Make sure you click the link to subscribe to my YouTube channel and also click the notifications button to be notified for when my next podcast goes live. You can also follow me on my social media platforms to find out who my latest guest is. I hope you enjoy this week's episode. Thank you. Boom! We're on! By day's guest we've got the scheme star Marvin. Heo arby brawdo! I'm good, it's nice to meet you. Hi it's nice to meet you, first of all mate just thanks for coming on the show. The headlines over the last 10 years mate, you were in a show called the scheme which one aba after was watched by millions over in the UK. They shot you into a bad stardom where everybody get to recognise you.   It made you look like Commander was riddled with junkies and it was badness, but... That's it. You're still here, mate.  You're clean. You're out of jail. That's it. How have you been? Lately things have been good. Things have started to look up for me. I've met a good lassie at my age, Sharon Coehr-Draen. She's been dating me. She's been feeling me, as we've still come along today. The stigma that's stuck with me for that is unbelievable. They approached me. O'r glasgabogau o'r llwyddiad. Yn ymgyrch yn ymgyrch, ond yn ymgyrch. Felly, mae'n rhaid i'r cyffredin. Felly, mae'n rhaid i'r ffordd yn ymgyrch. Felly, mae'n rhaid i'r ffordd, ond mae'n rhaid i'r ffordd. Mae'n rhaid i'r ffordd, ond mae'n rhaid i'r ffordd. Mae'n gyffredin, sy'n gyffredin a'n gyffredin. Felly, yda'r rhagl. Yn ymddech chi, mae'n dweud yma, mewn ddim yn gweithio. Felly, mae'n dweud i'r cyffredin. Felly, mae'n ddechreu, gw holdiau. Mae'n ymddechrau i'r ffordd yw ymddechrau. Endyn nhw er byw eich felly. Yna, ychydig. Ychydig ei ddweud i'r lefelau. Yn ymddech chi, mae'n rechidion i mi. Bydd hi'n gangbwys byddwn speall sydd gennym ar y bobl yn ddweud. Llasia was wearing the programme. The scheme, aye. She, the scheme had a rang to say that Marvin is reuniting with a girlfriend. They had never met Llasia before in my life. So Llasia was just, I can say her name can't I, I'd Dana. So the scheme will touch on that. So in 2010 what was your life like before, how bad were you on the drugs then? I was not bad on the drugs then. I actually had a good lifestyle. I had that good lifestyle. My mum had entrust it. See my mum's youngest brother. She can have raised his youngest son. See that was like, he's my wee cousin but he's been raised as my wee brother. So I actually entrusted him to come and stay with me if he was 13. So in May I couldn't have been that bad. I wasn't taking heroin that's for sure. I was taking methadone. Sometimes I was taking a wee bit extra methadone. But my house was spotless. My house, my life was stable. I was kind of my ballsing time. I was buying shopping. I was buying many wee man. Every month we would go shopping. I would get him a tracksuit, get myself a tracksuit. And in between that we would get t-shirts and stuff. My man was dressed and pressed. I made sure he was looking well. So when you got the, how did the scheme come about then? How did you end up on that? Because you were the star of that show. Obviously it didn't share using a good light. It didn't.   It made anybody if you come on look daft. It made the place look like a shite hole. So how did that come about for you? How did that, how do you say that? They were making another programme, this production team. A female friend of mine had phoned me and asked me if I'd go down and keep her company while the videos, the commuting video da. So I just quickly put on a tracksuit at that.  Billet, household name, that became. Everybody knew that dog. Dogs are your best friend man. I trust dogs all humans any day of the week. I've got a picture of me saying my best dog, so I'm messing with all my heart. With your heart? Aye, aye. But I'm medding with an Erwin, an Erwin dog so much. So hopefully we get one, we get one. It's good that you're tiffing all that fix now on all man. You're clean which is the main thing. So when you went out to that lassie's house for this documentary, what made the mask you to go on it? The commer start is speaking to me. I don't know if it was a fact that I realised that I've got one of the biggest families in the area I stay in. Her words were she found me interesting. Do you think she'd cause you were dabbling at that time? I don't know if it was that, because I engaged in conversation with her and I was banning with her. She might have thought that somebody here that will play the game she might have thought she had a mug here that she would be able to pull her strings. Macgillor bought you that and fell for a shite. The guy that was our partner, this guy could talk the wallpaper off your wallet honestly. I kid you not man, honestly. He just buttered you up when you fell for it. I fell for it. I fell for it. He didn't even need a cast. Honestly. The time came when she explained what the programme was supposedly to be about. They told me it was to be about the term young teenagers for making the same mistakes I had made.  He always would come in and I'd say I've got to stay up like straight off when I need to go and let them go. I felt it was a safer environment for them to be sitting in my back than to be sitting in a park. I just totally manipulated the situation so they told us it was totally different. It was the favourite it was going to be. So on the scheme it was six families followed everybody about. There was a boys on that documentary they were injecting heroin on camera. I couldn't believe that. I could not believe it. Did you know how big it was going to be? I didn't have an idea. I didn't even know it was going to be more than one part. One half programme on my baby C2 late at night or something. I didn't think it was going to take care of me. I was like, man, I was putting my reviews on these things.  People need to understand that.  But you've still got to take into consideration that somebody's son or daughter, or friend that are going through hard times and there's something that triggers that after getting into these addiction issues.  Do you think in your life did you get own drugs more after the show? I barred. I barred after that. I'd been attacked three times after it. And now three times as you can see if it scars on my face due to the attacks. I was certain before he did some metal object that cracked a cyanobone in my head. Luckily when I got to the hospital there was a surgeon for Glasgow and they were able to do keel surgery or else it could have went a different way. And I was also attacked in the middle of a shopping centre at one in the morning and I mean five guys luckily my pal turned back. I'd walked him to the taxi rank and he turned back and it was all because three laches had asked for a picture when I'm getting my picture with him. There's two at this side, one at that side. The one at the inside here was carrying on.  My pal had a feeling something was going to happen so he's come back and I didn't realise how badly he'd been caved in. So I've got up where they're attacking him now and out of that I went to help families that nod you should write yourself home and get an ambulance phone. I went home and I went to get my sponge. I started the sponge and started to sleep at six o'clock in the morning and the police had to put the door in to the ambulance service because they'd followed me on CCTV or the way you run. But it makes it worry why they took the phone to six o'clock if they followed me and seen me with a heat injury if they took five hours from me to bring an ambulance service. If that would be mean didn't happen at all. At that time there was no line and it was probably still in the centre. On your first episode as well did you get the jail or did you have warrants? See that was the thing they said that I was out running chasing the dung that was lies that was made up. See the one where there was a bit of a day where they had an altercation in the town and I was striking my money after and I had the azipam on me and somebody phoned the police because I was having a wee bit of an argument and the police came and searched me and got me the azipam and I got I got bailed at first because it was my first drugs charge and when I'm back up for it I end up getting nine months and then then it's just been drug dealing after drug dealing and sentence after sentence. How did you get treated in the jail after the scheme? Oh it was an email at first. Was it? It was just the boys didn't mean any harm I was just answering the same questions air and air and air and air again what did you make after that? I bit you there a bit but how did you get on it? Still with Dana where's bullet? What's the jicket pay for doing that documentary? I didn't get paid one penny So you didn't get a penny for doing that? I'm about to pay for this and for the reason the show was getting done I was quite happy to date for nothing so I was but if I'd known that showing in that light then I'd have been looking for a right shoe on a grand Oh easy easy man So the people who made that documentary the day contacts after it did they show you footage before they went out or did you just get total through right under the fucking right under the grenade man? Spoke to me on my phone once and then I heard that one a Scottish BAFTA Were you at the BAFTAs now? I happened to be in prison in prison at the time and they said if I had been there I would have been the man I would have been the man obviously I'm the jail so I'm the man I've been baited One of the other stars of the show was the Doug Bullitt clearly that was a big part of yourself How did that come about with the relationship with the Doug? Man he bought them for one of my young twin cousins there was a she bought them each and the one that Bullitt was bought for he wasn't a walkman as much because he was a wee bit taller he wanted to be perfect still kept it high and then he didn't get the looking he was a wee bit taller so he was but man he offered me a man to come and he never looked back he had them for seven years I had them for and then by what happened then I was looking after our man's wee dog at the time and stopped looking after Bullitt and let him run out the house and he just no faffy where we lived there was a main road and he got hit by a car and he took it a prosthetic leg and because he stressed it with a cause though on his leg and the injuries and the amount of people that were stopping because when I was walking I mean I couldn't walk here to how many years we had maybe four or five cars stopping my way and as I got out and some grown, sometimes adults didn't get a photo of the dog but it's none of the even me I was to step back and they wanted to pet the dog because they could see he was friendly and I it was my pride and joy, it was a big loss to me that break your heart it didn't and I was getting all that crap through the side of my door in a jail and I wheeled Bullitt and now the dog was away I wasn't going to see him again but I was the first time I went in after the programme they weren't a fan mail I was last he was asking me I was just inherited a a big house out in the middle of the country in Muir End, I had my house in Muir End and I went out in the country to come and stay with me so then I'm due the tag and there's a picture of Dana in the paper making bagging up heroin so my tag's out of the window so I phoned this last of the glass because I've been keeping in contact with she's like why don't you get a tag to Marvin I was like this is your kid knowing she's like no, so she's got it up in for a tag to Mount Vernon and right up there How'd you do? I just went out in the jail so your life after it Marvin because you were in a few hundred grand how was your life once it all finished did you make a crust after it? I made money after what kind of stuff were you doing? appearances at birthday parties stag those much were you getting? 