Hello my friends and welcome to Running with Ryan. Today I'm running with a super awesome badass woman. She's one of the top sky runners in the world. Sky runners are the people that run really steep mountains. It's crazy. It's dangerous. She's one of the best. She's also a big science nerd. She loves neuroscience, catching critters and snakes and butterflies and things. A few years ago she had a horrible fall, fell 150 feet, smashed up her whole body and we're gonna talk a lot about her comeback. It is so inspirational. Ladies and gentlemen, Hillary Allen. Here she is, ladies and gentlemen. What's up? How are you doing today? It's a beautiful day to run. Should we run? Yeah let's go. Let's run. But first I want to show you these. Look at these socks. Oh my gosh. That makes Captain America very happy. Smash. Look at this. It's green. I know. It was snowing two days ago. I know. Yeah it was. Yeah. And it's May 3rd. Yeah. Can you believe it? No. Well yeah. I mean that was born here. So I was born in Colorado. Colorado girl, you were from Fort Collins? Yeah. Nice. What was growing up in Fort Collins like? Well I played tennis in the spring. So we always, we always had to shovel courts. Like for spring break. Shoveling snow. Yeah. Shoveling snow playing tennis. Yeah it was amazing. Growing up at the Rocky Mountains. Yeah I love it here. Nice. So do you like this pace? Chris Mocko really wanted to go fast. But we don't need to go fast. I like this pace. I don't want to go fast. Conversation pace. Yeah I like this. It's an easy run. It's like 3 p.m. Yeah. We've both been active all day. Exactly. We just had a big lunch and I know your hilly goat. You like the steep mountains but this is gonna be very flat. You cool with that? It's totally fine. Yeah. I actually got in my seat running this morning. Very good.  Green Mountain. Oh good. I met you at a North Face event called Scar Stories. Oh my god yeah. And you recounted the story. Yeah. The horrific story. Yeah. Can you walk us through that again? Okay well so there's bears in Colorado. Basically I was attacked by a bear. It looks like she was attacked by a bear. But that is not true. Okay. Tell us the real story. Not true. I did say that though. The scars. I know you did. That was good. Well I run these kind of races called sky races which are like they're pretty technical races. So I got into ultra running and right away I got into some like pretty gnarly stuff basically in 50 kilometers. So that's like 30 miles. I would climb about 12,000 feet. Okay. And then I'd have to you know descend that like in the course of my 30 miles. So usually it involves scrambling which is like using your hands to run on this type of terrain. Like minor rock climbing. Yeah basically. Yeah. But it's super fun. And I just got really good at it and I loved it. So that's my nickname Hilly goat. Hilly goat. But what happened was I was on this sky running circuit and I would travel all over the world to do it. And I was in Norway and like super far north. Like these fjords and these like granite ridge lines. You just kind of third class, fourth class scrambling. And I was on this run and it was a race. I was actually winning the World Series of sky running. This was like ranked number one in the world. I was like doing really well in the race. Did one step and rocks fell. Like they gave way underneath my feet and it ended up falling off this ridge line and I fell 150 feet and I broke 14 bones. Nearly died.  Like you literally you almost died. No literally. Like I had to have a helicopter rescue. I remember like the whole thing. I remember thinking in my head. Like I was keeping it together. But I remember thinking. You were keeping it together as it just fell 150 feet. No literally. I remember my I was so weird. Like my brain was like okay Hillary you might be dying right now. But like stay calm. Like the doctors are here. There's a helicopter. I remember this like narrative. I was just super calm. Wow and a lot of pain. Yeah it was it was crazy and like I said I had to have a helicopter rescue. I'd never broken a bone before. Welcome to the broken bone club times 14. I know I broke like ribs. The worst part I broke my back. So like L4 and L5. Okay yeah you don't want to do that. No because I could have easily been paralyzed. I broke both wrists. Had to have like hardware in each of them. I broke my feet and I had to have a surgery because I raptured this major ligament in my foot. And the doctors said I would basically never run again. The old you're never gonna run again story. I wanted to punch this lady in the face because like she was like you don't know me. You don't know. Yeah you don't know how tough I am. Exactly but she had done a lot of these different operations on like professional football players. Okay. Apparently it was like a common injury for a football player. I don't know. And um yeah she was like you know they're lucky if they can like they jog but they'd be lucky if they could run again. Wow and hearing that news must have been devastating whether or not you believed it. I was definitely devastated because I was like at that point you know running professionally football in North Face and it wasn't about like losing my job but it was about just losing what I love to do. Yeah. And that fear associated with it. And never be able to do what you love. Yeah never feeling like a complete whole person again because I couldn't run or move my body in the way I wanted to. Yeah I mean it was a really long recovery. I was I basically had no choice. I had like two back-to-back surgeries. This is after like I had spent two weeks in Norway and in hospitals in Norway. In the hospital there. Wow. Had initial surgeries and they came back into the States and these doctors are like things are healing right? Put on your arms again. So basically I had to re-break my arms. Put in different hardware and then operate on my foot. I couldn't walk for three months and then yeah I basically was trying to find like novel ways for me to move around. I had a scooter. I'd actually come here to this trail. To this trail? Nice. And scoot around the lake. Just for peace of mind I imagine. Just to get outside. Breathe some fresh fresh air. Yeah. Wow. But literally in an instinct I'd gone from like the most fit I'd ever been running these like mountainous courses. Like setting course records to the next day not being able to move.  Well I'm sure I mean most humans have never gone through something like that. But this leads to the next topic. Your comeback has been very inspirational. And not only inspirational but you've documented it a lot on your blog. You've been very vulnerable. You talk about how hard it is. How depressed you've been. Oh yeah. Speak about that and what the importance of just you know your mentality staying positive. So I mean I think right now I mean we're in a world where everything is like accessible at our fingertips. And it's like a beautiful thing because I can't. Hi. You just interrupted my podcast. We're all community. Okay continue on. No I mean like in all corners of the world. Yeah. And they're accessible with my fingertips. So that's awesome. But then it also leads to this like immense loneliness. And I felt lonely. I felt depressed because I couldn't connect with the people that I loved in the same way that I was used to. That was through running. Yeah.  And I mean I was definitely depressed. I like what if you if you feel separated from who you are. It's this really vulnerable place. And I thought I had this conclusion that I thought it was the biggest loss in an opportunity if I couldn't learn something. Yeah. Through going through all of this. And so I made a decision. And that was to be completely open and honest with my recovery. My mental standpoint. Everyone not just like my family and friends. But everyone because I felt like I had built this community of runners through like over the whole world and throughout my career. And I felt like I kind of owed it to myself. And owed it to them. To just be honest. Because a lot of people hide from injuries. They totally do. I want to interrupt this really quickly. She just ran up this really steep hill. And she's like barely breathing. That's how incredible of an athlete she is. Okay continue. Okay well. Hilly goats. Hilly goats. That's what I love. Hilly goats in the house. But at least I think and people were afraid to be vulnerable. And especially an injury. Because we're so strong and like independent.  And capable. Yeah. And like you feel so good when you're able to do what you love. Yeah. And move your body.  Yeah. And like a lot of athletes are afraid that either like my level they'll lose their sponsorship. Or they'll lose their friends. Yeah. Like their running community. Yep. And yeah. Maybe you will like temporarily lose that. But it's something we all go through. Just being active. Yep. And I feel like it's something like that's important to highlight. And I learned a lot about myself. Like when I say going through that recovery was the hardest thing I've ever done. It's because I learned so much about myself. I had to be like stripped down of everything. It's like if you're like naked and like giving a speech to people. Yeah. Absolutely. That's how I felt like every day. Yeah. And so I had to like find a way to keep showing up. And a way that I learned how to do that was through riding and through just being honest. Yeah. And yeah. And she said riding with a T. But she's also been riding bikes a lot. Good. Nice segue. Yeah. You like that? That's segue to bikes because my audience loves bikes too. I love bikes actually. Like I have a complete noob and actually through the recovery like falling off a cliff which I mean most people use it as a joke but I actually did. You really did fall off a cliff.  