And we'll take this opportunity. Welcome, everybody, back to the Independent Investor channel. I've been on a couple of week hiatus, some professional obligations, worry not, I am back. I was trying to time this thing and actually put out my content right at the all-time low. But unfortunately, my obligation has carried through. I've been pretty tired actually just catching up. And my heart is in multiple places, this being one of them, but not the only place that takes up my time and things that I actually look forward to. I think the highly on story is a dynamic one at that. There's a lot going on right now to report upon, not necessarily with regard to the goings on of the company, albeit we do know that there's quite a bit of churn to make this stuff possible. Right here at the end of 2023, lot to be excited about. Not a lot of news on the landscape, which I think really does hurt the stock. I really don't have a whole lot of explanation as to the strategy that's going on being deployed by highly on it would not be one that I would deploy. It's one that is frustrating to me. But if they've got this thing figured out, they've got an idea and it's theirs to screw up. My investment in highly on over the last three years has been quite, quite frankly, very, very simple in that this idea is a good one. It is a good one. And the total addressable market is big. The need for the product is enormous. The assistance of highly on not only through Cummins and the certification that was just achieved here, announced September 18 of last month, that was the last announcement from highly on. And they've gone kind of ice cold on the line here outside of what the truck interview that I caught with Thomas Haley and dinner doing the interview. I thought it was a, it was a good interview. You know, something that kind of puts me at ease a little bit is that either Thomas Haley is as positive as anybody as I've seen in the public facing markets, which he is charged to do as the CEO or he is the most naive CEO. And the verdict is out on either one guys. I am a good judge, a character man, but I cannot unpeel this onion and truly understand what if anything is going on behind the scenes. What if anything with regard to old business is still active, alive and well, you know, things that have transpired, things that are really coming to fruition with the company, with the remaining certification just around the corner, I anticipate, which will round out the certification and we can just damn stop talking about it, which would just absolutely float my boat for all I'm concerned. It's been a long time in the coming. And quite frankly, whatever it has taken up to this point to achieve certification, it's taken long enough. As far as I'm concerned, we are still burning capital alive and well with the capital expenditures and operating expenditures that the company is incurring, you know, what was once a positive attribute of the company being their cash position, some would argue still, in fact, a positive attribute, I am not in that camp anymore, as it is, in fact, a deteriorating asset. And if Hylian can't prove out that they can generate meaningful top end revenue to chew away at that cash burn that they've got going on currently, they're just doing nothing but confusing the markets right now. And I anticipated 2023 to be just what it has shaped up to be. And that is a bridging year to to hopefully better times into 2024. If you think this caught my attention during the interview was the alludeance to the mod center assistance in what I portrayed to be 30 truck installs in the Austin facility. And when Dooner actually asked him about the opportunity to to speak about the mod centers, Thomas Healy didn't say, look, it's a work in the progress. He actually said some of those that work is actually going on at the mod centers, which is just key for me. It is absolutely key in this process. And really part of and always has been part of my bullish conviction on whether or not this company can actually make it and the acknowledgement that they are not on an island by themselves and have the assistance of multiple large players in the industry, as well as what was perceived to be assistance through the Innovation Council again, with one of those topics, multiple, multiple topics that I have questions on with regard to if those fleet trials are going on with those respective fleets Wegman's Schneider Ruan and many others that, you know, had orders on the books. Those orders really have been have been ceased to be discussed on the landscape. And I have no reason to believe that they have gone away. However, what was once a very interesting topic to generate some very, very warranted churn around the company speaking to the interest that the industry had for the hyper truck ERX. We just haven't heard a whole lot on the landscape. Now does it do them good to talk about that stuff pre certification? You know, I really don't know. I think potentially highly on could be building up momentum to let the floodgates go in 2024 and just chalk 2023 up as being that bridging year. I don't see any reason to rush to markets right now. I think with the interest rates high. And I think with the with the path that highly on has put itself on as late as the recent one quarter, but maybe going back stemming a couple of quarters from the previous or from the current is their initiative to save capital. And I think that's a smart move in the face of what could be very difficult markets if highly on has to go to the open market to to raise capital with the cost of capital being just astronomical and through the nose right now. So making all the right moves and potentially maybe even just using these remaining months in 2023 as kind of that setup for for 2024 that I see to be huge. And that's not coming from me and that's not my presumption. It's coming from what I actually heard from Thomas Healy, the CEO during the interview discussing the potential for bringing the Carnot generator online and selling those units or making them available commercially as early as 2024. You know, I really kind of passed the end of my rope with promises being made not followed through with technically, I wouldn't give highly