500 at a birthday party 10 years ago 10 years ago I got £1,500 for the stag to that was got a teeny part to enjoy myself and I had a steward walking in front of me keeping it away from me so I felt quite celebrity but you were a household name everybody out there there was banners everywhere island but I was touched by the fact that there was banners saying I love billy I've had some high profile guests on there I've just confirmed that well we were just coming on and then we put you on that you were coming on last night you've had more comments and more likes you've had thousands of likes and thousands of comments for you every guest I've had you've had the most attention so you have, it's mad? well the paper has contacted me as well they said that they've had thousands and thousands of letters wanting to know how I end up taking drugs and also wanting to know if there's going to be a happy ending with me and Dana I definitely know to that but how I end up in drugs was my own curiosity and then addiction doesn't discriminate doesn't if you bear it's no racist it's no sexist and it can grab anybody it's a disease and that's what people need to understand it is, it's an illness and I started to have 10 exalata but then I went to a stage where I absolutely despised it but to feel normal I had to take it because you were so used to it and that's why you're on the show today because we've been speaking for the last few weeks you speak very well it doesn't matter what you've done in your past you're trying to change your life now we've spoke about the the drug related deaths in Scotland have risen 30% you know about drugs yourself you fucking took them for long enough but you're back to your meetings you're trying to get a book wrote as well you even want another documentary made to kind of put the facts straight and also talk about your life now which is again as long as you can keep on a straight and narrow opportunities will they will come I would elite them to have touched on my childhood I would elite them to have touched on me growing up, she going through school now because I was a good footballer now as well service so how was it at school for you then? I was clever I had up there that so frustrating my parents my sister she done great for herself right she has done really well I don't want to say too much about her because she's got a good career but she worked hard for it she had to study hard it just came to me answered at school and then I would finish my work and then I'd sit and ping the person in front of me with a ruler throw a chewing gum at the folks and I just for a laugh but I didn't realise at the time that I was holding football just because I had finished my work didn't mean that they didn't need a bit more time now that I'm holding I realise that so how was it that you stepped down your ma when you went after heels when you started getting right on the drugs you never had broke both her hearts they're still heart broken to this day a lot of my mom's eyes it was my stepdad 60 a couple of weeks ago and the fact that I was there clean they were they were just my sister phoned me after and my sister she acts quite hard to her she says she's seen my big brother back she's seen my big brother back and I immediately started crying I'm sad for her my sister she started crying she's like I need to come off the phone now she was actually breaking her heart to her side and then it was comments coming for the tech season we were so proud of you just keep going the way you're going you know it's it's no perfection it's progress it's one day at a time that was my problem before I used to be looking ahead and want everyone the more I yesterday I know I just need to take it one day at a time because if I look too far ahead then my head could get the anxiety kicks in and then the pressure goes shit I've fucked up with my life but it doesn't matter who you're having today nearly every podcast anybody can change mate we've all get passed we've all get passed and you're a soft soul man I say a lot of sensitivity I say a lot of vulnerability with yourself you're a good guy we spoke for the last few weeks and I know you've made hundreds of mistakes mate same as myself you'll continue to make mistakes but you must learn from this time and how many times have you said to your mom that this is the last time and this is the last time I'm put to jail and bang so it's not the day that your sister's the day with you only person it's sad but fuck everybody else you need to concentrate on you and keep yourself right because actions speak louder than words we can talk a lot of shit we can butter people up I've done it for years through the gambling I fanied everybody up in my chat made everybody laugh and feel good but I always had an angle because I wanted money I've always wanted something I had a mind agenda just that I'm like to get engaged to Sharon before Christmas and hoping to get married next year there you go, Sharon is putting it right on you mate I mean I love the last few bits I love all my hair so what's the plans for you then so going forward for this day now if we're going forward what do you want to achieve it's easy to get a job it's not easy for me at all because of who you are that programme portrayed me my dad's self-employed and he's got a business he could quite easily have me out a bit of a canny because he's in a trusted way who she's worth about a quarter of a million sometimes and it actually hurts him that he canny take me out it seems he's got a wee pine in him he says I should be sitting back now and you should be running a business for me because he's been self-employed all my life he's never ever in fact one second I've never worked for a double glazing company but that was that apart from that he's always been self-employed never ever sat back and it's as I say he's 60 there so it's time to give him a rest I've had enough here I've had 20 a unit constant and it's how long you've been up? I've had it myself, I've had it for them but that's a start to seeing showing the name that you've got a twink on your eye that you're one to change but again you've got to show it you know what I mean? to speak louder than words and you will have opportunities arise for yourself do you know what I mean? even though I that fucking document that doesn't do any favours but it still gave you a platform you can utilise that to your advantage I gave my platform that time to talk every weekend for 18 months how was it though getting money, did you think because you were getting so much money and attention did you dabble meron to drugs? no it didn't it took me away for drugs because I was enjoying the life going out to socialise the mere sociable dudes dancing clubs and that I loved it I'll be honest that time I loved that I just lived a life a misery a misery and to that I keep an eye on my younger because to make sure he didn't do that and then have you ever rode eid marf? how many times? I was in a coma for five days so I was God knows my mum said I had a pocket for him four days before and I just kept swalling him and I grabbed my stepdad and fell put the radiator off the wall the hyv is a block way honestly I had the diamonds for what the block way are for me so I just wanted to give him a bit of black no I don't mean materially I just wanted to give him a bit of peace I might what about he says you were only mef for the last 17 years do you think you ever came af that? I'm no going to be an old man it's no danger but it's no going to happen in the right away future I want to get myself proper stable then I'll reduce it slowly because I've seen pals dating too quick then I follow them back on the gear again chasing the prescription I don't like that but I do want to be complete abstinence so I can get through the steps because you've got your meetings now which is a good thing it's good to see you then I'm genuinely rooting for you as much as people can look for the outside and think it judge you for that show you're a good guy man I'm not the worst people need to understand me you've got addiction problems you day steal, you day lie, you day cheat I just done it in a more glorified way because I always kind of looked at part I was never so deep with the brown but just because I wasn't it doesn't justify it I've had many addictions with the gambling I did was lying cheat for fucking years mate I told that many lies you believe you're in shit I became so fucking good at it because I always kept myself semi normal looking always kept myself decent I filled everybody I pulled the wheel of the rides but we all make mistakes and for anybody trying to judge or that I've always had a bit of a problem my weight so meeting drugs is it what's the skinnest you've ever been I'm six feet five and I've been ten stone so you're about fucking three stone all under but I came out to jail there I was fourteen and a half and just a wee bit I was a wee bit of a bender when I first came out so where did you get to jail for what was your last sentence there drug dealing the last ten years three sentences four sentences for one for possession and two one for possession one for Diageblam and 10 supply and two for classes and it's a high jump so there's name here there's name here drug dealing I'm looking at a bigger in the next thing see when you get put inside Mav do you dabble because you can't handle the fact that you're fucking up when you fact that you're putting in more instead of through that worry when I'm in there it's obviously I don't know he takes a much in the jail I usually like a job on the ring because I like cleaning when I'm always cleaning you got OCD to the max that's just through it's funny mate because people look at junkies or ex junkies or addicts and they think dirty bastards it's funny the majority of the hooses are fucking spotless they're really flat spotless listen I've had piles of addicts and family members and you still make sure their hoose was spotless everyone in my flat is fucking in the middle of that no expecting that it's better to walk into a den they canvases up and we scatter and we runners across the boat in the bed I was talking to Yeller and I was saying that Scott Brown in Kearn Tairnay Scott Brown had a trachio and somebody cut a photo up and put your photo and started to say don't wear a trachio Scott Brown put it on his Instagram that's class man you done that? that's class because it's early man but even you're still getting spoke about to this day do you know what I mean it's good mate I'm glad you're telling your story so for the other people who were in the documentary who's alive and who's dead do you know that's one of the one of the the young boys Steven he was all it wasn't through drugs or anything like that it wasn't drugs I I don't know this I think they knew there was a chance that he would die at a young age but he was 23 years old it was a sad time to see how he died at that age anybody at that age to go sad do you look back at that and do you have regret or do you think do you know what I did it and it's well I did regret it for a couple of years but it's done now so if I don't regret I'm just going to keep going back anyway so I was acting days I moved forward and trying to make positives instead of taking all the negatives because then they say it was to help the younger ones but clearly it never it glorified it so now you're only straight and narrow I want something to put it out there that's opposite where you should go what's the longest you've been clean since you were 19 8 months and I came