Really really steep one. And I got my first gravel bike. Nice. And I started riding. Yes. Oh my gosh. I love it so much. Oh it's such a great feeling. So awesome. Especially here because you can just take these gravel roads that well I trust pass for the first time. Well good for you. Yesterday. They really have signs like bikes, no bikes and then like a sticker of a pistol. Really? Yeah.  I can survive some gunshots. I think you're like just any you greet them with a smile and say I'm sorry this is the first time I've been back here. Which it was. And it made it safely. Rules are meant to be broken especially those ones. They are. Yeah. But yeah so same bikes last season last year when learning a ton. I'm still a noob and I will rip like the most non-technical single track out there. But it's so fun. You can go so far. Yep. And fallow race. Good for you. Awesome. Which one? The big one? Really big. Dirty Kanza? Dirty Kanza. Nice. 200. Oh my god.  Yeah. Or I don't know. You'll be fine. Just ride your bike a lot and your butt will get used to it. I haven't ridden my bike a lot which is so fun. I've been doing these like gnarly loops up in the mountains and like I can climb like 9,200 feet on my bike and then the next day I went out and did like you know 70 miles and I was fine. Awesome. You can't do that when you're running. No you sure can. Has biking translated to making you a better runner in any way? You know biomechanically? You know I think if you practice cycling like going uphill absolutely. Because like I said I went up green mountain this morning and you know I'll run and power hike and it basically yeah like I felt like I hadn't even spent any time away. I like could just go up the hill. So yeah plus it like mix it up and do different sports. Totally. Because I actually I've only been running for five years. Yeah that's true that's a good point. She just was 2014 you started running? Yeah and I was on the North Face team in 2015. I literally just like picked up and loved it. But I've always been an athlete. Yeah. And I was a tennis player in college. Yeah and that translates to long distance running totally. It translates to like trails. Yeah. At least the technical trails. Yeah. Like the footwork. Uh huh. But yeah I mean. Hello. Hi there. Those are some fans of Hilary. No not me. But I think of Ryan. Yeah so we biking and doing I don't know just more sports is it's just fueling me. I always feel like I'm an athlete. I've never really defined myself as a runner. Yeah. And yeah I need to do different sports and learn. Like cycling takes a lot of coordination. Yeah it does. So and if you thought running was dangerous you can definitely mess yourself up on a bike too. So be careful. I know. I've got to. I've got to really be careful. What is what are some things about biking that brings you enjoyment in a way that running doesn't? What's the difference? So far there. Yeah. In one day. Yeah that's true. Um I don't know it's like it's a different it's definitely a different feeling because I don't feel like I'm like today I was out and I was like touching their ground and we got some technical running here. Pause and continue. I was like touching the like the rocks like the trees. Yeah. Precisely I mean you definitely can get back there but I mean just the grind of the uphill like the steep stuff you can go up on a bike. Yeah. I mean I'm going up super flag and I've run that road. It's kind of about the same amount of time. Yeah totally. It's just humbling. Biking uphill is about the same speed as running uphill. It is. Yeah. Look at those mountains by the way. Oh my god. I love living here. I grew up in the dirt like I was in my mom's like baby Bjorn like legs and arms hanging out before I could walk. Yeah. I grew up in these mountains. I also heard you grew up just loving the outdoors but also critters and catching stuff and that led to your degree in what biology, neuroscience. Yeah. Yeah so actually I noticed a lady bug back there. Oh you did? But I didn't stop. We can go catch some bugs if you want. I love catching bugs. I know this is the spring time. There are definitely snakes out here. There are actually a friend of mine saw a rattlesnake the other day. Yeah. But his butterfly seems in now. Oh. I know I've noticed all the bugs. Close to my curiosity and willingness to try. I'm curious about the natural world. That's what led me into science. So I have a degree in organic chemistry which led me to. That's one of those easy degrees to get right. I'm a complete nerd. So I like I also teach part-time at a small college from range. Oh very cool. I teach chemistry anatomy and physiology biology. I'm curious about the natural world. Yeah. And so it led me to ask questions and science is the best place to get those questions answered. I started getting bored in the lab and I started running more in graduate school and my curiosity kind of led me to trails. Yeah. And then trail running and then ultra running and then sky running because I was curious if I could do it. Basically the motto in sky running is from the sea to the sky. Gotcha. Via the most direct route. And the hardest. Yeah. So it's like a lot of scrambling. It's different than trail running because trail running can be a flat path. Maybe what we're doing right now. Yeah. It could be. Exactly. It's not my favorite type. Yeah. No. It's kind of windy but you know it's good. When I think of trail running I think of something uphill. Yeah. It's like if you show them that. Yeah. That's trail running out there for sure. I went up that mountain this morning. That's pretty impressive. That's the tallest mountain right here right next to Boulder. I know. That's what gets me the most excited about trail running. But it was like my curiosity that brought me to it. Yeah. I like to think that if I just question and ask the question of why. Yeah. Like then you can start exploring and like just find out what you're capable of. I love it. Hello again. Hi. Hi. You're welcome to watch it. Ah. Dozer TV. Okay. Oh it almost crashed. Right into a ditch. But I mean so I always pay attention to like the bugs and nature. It's one of the things I love most about trail running is you just feel at one with the outdoors. I'm not afraid to get dirty. Yeah. Like I love running in the mud. Okay.  Oh my God. Do you stop and check out the lizard. No. Okay. Because the finish line is 200 meters away. Okay. Stop and then go back. Okay. Fair enough.  Then I go back. But okay so this is a good question. Because two times I will not stop for a bug or lizard or frog or salamander that I see on the trail. That's what I'm racing. Okay. And doing a workout. That's a good rule. But every other time. Hell yeah. Okay. Anyone who runs with me they're bound to learn something new about a flower or like a bug or a beetle. Well I hope we find something then. I know. I haven't been looking too closely. That's how ladybugs are. That's how ladybugs are definitely cool. Those are like the animal kingdom's like friendliest bug. Everybody loves a ladybug. They are cool.  It's like the orange stuff. Okay. So that's why they're so brightly colored. So birds don't eat them. Because they actually taste really bad. Okay. Well I'll remember that next time I get hungry in the wild. Yeah. You can maybe eat it but poke it first so that the acid just seeps out. This has been fun. You're great. And your energy is like every time I have a risk. You it is like this. You're just jolly and fun and positive. Well thank you. Do you think a lot of it comes from those really dark days? I mean you've seen. Yeah. You've been down there. So I mean like even after like I think that's what allowed me to continue running again. So like those doctors they told me I'd never run. And I just didn't believe it because I wanted to know if I could do it. Like that curiosity piece. Yeah. And so I tried really hard.  