on credit for zero sales in the hyper truck ERX. And I think it is a prove it story at this point, I think both of their products, the product of the Carnot, not being around at the onset just being an absolute pleasure and a pleasant surprise to bring into their portfolio of products really is just discussion at this point until the demand in the marketplace is defined. And by Thomas Healy's admission could actually help to raise that top end in 2024. But you know, again, it's really just prolonging what was not anticipated not by me. And I think there's a lot of people out there that would have expected that they would have been further along than what they were now. For those would be sure owners out there that would say, Yeah, right, Ryan, right, Ryan, you're absolutely right. Tell it like it is. That doesn't mean that anybody is at fault. It doesn't mean that my presumptions about how a company should unfold over time are actually going to happen in nature. As a matter of fact, in most cases, it doesn't happen the way you would perceive.  That is improper application. And it is not one that has any place in stock market investing, especially when you're talking about, you know, a pre revenue company. I, you know, I hesitate to say that, but in all actuality, Hylian has failed to generate revenue of any meaningful substance up to this point. And so for the work that should be being done behind the scenes and you know, all the Twitter banter that would give Hylian a nod at any pass, I'm hesitant to do so based on track record. And until they start to really prove out on their concept, I think I'm more bought into their concept than industry is at this point, right? In all fairness. And we need to see some demand churn up in this industry when we start talking about mandates that are coming down the pike. You know, we've seen this with industry before industry will cry wolf and say, look, you can't provide me a solution that is actually economically viable. And the hyper truck ERX has done nothing but prove out to be what used to be a, you know, a two and a quarter, maybe a 250 or a 275 MSRP has now expanded to 400,000. Our fleet's going to make that purchase and make that leap of faith into electrification. And that's a big change. And those are fair questions. And those would be questions that I would have for the CEO on the next earnings call coming up for Q3. I just don't, I don't see those questions being addressed. I don't see them being answered. And the silence on the line certainly is of a concern to me. A lot of people out there are not concerned one bit in that they are rest assured that the highly on team is working day and night behind the scenes to make the CRX roll out and make these products available to, so that they can realize their 10 million by the year's end. I'm not really sure how those presumptions are any worse or any better than mine being a little bit more in the skeptical camp and being in the, you know, show me story. Okay. And that's just my perspective to help really bring to the ground level. The current share positions and the share positions that by any account are down. And shareholders are suffering and to again, come to a public facing market and expect some sort of reciprocation. For me, a podcast interview spot for seven or eight minutes really doesn't move the needle for me at all. I don't give really any credit. I appreciate the comments that were being made. The interviewee always does a great job. You know, Dooner kind of like, he seems like a, one of those guys that he understands trucking and he understands really how to ask those grassroots questions that I do appreciate. And equally as much, I do appreciate the answers given by Thomas, but you know, it's a little too little. And the question is, is it too late at this particular juncture for Hylian to crawl out of this hole that they've built for themselves? A lot of people would say, ah, this is completely normal. I mean, the stock can go down to 10 cents. Guys, I'm here to tell you that it's not normal and it's not normal at all. I monitor and other companies that are absolutely grinding and don't have any problems releasing information to the public as much as Hylian. And I don't really see what the big secret is. I don't really understand why they can't make a goal to make an every other day post to the public audience. I mean, this stock will go up on no news. But for the most part, it goes down every day on no news. And, you know, once every 10 days, it'll, it'll, it'll increase in value a little bit only to give it back over the following 10, 12, 15 days. I mean, this stock goes through swoons of downswings to where it's down multiple days in a row. Is there something awry with the stock? I don't know. Am I surprised in this environment that Hylian and many other companies that I cover are being subjected to poor market conditions? Not in the least. Do I blame Hylian for what's going on in the current stock market? No, I don't. And Hylian is, is actually well positioned. And I'm quite certain that they're, they've got a lot of thinking heads there. They've got a lot of strategy that I'm being presumptuous in that if they just look at this holistically, you know, they could really come out of this with guns blazing into 2024 and really make an impact. And it's going to come down to a few very specific things. And the number one thing that it comes down to is the scariest thing for a company to have to realize after many, many years of anemic growth is that at some point, Hylian is going to have to realize that they're going to have to sell product. Come on, Ryan. That's a little bit hard over. You don't think that they realize that they have to sell product? