge risk to orbit. Some can really be big. I think Target actually probably continues for another day after I saw how it closed and Costco might even too. So my rating system pinpoints the direction the money is moving and this is how you can make money. You can make $1,000 a day trading. You've got to be able to take the size and more than that you have to be very focused on the strategy itself and knowing that the gap rate is good. You will have days where the trades don't work. So the money manager comes into play that you either decide to stop with one loss or you can give yourself two trades in the day. It's the second trade you may be able to make back the loss from the first trade and still profit. There's days that I do that in the room or call it in the room. Some days though there's not anything other to look at and we just stop. But I think you've got to know before in the morning before the pre-market what you're doing. It's really about doing it every day, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. You've got to be there every day if you want to achieve these goals because there may be some days like I said we take a loss and there may be other days when there isn't any trades to do. You need to know that your goal is to do the gaps to rate 20 points or more, get good at them, seeing the setups, rating the gaps, having the monetary goals for yourself for what you want to achieve and you maybe have a mini goal right now until you get to that goal. So your goal is to get the count up to this much for example. So until you do you're going to risk this much and you back it off, okay? Does everyone understand? Now going back to what I was talking about earlier at the beginning, having expectations is not good. It is one of the biggest things that I think traders struggle with. Traders have huge expectations.  It's very unusual. I don't know why. It's true that you can make a lot of money trading but you do have to know what to do and a lot of people don't, okay? You have to know what to do and you have to have at least a good amount of money behind you if you want to have very lofty goals like a thousand dollars a day or two thousand dollars a day. You really, really have to be focused on getting good and the goal is what you should focus on, not the expectation. You don't want to allow yourself to feel let down or that you're not doing well because that critical mode, that mode of judgment when you're judging and judging, you're judging yourself and putting yourself down makes you think negative about yourself, the market and what you're doing and how your brain works is then that you'll make, you'll start to make really bad decisions. You'll almost be working against yourself. You'll be working against yourself creating experiences and making poor decisions then because you're not thinking positively or optimistically. You're thinking negatively, okay? It's really easy to trade and press the button when you know what to look for. I mean there's days that I do it. It's instinctual now for me because I've been doing it for eight years and like I said I had a person here in the last few weeks you know it's just instinctual where I can tell take it, take more. It's going right there, boom, okay? I can tell, I don't know what day that was last week. I don't know if it was Thursday or Friday that that target was going to go and the trader that was here I said just you know you can take more if you want and then it broke and he made money on that trade today. I think he made $1,600 on the target. The same guy that made $1,800 on the BBY. So you know it's just when you see it and I'm good at just seeing the way those prices go when the stock is moving, when the stock, when the candlesticks are moving and the level tube is moving because I'm so used to watching gaps move. I'm used to watching selling action and that's what I like to watch.  So you've got to have conviction in a system that you're utilizing to make money the market. If you're doing something now and you're not making money and you know of conviction in it my suggestion is for you to stop and whether you learn my system or someone else's you've got to learn something that works and you have to learn something that has a high probability ratio of working because there will be days when you're going to have to take a loss and it's really nobody's fault. You might feel like you want to blame yourself but it's not your fault the system's fault it's the it's the nature of the market it's the nature of the beast not everybody wins all the time even great great amazing traders who make millions of dollars have to take losses sometimes and that's where the money manager comes into place as well. So you know I find that as I talk to people in the years go by one of the things that really really just stick out that I do so differently is that I only do one strategy it's I mean it's really really funny there's just so many trading educational companies out there that teach a broad base of everything and some of them do teach gaps but they're nowhere near as good at reading gaps as me because this is all that I do you only have to do one thing to make money in fact you only have to take one trade a day to make money but you got to get it right you got to get it right okay so if there's five things in the morning they all rate good you can do all five if you want but you only need one you need one to do it one to make the money one to plop it on to make size it's it's kind of like falling in love you only need one love of your life you only need one spouse okay to fulfill you and to be fulfilled and happy and in love you only need one trade one gap one good one every day that's all that you need this trading all day this ticking multiple multiple multiple trades it's a nightmare and I don't I don't teach like that I don't trade like that so one of the things I do that's very different is I'm very focused and I don't trade all day and I don't over trade and we are focused on usually one stock pick or two a day we do one trade and if that works we stop okay so having a system you can use in multiple time frames it gives you an edge because you'll get good at it by doing it over the course of weeks and months and years I mean you know doing the same thing over and over again is like playing an instrument you get good over time now here was the option trade in this it broke today again I still think this could continue another day seeing how it closed but if you took an advanced risk of this for example if you risked if you the price of the option was around 60 cents when I called it it was a 57 puts it went through the strike if you took 50 contracts or 5000 shares and risked three grand because