But I never gave up hope. Because I just wasn't willing to accept that I was done. No way. Jose you're young. You're strong. Yeah. And I think it's like that belief. Like that mental piece. Again the neuroscience. Yep. You never know what's possible. And so yeah I experienced some really bad days. But how I got through it was I just told myself was like okay if you can get through this moment and this day even if it's shitty it's still like if I'm building the house. Yeah. Building the foundation. It's still like a brick that I'm laying down. It contributes to something bigger. It might not look perfect but it's there. Yeah. And so I think that day in and day out just got me through some really dark times. And I did run. In fact last year actually ran a 50 mile race and a 50k as well as did some like other crazy I did like UTMB. I turned it soft UTMB. That stands for Ultra Trail Mont Blanc in France. Sorry. Yeah. It's okay. It's a hundred mile. This ride I did was 120 miles. But I turned it soft because I split it up into three days. Okay. So I was able to do that like 35 miles a day. Yeah. Wow. After the doctors said I never run again. I ran a 50 mile race and I won that one. I went back to a sky running race and I actually won that one. Cool. But then two months ago I was like gearing up for a season this year. And on the road near my house I broke my ankle. Oh that's right. I remember seeing it on your Instagram. Yeah. I know. You must have been crushed. You're like not again. I was so crushed. Yeah. But again it was like that positivity. I was like okay I'm gonna feel it. I'm gonna be super sad for a week. And then I'm gonna work really hard. And I'm gonna eat a lot of junk food right? That's really what I'm sad. I just go for Ben and Jerry's. I'm more of a watermelon type of girl. Okay. Well that's good. Carrots are my favorite food. Yeah.  I'm such a nerd. I know. Bait a carrot team. Yeah. You wrote a blog post. Yeah. All about this. Yeah. Essentially right? Yeah. I kind of I documented like the return to my running from the first injury and in this one definitely. Yeah. And you talked about how in learning to trust your body again. That's what has been the hardest. Yeah. Is learning like going on technical terrain again and being super aware that there's a cliff right there or a drop off. But still like moving through the train in a safe way. Like that was the hardest part about learning to run was that oh like am I injured again? Like I have hardware in my ankle now. Yeah. I'm like oh my god like twisting my ankle or you know tripping a little bit on the trail. It can still be quite jarring. And at first when I started running it was really slow. And I was really hesitant to go on any sort of technical terrain. I kept practicing and I run pretty closely with my coach and he would come and like encourage me to go on these routes like he would literally show up my house. And I was like what are we doing today? Thinking that we do like a soft terrain. And he'd take me on this like gnarly run. Wow. Just to teach me that I could do it. Yeah. So it's like just like I've learned to I'm learning to gravel to do like to cycle and yeah my gravel bike. It's like it's really exhausting to be out of your comfort zone every single day. Yep. It's really hard. Yep. Some days I don't want to do it. Yeah. But that's where you really learn a lot. Yeah. And that's kind of what I told myself. And so like with compassion that I genuinely wanted to work hard and I wanted to see what it was like like if I could do it and it's beautiful because if I just gave up I would have never learned that I possessed this crazy amount of strength. Yeah. And I think they are like more people more people like they just don't know that they have it. Yeah. And a lot of times it takes a traumatic event to realize it. Absolutely. Yeah. So I'm thankful for it. I wouldn't want to do it again.  Just for old time sake. No. No. I don't want to. But no it's actually it taught me a whole bunch about myself and the world and friendships and relationships and compassion for yourself. That's for other people going through these things everything. Because you never know. Like I remember the first day I got off of my scooter and I was able to walk and normally when I had my crutches or my scooter people would open doors. Yeah. They'd kind of like give me some space. When I was walking they treated me like I was one of them. Yeah. She doesn't need help. And exactly. And I was like oh my god. They have no idea. Yeah. What I've just been through. Yep.  I have no idea what anyone else is going through. Yeah. And so having compassion and empathy. That's the main thing that really changed me. And do you see yourself looking at people in a different light maybe disabled people and wanting to help them more. Well that but also just normal people who are having a bad day. Yeah. You know. And it's been actually pretty awesome since I've been so open about my injuries. Many people have contacted me. Like when they've been going through. In fact there's this guy right now who broke his C like C4. And that's literally there's a rhyme. Yeah. In neuroscience. This has break C4, breathes no more. So he broke it. But he's not paralyzed. He's not dead. But he's like trying to rebuild himself again. That did me on Instagram and was like you really helped motivate me in my recovery and to not give up. And that is just like that's amazing. Yeah. To help someone they don't even know. And tell them that they need to be patient and that it's hard and that you need to not beat yourself up. It's it's something I didn't have someone helping me through that. I kind of had to learn that. Yep. And to be able to help other people it's just been a real gift.  You know what are your some of your goals coming up here? Put some of my early races on hold because breaking my ankle. Yeah. And so now initially now like that's also why I decided to just bite the bullet and go for this gravel race. Yeah. Because I wanted I wanted a cool goal. I wanted something that just made me scared and excited. I'm doing a stage gravel race in Oregon. Nice. Like two weeks after dirty cancer. Okay. So I'm gonna try that out. Good for you.  Does it scare your parents? I don't know. I think we'll just leave it that way. Okay. Yeah. My mom freaks out when I tell her about my bike adventures. Oh yeah. My mom they kind of learned that about me now. They're like okay but Hillary has Instagram so they're like check it on me. Oh where is she today? That's good but they actually they learn what sky running is and they're definitely scared. But actually my mom like when I started running again. Yeah. She said to me she's like Hillary I love you and I know this is what makes you feel alive.  She doesn't need to like die. Yeah. I think it's our job as children to scare our parents. I think so. You know. Yeah. I do a real good job today. I do too.  All gray. Oh man. Don't mind us too. All right. But I'm the youngest and I basically don't behave like the youngest because I was one that was beating up my older sister.  Oh yeah. I'm feeding up a boy too. Okay. In kindergarten. Okay. That makes it any better. But I did. Would you do to him. He was a bully and he would always pick on me and now looking back I think because he liked me. Yes. That's what we do.  Oh geez. Just kidding. But I didn't know. So I tackled him and I sat on him. Good.  Really. That's that's some good. That's some good quality beating up. That was good. That's beat down. It was. But yeah. So I was basically a really well behaved child. Very curious. I was getting into trouble. My mom would tell me like don't do that or I'd be helping her cook and she's like oh don't touch that. It's hot. And I looked at her and I put my hand on the stove. Exactly. I need to learn my own way.  I am one of those kids. And I'm one of those adults too. Obviously. Obviously. But yeah. So besides the bike racing I'm hoping to do some some like 50k races. Maybe this one in Italy that's like in Cortina Italy. It's one of my favorite places on earth. Well actually I'm wearing the t-shirt of the Burning Man 50k. You might want to give that one a shot. It's a little naked but it's cool. Let's say a little naked and druggy maybe. People might do drugs on. I've never done the drugs while running but. Because running is the high. That's right. But yeah I don't know. I'm just I want to do things that excite me and I'm definitely gonna get back out there and do some of these competitive races because I have a lot of goals with that. What really excites me are these FKTs so fast as known time. Yeah. You can do these routes and just kind of go off trail and explore. It's like my favorite way. My favorite way to run. It's like one of the things I love the most is just being outside in nature and kind of relying on it to get you where you need to go. And actually that's what I told myself early on in my recovery. Was that even if I don't race again? I don't care but I'm gonna run. Yeah. And I'm gonna get back to trail running just because it's part of me. It feeds your soul. Yeah. Exactly. This has been very motivational for me. This has been great seriously. That's awesome. I love it. I'm so happy to hear that because like you know I'm just living my life. I'm trying my best every day. Every day isn't perfect. So I don't necessarily know if what I'm doing is inspirational. I just like I'm really stubborn and I don't know how to give up. Yeah that's great. You were born with it.  Anything else we should tell them about? I don't know. Your Instagram, your Instagram. Yeah, my Instagram. Helico Climes. Yeah. Yeah. Give me all the advice on gravel biking? Yes. Give us some advice. And thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for joining us on another running with Ryan. And we will see you down the road.  Yeah. Bye. Oh my gosh. That's like the bear that came in this got you. Yep, they're a duck. Watch out.