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Verdict is out. When I watch the tone and the tenor and I watch the receipt of, of, of questions, it was the biggest put off that I picked up on on the interview. I thought the answers from Thomas Healy were good. I appreciate the Maud Center. I appreciate the hydrogen fuel cell update collaboration with Hyzon. I appreciate all that. That's all great. But you know what struck me is, is the continuous laughing and having a good time making $1.1 million per year at the expense of shareholders that if you're invested in this company, 100% of shareholders are down in this company. Yeah, you've lowered your cost basis. And for that, I give you credit for, I'm one of them, but you are down. And I don't sense that there is a real acknowledgement that there is a neon green dumpster fire going on at Hylian. Now, you can take that in a couple of different ways, my friends. I choose to take it from the bullish perspective in that there is a lot that is forthcoming, a lot that cannot be discussed at present. And we in due time will be made prevy to those goings on behind the scene. My fear. My fear is this.  And now they're panicking because they are burning against a mountain. What was a mountain of cash to the tune of around $600, $700 million when the SPAC dollars were paid to Hylian and they have recouped zero. They have recouped zero. And it just speaks to the demand over the product and nobody knows better than Hylian with regard to the receipt of where they are in the process. They've had a few people in sales resign, which is a bad sign. As far as I'm concerned, am I the one that's being naive? We will see. But I throw that out there just as an opportunity to review both sides of the argument and look at where this company currently is in its ability to potentially find that business that Thomas Healy alluded to over the last three years as far as interest in the space. I'm one of those realistic fellows.  So I would think as the stars aligned with this project that we would need to get that final certification out of the way before we actually look to the horizon and start to really set this thing in motion and really start to ramp up what should be a very interesting ramp up to commercialization, how that rollout happens, who is involved in the rollout, who is going to be placing orders, who will be handling those orders, whether it be Austin or the mod centers or a combination of both with the idea of segueing partial responsibility and overtime full responsibility to the mod centers. That unraveling or that unwrapping of the commercialization of the Hylian process is quite frankly what we've been waiting for for the last three years. And up to this point, again, it would have been futile to focus on an order backlog queue of 2,500 orders, 5,000 orders, 7,500 orders, 10,000 orders, if none of those orders could be reached. Furthermore, if the proof and validation needs to go into the mod centers and then eventually getting dubbed a tier one supplier, which being named a tier one supplier, I've said this before is an absolute game changer for Hylian. If that happens, the stock will re-rate because that is the tried and true validation that they need to ensure that when an order comes in from a row on whether it be a new or existing order or any of the other fleets out there by that matter to Peter bill for the new build slots that would be made available in 24, 25 and beyond as appropriate, that those power trains would be available for purchase upon the initial quote to those respective fleets. And then we would have a better idea of where those numbers would shake up and that would be the eventual ramp up from what is now in the tens of orders up into the multiple hundreds of orders. That doesn't get us to the thousands of orders. In my opinion, I really don't think Peter built is just going to step aside and allow or immediately allow the ramp up of those orders to come off of the OEM line until they've gone through a few years potentially of turning out product, but it's not going to matter at that point. Hylian is going to have its designation and if that is granted, it will be a culmination of everything that we have known about the company since day one, an electrified powertrain solution. Thomas Healy has said many, many times that this is what they do, okay, and to be able to provide those powertrains. I will encourage you guys to keep your keep your eyes open and your expectations muted and expect the unexpected when it comes to this company and the rollout that is going to be forthcoming over the coming years, just like Carnot. I called it before Carnot and I'll call it now. This company is not going to look the same in a year. Mark my words. This company is not going to look the same in five years. Okay. So the idea here is that we put a line in the sand from now until an inevitable future. Yes, but not knowing how that future is going to unfold for Hylian and really just deploy and expect the unexpected philosophy when we observe the pedigree of what we're investing in now, which is a lot of good. It is fraught with good, very, very intriguing product portfolio. I don't get these people who say that Hylian doesn't have a product. It's as if they haven't studied their product offering. They haven't studied their technology and their patents. They haven't studied the reaction of the powertrain. Look, man, I'm not suggesting that Hylian is not a buyout or a takeover target. I'm not suggesting that, but to suggest that somehow Hylian doesn't have a product or even to go so far as to say that any company like a Hylian that boasts being an electrified powertrain provider will not find its place in this market in the time that we find ourselves against a Class 8 trucking space that is looking for alternate solutions, guys. And I think this is more about the bottom line cost savings than it is about the secondary benefit of going green. Okay. I think it provides optionalities to the fleet. I think when the price of diesel goes down, I think fleets will opt for diesel on certain routes. But what about looking at specific routes and looking at the optionality to make a secondary or even in some cases, RNG, CNG, as a primary fuel source and even looking at those routes that they have and earmarking some of those routes for Bev application, hydrogen fuel application and the like. I've always looked at this as an optionality play across the board. This isn't about Hylian taking over the Class 8 space. It never has been. It never was. It was always about looking at the electrified powertrain and its ability to run on a fuel that would be the optimal fuel for that specific route and not always