that's what it would have been okay and if your exit was $1.20 okay guess what you could have made $3,000 either way if you'd risked $2,000 you would have made $2,000 if you risked $1,000 you would have made $1,000 this was an average mean price of this today it actually went up to 135 something I think at one point it was and I like I said I think it keeps going once you're through the strike which I don't I didn't remember the exact price of the clothes in here but the strike is 57 it's every all this in here is your up a dollar plus the time value now this was out through March 17 so you got a couple of days this week and next week left too so this could go to 55 very easily and then you would be $2 in the money again you know money management is either get out the whole thing today they were half because you're up so much and you can ride the rest down you can always retake these as well you could always get out and if it sets up again you can get back in for a bigger target I do believe this is probably going to around 50 bucks I don't know when yet we'll see how it acts tomorrow but $50 is in sight for target I don't even know if it bounces till it gets there okay and guess what someone will buy it at 50 people will buy it they will buy it at 50 in fact where was that thing here I think I have time to go back what was that big chart here where's the 50 here's 50 I don't let the go straight there but I can tell you people are going to buy it at 50 it's a it's a terrible buy there but people are going to buy it so I'm predicting it's going to go there and I'm predicting people will buy it there and I'm also predicting it's a terrible buy but the timing of that I can't tell right now but I could tell that the timing would be that it would break here in in the two and a half weeks I called the trade of the option and it did okay now here was the trade results for the last six weeks maybe it's even seven weeks now I've lost track I'll just put these all up and we'll go over the ones um any questions we have here while I keep this up does anyone have any questions while I just have these results up there's the results of the last few weeks and then today was only Monday it was 31 trains there were some days that the room was closed or there were no trains and six losers does anyone have questions for me we have a few minutes here it's it's really about having the earning power versus just having money if you had no knowledge of how to trade and a hundred grand guess what you have money but no earning power because you wouldn't know what the heck to do with a hundred grand you'd probably lose it all trading I don't know how long it would take you to lose it depends how much size you would risk but I guarantee you you wouldn't lose it in the market if you didn't know what to do if you have two grand or three grand or five grand not what you would consider a lot of money to take a lot of size but you had let's say five grand and you know what to do and how to trade you can take that five grand to make a ten you can take ten grand that'll make a 20 that's the earning power the earning power is in the knowledge this was a long time ago but this was it was before I started the business there was a broker he ran a prop place and he said I'm gonna stick two grand in an account for you Melissa and I want to see if you can not lose the two grand and make money doing it he had me on a tight leash um and I made money I had one losing day in a month it was stressful because I was used to trading size but it was like an interesting experiment for a month to see how tight I could trade every literally every move I got out quick and I did push it with the size a little bit and then I did have one losing day in fact I think the losing day I had was a little bit too much it was like 700 some almost 800 bucks but I did great the rest of the month and I ended up tripling the account so it was it was an interesting experiment so I took two grand and made it six but it was hard to trade with being on that tight of a leash but I did it so you I had the knowledge I had the knowledge and and I think that that when you know how to train no matter how much money you have you will be able to achieve your goals it depending on what they are and how much money you have and how much knowledge to start out with will depend on the time it takes for you to achieve those goals but if you have you know expectations instead of goals you will let yourself down a lot and you will not feel good about yourself and and when you have a losing day then you'll feel crappy or want to give up or you want to critique yourself or criticize or be in judgment so it is very important to have the knowledge that's the power the power is in the knowledge and that's what I give you in the class and that's why the class is five thousand dollars because once you know how to trade no one can take it away from you no one will ever be able to take away from me the skill that I have reading gaps and it'll last forever and over time my skill has become even better I mean my skill has become so honed in now that I see things that I can't even communicate intellectually to people and that's one of the reasons they're in the room and they like getting my calls because I see things that I can't even explain just from experience of doing this for now for eight years so it's a benefit of being in the room with me but having the knowledge means you're going to do it right you're going to learn it you'll learn the system from me instead of getting lucky because anybody can make money with dumb luck in the market so my class is called the golden gap course it's a system that teaches a 26 point rating system to find the best stop to trade each day you can use it for longs or shorts but I prefer to short the course also teaches you how to enter an exit stop on the day and like I said I do it in the one minute chart so you're in and you're out quickly the course also teaches price analysis and technical analysis on an advanced level and you will learn this from me in the class you'll learn the one strategy it's how to train gaps effectively reading who's in charge of the power like where the target was to the downside you will learn how to read supported resistance so you don't get in the wrong direction so you don't buy a stock when you should be shorting it you will learn a more proficient and advanced way to read charts which is through the gap analysis okay not just reading supported resistance removing averages or Fibonacci's by focusing on the technical analysis in the gap in the gap itself okay and you will learn how to get conviction in your trading with the market as a source of wealth because all you have to do is have one day