Yeah, we on boss talk one on one, one on one. Yeah, we gonna talk. I wanted to know, cause just like you said, the only thing you took out of the old you is the drug game. Yeah. But in everything that you knew back then of how to do things and what you were doing, how much of that do you use in today's society? All of it. All of it. The only part I don't do is- To be successful. I just don't sell cocaine no more. That's it. We books. You know when I first started selling my book, they said, man, you can't sell books like you sold. Yes, you can. Like you sold cocaine. Cause I'll be in front of the supermarket. Oh, really? Let them 12 o'clock at night.  Hey man, this is my book. It just came out. You ought to read this book. Great book. And some people will buy it. To me, I feel like it's a drive. It's a drive. When you go out here and hustle whatever that you love, I want to say hustle. If you have a passion for it, cause nobody's gonna go out here and do it like you will because it's yours. And that's how I look at it. Why should they do it for you? Some people will because you paint them. But they're not going to do it like you could do it. Right. Because even when we're running our business, we have a boutique and we've had multiple, we've had up to seven. And one thing I used to hate about it is the fact that whenever I would hire people and teach them exactly to do what I do and leave them in different locations, when customers came in, they're looking for me. No matter what, they're looking for me. No matter how much I train them to be me. So to say, they're coming wherever I am. I am. You know what I mean? And I'm like, you can't be everyone. Well, people don't have the confidence that you have. Sometimes people are afraid, people are afraid to fail. You know, the book was that I was reading. It was talking about the power of fear, the power of love, the power of unknown. And these are powerful fears. Right. You know, these are things that really affect people's lives. Like, I don't want people to know that I tried to not make it, you know. It makes you make the wrong decision sometimes because you're scared to make the wrong decision. And then your family tell you, boy, you can't do that. Right. Everybody in the family. Yeah, you can't do that. How are you gonna do that? I wasn't able to do it. And that's usually what they say. That's exactly what they say. So, you know, you have to build it up in yourself to where you're confident in yourself that no matter what everybody else is saying, that I'm gonna do what I feel and I should be doing. Because I really was a drug dealer, not because I wanted to be a drug dealer. If somebody would have told me a couple of weeks before I started selling cocaine, I was gonna be a cocaine dealer. I would have laughed.    Cause I didn't even know weed was legal in California. Really, you didn't? I'm in jail in Texas. I'm in jail in Texas, Carolina, Texas, that's what. So I don't know what's going on. I'm not getting L.A. newspapers no more. I'm getting, you know, the Texas, Texas paper. You know, Texas, Carolina, you know, this is the stuff. And see, you only know what you're fed. So how long was you in Texas, Carolina? I did five, five, six years in Texas, Carolina.  Go back to Tyler? You do? I got family in Tyler. I know I, you was young when you left. I thought they might've moved away, but they still there. Oh no.  My mom had 19. So I got, I got family in Houston, Dallas. You have a huge family. Tyler, Fort Worth. And you keep in contact with all of them? No, I don't. You can't do that. But when you was in Texas, can I come visit you? They can call me. I ain't some of them. I got 14,000 numbers in my phone. Wow. You like Mike Jones. I don't really call people.  I don't need to call a very, very, very few people that I pick up the phone and call without them initiating the call. Okay. Because I don't want to talk to people. I don't know.   If we're not talking about something. Right. I don't want to talk to you. I got you. You know, I don't want to know about the weather. You don't want to shoot the breeze.  You know, I shot the breeze for 20 years in the penitentiary. Even in there, though, I don't really like shooting the breeze. You know, I kept... You're too busy reading. Trying to gain knowledge. Oh, he play sports too, according to Bob Johnson. So he messed him up on that. I played that basketball. Yeah, that's what he said. But you didn't play tennis. They didn't have tennis in there. Yeah, we played tennis. What? And I'm the one that got, I got the tennis course taken out. Oh, no. I started teaching all them black boys how to hit a tennis ball. And they didn't like that. They didn't like that. No, they took them tennis course out. Wow. About a year after I was there. I had a... And I taught so many dudes.  And it's acknowledged. They don't even have to tell nobody, no. It just happens. Yeah, yeah. A leader is a leader. Yeah.   Yeah. Because of what you were doing. You were the leader. But could you see leadership before that when you was young? My mom said I always was the head leader. And when I was... We was kids. She was my brother. She was me too. Yeah, we on boss talk one-on-one, one-on-one.


Yeah, this is the Tiger Fund National News Network, 10am market update. The dial is down 76 at 35,975 off to making an all-time high yesterday, 36,088. This is a late E. I'm suspecting there's a good chance that we make a peak E today no matter what happens with the Fed. If there's a big spiral into the 36,100s, I think that that's a very important move. That says we could continue higher for a little while longer. We're looking at the S&P and the S&P made an all-time high yesterday and a little under it today. It's at 4627.71, down three. This is a late D, possible peak D coming up here, but the QQQ made a new all-time high today. It's trading at 389.14 up 9 cents in leg C. In the Chapman Wave methodology, we're always looking for those Ds where we start to look for some kind of reversal. IWM also, the Russell 2000, very strong. It's up $1.65 at 236.10, it's up 0.7%. This is a big deal because it's breaking out to that leg D in the monthly chart. Now, this is going to be very important because gold took a dive. It's down 25 at 1764. Now it's a really important support in the 1760s. If it breaks to 1750s, it means that it's going to take a little while longer to digest the big gains that it had just recently and the dollar is holding very well. It is up 0.46 and 0.94 up in the higher range. TLT, that's going to be very important. TLT is seeing a little buying up $0.32 at 147.41. We'll see if it's able to get into the 149.150 area. That's going to be important for yields. Now this is going to be very important. Crudor is down $2.03 at 81.88. You got this dreaded H pattern right here, made it peaky in the Chapman Wave. Inside track, repellent zone. I'll be talking more about this when I come back for my show, the Tiger Technicians Hour in a few minutes. Also, check out my newsletter at the opening call. Don't forget today, you've got Larry Presaventa, Larry's going to be talking about his webinar coming up in about a week. You've got, I think I'll swim with Kevin Hanks, then you've got Steve Rhodes, Dave White, and Tom O'Brien. Have a wonderful day. I hope to see you in a few minutes, otherwise same time, same station tomorrow. Have a great day.


able to listen to all the recordings that you missed and we'll send an email out as soon as they are ready. I'm going to go ahead and switch over the controls for Melissa Armo. She is with the Stock Swoosh, so we'll begin her presentation momentarily. Melissa. I'm muted. You're with us. Good morning. Can everyone hear me? Yeah. Thanks. And we can see your screen. Thank you so much Trader's Talk. Good morning, everyone. My name is Melissa Armo and I am here today to talk to you about making money day trading, which obviously everyone wants to make money trading. That's the reason that you do it. And so we're going to talk today about how you can earn a thousand dollars a day trading. And my method specifically you can use for option swing trades or day trades, but the main focus of today is going to be about day trading. So I do own my own companies called the Stock Swoosh. And if you'd like more information, you can email me at Melissa at thestockswoosh.com or give me a call at 929-3200 GATT or you can watch me on Fox Business Network. I'll be talking about stocks every now and then. And you can go to my YouTube and watch the clip where I talked about Apple. So let's get right into it. Today actually was a really nice day. Was a long, most of the trades though that I will tell you are shorts that I'm focusing on in the morning. I'm a GAP Trader. So I'm going to talk to you specifically about GAPs today. That's a strategy that I'm going to discuss where you can make a thousand dollars a day. But I wanted to go over the stats for the last six days from last Tuesday through today. If you had been in the live trading room with me, how much money would you have made with an advanced risk? So if your goal is to make a thousand dollars a day minimum, which you don't, you don't have to have it as a goal, but that's the topic for today's webinar. And certainly that would be enough if you wanted to trade for a living. But if that was your goal, how much would you need to risk? At least a minimum of about a thousand bucks, okay? So some of these trades in here were a little bit more. Some were a little bit less. But on average, you're looking to make a thousand dollars a day. You want to risk a minimum of a thousand. Same thing if you were risking 500. You want to capture at least a $500 a day move. So on last Tuesday was TTS short. Wednesday was Tiva short. Thursday, no trades. Cost Friday and Monday actually was a short, which we're going to talk about today. And today was a long. So a late entry today in the Dow, but I will discuss it. But this is an average of about $1,600 a day. So you can very well see here how you can average a minimum of $1,000 a day if you take an advanced risk. The key is to not have them any losses. And how do you do that? So that's what we're going to talk about today. And actually, let me just make sure here, I see everyone's questions. Let me just open up the chat. I just realized here. Okay, there we go. Hold on a second. Okay. All right. So I can, I can see everyone's questions as we go along. Just wanted to open up the chat. If you have them, I'll glance to the side here and make sure I don't miss anybody as we go along. So in the last six days in my live trading realm, if you had risked a minimum of a thousand dollars, you would have made over 9 grand, which is, which is a good amount of money. I don't care where you live in the world, even if you live in New York, which I do, that's a good amount of profit. And the key to trading successfully is consistency. Okay. So so many people are all over the place. One day they do options, one day they do breakouts, one day they do gaps, one day they do pullbacks, you know, one day they do reversals. When people trade like that, you