subjecting the fleets to the price dynamic fluctuation of diesel all the time. We've just went to war this evening or yesterday. It's been actually three days now in the making, but just now rolling out, how is that going to affect the price of crude oil? How is that going to affect the price of LNG even to throw to be fair into the fossil fuel discussion? I think fleets are looking at, at least if I was a fleet, it would make sense to me and I'll be quick to admit that I am not, but to provide optionality and move to the fuel that is the most conducive at the present time and not be subjected to the whims and price fluctuations of one particular fuel just seems to make sense for me. One of many bullish convictions as to where I think if Hylian is going to screw up this rollout to commercialization, it's going to be their screw up and it's not going to be so much that the product is not available or it doesn't exist or it's a bad product. It's going to be more on the Hylian side in their failure to execute and actually roll out with some level of efficiency. So I think that's super important. What to expect as we enter into closing out Q3 and rolling into the fourth quarter of this year. If I can speak openly guys, I've done everything I can possibly do up to this point in producing content that has covered a story that I feel like is going to make waves and it needs to the transportation space not only here in North America, but also globally needs a solution. It doesn't necessarily need to be Hylian and if Hylian mucks this up, there will be another company that comes behind them and gets it right. I could wake up tomorrow and see that Cummins has acquired Hylian and be perfectly happy with that because I think right now, based on past performance, okay, and I'll put pause to future performance just for a moment and look at Hylian's inability to forecast pitfalls, to forecast market conditions, albeit as bad as they have been and I do not blame Hylian for those things, but if you look at their disclaimers list, it's really interesting to read their disclaimers. If you read their disclaimer, you would never invest in this company because it talks about COVID-19. It talks about changing market dynamic. It talks about the receipt of the product of the HyperTruck ERX. If you really want to scare yourself and I think all informed investors should read all the literature that's available out there in the company, read the disclosure at the very bottom of all Hylian news releases, it's usually longer than the news release itself. If you get to it, you'll know what I'm talking about when we're talking about the risks involved with this company, but I think in all fairness, as we're looking to unfold this story over the coming months here, it's going to be incumbent upon shareholders to really look at what Hylian is looking at as far as their attributes that they're going to put to work in 2024, how the HyperTruck ERX is going to be received by the fleets that are assisting with the fleet trials, how well those initial responses that we have received from drivers and fleets alike that have been overwhelmingly positive in my mind. They have been overwhelmingly positive and it's going to be interesting to see if they can have that positive reinforcement reciprocated across a number of different experiences that fleets are going to take and put into the rigor of Class 8. I think that's going to be super important to understand. I really want to discuss with you guys the project and the Hylian content that's been put out. I have made an aggressive posture on if you drew a chart of the stock actually going down over time. I could start from here and go this way for you guys. I'm going the opposite. If you start up here and you look at the stock price as it's gone down and you look at the releases of the videos that I've had over that same time frame, you could put those videos on that all the way down. I mentioned on a couple of videos back or maybe on the live stream that when this company starts to move north, I may actually retract from this project. I was the recipient of one of the coolest comments that actually picked up on me stating that as a pretty bold move and actually gave me some funny advice actually that I've actually thought about myself. This has never been about an I told you so story. I'm holding Hylian to the rapture. Hylian's not going out of business, my friends.  I hate to dispute the bears who would just rather see this whole camp pull up tent and actually dissolve away and close the doors to Hylian altogether. Hylian's that's not going to happen. This company's in it for the long haul and they're not going anywhere. They do in fact have plenty of capital to at least get them an overlap into what is going to be a very interesting next couple of years. But the statement was pretty awesome and that they picked up on my retraction of the product as the Hylian story actually started to materialize and they're started to become a lot more interest in the stock which I foresee happening. I encourage you guys to understand and appreciate the work that has been turned out by myself. There has been a lot of hours in research behind the scenes. There's been a lot of contentious conversation. There's been a lot of mad tweets that have gone through probably not reflective of my personality and who I am. Sometimes I get judged on that stuff by a three four liner on Twitter and in all fairness I have the right to portray my feelings in the way that I feel fit at the time. And there have been multiple times in the evolution of this company where I've been downright angry at the rollout and how the lack of information has been pushed out to the grander audience. But I will say this. I expect that when Hylian starts to find favor I expect that there are going to be content creators that absolutely jump on the bandwagon. I think we'll have some reemergence of content creators that come back and all of a sudden find a renewed sense of vigor for creating Hylian content on YouTube. Why? Because the attributes of this company as much as we go back and forth and as much as the contentious conversation happens and as much as the name calling and the accusations