out to turn around and that was just meth I paid for him in the jail so you tried to get into Phoenix House I tried to get in unfortunately Ayrshire for some reason don't pay the funding everywhere else was getting offered it me and another boy got to showering about they told me that my enthusiasm was they could see that I was more than willing that they could tell I wanted to have it I fitted the criteria and there was a bendy of me I got a three week extension in the detox place and then the coordination man I came and put him at the side and I could tell he had a sad look in his face and he'd put the other boy before it and he was kind of chirpy with him and I see what they were not me bad or something but it wasn't it it was just doing this with you Phoenix House is to get you after meth as well they'll take you they'll take you on a certain amount and then the detox you and for there you moved to I think it's six weeks in the detox book and then they moved you on to a bit where it's we are just trying to get used to life with it any and at all I mean a life with abstinence and then after and all and all you're in the complex for six months but then there's resettlement flats next day as well if you want a change you want to move because you've been in commandment majority of your life it's hard being in a place where you're so used to it and always bad habits can slip up would you ever move from here I mean I've spoken about it really seriously spoke about it and they're actually a bit having a look for somewhere up in Glasgow just a clean slate man I mean that's what they both need and how do people treat you in commandment do you still get that attention there's no day passes I don't get a couple of calls stop and it's usually it's usually guys stop a photo and you've got folks going by sharing obscenities do you get abuse now okay this well thanks how does that make you feel? low because they don't even know me take five minutes to get to know me when I first started going with Sharon we were walking into a certain street anyway and somebody in New York said really Sharon Marvin Baird and I they all made a kick time but I didn't I just said I waited till I was right below and I said you don't know me I said take half an hour to sit with me because everybody that does says oh you're totally different from what I expected you to be you're not in light with it it's just better to sit down with and they're heath bit popular it's mad it's because you've got that label it's gone a bunch of sticks as well it's hard to get a folk to believe it when you tell a folk you're that's me I'm trying it's as if there's no way to give you encouragement because a year later it's just what a jail this is bro what a jail this is maybe if you're cleaning it I actually did something in my life see what happens as Marvin see when you want to change people root for you because what happens is you're not above them yet so when you want to change people root for you and you want to start taking over them then that's when the bitterness and anger starts because what you start doing is shining a light in their life that they're no they're no fucking jitter like that I was to start I was to grow in every sector in Scotland right where I sat on the MP who had no mention because because I'd elapsed I'd been half everything here for a while I'd put a good bit of weight and I'd been asked if I would go round and speak to 3rd and 4th years and I was brilliant I was ace, ran my pals came in one that you haunt me a bit so he gave it to me as a wee child and then banged it to a fly photo and I fell out like a sinker for it and I'd been half it for five or six months no even born last but I thought photo for me and got no interest in it at all and then that but you've got to ask yourself is that really pals is that really pals because a couple of months later he came and tried it on me than that there's a guy who's on the podcast called Dan Penn and he says show me your friends and I'll show you your future so it's changed your life it's a fucking lonely journey well I've got my cousin because when you start saying I'm going to do this or even coming on here the day or you're going to go down to schools people don't want to see you telling your story or doing well we don't want to see in your feet because your success will start shedding a light on theirs and it will start getting them better and getting jealous this is a society we're in but you still need to stay through it yourself we're going to let it set me back because you have got massive opportunities out there in the next 6 months, next year if you stay clean because let's face it mate I'm going to bonus and they can't want to nobody believes that you're going to get yourself to drop me because I've been saying it for long enough but that should give you the fucking determination that's just going to make me that and really I really want to give my mum and dad a break so I do I want to give myself a break and then more than a couple of years ago and see this year I've had 4 chest infections this year already 4 chest infections this year already so it's my health it's my health any holes in your liver your kidneys are nothing like that what was your go-to drug at your worst the smac, phallium what was the message you took in a day 80 to 100 didn't know what plan that was on didn't know what plan that was on it's a central nervous system that has as well it slows the breathing down and I'm already doing meth though and it's slowing the breathing down and after the pneumonia I could have I think that's how that last sentence I spent most of my heat because I know that it was my health it wasn't just like losing family keeping me away and knowing a girlfriend and things like that it was my actual when I had pneumonia pneumonia set me to shock in multiple organ failure my heart stopped I had to get the defibrillators at the 13 years of working on my research to keep me alive so it touched home then that was September 2017 I got to jail 8 weeks later so you're in the jail thinking man I could die in here as well because at first I was in the two kids when I first went in and then I just started eating well when I came out the heaviest I've ever been I was wearing fitted tapps I was following them Do you look back and think you're lucky you're still here?  I've got December December that's me clear everything then hopefully get after meth if anybody's watching if you get an email address to anyone anybody can contact me or social media facebook marmabere79atgmail.com for anybody interested in making a documentary or marvins want to write a book it's an interesting story to contact so for now and then you try to get out of command you want to get engaged I've been looking on a lot of that today so this will keep me busy through this a time where I need to get busy a time where I need to get busiest what do you look back now if your life is new at age 39? 49 fall bastard you fucking 40 at age you used to 60 so looking back on your life marvins what do you think about it? eh I had a great life as a youngster great life holiday every year great christmas always dressed in the best always dressed in the best then then I had a rough time and I've had a good fortune after I got picked up by a couple of ages and then I came down here for an outstanding child I was booted up for two years every weekend I came down here for an outstanding no being a community service I had sick lines for every individual day that I had been there the lawyer threw them to the side the lawyer went to I was moving on the lawyer up in Glasgow so he threw the sick lines to the side because he didn't know he was there he got me in jail I don't care what he says he got me in jail deliberately that day because he didn't know what he was doing as a client did you have a lot of people use you after the scheme a lot of people tried a lot of people tried but fortunately I had people there in front of me to stop that if it was happening because there was an air production the team tried to approach me while I was stying in Clyland and they were asking me I stole that idea from me so I was right how would you feel if you thought I was like that because there were a few a lot of heavies and I found my agent and he sent a couple of bodies through and it was about it good and for coming on today mate and telling your story is there anything you'd like to finish up on just that the same dude there that is interested in letting me my story in paper for people to pick up and read then contact me because we've only touched on Facebook because we've only touched on a very small percentage of stuff I just wanted to show people that you're in a good place you're getting your head straight you're out of jail you've got your teeth fixed you know it's fucking bad you know it's fucking bad as people make it but mud sticks and it's going to take you don't need to prove everybody wrong you only need to prove yourself wrong and clearly that you've got a soft spot for your family that's what my mum says she's doing this for real reasons she's sending attention I want people to know that it was not a day of childhood that's the addiction that doesn't discriminate she's like but at the end it matters to you at the end it matters to you knows that you'll know a hoe or a bam they know you can hold a conversation they know you love your family at the end it matters to you knows you it matters to you to be honest I didn't know your background stories for me looting in and judging it would probably be that you're my endeavours had addiction problems addiction problems in my family I know that anyway it doesn't matter you're upbringing but that's me judging and that's me probably thinking he's probably came for a broken home it's crazy in it with a beautiful house there's 13 years between me and my sister see before my sister was born I'd have a game dream in my house a spare room was a game dream I had a pill table a computer, a dart ball I was quite rotten to be honest that was maybe the wrong but do you know what everything you've been through and I believe opportunities will arise I'm all rooting for you mate I genuinely believe that you can sign the path whatever I can do to help me you know you've got my back in for you and shallow for the future brother of day I genuinely wish you the best why not a problem mate? cheers


I look forward to it every year. I love the float conference. I present all over the world. This is literally the most professionally run conference of them all. If you're looking to get into the floating industry or if you're already in it, and you just want to kind of get to know what's around you, this is it. This is the float conference. It's an opportunity for all of us to get together, to put names with faces, and to kind of renew our commitment to working together and continuing that cooperative spirit. Everyone's very like-minded, not competitive. Everyone just kind of bounces ideas off each other, just enjoys the positive energy. The process of greeting and how's it going, and you know, it's like spark, spark, spark, spark. Just coming here just woke me up, and it made me realize I need to move forward with my dream to open up a float center. It's always been just a joy. It's always been essentially a part. I've been trying to keep up with all the different things going on from the receptions to balloons, bopping. Oh my gosh, loving air. This is a very future-oriented conference, and kind of trying to keep our eyes on that horizon and figure out how we could take floating to the next level. Definitely go. A must. You have to go. You have to go. If you're interested at all. Yeah. Number one on your list. Peace.