never really actually establish a foundation of consistency within your trading. So if I don't see the setup in the morning on something like last week, the one day, then then there may be no trades. It's not like I can pull a gap out of the sky and make it work in my favor. So not every day will there be a trade. Now we're coming into earning season for the last quarter of 2017. And there will be a lot of gaps in earning season. However, there still may be some days between now and December 31st where there are no trades, but at least you don't lose. So again, it's the consistency. That's what allows you to be able to trade not only for living, but to have the profits, even if you want to do something else, even if you have a business or a part-time job or another full-time job. Either way, it's the idea that you don't have that many losses. You have way more winners and losers, and that's how you're able to do it. And that's how you're able to put together a week or a month or a year. So my system has about an 80% win ratio. Sometimes it's in the 70s. Sometimes it's over 80. So this gives you an average from, you know, a whole county or from January to the end of the year, approximately what you can figure to make. There's times though where I'm definitely, you know, can do no wrong. Okay? I've been very, very focused lately. Part of that does have to do with the fact that I've been on Fox. You know, I'm out there now in the world and I am trying to be as accurate as I possibly can and I am. But that doesn't mean that you're never going to have any losers. I use stops, okay? And when I'm in the trading room, I always say this is where the stop is so that everybody knows.  And we are going to go over those today as well. But making $1,000 a day is really about what? Chunking it out. It's like today. Today wasn't a thousand bucks profit, but the last week was really good. So it's an average, okay? Some days you make a little bit more. Some days you make a little bit less. Some days you get a big one.  Some days you will take a loss, okay? So you figure out of every 10 trades, two at least are going to be losers. And again, that's why I use stops. I'm getting a couple questions here. Hold on. Yes, I just look at stocks, although you can look at ETFs. So we will talk about the SPI chart in here today because I've been calling the market higher and that is absolutely true and the market is still higher. I don't know where the SPI is at right now actually. I'm already here today. But the market is higher. You can use this system. My system for ETFs are stocks. And the reason though I prefer stocks is because you get more volatility in stocks, like for example, you know, Apple, Google, any of these things, people tend to have emotions associated with publicly traded companies where they buy products and services. And so therefore you do tend to have a lot of volatility in stocks. So if you can use it for ETFs, but you get more gaps in stocks and you also get more volatility and volatility is good for a trader if you're playing it in the right direction, obviously. So anyways, getting back to what I was saying here, you got to stop thinking be practical before you start to trade. You know, not everybody is going to be successful in the market. Some people will, some people won't. What's the difference between people that are successful and people that are not successful? You've got to understand really what you're getting yourself into when you do it. And it's funny because I talked about this the other day in the trading room one day last week and I said, you know what? When I started to trade almost nine years ago now, I had absolutely no idea what I was getting myself into. I'm very bright and I thought I'm going to pick this up right away in three to six months.  I figured I'd pick it up in three to six months. I'm really smart and hello and behold, it took me three years to create my system. So you kind of got to just be practical and understand what you're getting yourself into if you want to do it. If you want to do it, is it worth it if you're successful? Yes. Yes, it is. You can work from home as a professional trader. The money's good. The hours are good. The market closes every day at four, although I don't trade till four o'clock every day. I focus in the morning, but you know, you have every weekend off. You know, there's lots of wonderful things about the benefits of trading, but not everyone will be successful. So I think it's important to understand the process. What is it going to take for you to get to this point to make $1,000 a day? Understand the process if you endeavor to undertake it, mainly so that your expectations are not that you don't let yourself down. If your expectations are like I said, my expectation was I was going to be profitable and figure this out in three months. Well, I wasn't. I didn't really have the guidance of someone like me, but it's still the point. You know, be realistic with yourself. Know that you can do it, but it's a process. You've got to be consistent. You have to be focused. You've got to give yourself time to learn. You've got to go through the process, whatever that is, whether it's taking a class, whether it's practicing on a demo, whether it's opening up an account, learning how to read charts, you know, all of these things and also having a daily routine is extremely important, which I'm a very routine oriented person. I live in Eastern time zone, so it works for trading the US market, but you could really be anywhere in the world and trade the market. I would say the number of people that are in my room, it's about 50-50. 50% of the people that are in my trading room with me daily are US citizens and 50% live other places, other countries in the world. So honestly, you know, you could be anywhere. You just got to make it work for yourself as far as your routine goes. Okay. So it's about learning and focusing on one strategy. We have another question here. Going back to the tracking, were those the only trades you took those days? Yes. Were there others that were losses? No. This is tracking means these are the trackings. I rarely, rarely, rarely, rarely call more than one trade in one day. I rarely call. If I'm calling or doing or anything more than one trade in a day, then chances is the first trade was a loss. Okay. So usually my routine, talking about routine here is to find one top pick. Actually, that's what I'll talk about today. Today, one of my picks was AIG short. It never set up. Doll was a pick too, but it was a long. So AIG, I watched it, never set up, quick, flipped, flipped right away as to the Dow because AIG never set up. So AIG was a watch, but didn't take a loss and it didn't do it, never set up. Flip to the Dow and then Dow set up. And that's the other thing too. And I don't want to get too off track here. I'm going to get back to the PowerPoint, but you can watch something and absolutely love it in the pre-market, which is usually what I do. I get one pick in the pre-market, which actually going back here, I think all these were my top picks in the pre-market. Yeah. TTS was and it set up. Tiva was it set up. Thursday didn't like anything. Cost was on Friday. Yeah. So today was the only day where I flipped of the picks. Watch the AIG, but it never set up. But anyways, usually that's what I said. You watch it into the open because if it doesn't set up, then you don't do it. That's why I don't trade after hours. So I do not do any trades in the post or pre-market because it may not work. AIG flipped today. So let's just say you had shorted an 845 in the pre-market, which it was gapping down. You would have, you would have lost. Okay. So I always wait until after 930 and I'm always out of any trades before four. I'm way before four actually. Okay, getting back to what I was saying. So it's about following a mentor. Again, you know, the picks that I would have in the room in the morning and don't give up. If you've been dreaming of being successful in the market for years, but success has alluded to you got to stop and think why? What are you doing? You know, be practical about it. It's not impossible to make this kind of money. It's just that not everyone will. Why? Very simple. Not everyone's going to do all the things I just listed above. Not everyone is going to stay focused. A lot of times when you're doing something where you're risking money, which trading is, people tend to get emotional. And I have a lot of emotions as well. You know, I get excited when I'm winning. If somebody doesn't work out, you hear in my voice in the room, but the bottom line is I use my emotions to my advantage to trade. And I also understand myself very well at this point in my life. And I think that that helps you as well too. So wherever you are at with your trading, you have to stop and think about what you're doing.  And you really kind of have to take a step back and look at it. And I think before any quarterly earnings season, which we're right before it now, pretty much starts the end of this week with the banks reporting, JPM City, they're all in the next two, three days. It's a time to really kind of regroup. So this is why it's good that you're at this webinar here today. So earning power is from what? The knowledge. It's the knowledge. The knowledge is what counts because say you did any one of the trades that I called in the last week. Say you did them. And you did a trial in the room and you made that kind of money. Well, if you didn't do my class, you wouldn't know how to do it. You'd never be able to replicate it. So the knowledge that you gain if you come and learn from me is what you're going to be able to use to take that and create the earning power to turn it into cash for the rest of your life if you want to trade in the market. And the nice thing is I truly believe that the US stock market will always have it in open and close. The forex market is 24 hours except for one day a week. So you really can't use my system for that except for one day a week. But the US market has some regulations in it, which benefits people like, you know, that want to individually trade as day traders actually. But the key to profits is really getting the money moved. So how do I find that? Like, for example, in the Dow today, how do I find the money move in gaps? So I started talking about this earlier. This is a strategy that I focused on, but I'm going to get right into it now for those of you that do not know what a gap is. I'm going to explain very basic layman's terms. What is a gap? A stock gap. So in the opening price today is different than the closing price of yesterday's trading. A gap is a break in price action from one day to the next. So a stock could gap up or stock could gap down. And just like someone asked earlier about the ETS, okay, this is nice, a beautiful chart here of cost. So this was last week. Last week, cost reported. It reported earnings. It was Thursday night. So here was the closing to the Friday of Thursday night right up around here around 167-ish, okay, wherever it closed. This is four o'clock Eastern