fly the attributes of this company really has not changed that much over the last three years. And I will dare to say over the last seven years I think the progress has been marked. I think the evolution of the company has been quite frankly stunning over the last three years with the advancement of the technology and where they were and where they are now and more freakishly where they could potentially go into the future. But the attributes, the very reason why and the essence of why we've invested in this company, total addressable market, the product, which is phenomenal, the team that I hope executes and gets this product out in the way that can actually start to generate some organic churn as opposed to manufactured churn. As much as I talk about news releases in a dry market, how much of that stuff would have actually moved the needle now guys, right? So my expectations are somewhat muted in that I don't think it really would have gone very far in what I have perceived to be an absolute onslaught on small cap stocks as well. Oh, so why would Hylian be any different? I mean, I'm seeing some certain glimmers of light in small caps, but for the most part the entire space has been absolutely obliterated. So why is it fair to suggest that Hylian somehow is going to emerge from the ashes and just start kicking ass when every other stock is getting absolutely blown away, right? But my anticipation of the progress of the company is going to be made left up to me, but it would just be me to be above myself and my independent application to walk the hell away from this project as soon as I feel like the good work has been done. What I mean by that is the last thing I've ever wanted on YouTube was to people, for people to tune into my message and actually hear something from me that has actually hurt people, right? And I think that there's more good out there than I think a lot of people are given credit for. Me personally, if I could have just given you that right stock to make everybody wealthy, I would have given it to you. But here's the irony in the whole thing. I don't believe that that stuff exists, and I do believe based on my monitoring of the YouTube landscape that the trick is very, very simple. Come on to YouTube and sell people that you have the goods or I have the goods enough to set myself apart from the next person in so far as I can provide you stock picks that are going to be life-changing. My friends, I'm here to tell you that that stuff does not exist in nature. If the Hylian project ends up working out over time, which I believe that it will, I will have had to walk a road that very few were willing to walk. That is for sure. And there will be study on the project, there will be scrutiny on the project, and there may in fact be rigor over the product to ensure that everything was on the up. And I would rather just prove out to suggest that 100% of my content was released on a downward trajectory and let the vultures come in and pick away at the neon green carcass on the way up because my good work has already been done. And for those that held true and realized that those attributes didn't change in three years after all the accusations and the name-throwing and quitting the Discord group and all of that stuff at the end of the day, Hylian ends up becoming something that we expect it can become upon proper execution. And that is providing electrified powertrain solutions to the Class 8 space. And is it too much to ask? Is it possible? Is it needed? Is it possible? But that's the key question, right? When I look at this, I mean, these guys had just a fantastic idea with tons of support. Are we going to be looking at a regretful situation five years from now when we look back on this and say, well, the stock was a dollar then, you know, it's at $3.30 now, not a whole lot's changed. Certainly a lot more stress watching the ups and downs in the stock market if it can only materialize a $3.30 stock price after five years of, you know, achieving funding out of public markets as well as private funding or whatever Avenue Hylian did because they over-anticipated their place in a marketplace that they underestimated or overestimated, right? I don't see that happening. This idea is not so complex and not so novel to suggest that what we know now about this company trading at $1.10 today close to all-time lows as I'm filming this video is that this idea is a good one from the simple sheer fact that it provides that optionality that I speak about to move freight from point A to point B. Ah, it's a terrible idea, Ryan. Thomas Healy's a bad guy. None of those accusations really outside of just taking away focus from what I want investors to focus on is the fact that this idea works right now as we speak as indicated by the certification that was it just achieved under 30 days ago, 30 days. Does that warrant a bump in the stock price? Obviously not. The stock has come off another oh, 10, 15% I guess since the announcement just last month, right? And me, I focus on the reality of this being a product that really could change the landscape. And if Hylian were out there by themselves saying, look, we have to make this happen at the Austin facility, I would have never invested in this company. It has always been the involvement with Dana. It's always been the involvement with Ryder. It's always been its involvement with A and G and the network of compressed natural gas in this country. And it's always been the relationship with Packard Peterbilt in that the idea of taking this powertrain from the production facility in Austin and shipping it to the Peterbilt facility was one of the main drivers behind my investment thesis. Why? Because that's the business lean model that we all bought into when we looked at this opportunity. Now, this bridging phase that we're in right now to get these initial units out and book some revenue coming into the year's end, closing out Q3 and entering into Q4 may just be exactly what Hylian needs to get that jumpstart to let the dominoes start to fall. If the company cannot deliver on that and the ERX is not the product that they promised it to be, then the company will falter and go away. And there will be somebody to step behind