where something impossible happens like target and then you start to believe and you really see that oh my gosh this works or you have a huge day profit wise or you make you know $1,800 in four minutes I mean those kinds of things that happen to my students is what really gives people the conviction to follow me and do it and to stick with it and if you're not feeling like that about something you're doing now that you're probably doing something that doesn't work so the benefit of trading my system and gaps is that they set up quickly whether you hold them or not is up to you also you can be anywhere in the world and do it from home okay and I chunk it out that's how you meet your goals and there's some days like I said where you could start the day out with a loser and take a second trade to come back some people may not feel that they can do that you know I really know what I'm doing I know how to trade if you're if you don't want to do that then you stop on the one day you take the loss but it really is about putting together a full-on month when you're going forward and I have a hundred percent conviction of what I do and what I teach and and that's why I've been doing it for so long and I love it is anyone have any other questions here now the one last thing I want to talk about is we talked about expectation goals and the last thing is potential the potential is that once your goals are achieved you can have the life you want and guess what you'll probably have different goals than two and they may be financial they may be different they may be something else I was talking to a person actually earlier today this is a this is a friend and she said um gosh what made us talk about this I don't know how we got the subject we're talking about if if you had you know five hundred million dollars in the bank or whatever which you keep working or something and we were talking about another person I was an example or something I don't know if it was somebody on tv where we were like oh if you have five hundred million dollars in the bank do you think that person would stop working and I said no I don't think the person would stop working because once you start making a lot of money you were your goals increase your your desires increase and then you want to keep going and you want to learn a certain lifestyle live a certain lifestyle and you get used to it now again some people just may want to make money and retire early but the interesting thing is that you won't know your potential until you've created the life that you want and then you can decide then the decision is up to you what is the life you want maybe you don't really want to work you want to retire early you only want to work and trade a half an hour a day or an hour a day you don't need to make a thousand dollars a day to survive 500 bucks a day will be good for you and quit your job or maybe you want to live a luxurious lifestyle have two homes fancy cars everything is based on what you want as a person and what everybody wants is different so you'll never be able to see your true potential if you're stuck in the judgment and the criticism and the expectations and you can't achieve your goals so set your goals accordingly so that you can achieve your full potential and you may not even know what that is i mean many people don't know what that is they just go through life kind of like uh through life and never really conceive or think or be goal oriented i'm very goal oriented in fact i was saying something i'll say this one last thing everybody go i was saying something to somebody the other day on the phone and as i was saying it i was like well i was like well if this happens but it was so weird and when it spit out of my mouth i knew that i wasn't didn't believe that at all i knew that it was going to happen it's a goal that i have for myself and i was trying to have a normal conversation with a person so so i was saying well if this happens but i know that it will happen but i'm because i talk as if things usually in my mind are in the present time as if they've already occurred if i have a goal i talk as if it has already occurred and that's why if i'm not there yet in reality it doesn't bother me think about what i'm saying now let's talk about the class the class is a full two-day course in how to strategically find pick-and-play stocks that are professional bearish gaps that's what i love retakes are free the class is online you can be anywhere in the world and take it i'm doing a class on a monday on a sunday and monday for those of you that have saturday conflicts either work or religious conflicts do this class because i usually only do them on saturdays and sundays i might do two classes a year on an off day on a weekday like a sunday and a monday so it's timing will the same nine to five classes forty nine ninety nine and this is going to be good because the monday the markets open and we'll do live gap ratings and that will help people a lot okay i'm also going to give the options letter freeing through july fourth if you sign up for the class this week by friday okay and so you would get calls like target and i'm working on getting a system of text alerts set up that people would get the trades texted to them right now they're just getting them on the emails any questions also if you want to learn the trends course it's for longer-term trend trades to read longer-term trends like in the cost because the cost is not in a downtrend even though it had the two-day move you can sign up for both of these and get 50 off the trends class and it's fifty six ninety nine and here's the dates for these does anyone have questions on anything this is a testimonial from a new student this was actually from february was chinchilla chinchilla chinchilla has two chinchillas which is really funny they're first kids does anyone have any questions any questions quite a group tonight so the point is that you've got to believe in yourself if you want to get things done don't have the expectations have the goals and if you'd like a free trial to the room this week you can email me email me at info at the stockswish.com or melissa at the stockswish.com and if you want to sign up for the gap class here for these dates then email me if you want the special again it is sunday and monday any questions about anything quiet group tonight people got to get some life into you it's only monday everybody's tired from the weekend you're welcome listen it should be an interesting week there's some big names on the board we'll see what we get tomorrow and thanks for having me everyone email me also if you have questions on the class okay dope all right good job everyone thank you online trader central have a good night