Can everyone see the slide? Excuse me. Welcome, everyone. See some familiar faces. Welcome. We're going to talk tonight about how you can earn money trading, specifically day trading, specifically shorting, and specifically doing gaps. I see a lot of familiar faces here tonight. So I think, in fact, I don't see any non-familiar faces. If you are new and don't know what I do, I do gaps. And I've been doing gaps now for, gosh, since 2008. So quite a long time. Thank you, Kathy. And what I love about gaps is that they have big moves. And the reason I prefer to short is because shorting happens quickly. Moves to the downside happen fast. We shorted Apple today. It fell and fell all day, actually. So it was a nice trade. Apple's been falling, quite frankly. And this whole idea of earning $20,000 a month or $1,000 a trade, or whatever it is that your goal is for trading, whatever your monetary goal, you can earn it in the market because there's billions and billions of billions of dollars that is running to the market in any given day.  So you only need a couple thousand shares, or a couple hundred shares even, will make it for you.  But I say, look at it like you're going up the ladder. And you're getting on the ladder, and you're taking it up to get to the top. All right? You might take ten steps forward and two steps back. Three steps forward and one step back. As long as you're continuing up the ladder, you're going to get there. You're going to get where you want to be. So think about this. Have you ever thought about trading seriously? Not just like on a whim, on the side, going to free webinars like tonight, or going in the chat rooms like Reddit, and trading stuff on the fly. I mean really, really, really, really, really taking it seriously. Which is pretty much what I did from the beginning and I do credit myself for that and for part of the reason for my own success. I took it seriously from day one. It's just my personality. I'm either all into something that I want to do if I have a goal, or I can't be bothered with it. I never half-ass anything. That's just my personality. I'm like a type A personality type of person. But I think with markets, with trading you have to be that way. Thank you, Kathy. I see you typing, or people need help getting in the room. Should we wait or what's going on? Can everybody see the slide? If anybody has any questions, you can write it in the chat and I'll see it and say it out loud. Anyways, if you're someone that wants to make money in the market, then the only way to do it is really to be consistent because you can make money some days and lose money other days. And overall, if you don't have a consistent strategy to trade, you'll lose. Even people that don't know what they're doing make money some days. That's not the point. The point is to make money more than you lose, okay? And that means more wins. And the wins have to be bigger wins than the losers. So a lot of times I talk to people and sometimes I talk to them and then they come back into my life a couple years later. I find that people when they have the market bug, they just never give up. They never go away. But they're back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. If you know you're one of these people, if you know you have the market bug, if this is you, then just jump into it. Go for it. Give it your all. Like I was saying, I was explaining how my personality is, where I'm all in is something if I want to do it. But a lot of people are not. They put one toe in and then one foot out. And you really have to be 100% committed. This doesn't have to be 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. It doesn't have to be like that. But it has to be 100% committed in the moment that you're trading, in the moment that you want to do it. And specifically what I do, and we're going to talk about the strategy I do here in a little bit, but specifically the strategy that I trained is set up in the morning.  Now, we were in Apple all day to get it down, which was fine, but you could have gotten out of Apple earlier with profit. Again, Apple was short today. But you have to be committed within the time period that you are trading. If it's 30 minutes a day, if it's one hour a day, if you want to train all day for six and a half hours, whatever, you have to be committed. And I'm so committed that I get up early in the morning. The first thing I do is look at the market. And I make my market pecs in the pre-market. I spend the time early before 9.30 to get organized. I feel like the longer time that I spend preparing to trade each day in the pre-market in the morning, the higher chance of success I'm going to have on the day, the bigger the win, and the faster really I can be in and out of the trade if I want to be. Again, Apple was good to hold today, but that was a once-off. We usually are out of stuff pretty quick. Okay? So ask yourself, do you want to trade the market but don't have a lot of time to devote each day to trading? If you do, if you want to trade, but you don't have a lot of time, gaps may be our shorting specifically. Okay, and we're going to talk about gaps and shorts. Maybe the strategy for you. And this is also a nice way to have extra money per month. No one said you have to quit your job. No one said you have to do this for a living. No one said that at all. I have a bunch of people with me. They're in and out of the room in any given day of the week because they have businesses and they're busy doing stuff and when they have time they come in the room and trade. When they don't, they don't. Okay? They like the extra money from trading, but it's not their full-time thing because they like what they're doing for a living. Some people do. Some people don't. I didn't like my mortgage job anymore. It was changing. I wanted a new career. So you don't have to do this as your full-time career. You could do something else on the side, okay? But for me, it's about looking for the best pick with the biggest move that has the most momentum. And again, I'm going to explain a little bit here why I like to short. I see some people coming in late. If you have questions, you can plop it in the room. I'm the only person that can see everyone's questions and everyone's here, okay? But if you've been thinking about trading the market or you've been trading the market but you're not doing well or you're not making money and you need to know where to start, then this may be the place, okay? So how do you become successful? You need a strategy. You need a focus. You need a system. For me, it's gaps. And for me, it's a system I created called the Golden Gap. And for me, it's a focus which means one pick a day or maybe two. One or two. I try to be focused and I try to have, I try to have two picks because if I have one pick and the one pick doesn't set up and though I have a top pick, I have a second pick lined up ready to go in case the first pick fails or doesn't set up at all, okay? So that's where I am strategically focused. And I also go to the short side first before I go to the longs. So for me, it was a back gaps. This one strategy that I developed and designed which is professional gaps, which we're going to explain in a minute, meets my own criteria. They set up fast. They go quick. They set up early in the morning. I live in New York. I live in Eastern Time Zone. So the market opens at 9.30. Sometimes right of trades by 10 a.m., 10.15. Sometimes right of trades by 9.45, okay? And I'm talking about day trades here, equity trades, all right? I do do options too, but I'll talk about that more later. So what is a gap? This is a chart from last week in the market. Market's been all over the place. That I didn't look at how to spy clothes, but it is pretty much irrelevant because we'll look different tomorrow morning than we do even now. The market's been volatile. The market's been choppy. If you don't know what you're doing right now, you're getting chopped to bits and pieces. So let's take a look at this. What is a gap? A gap is a difference to the close and the open. Simple. Market closes every day at 4 o'clock. I know it's 9.30. And you have trade action that goes off in the post market after four in the free market before 9.30 a.m. Trades go off. I don't trade that time period, but people do. All right? Institutional money does. And regular retail traders do too. I just don't. Now, here's a gap down. This is the spy. This is a daily. Back here, this was January. So the market closed here roughly. Snuggles a bug around 385-ish. Boom. Gapped down in the morning here, around 382. Fell. You could have shorted this. And it was a big move. Okay? This was basically like a $10 move for the market. That's big. Now, I get up in the morning and I'm looking for to see what's going on here. And if I see a gap like this, I will rate it. And I will say, wait a minute. Is this going to continue to move further down, sell off, or is it going to rally? Anyways, this fell. Now, again, the reason I like to short is because moves to the downside happen faster than moves to the upside. That does not mean that I don't go long. I do go long. We went long Twitter in the last month. That was a beautiful long. We played it, played it, played it until it stopped working. But the reality is that short moves tend to much, much more often happen faster. So I prefer to be on a trade fast because many, many times you'll have wiggles and jiggles with the market or Fed announcements. And in the past, we had Trump tweets that would affect the market. Now, Trump isn't tweeting. He was banned from Twitter. He could be back. We don't know. For now, though, that one aspect of the market that affected the market is disappeared. It's like you can take it off the radar. Sometimes Trump tweets helped our trades. Sometimes they hurt our trades. But that one aspect of market volatility is disappeared, which is surprising considering the volatility we've seen in the last week when you think about it, when you think about it, and what some of the data, some of the data we got last week, which was good data, but the market fell. So why don't use fundamentals to make my trading decisions? I use technical analysis and specifically technical analysis and gaps. Now, let's look at another one here. This was a gap down two. Market closed here, gap down, fell. Boom. Again, you could have shorted the market here and made money. You could have shorted it as a day trade or you could have bought a put. Now, I do options too. I buy puts, I buy calls. That's it. I just do straight puts or calls based on momentum trading. And then I do the equity trades, but this was a short and this was a short. Now, after that, this was, actually this was the end of February, we closed, then we gapped up. So this is a gap up. So this is a bullish gap. So the market closed up for here and opened higher, higher the next day and got bought and then gapped up again and then got bought again. So this was the beginning of February. It feels like a long time ago but it was really only a month ago or so. And then we rallied. So you could have gone long the market here in this bullish gap and this bullish gap could have gone long too. Now, do I go long every bullish gap? No. Do I short every bearish gap? No. I determine a method and system to qualify which ones are the good ones to short and which ones are the ones I don't want to do. So you can't go long every bullish gap and you can't short every bearish gap. What about this guy over here? Look at this. This was a gap up. This failed. What happened? Market closed here, gapped up. Fail. Dropped. Okay. So you could not have gone long this and made money and I wouldn't have shorted this but it was a gap up. Here again. This closed here, gapped down. Rallied. Can't short every gap down. This was a gap down. It rallied. Okay. Actually this was a gap down here to the next day in a rally. So you have to look for the good ones. All right. This was a good one. Walmart we did. This was a short. What did it do? This was earnings here. Again, this was a couple of weeks ago now. Stock closed here, gapped down. Rally. Boom. We did puts in this. We shorted this as an equity train. In fact, I got out of the puts a little bit too early here with this. This went to the dream target, sold off like hotcakes. Market did help this but this was a good short the day that we did it. It was here on the 18th. Okay. This was February 18th. So again, what is a gap? A gap is a difference between the close and the open. This closed here at 1.47, opened in the morning around 1.38 and changed and it fell. Okay. So I get up in the morning. I'm always looking for these and I'm always trying to find the good ones of these. Okay. To do them. Again, whether I go long or short, I first go