this and actually offer this solution and make it viable in the marketplace. I truly believe that. So I just want to wrap down this video and I kind of want to point out the fact and I'll highlight the comment that was provided to me because I got a little chuckle out of it because it was a pretty cool insight. It was only one person that picked up on that when I said it because I do not want to be known for a stock picker. You can accuse me of being a family man. You can accuse me of being a serviceman, devoted father, wonderful coach, a subpar content creator on YouTube. That's fine. But I am not a stock picker and I've been involved with financial markets ever since I was 15 years old. I have the pulse of the market. I know when I evaluate companies, what companies have that pedigree to actually make it with no promise of return on that insight. None. Zero. You want to become a steward of this game. You have to fully immerse yourself and it is a life's passion for sure. But the last thing I want to do is sell somebody on my insight in so far as they go act upon that insight and believe that my insight can supplement for their lack of insight. That is not what I'm looking to do. And that's the very reason why when the timing is right, I will close the door on this project. I will wrap it up and I will digress back to fundamental investing, which in fact does scale to the masses, whereas this project absolutely does not scale to the masses. And it will be a job well done. It will be fun to sit on the sidelines, do infrequent updates on the progress, earmark milestones, and I will only put out content when those milestones are met and then we can do a review from the milestone back. But until then it's going to be really just tranching through this ice age, which has been 2023, and looking forward to the horizon based on some of the comments that we're able to glean from the interview that we got over the last month, hoping that the news releases are amped up a little bit and are a little bit more forthcoming. You guys get on Twitter. Man, blow that stuff up, man. It's your free right to get on there and humbly request.  My request is justified. I want more forthcoming information from this company. You can't go silent on the line for an entire month when you've got the stock price at all time lows. You just can't do that. You can't do that. And again, I might be wrong on that presumption, but I don't believe that I am. And I believe that there's others out there in the same camp as me who don't mind providing a little bit of business scrutiny out there for a company that has no business acting like a small cap company or a mid cap company when in fact it is operating right now at penny stock levels. Guys, I appreciate you tuning in to this weekly highly on update. I appreciate the latitude of the last couple of weeks. I appreciate the continued support on the channel. We probably have a couple of months left before I detract from the product or retract from it. So let's continue to enjoy our time here. I'm accumulating shares. I bought more shares this week. 500 was the block this week at 107 and we'll continue to look at opportunities as they unfold in the marketplace. And as they become available to me, I will share those with you guys subscribe to the channel. Leave your comments at the bottom of the video. 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You can talk a number of games, but when you look historically, obviously Yellich is at that mark, but not playing the Brewers, he didn't do it. Rodriguez back in 2007, Albert Pujols, and still we have another game tomorrow. So Frank, the biggest difference when you look at Ballinger, this is third season, he's about a 260 average hitter. We know in the post season he was hitting in his two trips or his two series below 200. What's the dramatic difference in his turnaround for this season? Everything. He's just retooled everything. He's leading the league every hidden office of category. For me, it's he's gotten more upright. He's short to the baseballs. He's sitting the ball deeper into the zone. And he's always, for me, had the best finish in baseball. So Washington's got hit right now. He's been spectacular in April and it's so hard to come out and hit 14 home runs in a month, April, because you see guys getting hot really June, July. With the average of hitting the home run.  I mean, he's having a MVP season right out of the box. And Frank, it's fascinating because sometimes you hear hitters say, well, they're letting the ball travel, they're using the whole field. Belliger's really not. He's just pulling the ball. Look at fangrafts.com, more than 56% of the time when that ball is in play, it is to the pull field. You see it there. Frank, to your point, he just knows where the ball is being pitched now. It seems like he's got that great sense of it. And he is just knowing how confident he is to pull the baseball with damage. He's doing that now. He's also not missing. His swing and miss rates, basically half of what it was last year, Chris, those mistakes that we saw him make in the playoffs last year simply are not happening now. Contact percentage up 15% for Belliger. I mean, these are Ruthian type numbers to start a season. Is this one of the best historically, if we compare with some of the great, here's at least starting out a year. It is, Chris. You could make the argument, this might be the best all-around offensive start to a year that we have ever seen. Think about these numbers. He's got more total bases right now than Babe Ruth did at this stage of the 1921 season. Frank, when he set the record then, more hits than each hero had back in 04 when he set the hits record, more RBI than Hack Wilson had at this stage of 1930 when he set the RBI record and more homers than Barry Bonds did in his record setting year in 2001. Our Anthony Masterson did a great job of looking up all those numbers for us. And again, Frank, that just tells us just how overall this entire season has been and the strength of it for Belliger so far. I made a bold prediction last week. This kid could. He's on pace to hit 50 homeruns. I think he could and helps plan in California. But watching him short karate