time. Boom. The stock gap down in the morning on Friday then cost opened around 159, whatever. Okay, then it dropped. So the play in cost was a short, but this was the gap. So the stock closed here at one price and open the next day at a different price. That's a gap. Stocks can gap up and stocks can gap down. Let's look for a gap up over here. This is April. So going back April this year, cost had a gap up. This was a nice one. It closed here around 173 and opened up here around 177-ish, okay. Then it took the stock to new highs, rallied over 180 quite a bit, up to 183. Now the stock doesn't look the same right now, but I just want to show you this is a bullish gap. This is a gap up and this is a gap down. And gaps could be of any size. Any size or shape or whatever, they could be small. They could be medium. They could be big. Here's a gap down over here that happened right after this one. The stock closed here and gap down, okay. So again, this is all happening in the post market or pre-market, but I'm not trading that just so you know, all right. All you need though is one of these a day to be profitable. What if one does lose? Then you stop. So guess what? You reduce your losses by only looking at one or two picks a day because it would be impossible for you to blow up if you're only doing one or two trades a day. So that helps with the consistency too. That helps with the win ratio too. You don't do a lot of trades. Someone's asking me, does it work with day training for futures? Again, with futures, you'd be mostly focused really on the market gaps. The market gaps some days are playable, some days are not. So if you're really focusing on that, yes, you can use it for that. It will definitely help your futures trading if you understand gaps in charts like in a daily chart. But again, I really think stocks is where you're going to have the most volatility, but you can use it for futures, yes. Because you'd be reading the gaps. So why do gaps work like this? What created the cost move? I'm looking for the footprints of institutional money and gaps. What do I mean by institutional money? I mean banks, hedge funds, big position players in the market that take positions into the stock on or off. Should they either buy it or they sell it? Or they short it? Okay, because funds can short stocks too. So you're reading who is controlling, I'm going to get back to the cost here a minute, you're reading the control level. Who's in control? Who is the control of costs from Friday to Monday? The bears. So you wouldn't have made any money going long. You would have needed a short to make money in cost if that's what you watched. Okay, so from the time the earnings reported till the close of Monday, okay, the move was down in cost and the control was to the bears. So and it was, it was a decent flip. Okay, so you're saying, well, Melissa, how do you know the difference between institutional money and the bottom line is, and we'll look at the one minute of this chart in a second. The control you can read when you're seeing the stock into the open, okay, into the morning in a certain time period of day where you're looking for the money move, which is happening when? Between 9.30 and 10. So you see the gap in the pre-market of the post market, but you're watching, watching, watching, watching what the stock's doing between 9.30 and 10, which is typically when institutions will take positions on or off, unless you have some kind of news related thing, a press conference, you know, something that affects the market overall, that it would affect every stock that's trading, you know, like North Korea studying off another missile that the market would drop or fall. Typically, the planned actions of institutions will happen within that first 30 minutes into the open, whether they will buy stocks or whether there were sell stocks. Another great example of this here is the market. So here's a spy. Someone has asked about other things besides stocks, you could have played every bullish gap here in the spy and made money and it's continuing and the market's getting bought. So institutions are buying the market up, otherwise it wouldn't be moving like this higher, higher, higher ever since the election, the market has almost gone vertical with very little pullbacks or very little chances to make money if you bought the pullbacks. The time to buy in the spy was in the bullish gaps and actually it was a beautiful bullish gap back at the beginning of September that we've not broken the low from. The stock, the stock of the ETF, the spy closed here gap up. If you had gone along this bullish gap in the spiders, it rallied on the day, held, held, held, boom, took it up to new highs, the high today was 255. So what a nice move here and this was more than a month ago and you could still be in the trade or you would have gotten out of profit up in here. Does the strategy work for all markets like Forex? I don't know, I've never traded any other foreign markets. All I can say is that if the market that you're in has a close and an open and any company's a trade on a gap, then yes, you have to have things that gap. So you have to have a close and an open and you have to have post and pre-market trading because otherwise when would the trades go off for it to gap? Do you know what I'm saying? So you'd have to have a market where you would have that to be applicable, but if you did, the answer would be yes. And I know there's a lot of other places, a lot of countries, but I will tell you that one of the reasons why people that are foreigners like to trade the US market and find it interesting is, number one, you get their leverage at prop accounts or brokers. You can get nice leverage if you trade the US markets and you get that from the broker. With the buying power increases, you don't need the cash price point to do it. Also you can short stocks in the US market, which people love to do. And there's a lot of volatility, which makes it good for you to make money. So some markets like barely trade or move like they're dead. I'd probably go crazy if I was trading some of these slower markets. So one of the reasons people love the US market even that don't live here is because it has a lot of volatility. And you can get a dollar, two dollars, five dollars, three dollar moves in stocks and you can get them very fast, which I'm going to show you. Okay. So getting back to what I was saying, commitment has a plan of action, which would be in what? Something like research reports. For example, if you ran a fund and you decided to sell the cost, say you had a long position in cost and you decided to sell it based on whatever the earnings report said of the chart, you might have many, many, many, many different reasons for deciding to sell your position at cost that we will never be privy to. So the only thing that you have as an individual, which is actually all you need to make trading decisions or to make predictions where stocks will go, is you have the price of the stock. You can see the live price of a stock right now today within milliseconds of a difference in time, based on your internet connection, no matter where you are in the world, that everyone can see that things are trading at a certain price. And that is all that you need really to trade. So I do not trade based on fundamental analysis. I train based on technical analysis, which is what you come and learn from me. But I will tell you, it's a very unique way that I trade with technical analysis. So I have a unique way that I look at charts, and that's my niche.  So if you have a background in technical analysis, that's great, but you're still going to learn something different when you come to me because the way that I interpret a chart is based on it gapping. And that's one of the ways I've been able to call the market higher, which by the way, it's still higher. Even if we're red today, which you were a little bit this morning, we still hit up and made another new high. And you can't ignore that. You can't ignore the fact that institutions are buying, in fact, the market, because institutional money is in charge at all times. And even if you think it's not, it is, it's there. So even if you have something in an uptrend, you can have one red big bar. Doesn't mean that there's been a flip of control. Okay, it might, but it might not. And how do you read it on the quality of what's happening in the gap and the price of the gap? Okay. And we're going to talk a little bit about this here, but 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. Which is very important if you're looking to profit on a regular basis. You can't be, you can't be against the trend all the time and expect to be consistently profitable.  Okay. So again, be practical. Think. When you're looking for institutional money, we're really reading the side of the power in a stock of the who's in control of it, the bulls or the bears.  Long term. I'm not talking about in a day or a week. I'm talking about long term. Institutional money is in charge of the market and stocks at all time. And that is what's happening right now in the market. And even if we fell off a planet today in the market, which is, I do not think that's going to happen. But even if we would, that would not necessarily signify a change of control. In order to make money, you have to find the power of money. And then you've got to play it in the right direction. Now, again, if you're day trading it, it's different from your targets for you're looking to do longer term trades, like options or swing trades. But you're still going to get the direction right. It's just your target numbers will be different. And your risk probably will be different too, because you'll obviously have more leverage if you day trade and swing trade and options, you don't have to worry about leverage. Let me just answer a couple of questions here. Gaps are gaps in any market, foreign stocks, Far East, Europe. Your biggest assumption taken is that these are continuation gaps because they are with trend, not exhaustion gaps. I don't term things exhaustion gaps for one thing. That's not a term that I use at all. In fact, that's just a made up term. So I don't use that at all. We can look at a chart to discuss more what you mean. But there are, there's only one kind of gap that I would ever do. And it's a gap created with institutional money. It might be a brand new gap that makes a new trend in the stock, or it might be a gap that follows through the current trend. That's the best way that I would describe what you just said, Richard, because I don't do anything with exhaustion gaps at all. Gaps are institutional money that's desperate to purchase to get rid of a financial asset. Not every gap is made with institutional money. So let me preface that too. The ones that I'm discussing here are what I call the good ones that are gaps made with institutional money. Those are the only ones you want to play. Almost every stock gaps, every single solitary day in the market, if you really want to be specific. Nothing, not nothing, but it's rare that something would