to the short side. And one of the reasons I like to trade gaps is because I feel like they have a high risk to reward payout. Now, while some trades, you know, go bigger than others, my goal is to get one to one, but some trades are more than one, which is great. It depends how fast they set up, how big they go if the market's with it or not, but most of the trades we do are quick profits where we're in and out and that's why also it is a nice strategy to trade because if you do have something else to do or if you live like on the West Coast, why people in the room that are on the West Coast with me, they trade in the morning, then they do go to work because they're done early. Now, we've changed the clocks this Sunday, but we're still going to be three hours from California and then we'll be two hours from, I think from Arizona. Now, what is the strategy that I trade based off of? What am I really looking for? I'm looking for institutional money which comes into the gap. It's either buying or selling. Buying or selling comes in, okay? So, when I'm doing a trade, well, first of all, before I even do it, I get up in the morning and I look at it and I'm looking at what's happening. Is this getting bought? Is this getting sold off? What's happening here? And again, the market's been crazy lately. Up, down, all around. Even if I look to the market right now and it was crashing, it could be completely different tomorrow morning. So, even if I look at stuff at night, I always double check it in the morning. I'm looking for institutional money. Then I developed a process where I will rate the gap using that data, which is price data on the day chart to determine if the money is going to follow through. Follow through in the live day, okay? In either direction that we happen to be doing it. So, it is about a focus, and I think less is more right now specifically in these times. And I feel like, you know, it's been almost a year anniversary since COVID. Again, New York shut down before the country shut down a year ago. We're talking about that today because I was like, what was the date of that? It was March 12th, you know? When I'm focused, okay, on one thing, I do so much better. And then I just plop on the size. And I really think that that is key as well to pretty much anyone. Now, if I'm reading the directional bias of the market and I want to do several trades in the market, that's okay too. But the reality is that I think size, focus, one pick. Now, if I do one pick and my top pick works, will I do another one? Probably not. Probably not. I'm probably done for the day. You have to look at it like your job is done for the day when you make your money, which is your goal, whatever your goal happens to be. If you're risking $1,000, your goal should be $1,000. That doesn't mean that if you make $800 and it goes to the target, you get out of the $800 that you're going to continue to take another trade just to make $200, no. Again, this is not an exact science. Trading is you're living in the gray area. It is not black and white and many, many traders make that mistake.  Supporter resistance even are areas. This is not an exact science. You have to live in the gray. And that's part of understanding and accepting that some trades that you take will lose. Some trades I take lose. But you have to win overall. You're living in the gray and get used to it. Instead of fighting it, fighting it with the black and white mentality, go with it. Because very few people can live in that gray area. Again, I have an itch in the way that I read the market, specifically in the way that I read gaps and also the way I read a one-minute chart, which is how I take my entries. But I do think the way that I look at the market, the way that the market is and just the whole shebang that I feel like I look at that in a very unique perspective too. All the people that were complaining about the thing with the hedge funds and Reddit and all the nonsense that went on whenever that was like a month ago now, again, like two months ago, whenever that started, you know, to me, the whole concept of people wanting and complaining about hedge funds is completely ridiculous and erroneous, except the fact that hedge funds are in the market. Learn where they take positions on and off and trade with them. You'll do a lot better. You're not going to change the system. You will not change the system and no one group of Reddit people on the chat will either. You have to see what the system is. Find your niche. Find a way to make it work for you so you can be successful and make money. Live within the confines of the system. Live within the gray area, okay? And be very pinpointed and focused on what you do. And that is something, again, that many people don't want to absorb or accept or whatever. They want to fight it, fight it, fight it. Don't fight it. You want to trade except what it is and go for it. Embrace it, actually. Any questions here so far? Okay, I'm going to keep talking. Anyways, one of the other reasons to trade gaps is there's a multi-purpose use, which you can do it for options and day trades. So, you know, I don't do options in every trade. I tank. We did do Apple Puts today, as well as the Apple Short, which was good. They worked. But again, I don't necessarily do them with the real stock ticker that I do. And again, you can make nice profits, specifically with options you can carry them overnight, which is great. And I like the day trades, too, because they move fast. You can get a couple at a move and something like we got in the Apple. And that's fabulous. So, I don't trade cheap stocks. I don't trade low-flow stocks. I don't trade any of those reddit stocks now. I will never trade them again, the ones they screwed up and messed up the charts. I'm looking for a big move in most of the moves of things that you would know, that you have traded, that you've heard of the company. You bought their products. You're aware of them. They're talked about on TV. Okay? And they have volume and momentum, and they move. So, this one we did here. This was last week. We did Rost, and I know that they're rallying today, but this was on March 3rd. We shorted it. I didn't do an option, and I did a day trade. But actually, a put would have worked. Stuck close to your gap down, rallying, boom. Here was the Rost. Close the night before here at 1.18 and change. Boom. Over the morning at 1.14 fell. Dropped. Had a nice exit on this? Went further. Again, had a quick one. Here was the trade. Entry was 1.1380. Shares was 3,000. This is an advanced risk of 2550. You do not have to risk $2,500. You could take 1,000. You could have taken 1,300. You could have taken 200 shares, okay? Your risk should be based on the size of your account, and also whatever your margin, equity, buying power in full is. Which, if you have questions about that, you can email me separate. So, Kathy, you can plot my email in the room. It's Melissa at thestockswish.com. But anyways, I thought this was a good exit. I basically was looking for a buck, but it ended up going breaking 1,12. I went to 1... That's a thing. I went to 1,10 something. Yeah, I think I did. I think this went almost $2 from here, which is hilarious. But 1,12.75. Profit 3,150. So, let's take a look at it. This is over here. Again, 9,30. Open. Closed here. Gapped down. So, this is, again, rushed. This was on the third. So, I make the decisions of the daily, but then whether I want to do it or rate it, and then I'm taking the trade in the one minute. Boom. We shorted it. Got the drop. Shorted it. Got the drop. You could get out of here. You could have held it. Here it came down, broke 1,12. And again, I think this really did go to down to 1,10 something. Let's look back. That was during the day. I have to go back and look at it. So, that was a nice short. And again, selling action creates panic. We're shorting it. We're shorting the panic. Okay. I'm explaining you conceptually why this works. But again, I'm rating the gap in the morning to determine that Ross did us a short that we're not going to go long it that we're going to short it and then we short it. Okay. Now, if you... Oh, here. I have the beginner trader risk. If you want to take 1,000 shares, risk was only 850 bucks. That's a nice amount. That's plenty. You could have made $1,000 doing this. It was a buck. And again, you could have held it longer. Same trade. Less size. Okay. And very, very fast in, out, in, out. Again, take it out. Take it out. Take it out. Boom. And we could have done it with Apple today. I chose to hold it. I chose to at a high level of conviction, but I'm sure some people got out of Apple today early, like fast in the morning. So anyways, that was a 10 minute train. And that's typical for what we do. And again, it was big profits. So let's look at the next one here we did. This was, that was last Wednesday. This was Tuesday. It was March 2nd. We shorted DDD. Close to your gap down fell. This ended up going bigger. This went to the dream target. I get out of this early, but again, I like the morning train. Short entry was 3630. 2000 shares risked 2600. Exit was 3460. This went to 31. That's, I think it went to 30 something. Oh no, here. I do have the whole thing in here. Profit 3400. Okay, let's go back. So again, this was a morning train. I like the fast ones. Just to be done with it. But anyways, we got in it. We got the drop out. Quick one here by 10. But look where it went. Yeah, I did have the whole thing in here. I squished. This is a one minute. You could have held us all the way down to 31. That's insane. It went almost another $4 from where we exited it. And I thought it was a good, I thought it was a good trade. It was a, almost a $2 move. But anyways, it kept going. That was Tuesday. Here was the beginner risk. 1000 shares risk was 1300. Exit 3460. Boom. Profit 1700. Out. Again, could have made more. Do you care? You're never going to get out of the lower the day in every show. You're never going to get out of the high day in every long and last. You hold something all day and it power trends down. I mean, I had a good exit in the Apple today. Simply because of the fact that it kept going and going and going. And it closed near the lows, but that's rare. So did the market too. But most of the times you're doing a trade, you are not going to get out at the very, very, very, very, very highest point. Again, I teach targets and exits in the gap class. But either way, you do the best you can. You have your goal in sight. When your goal is made and it starts to back up, boom, take it. Because there's no guarantees. No guarantees that Powell isn't going to talk. No guarantees that something crazy isn't going to happen. For whatever reason, the market has been dropping on interest rates rising, which I think makes no sense. And I don't think that's a real reason. But either way, when you have the money, it's there. It's never over to the fat lady sings. And the money is in your account. The only way that happens is when you're green is to bucket. So you have to be on top of these things when you have a goal. This was a fast one too. We're in and out of 15 minutes. But again, you could have made more. You could have been in that all day. The market sold off that day too. I have to go back and look. Any questions here? So far from anyone. How's everyone doing? Any questions? Quiet group tonight. Quiet as mouses. Now here is Twitter. I am going to show you my law because again, I said why sometimes go long even though I prefer to short. Here was Twitter. This had a gap up here in earnings. This closed here, gapped up. We did a bunch of trades in this. We did calls. We went long. Okay. Anyways, then it moved here. Then it rallied. We're going to go over this trade here. This was another gap up. Moved up. Poof. When. And another one here. Now I want to show you here. This was a gap down. You see, you couldn't have shorted it. Closed here, gapped down. This would not have worked as a short as a gap down. That's why again, you can't short every gap down. You can't go long every gap up. Here was a gap up that failed. Closed here, gapped up. Failed. Dropped. So again, this is why I devise a certain method and system to determine what trades I'm going long for a follow-through in the bullish gap. What trades I'm shorting for a follow-through in a bearish gap. Now in this case here, we had a follow-through of the upside and we did it. Now, this was, well, I'll show the advanced risk and beginner risk here. We went long here. This is the daily. I'll show you the one minute in a minute. Entry was 73. We got a buck 70 out of it. 74.70. It was a good exit though. Profit, 4,780. Why? Share quantity. Plop on the size. Take it. Get out. Beginner risk, 1,000 shares. You could have made 1,700 bucks. Now here's the one minute. Just want to show you this here. This was 2.16. We went long this Twitter. And it wasn't an early entry actually. It was a little bit later. We went long here at 73. Okay. Right in here. Again, snug as a bug. Got the rally up poof out. Now, this trade was not 15 minutes, not 10 minutes. It took a little bit under than an hour. Because again, this was a long. And longs take longer to go than shorts. Again, that's why I prefer it to short. But I want to show you how long because I do go long. But still an hour and a trade is fast. That's still fast when you figure out the markets open 6.5 hours a day. And again, that's why I like apps. It's momentum. It's speed. It's the big move. It's the immediate confirmation. And it's really about plopping on the size. If you have a small account, you can make money trading. Just like if you have a big account, you can lose money trading. One has nothing to do with the other. If you have a small account, you have to take trades according to your account size.  