chop to the baseball with the best finish and the quickest hands. This guy is, he's off the charts. Oh, you're saying he'll hit 50. I think he's got a chance to hit 50 this year. A good chance, according to the bearer. Very good chance. That's our institution of higher learning. You should be at an institution. I kid, I care. Frity Freeman's 28 game on base streak was snap. But let's talk about the bullpen for the Braves. I know you're talking about your guy. You're closer. I can't get him out of my mouth. You want him everywhere. But you know, with this guy, he was out for the year. A.J. Mitter has had a problem. Z.R.A. is overnight at a rough weekend. So where do the Braves turned for bullpen health? It's obvious they need Craig Cromwell. I mean, he's a born in Atlanta. Well, he's born in Georgia. Right. He played for the Braves. He started with the Braves. He lives there. He's a perfect fit for their bullpen after losing their closer to Tommy John.  He wants to be back in Atlanta, I think. But for some reason, Aleksandopoulos has not pulled the trigger. I don't know if financially they want to make this move. Or like you said, it could be a draft pick situation. But they need this guy. This could be the final piece to get them back to playoff. And again, that draft pick now, Frank, with the draft basically one month away, I think with both Kaikalan and Kimberle now, teams may just say, listen, we want you on our team, but we're just gonna wait the one extra month. That's, for the Braves, I've been told by a source that that draft pick matters a lot to them because they cannot spend internationally because of some violations in the past. They really want to invest in the draft. We can disagree with them about if it should be an issue, but they tell me it is. Yeah, but you can flip the coin there, but they've lost 11 games late. Yeah, you're right. And you do that in May, you can find yourself out of a playoff contest. It's a great point. They need to win, they need to win now. I would pull the trigger. And we talked about how tight this division is. And Frank, you said earlier, this is a division where one game could decide and that one game could be this week. It's a four team race in the National League East. And yes, they're Atlanta now just at 500.


trading and investing. Melissa Armos, the CEO and owner of the stockswish.com. Melissa, you have the mic. Trading day of March. So starting out bullish here for the market. We'll see if we can hold this week. And welcome everyone. Thank you for having me. Today I'm going to talk about making money trading volatility. And last week was a very wild week in the market. And pretty much 2020 did start out very bullishly.  And unfortunately, the virus scares really probably are not still done in the market. So we will see where we go from here. I am cautiously watching cautiously optimistic. So got a lot of phone calls, got a lot of emails in the last couple of days, people panicking that the market was lower. And unfortunately, two people did die from cases in the US this week, which was horrible, horrible. But the market is trying to hold on today. Now one is volatility. Volatility means you think something is going in one direction, and then it goes in another direction. So volatility isn't straight selling. Okay. Like we did pretty much see last week. Volatility is like today. For example, we're rallying. And then what if we rally another day, which we might, and we rallied on Friday, even though we gap down. So what if we rally three days in a row? And then we start to sell off quickly. That would be volatility. Because if we would rally for three days in a row, people would probably think that we were going to continue higher and that we put in a quote unquote bottom on Friday, which I'm not saying that we have. But volatility overall is something that if you know how to play it, you can make money in the market. And as individual traders, which we all are, again, it doesn't matter if you have a small account or a big account, we're all individuals. We're trading our own funds, or I would think everyone here is trading their own funds. And you have a limitation. You have a fixed risk amount. You only have so much cash that you can risk per train. So you want to try to get it right. And you want to try to get it right way more than you ever get wrong. Okay.  And in the market last week, there was many good shorts to be had many, many, many good shorts who could have done puts, which are options trades, which are still shorts. Okay. So what I do is I look for momentum and I look for volatility and I look for it in something called a gap. And that is what we're going to talk about here today. So again, I own my company called the Stock Swish. If you'd like to contact me, you can call me at 993200 gap or follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or Skype or email me at Melissa at thestockswish.com. So we're really still in the beginning part of 2020. And the beginning part of the year is a good time for evaluating your financial goals and career. So if you're thinking about trading as a career, you could do it part time while you're doing your full time job. Okay. A lot of people transition, they start trading maybe one, two, three days a week in the mornings or doing options and then transition. But it's a good time to think about where you at with your job. Do you want to switch careers? Do you enjoy what you do every day? I did mortgages for 17 years and I got to be honest with you towards the end. I really did not like doing that job and I was looking for a new career in the lo and behold, I found out about trading and I found out about day trading and the nice thing about trading, whether you trade options, whether you day trade is that you work for yourself. Okay. And so that's very, very important for me personally. I like being my own boss. Okay. So when you are a professional trader and I say professional, but you basically work for yourself, but you'll be doing it to pay your bills. So you get a lot of freedom from that. A lot of people that are very independent minded entrepreneurs. You know, you don't have to do this full time, but if you want to do it full time, there is an