close at 1.4302 and open tomorrow morning at 9.30 at 1.4302. So almost everything gaps every day if you look at the close and the open and the difference of the price, whether it's up or down. But not everything is playable, meaning predictable. The gaps that are predictable, meaning I can look and predict the direction will be up or down on the live day before 9.30 are the gaps that you would want to trade, that you can predict the direction. And those are the ones that are made with institutional money. There are many, many reasons why they're doing it. You just mentioned one thing. It could be a million different. That's the point. You don't need to concern yourself with that. What you're concerning yourself is interpreting the price action of what's happening in the daily chart of the gap to predict the direction to do it. The where's and why's and all of that stuff, like I said, you're never going to know anyways. But what I'm telling you is to see that and to be able to predict that is how you can consistently make money because those are the people that are moving stocks. They are. So if everybody in this room did a trade that I call it right now or whatever in anything, I can't see any of my charts right now this second, but say it would work, we wouldn't really be moving the stock. It's institutions that move stocks. So, all right, getting back to what I was saying. These are good questions though. I focus on the time of the day. Time of the day, why? That's how you get the money moves. The money moves that come into stocks. And in this case here, this was cost from Monday. The stock dropped down. So I'm focusing mostly between, like I said, the open and 10 o'clock, between 9.30 and 10. So it's very interesting here. You can see, boom, fell off a cliff. This was Monday's move, not Friday's, but the stock opened and dropped into 10. Now, you could have held it longer, but this is the time of the day that you really get the majority of the move. I'd say 75 to 80% of the move of any of this thing that's gaps. That's a gap that you would play and then you get in and you get out. Again, talking about reducing losses, you don't trade all day. You trade in the morning. You focus on a certain time of the day. Either sets up or it doesn't. NVIDIA yesterday was a good long. Didn't see this till after the fact, but I want to point it out because it pushed up immediately, gapped up, closed here, gapped up, dropped, came in, held, rallied, rallied into what? 9.45, pushed one more time up, passed it into 10, went a little bit tiny, tiny, tiny bit over here, but you see here the majority of the move. Again, more than 80% of the move happened between 9.30 and 10. This was Monday, NVIDIA. Had a nice move and actually had a huge gap up today if you did NVIDIA overnight. Stock broke out today to new highs and you could have done this as an overnight. In fact, some one person did do it in the room as an overnight. Times again, 9.30 and 10 a.m. is when you're watching for the move. Eastern, Eastern time, I'm in New York. And the market is based on Eastern time as well. So when I always refer to times, I'm referring to market hours for Eastern time zone. 4 o'clock Eastern is the close of the market. 9.30 Eastern is the open of the market. So all gaps are created with what? Institutional money? No. No, they're not. Only the good ones are. So that's the point I'm trying to make which I kind of already talked about. You have to be very picky about the ones that you do. Gaps happen in the market on a regular basis. However, some gaps are better than others. That's why I usually focus on one or two things a day. Some gaps are nothing gaps and some gaps are very powerful displays of institutional money and those are the ones you're going to make money on, just like that in the video, just like from yesterday. The most important gaps in the market are gaps that signify a change of direction or a bigger move in the same direction. Understanding which gaps are meaningful and which gaps are not meaningful in the market though will help you to know what to do. And then when a change is occurring, which you might want to exit a position, for example, like if you were long cost, maybe you sold out of your long on Friday. Maybe you were out money in the long, but you sold it then because of the gap down from the earnings. Do you follow me? So it's another way to use the system too. But you've got to understand really where the money is flowing so you know what to do. And here again is the market. I just want to point this out about the good ones. This was a good gap to go along in the spy. So this is the one I already, I just blew it up here. You can see here it was right in here where we happened in the beginning of September. So right after Labor Day holiday, market gapped out and we've run ever since. So you know, I don't know how long this gap holds, it doesn't necessarily matter. But I'm telling you, this was a bullish gap that happened in the spy. Now this was a bearish gap that happened back here. See this one in here? Closed here gap down. Yes, if you look at it, it fell in the day. Yes, if you shorted it, you could have made money theoretically as a day trade. But was it a good gap to get an entry in with an exact target and stop and all of that, which we're going to talk about in the trades here from the last week. No. And did it fall through? No. So this isn't a good one. This is a good one. This didn't even last a week. Do you see? Okay. So what was I saying? Oh, here you can see also follow through higher, higher, higher, higher, higher. Okay. So all of this in here stemmed. This is going all the way back to November. It's almost a year now. It's hard to believe it's been almost a year since election, but it's about 11 months. 11 months almost to the day actually. Here's where the spiders gapped up in the election and took off like crazy. So this is almost a year. This is where the market's done. Look at that. It's a beautiful, beautiful move. So you can see who's in control there of the spy, the bulls. Okay. So how do I figure all this out? And what would you learn from me if you came and you wanted to do my class and you wanted to learn from me? You would learn a checklist. It is a 26-point checklist which tells you and predicts in the morning before 9.30 with a high probability of 80% ratio, win ratio, what's direction the gap will move in the day? Will the gap move up? Will the gap move down? So that's what you would learn from me. I look at 26 points in the morning for each stock symbol that I look at like AIG or any of the others. Cost the same thing. I rate it. If it rates 20 points or more, do it in the direction of the gap. If it doesn't, then it's off. Low odds. Like I said earlier, in trading there's not 100% in anything. You're looking at high odds. High odds for doing something. You're never going to make a dime in the market if you're not willing to take risk. So you have to go with what's called calculated risk. What are you going to do that has a high odds of working? So I developed a system over three years. It's called the Golden Gap 26-point reading system and it pinpoints the direction of power money by reading the price in the daily chart of a stock. You prep in the morning before 9.30 and have your picks ready before 9.30. And if there isn't anything by then, then there's nothing good to do that day. And then the rule is you don't trade. Someone's asking here, what's the average dollar value of individual stock positions? As far as average stock price, the range could be anywhere from $5 up to 160 or something like the cost. I don't typically do things that are crazy, crazy expensive and it's rare to do something over 100 bucks but cost is not that hard to trade as far as day trading. It's not that wild or wippy or spreading. But obviously the price point was 150 something. So to give you a range, I'd say typically most of the stocks are between 25 and maybe 55, 60 bucks on average, but they could be from $5 up to the cost. And where you go depends on the leverage you're going to get. I'm not a broker so you have to contact a broker and find out how much do you have to deposit? How much do you get on leverage? Do you need to be licensed? All these questions someone just asked me. It depends what broker that you go to. Some places you need to license, some places you don't. Some places you get four to one leverage, some places you get 20 to one leverage. That's something that you have to do your due diligence in to check out. And you also have to make sure that you can short at the broker and that you have a good short list. Because you need to be able to short because most of the trades are shorts. Anyways, going over here, this is a week of results. And so TTS, this was back last week, a week ago, hard to believe. Here you have the stock were closed up here around 13 something, boom, open in the morning here about eight something. So you see here, the stock gapped down. Okay. And it was a short. Also down in here you have the volume. This was October 3rd. So what happened in this one? This is a one minute chart. So you look to enter in the one minute chart. Remember, you're not entering before the market opens. Boom, you could have shorted it. Went to the first target and you're out. So if you had done this, $9 short price exited at $850, you would have made $1500 with 3000 shares. Someone's asking, what's the total cost of the position? This is how you'd figure out anything, 3000 times $9. But again, the stock price varies. So the cost of the position will vary depending on the number of share quantity and the cost of the stock. But your average risk, now just listen to me, your average risk dollar and cents should be similar. So for example, if your average risk, if you're trying to make a thousand, you want your average risk to be about a thousand. Do you understand that? Did everybody hear me? I just heard a little noisy there. Did everybody just hear what I said? So this has to do with the buying power. So for this, you would just take $9 times 3000 shares. You're going to need $27,000 in BP. So the total position cast cost of the stock depends on what broker you trade at. So this wouldn't have been a costly position no matter where you would have traded for that, because it was on the cheaper end. But your risk would have to be the difference between the entry and the stock, whether it's 500, a thousand, 200 bucks, that has to be similar for each trade. And that's how you set your goals. Okay? Does that make sense? Anyways, quickly here, I know we're running out a little bit of a time. Tiva, Tiva was a nice one here. And actually you guys can watch this, you guys and girls, sorry ladies. You can watch this in here, Tiva close to your gap down. This is hanging on by a thread. It's hanging on by a thread here. Tiva has more room to go. This is more leg in it. So you can watch this. Had a nice move here last week on Wednesday, open rally, boom. Could have shorted it, got the drop. If you hold a little bit longer, this came on down too. Tiva was a good one as well. Again, how would you figure out the cost of it? Boom. Have a calculator next year. I usually figure it out in my head. And you're really going to know the maximum buying power you have in the day. And usually I filled it out in the sheet, especially if it's an expensive stock. Not necessarily for the cheapies. 