If you don't know what you're doing. So the best thing you can do for yourself, no matter what size account you have, is learn how to trade well. Start outs with a small size. Start out with the beginner size. Build on that. Prove to yourself you can do it after a week or after a month. And then continue increasing your size over time. Any questions here so far? Shelly, I see you here. I don't know how you're doing. Galahad, I see Galahad here. I don't know if you're back to trading yet, Galahad. All right. So just to give you kind of an idea here. Like if you risk a dollar, you know, you're looking to make a buck. But my share quantity varies. It varies on depending on the size of the stock because I use stocks. I use a limit order stock. If I'm calling a trade in the room, I might say 50 by 75. That's what? 25 cents. Or I might say 50 by 25, which is what? Be what? 75 cents. So because my stop, the difference between the entry and the stop varies from trade to trade. I don't always take 5,000, 5,000, 5,000 shares or 1,000 or 1,000 or 1,000 shares. This is not an exact science either or rough it out. You know, I have my amount that I want to risk and it's roughly sometimes a little bit more, sometimes a little bit less because, again, I got to get in the trade. This is not an exact science. If my risk is $2,500 a trade, some trades I may risk $2350. Some trades I may risk $2,700. It's about getting it. Do you know what I'm saying? And you have to get in the trade. And I kind of rough it in my mind. I'm like, okay, we're doing Apple. This could be about $50. I kind of have it in my mind, but not until I see the setup do I know exactly what it is. But I do call the trades in the live room, which if you've been in the room, which I know some of you have been in the room, you've done trials before, you're familiar with that. That's how I call it. Yeah, Jeanette, just email me. Just email me then. Do you trade right now? You have to have the time in the morning early to trade. I mean, that's just, that's when you want to be there. But if you can't do money through Friday, that's okay. Do when you can. I think, you know, for a lot of people, the options work good because you can do other stuff. You don't have to babysit them and you could take an option straight. If it costs a dollar, you pay the buff, you get the order in to sell it, and you could put a sell order at 150, for example, which, you know, if it fills, it fills. If it doesn't, it's a cancel day order where you can put it at two if you pay a buck. So you don't have to watch it or babysit it. But I still think you should check your trades at one point every day, lunch or something. But options work well for people that cannot trade in the room every morning actively. So one of the benefits of trading, at least specifically, gaps with me, you are only really at your desk for the first hour. You work for yourself.   It's impossible. I'm losing for years. I don't know what I'm doing. Guess what? You don't have the right skill set then. Now, how are you going to learn the right skill set? Well, point one is you have to learn from someone that has a skill set. So a lot of people don't have any skill sets. I always laugh because I do these webinars. I did a webinar. I think I did too many webinars last week. It was webinar after webinar at a webinar explosion with other things that were in groups.  People really, truly believe that when they buy an automated system, it's going to work. There's no scale resulted from that. And don't ever buy any automated system because it's not going to work. If there was such a thing, no one would make any money. It's the whole purpose of it.  You can say, well, the smartest people win, well, not necessarily, but most of the time. If you say the rich people win, well, not necessarily, but yeah, most of the time. Because when you have a lot of money behind you, and I'm talking about the hedge funds, for example, you usually can find a way to get more money behind you. Whereas if you're one person, it's much more difficult. I'm talking about maneuvering in and out of positions. So, you know, no machine is going to make the best decisions for you. You're going to make the best decisions for you. You just have to learn the skill. It's like tennis. Tennis is a skill. Any sport is a skill. Golf is a skill, okay? You have to learn the skill. And then you can make it to use it to your advantage where you can trade over time and really get somewhere with this. I mean, many, many people just don't want to put the time and energy and effort and money into trading, I find.  Now, while you can do other things while you're figuring this out and while you're trading too, again, you don't have to be in the room on Tuesdays or Wednesdays or Fridays. You don't have to do every single option I call. But the reality is that the amount of time you put into it should be full-on. It should be 100%.  Your attention should be on that person while you're on that date. If you're at dinner for two hours, you're focused on that person. You shouldn't be texting on your phone. You shouldn't be on Instagram. You shouldn't be picking up, checking work emails and all of that stuff. And that's how people act nowadays, which is nuts. So you have to be focused for the period of time that you're trading. Whatever it is, 35 minutes, two hours, a week, whatever. That's how you're going to get good because it's about the scale. Okay. That's okay. You can dip your toes in Jeanette. Toe dipping is okay. Anyways, there's a lot of benefits to trading. I mean, specifically for me, living in New York in the last year with COVID, it's been a huge benefit to not have to worry about, gosh, so many things going out in the city, everything being closed, you know, being able to do this from my home with a computer and everything else. I mean, who would have thought? But, you know, there's just, there's a variety of benefits. And also because of the fact that you have unlimited income potential, which I did when I did mortgages too. That's what I did previous to this, but it was very difficult because I was dealing with banks and trying to get loans approved and underwriters and there was always somebody that I had to argue with to get deals done. With this, well, I have trades that lose and it sucks when they do. I don't really argue and have an argument or a fight with the market. I go back and I look and I say, did I make a mistake? What did I miss here? Did I do anything wrong? Very often I didn't make a mistake. It's just the odds of the game. Sometimes things don't work. My 26-point rating system, if you come to me, if you learn it, the system that I use is about high odds. It's putting the odds in your favor. There is no 100%. You have to take a trade that has very, very high odds and I don't take low odds trades, but sometimes things still don't work anyways because that's the nature of the game. Like we talked about living in the gray, no black and white. But I do follow my own rules. I created the rules. I follow them. The rules that I set that I make, I follow. So I don't do any gaps that don't rate per my 26-point system. That I do follow to the letter. But again, there's so many benefits to doing this. So, so, so, so, so, so many. And finally, the weather is breaking here in New York. One of the benefits will be being able to get outside in the spring and in the summer here in the warm weather assuming that the city wants to open. So we'll see. Any other questions here? I'll take a look at the market here when we're done. Any other questions? Yeah. So, I mean, for me, I was extremely motivated to learn how to do this. If you're not motivated, I gotta tell you, it's gonna be hard for you to make it. But if you want to learn what I do, the system that I do is called the Golden Gap Rating System. It has a high probability of directional bias for the entire day, preferably like Apple. A big move in the day, again, like Apple, which we did today. Early confirmation of the bias on the move between 9.30 and 10 and precise entries with follow-through and a good risk to reward target potential, which you saw in some of the trades here we talked about from last week. If you're getting something and it goes, the momentum should carry you forward when you're fighting it, fighting it, fighting it, it's very difficult to make money. Like if you were trying to go long Apple today, you were fighting the grain, you were fighting the momentum, you were fighting against the gap, okay? And you lost. There was no way to make money going long Apple. I don't even think you could have scouted it today. It rarely pushed back whatsoever at all. It just, the momentum was to the downside, okay? And the money does come easy when you're getting the direction right, which is what? With the institutional money, which is what? It's based on the gap, which means what if the gap rates high? Because again, not every gap down can you short and not every gap up can you go long? I mean, you couldn't go along the market today and done well because of what happened. Again, we'll look at the market when I'm done here. But my system is called the golden gap system. It's a 26 point professional bearish gap rating system. The purpose of this system is to help you evaluate which gap to you trade each morning using a checklist. This is the meat and potatoes of how I make the choices. I have no idea what I'm doing tomorrow. I'll wait until the morning to figure it out, but I will get up in the morning and rate my gap to determine it. This checklist tells you what to trade, when and in what direction. The 26 point checklist predicts directional bias in a stock. Any questions here so far? About gaps? Shorting anything? Now I do have an options newsletter. Okay. I know some of you have been asking about it. I see some of you here. This, you just get the newsletter. It gets a trade gets emailed to you. You take the trade when you get it. Like I said, it called Apple Puts Today. You take the trade when you get it. Boom, you get in. Now we did calls on Twitter. This was again a bullish gap. We went long a bunch of times in this. This was on the 10th. I think this was the first day. Yeah, it was. This was the first day. And I had sent this out in the afternoon. I call the 65 calls. These were really decently priced, by the way. 215 was the price of one. Again, an advanced risk, 75. 25 sold it for 16 profit, 85, 75, 113% return in investment. This is a nice trade. I'm looking for 50 to 100. If I get 100, I take it. This had a nice move. Here's the daily. So this drop, boom. I called it around 130 in the afternoon, which is unusual. Most of the options trades, I do call in the free market. But this drop down called it poof, took off. And then it ran up. And that was out to the 19th. Not that you had to hold it. Actually would have made more if you had held it. Then I called the 68 calls on Friday. Again, very well reasonably priced. 260 sold at 525. Return investment 102%. Again, risk 7,800. Profits 79.50. This was on Friday the 12th. Going to go back to the daily. This was here when it broke out. When it broke out here, poof. And these I called earlier on in the pre-market, 8.16 in the morning. You're not taking the trade until the open. You're waiting, but at least you know that when I'm looking at what I'm doing, what I'm getting organized for for the day. And sometimes I will send them out that early. Sometimes I've sent them out at 7 a.m. But you're not doing the trade until the open. The options newsletter subscription. You can email me at melissathestalkswish.com if you want to sign up for that. I'll talk about that more at the end. Yeah, just email me and they can sign up for that if they email me. It's an annual subscription though. No monthlies, no quarterlies. It's for the whole year. Anyways, I find that this is a good topic. And I started talking about this in a podcast I did about two weeks ago. And I think I need to do more topical discussions about this because people are really getting to the point where they are looking at the economy. And again, we've seen some level of slight inflation You know, rates are rising. I don't think it's catastrophic.  Now I don't notice that they've gone up this year, 2021 to be honest with you. They went up last year. So why everyone's getting crazy about rates now? I don't know because really we started to see once things opened up last summer, we saw prices lift up. I mean here in New York, they're charging like a surcharge now at restaurants. Now I haven't been out to eat, but I have friends that have and they told me that where they're charging a percentage in the bill. So things are getting more expensive. That's definitely true. I have not raised my prices since COVID. I mean, I just haven't. But I've found that many, many things are charging certain charges for COVID or the razor prices for COVID. And they're really trying to make up the ground for the last year or what they didn't make last year because of COVID. Which to me doesn't really make any sense. Now I support restaurants in certain industries and companies I don't want to go under. But you know, in reality is that we are in an environment that we're in a slight, slight level of, you know, inflation. Now will it continue where things get better? I really don't know. I really don't know. But I think the idea of having extra money, even if you enjoy your job and you want to continue on with your job and have extra money trading, I don't think that's a bad idea. In fact, I think it's a good idea. And even if you, again, want to continue your job. The idea of having a fallback, a fallback way to make money if for some reason you would lose your job, God forbid. God forbid, like many people have. I don't think it's a bad idea to have a fallback support system, a fallback financial support system. And if you wait to the last minute, if for some reason something happens, and very often it's not a good idea because you're kind of stepping your backs up against the wall. I mean, today's world is just not the same as 25 years ago or 10 years ago or even one year ago when COVID hit. What we think is a secure job today may be gone tomorrow. I lived that with my mortgage job. So I'm speaking here directly to life experience. Look at the world economy and the decisions that lawmakers are making for you. And because I lived the life experience I had, I'm 10 years ago, I was prepared for COVID. I was never going to let anything like that happen to me again. And again, I'm very, very independent, but I was great at doing mortgages and when that happened, it had nothing to do with me. So I lived that life experience, but many people were living it in 2020. So you have to think about your own future and no one can determine what's going to exactly happen. Nobody really knows, but if we're independent and when you trade, you work for yourself. Again, this idea of being self-sufficient, entrepreneurial, independent. We can be great employees, productive, outgoing, hardworking and it may not even matter to an employer in the end if the company can't keep you on, which has been a problem in the last year. If the company has poor management, they might fail and it has nothing to do with you. Or again, the world changes. Or your industry might fail and it has nothing to do with you. Again, that's what happened to me with the mortgage system and the healthcare system. That failed and now you're seeing all of this with the travel industry, the restaurant industry in the last year. If you're a skilled person, you have a great mind, you can do this, you can learn how to do it. I'm teaching people how to do it. You have to find a way to create your own job security, your own financial security. No one is going to create it for you. A $1,400 stimulus check is going to get you zip. Zip-ity-do-poop. It's really nothing. And when you think about the fact that these lawmakers waited five months to get these checks out to people that they're probably not even going to get to April, the end of April or May, it's an abomination on both ends of the spectrum, both political parties. People are so far behind in some of their rents. Some people in New York have been not paying rent for a year. I don't know what's going to happen. The moratorium is up May 1st. It's going to be interesting to see if they extend it again. You have to find a way to become more self-sufficient. So you can create your own opportunity by taking it upon yourself to learn how to trade the market. And not only that, make money trading. And it's really, even beyond the money, it's about getting good. It's about getting good. When you get good, the money will come. And then you add the size. You've got to get good. You've got to get good at this. You have to get good. I'm constantly, constantly looking at charts. She took the weekend off. I said, I'm taking this weekend off. I gave myself two days on to look at anything and I rarely do that. I felt like I needed a mental break. But the reality is that I'm constantly, constantly looking at stuff and constantly working on getting better. And I have, you know, over the last, you know, 13 years that I've been trading. Any questions here so far? Anyways, the strategy that I trade is called Golden Gaps. It's one strategy. If you're successful in the market, one thing you could do for options, swing trades, day trades. And you do not need a general overall broad brace for you to make money. Tons of people have that fail all the time. Learn how to read institutional money and price patterns and gaps and you don't need to do anything else. Because if your reason for doing this is to make money, this will make money. I was in some kind of webinar last week and somebody had something up and it was a disaster. If I, if I, if we have time at the end, I'll show it to you. I actually clipped it. Right. I hope I don't have the person's name on it. I want to show you. It was, you couldn't read a damn thing on the person's chart. I thought, oh my God, how is this person doing anything at all? You couldn't read anything. That person had so many indicators on it.   You couldn't read any line on it. You couldn't even read a candle. You couldn't read the price or a number to save your life. And the person was making trading decisions based on it. Again, there's no skill set involved there.   Okay.  And you know how you do that. You keep your stress level low. And you know what helps with your stress level? Getting a good night's sleep. Eating right. If you want to smoke and drink, do it on the weekend. Don't do it money for through Friday when you need your brain. Cut down, cut back on the sugar. Get rid of toxic relationships in your life. Put yourself in an office and close the door when you trade that no one bothered you. Turn your phone off. Again, turn your phone off at a certain point at night. Everyone's sleeping with their phones anymore. I wasn't a habit of that. I had to stop it.  We have to get in places where we are less stressed and don't risk more money than you can afford to lose, too. You know? Because, and don't be in too many positions overnight at once so you can afford to think about if you're in options overnight as well. Don't be in too many things. Keep your stress level down so you can make good decisions. It's the best thing. Kathy, you need to work on getting your stress level down. You know, it's really about making good decisions and using your brain. Your brain can do amazing things. Trust me, it's one of my best qualities. I was having a conversation with someone about it because we started talking about COVID and the vaccine. I'm not going to go on about that right now. But you need your brain. You won't make it in this life without your brain. Okay? And in reference to training, when I'm training I'm making decisions super fast like in milliseconds, sometimes when I'm in these trades in the one minute, in and out. And my brain does it. It just automatically does it. So you need your brain.  Okay? Can't be half asleep or no food in your stomach. So I'm training between 9.30 and 10. If that fits your schedule, if you can work from home or from an office where you can trade, then maybe gaps is for you. So again, I'm strict with my stops. I put the stop in. I'm looking for quality, not quantity. You should be risking a certain amount where you're flipping it over one. I'm talking about the day trades. Sometimes the options go more than 100%, but sometimes I get out of trades that are 50%. We did Facebook Friday. It was up into the weekend on the Friday. I got out of it. Okay. So you can get out of an options trade at 50%. But anyways, my system is called the golden gap. Here's some testimonials. What are you saying, Kathy? Yeah, everybody's been a home body in the last year. And that's okay. But, you know, at least for me here in New York, I need to get out a little bit so I'm glad the weather's starting to break. Anyways, I've had a bunch of very successful students write me some nice testimonials here. I plopped them in the room. And many of these people have been with me a long time. So I will say that it's really nice that I have students who have been with me for years and years. They can trade on their own. Jackie's one of them. She could trade without me. But she loves being in the room and I make good calls. So what experience do you need to do this? None. I've taught people from the ground up. And sometimes if you have bad thoughts in your head or bad experiences, it will get in your way. So you don't need to know anything. You can come to me and I can teach you everything to trade. Candle sticks all from the ground up. And then really the point system, which is called the Golden Gap 26-point checklist. And it's a complete course to learn how to trade. The class is called the Golden Gap course. It's a 2-day course on how to strategically find, pick, and play stocks in our professional bearish gap. So the bearish class is this weekend, March 13th and 14th. The bullish class is the first week of April. So it's 9 to 5. Cost of the class is $69.99. But I am doing a friends and family sale only through this Friday, which is a great deal. I do it once a year. It's $1,000 off the class. I never do this. So don't expect to see this six months from now or two months from now. Once a year, I do the friends and family special. It's $1,000 off. So $59.99 for the class this weekend. Now, if you want to do the bullish class, you can sign up for the bullish class by Friday for April. Okay, that class is in April. And then I'm doing 20% off the other subscriptions. Now, someone asked about the newsletter. 20% off. You can sign up for the year for $55.99. It's a great deal. A whole year of all the options trades, get emailed to you if you want to do that. The market report is a weekly letter. Normally $500 on sale for $400. 20% off. You must be in the trading room. I've done the class, or not in the trading room, but you must have done the Golden Gat class to join the trading room. This is 20% off. So it's $3199 for the year. Trends course is a great class. Again, this is 20% off $799. You get one month free of the trading room in this class. One month free of the trading room in the wealth class, $479.20. I haven't done this class in a while. I'm doing it in April. Entries course, again, 20% off, $1199. Gap options course, you get one month free of the gap options newsletter. So this is a great class. This is in March. $2,000 for the half-day class, one month in the letter. And then if you're interested in mentoring sessions, you do not have to have been a prior student to do the sessions. I'm doing them regularly on Skype. Some have done on Zoom. They're very popular with people. This is, you know, whether they've done it in class or not. But many of them are students that just want to get better and sharpen up their skills. Okay. Any questions here so far? I'll pull up the market. Let me just pull this up quick. Disaster. So we closed here. I'm looking at the Q2. $299.51. We broke the 300 number late in the period, late in the day. We broke it. Now it looks like we're slightly lifting back. So this was, oh no, wait a minute here. Let's go to four. So this was four. Now we're pushing back. It looks like we've run up about a buck. So a little bit over a dollar. So we'll see where we go. JD, I give so much information. I'm not giving any more than I give. You can come to the trial this week and listen to every single thing I do if you want. I get a question often. JD is asking a question. If I'm making this much money, he doesn't understand or is it a she? JD, are you a he or a she? Let me look who this is. If it's a she, are you a he or a she? JD, I can't tell if you're a he or a she. Are you a girl or a guy?  