6,000 shares, price of the entry, 1660, boom. Again, 50 cents. This isn't a million miles. This isn't, I mean, look at the, look at the bar and you could have made three grand. Here, go back. That, the fact that you could have made $3,000 in that is astounding to me even to this day. You know, I mean, this is what makes trading very, very, very attractive as a career. But you've got to be accurate. You know, that's why I look at 26 points in the morning before I pick something. So gaps have to be qualified. You're going to use the checklist and you have to know what to look for in the price of the stock. And if you do, then it's easy to make money. It does not mean that every trade will work. But when something doesn't work, you're not bothered by it and it doesn't ruin your day or your week or your life or your account. You accept the fact that some trades won't work. That's the gray area of the market. You're looking for clues in the morning and you're looking for the clues to tell you that this is a good one. And then you wait for the confirmation, which happens into the open between 9.30 and 10. And that's why you don't get it until after it happens. But the confirmation is the commitment or lack thereof where you wouldn't do it, okay, of the institutional money. So that's how you're reading it. Now last Thursday, then there was nothing. Friday was the cost. Again, you see this one here. This one did fall through from the Monday. It's going to quickly go through here. Stock gap down. This is a one minute chart from Friday. Close your gap down. You can see here where some traders probably tried to buy this in here, but I called it as a short and it worked. So again, this is again, you know, such professional trading here to see the Costco was a short on Friday, especially right into the open because of the move that it made. And it's easy to see this now if you look at the daily. But in the live day, I'm watching this, you know, I mean, this is expert trading to know to short this right in here. So it was a really nice move. Anyways, it went farther than this though. Entry 15870 boom, do a dollar 50 cents out time of the day, going for the day. Again, share quantity here is very different. Why stop was bigger? Stop was bigger in the cost than in the TVA or the TTS. Anyways, profit 1100, go for the day out. This kept going though. All right, this did have a bigger move. Monday cost worked as well. Drop in here, boom, followed through. Today it's taking a rest, I think. Anyway, short in here for the cost on Monday, boom, boom. Again, time of the day, short it, get out. And that is again, these all in a one minute chart. Short entry Monday 15670. Here, you could have taken more on Monday. Why stop was smaller the second day around and a bigger move. It actually went to 154 something almost got to the whole number 154. I think the low yesterday was 154.10, but 155 was a real target in this. You could have made $3,400. Today's Dow, I'm going to quickly go over this here, was a long.  So Dow was a gap up, rallying Dow has earnings out tomorrow morning, gapped up on some information this morning, whatever it was, rated it, looked good. Here's the Dow. You could have aggressively done it right in here, close to your gapped up. You could have gone along right in here. I actually called it for some people, didn't do it till late. I didn't get this running here. But anyways, this worked if you did it here or if you did it up in here. So then ended up doing a quick scalp quick scalp in this because it was a late entry with the tighter stop, but it actually kept going, went to the target and we'll see what this ends up doing tomorrow morning. Anyways, a quick scalp and Dow did a long 5320 entry, boom, 25 cents, 625 bucks, but it was in less than five minutes. So again, chunk it out, chunk it out, chunk it out. You look for the quality, look for the entry, take it, put the stop, get the move out. Just take it, get the move out. Take it, get the move out, but you've got to get the direction right. And let me just look at some questions here. Got a list of gapping stocks. Do you recommend software? I don't recommend any software necessarily. You can get gaps at lots and lots of places. You can get them for free. You don't have to pay for software. You can get a list of earnings reports for free on y'all who finance as well. I know it's institutional money from rating the gap. So if the gap rates over 20 points per my 26 point system, that's how I know. Someone just asked me about that. But the point here is that you've got to be very specific with what you do. Part of it is having an edge and you can't go with what everyone's doing. I think a lot of people that were traders were trying to buy that cost on Friday and I could tell when we were in it. But every trader needs an edge. For me, it's focusing on one strategy and one time of the day. And that's how you maximize the profits and you're looking to get the move. If you want to trade for a living as a professional trader, the nice thing is you can also do it from home. So if you'd like to learn, I definitely can teach you. You can email me if you're want more information. My class teaches a 26 point rating system to find the best stock to trade each day. It teaches you how to enter and exit the trade and it teaches you technical analysis on a very advanced level and that's really one of the most important things that you would learn from me. And you really would learn how to make money in stocks and how they move. And that will help your attitude as far as trading. So if you're interested in more information, the classes this weekend October 14th and 15th, it's a full two-day course on how to strategically find pick-and-play stops at our professional bearish gaps. The class is online. You can be anywhere in the world and take it from 9 to 5. Cost of the class is $4,999. You can email me if you want to sign up. Here's a testimonial from Vishnu who's doing good smart trader in the room. And if you sign up for the class by today, I'm doing a webinar special. It's just good through today. You would get the option letter and the trading room free until the end of the year. So then you would get all my calls, you know, be able to be in the room money for Friday from now until December 31st, 2017. You would also get an option letter that I offer, which I give option calls. You can do gaps and options too. But the deadline for this is tonight. You'd have to email me for more information tonight. Really quickly, there was a Google trade I called. I just want to show you this had a gap up. This was last week on Thursday called an option in this. Boom. Exit was yesterday up through the number and through the strike, which was 980. So this is just another way to use the system where you don't have to worry about the leverage. If you bought, you know, one contract or 10 contracts, either way, cost was $4. You could have turned them around your money and made 100% return investment. And that's what you want to do in the market. That's why I said flip it around. Take 500, make 500, take 1000, make 1000. Okay. I mean, just see if I have all the questions here. Okay, someone's asking questions here. I don't think Howard understands leverage. If you have something with $156 to share times 2000, the leverage or buying power required to take it is 300 some 1000, you do not need that in cash in an account. Do you understand that Howard? So that's the kind of questions that concern me that people don't understand day trading that maybe I need to have to do some basic webinars or videos on every person that day trades actively trades with leverage, even big professional traders, even traders that have millions of dollars. Why would you not? Okay. So for example, I'm just going to use an example, a retail account.  You get four to one leverage for day trading. So you get 100,000 in BP or buying power in order to trade with 25,000 cash. Do you understand that Howard? So you don't need 300 some thousand dollars to take a position at cost. You would have needed the buying power, the BP. If you write a retail place, you divide forward by whatever the amount is. If you're at a plot place, it's anywhere between 10 and 20. So for example, if you had a proprietary day trading account with 10 to one margin and you wanted to take a position in costs, let's just easy math here, say the price of the stock at that point of cost would be 150. And you took 200,000, 2000 shares price of it, of the cost of the position would be what 300,000, you would need 30 grand cash and a 10 to one leverage prop account, not 300. Do you understand that Howard? Because you asked the question there. It wouldn't be nearly impossible for many active people to trade if there wasn't something as leverage a margin. And it is extremely important if anyone is trading that you understand that. And Howard, if you're actively trading right now, you should know that if you're not, I'll give you a pass. But anyone that's trained, you got to know what you're doing people. You got to understand this stuff. This is so basic. It's like the, it's like even figuring out the calculation of what the risk would be for something that costs nine bucks for 3000 shares. Or if I call an entry and I say 10 by 50, you're going to know that's 40 cents. You got to know how to size yourself 40 cents times 2000 shares, you'd be risking 800 bucks if you took 2000 shares. This is very basic information that is important that every person that takes a trade, I don't care what you do, you must understand how to do this. And if you don't, then learn it. Learn this stuff. This is basic stuff. Okay. You needed edge and quality criteria to judge a gap. Yes, that's what I teach in the class, Richard. It took me three years by trading actively with real money and making money and losing over a period of three years and creating my system. It just didn't happen in a day or a week. It was a three year period where I put all the points together and I figured out how to do it. I think I answered everybody's questions. Good questions here. Good questions. So if you're interested in more information, like I said, email me here. If you're branding a trade here, don't understand the basics of buying power, margin, or any of that stuff, please reach out to me, call me, email me. I mean, I can explain it to you in five, 10, 15 minutes conversation on the phone, but you do have to know how to do this stuff. You should know how to do that before you place any trade in the market. I don't care what you do. Okay. This is very basic information and I'm over my time. Thank you, everybody. Sorry, I went two minutes over. No problem. Thank you so much, Melissa, for your presentation. We appreciate your time.


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