What is JD's question? I thought he was a he. I think I've seen it before, JD. Why do I, JD's question is if I'm making this much money, in other words, if I'm successful, he doesn't understand the reason to be teaching people. Somebody tried to answer that question for JD or guests. This is anybody that knows me. Gallowhead knows me. For example, Gallowhead's actually met me in New York. Why do you think I'm teaching people if I'm doing well trading? Somebody guessed before I answer. Gallowhead probably knows me pretty well. He can probably answer this. Actually, Gallowhead's been to my apartment in New York. I get a JD. Gallowhead, are you alive? I enjoy it. Well, that's true, but that's not the real reason. Although that is true, that's true. Gallowhead, I thought you knew me better than that. Guess again. Oh no, Gallowhead got it. Because I love to make money. I mean, let's just call it, let's just be frank. When people ask me that question and no, I'm not going to take offense JD and I don't want you to take offense to my response. When someone asks me why I want to do something when I'm already making money, it's the mentality about the person, the way that they think about money. And again, I live in Manhattan. So it's kind of like, people in New York make money doing lots and lots and lots of stuff. No one in New York would ever ask me that question. But I understand that New Yorkers are a little bit different, but the reality is that people that are wealthy, high net worth individuals that have a mindset about making money doing multiple, multiple things and having multiple income sources would never ask that question. The answer is implied. The answer is obvious JD. Because if you can make money doing lots and lots of things, why not? In fact, I have some people that are pitching me, first of all, on television why are you doing TV? If you're making money trading, why do you want to have a television show, Melissa? Why do you want to get paid for Instagram ads? I could go on and on and on about income streams, JD. Social media, YouTube. YouTube pays people for hits. You may not have known that. YouTube pays me and multiple other people on social media for views. So the thing is like, I'm going to say this to help you.   Do you know what I'm saying? Some people, now I'm nowhere near on this level, I mean it would be great if I could ever get to that level with my branding someday, which will probably entail me having my own television show. But there are some people, they get paid to put their name on something like a label. Trump, okay? The Kardashians.  Somebody uses somebody's name on a product and they get paid. Boom, boom, boom. Money, money, money, money. Do you know what I'm saying? And no one ever says, oh, if you're successful in making money, why would you make money doing that? It's silliness. It's total silliness. Really? It's a silly, silly, silly thing to even ask. But the thing is, I get why people ask it because JD said he's been burned. He's taken classes and been burned. Hey, I took a class and I paid a lot of money when I first started trading. In fact, I paid more than my class cost now. I paid 8 grand. I paid 8 grand and that was in 20, that was in 2008. And I didn't learn how to make money and I didn't learn how to trade. I didn't harbor any negative feelings towards that person.   I didn't hate the industry. I just said, you know what? I think I can figure this out my own. But I couldn't take another classes and, you know, but the thing is, I wanted to do gaps. Like, gravitated to gaps or wasn't much out there back gaps. The stuff that was out there I found didn't work. So when it was long story short, many people take classes. Most people do take classes. Most people lose money in the market. Most people lose money, take classes, don't get anything out of them until they come to the right person. You got two choices, JD.  I did it. Took me three years and a lot of cash of my own hard earned money and I kept doing mortgages at the same time. That is your choice. That's choice one. Do it. Go for it. It's possible. I did it. But it's not something that's going to happen in three weeks. It will take years of your life and a lot of money. You need to bankroll yourself to do it. Because when you're trading on a demo, you ain't going to learn any system or create your own system. You've got to trade your money to feel it and do it and go through the experience of it and the pains and the ups and downs and the emotional highs and lows, which I did until you figure stuff out right. That is something that is an option that is open to any person that trades. Or two, you must pay someone to learn and you pay people to learn and you get what you pay for. When people pay for these classes that are worth a couple thousand dollars or 500 bucks, what do they expect to do? They really expect to make money paying for that stuff? Come on. Get real. No one would say anything good would give it away for free. And you may have to take class after class after class after class until you find the right person because it is a journey. It is not a one-shot deal. Very few people go out there and learn how to trade right away. And my expectation when I took that class in 2008, again, I'll just be honest with you, my expectation was that I was going to learn how to trade and I was going to learn how to make money. But once I threw myself into it, I realized that it was more challenging than I thought. And the class was very basic. I learned technical analysis and I took that information and I utilized it to build on it to create a system for myself. But general technical analysis will not teach you how to make money. Buying on a moving average or things like that is, you know, it's not consistent enough to work. But I understood through that class that technical analysis was important. It was extremely important. So I, every class you took that you say you lost money on JD, you've learned something from it. You may not have learned enough to make it, but you learned something.  I'm here today with the information and skills that I have. I'm not there yet, but I learned something. I learned one nugget or one little thing from that. And that one little thing may be something that can help you. Do you know what I'm saying? So try to change your attitude about it a little bit. You know what I mean? Well, if you have, you have a residential housing portfolio. Okay, well then I don't know, understand why you asked that question. And I got to be honest with you. Shelly, you can email me for that if you want to be in the open house. If you have if you have other sources of income, if you are someone that is wealthy JD, then you must be just mad at the people you paid for classes.  You kind of got to get over that. You kind of have to just like let it go. You know what I mean? Or maybe you're mad at the market. I don't know.   I was mad at the market last week. And let me tell you why. I expected the market on Monday one week ago to carry itself and through and go over the high. It failed. It didn't. I was mad at the market last week. I shook it off. I got over it. We rallied the end of the week on Friday by my expectation on Monday was we were going to hold. I lost in calls last week that I went long on Monday. I lost. I lost in calls. Okay. Because I thought the market was going to fall through. So I was mad at the market kind of like Wednesday to Thursday. I got over it quick and then I moved on. And so that's what you have to do. I call it amnesia. You cannot harbour negative feelings about trades that you lost in or people you took classes for or the market itself overall or any specific stock for more than 24 hours. 48 at the most. That's another, you know, leather boot that I think traders have. When I talked to people on the phone they talked to me about, oh my God, I lost 100 grand last year. I lost 200 grand in the last five years or I lost 50 grand or I lost this, I lost that. What are they going to do? They're going to make all the money that they ever back lost in one trade or one week or one month. That's not realistic. That's not realistic. It's just not realistic. That's not life. You have to just look at it like you're moving forward. And the only way you can move forward is if you stop looking back. I mean it's the same way with relationships.  Say you were dating someone they cheated on you. You see it all the time in the people on TV and stuff and these shows what are they going to do? Never fall in love again.  At some point you have to let it go. And trust me, moving on from the market is a lot easier than forgiving people that have hurt you that you're in love with. So I mean if you can forgive people in the past for relationships you certainly can forgive yourself for losses that you sustained in the market. I think the problem is people have so much judgment they judge themselves and get mad at themselves for trusting in someone to teach them how to trade and then they feel like they don't trust their own judgment then to go to someone new to learn how to trade. They're upset with themselves. Now I don't know if that's what's going on with you J.D. but that's something that you personally need to examine. Personally. I'm just giving you my two cents here.  We all make bad decisions. Maybe I made a bad decision going along the market last week. It was choppy before that but I believed in the trade. I lost in it but the reality is I can get over it pretty quickly and part of that is just the ability to want to constantly constantly constantly move forward towards success which is greater success. It's not about ever getting to necessarily the goal. I'm at the goal. I want the next goal. I want a television show. I want to move into a bigger apartment. I want to buy a place. I want to get married. I want to do this. I want to do that. You're always moving forward if you're someone that's success binded. You're always working towards that. In fact maybe I don't give myself enough of a break like I said I took the weekend off which was good for me but take something from this that having goals is important and you've got to constantly be moving forward and assess where you're at. If you have a negative relationship with the market or trading educators quite frankly assess if that's really working to your benefit because if you have a bad attitude and you're still doing something like trading it's not you're working against yourself it's like having a it's like it's like it's like my father said this once. We were exercising and we were going to go for a walk in the morning and my mother made pancakes my father had this huge stack of pancakes before we went for a walk and I didn't I don't like to walk on an empty I like to walk on an empty stomach in the morning I don't like to eat and we laughed and joked the whole time in the law because my dad was dragging from the carbs and I said he said he worked again the pancakes worked against him they did work against him don't work against yourself if you're going to go on exercise don't eat a hot fudge Sunday before you go out do you know what I'm saying like do not trade if you hate the market don't do it and don't sign up for a class if you hate all trading educators either until you get until you get your attitude on right all right Kathy is going to have to go feed the cats listen have a great night everyone if you want to travel the room email me Gala had I'll have to get the lowdown from you about the Royals interview later we'll talk about in the open house tomorrow I didn't watch it yet I taped it I taped it but I saw the scuttle but I go to bed early but I did tape it the Oprah interview all right very good have a good night


That's it you guys, welcome once more to my channel if you're new here. Hi, hello, I'm Lydia and today we're doing a video about where I live. So she doesn't even know that I'm doing a mental health care at home. The only real restriction here is medication. All medication is controlled. So we have medication times. And now I'm doing a quick tour. This is the office. This is my front door. And it's another half of my bathroom. Which is just right out. I'm using my box. Kitchen, table, which has got everything on it. A chair here. Wardrobe, squish my nose. Clothes that I haven't unpacked yet. Leather. More squish my nose. Now you've seen where I live and what it's like. The stuff here remains. That's all I've got for this video. Thanks for watching and I'll see you guys in my next one. Peace.