opportunity, but you have to have a specific set strategy in order to trade in order to be successful. And for me at SCAPs and that's what we're going to talk about here today. The other reason that I chose to get involved in the market once I was looking for a new career from mortgages is because of the fact that I liked doing a job where I had unlimited earnings potential and when I was doing mortgages, I did the more mortgages I did, the more money I made. Okay. And with trading, this has been a very, very active year. So, you know, you can have unlimited potential when you're trading to make money in the market. The only thing holding you back really is the risk per trade. So you can risk more if you have one more size, but obviously no matter what, you still need a strategy that has a high wind ratio, which we'll talk about today here as well. Someone is saying that they were in real estate too. Yeah. I live in Manhattan. I never did mortgages in this in New York City, but it's very, very, very stressful and I have a lot of friends obviously that have jobs in New York and working in New York is stressful, but I honestly don't have to live in New York. I love living in this city, but I can live anywhere in the world and do what I do. So, you could be in a foreign country and trade the US stock market and you don't have to be in eastern time zone, although I do find that convenient for me because the market opens at 9 30 and again, I'm in New York same time zone as the market, but you know, we're just looking to trade in the morning most of the days that I'm looking at my trades and even if you wanted to trade all day to four o'clock at four o'clock, the market closes. Okay. So, you have time to do things later in the day. You have weekends off and in that sense, it is a nice career. You know, I don't know if any of you work in retail, but again, real estate was a seven day away, 24 hour day job. Retail. You're working many, many long hours, way more than 40 hours a week and you're working on holidays. You're working on weekends. Okay. So, there are many reasons to trade, but really, I think if you're looking to do this for more money, that's fine, but I found that this was a blessing, blessing for me as a career and it might be for you as well. Trading is a career that can offer you financial freedom, fulfillment and happiness. There's a certain type of pride I get when I call a trade, when I take a trade, when I do a trade that I predict is going to go in a certain direction like last week with the market and it is profitable. Okay. There's a joy, there's a fulfillment and the money is part of that. Okay. But it also really is getting it right. You can have the life you want if you're willing to learn something new and develop the skills to become successful in a new industry. So, one is volatility equals profits for professionals. Okay. Now, if you're, if you have a 401k or retirement plan, you may get upset when you see volatility and you know, on television, people act like that's bad. If you're an active trader or making a living trading, it may not be bad if you know how to play it. Okay. So, if you're a long-term investor, volatility can seem scary, but if you're an active trader, it's an opportunity. It's an opportunity to make a lot of money and that is really what the tail end of last week was. And so, let's just look here at a chart of the market. So, I trade gaps. What would be some reasons to trade gaps? And not only that, what is a gap? I'm going to go over what a gap is here right now today. So, a gap is the difference between the close and the open. Gaps happen every day in the market. Some are meaningless gaps and some are important gaps. Let's take a look at the one that I thought was very important from last week. So, this was Wednesday. This is the spy. This is the ETF for the S&P. The market closed here around 3-11 and changed Wednesday night at four o'clock and then on Thursday Martin opened down here at 3-05. So, actually, I didn't short here this first day out of the game for any overnights, which was Monday a week ago. Okay. I had a hundred percent conviction on Thursday, though, that the market was going to drop and fall, which it did, and then it fell into Friday. But this is a gap. Market closed here on Wednesday and opened at a different price the next day. In this case here, this is a gap down. You also have gap ups. Where was a gap up today? Market closed here on Friday. Around 296 and changed and gapped up. Opened at a price above where it closed. Opened at around 300. So, this is a gap up and again, this was this morning but we were rallying today. This was a gap down. Closed here, gap down. So, there are gap downs and gap ups. And gaps, okay, signify volatility when they are the good ones. Okay, the good ones, what I call the good ones are the predictable ones. This was predictable here that we're going to drop on Thursday. Okay. So, we took advantage of it. All right. Now, here's another one. This was Amazon. Amazon gap down two on Thursday. Wednesday, Amazon closed in here around 1980. Boom. Gapped down here around 1930 and changed. Fell. Sold off. Closed here around 1880. Opened in the morning around 1810. Okay. This is Amazon. So, Amazon gap down two. This is volatility. Why? Chart was very strong. Chart was holding. People were long Amazon. Amazon was holding here in the 50 period moving average going into Wednesday nights closed. And again, the reasons we gap down last week were based on the coronavirus and the scare and the people that had in the panic. But again, panic creates the volatility. People get scared and they sell. When people are dying, people get scared. When people are getting a virus that there is currently right now, no type of medication that people can take to help them. No vaccine whatsoever at all. People get scared and they panic and selling. Panic creates selling. Selling creates more selling. Okay. And you see how it goes. And for active traders, guess what? We can short selling. We can short selling and you can also buy maybe when you see selling. I did not do that Friday and I didn't go along the market today. Okay. But when you see that something's going to happen, whether it's buying or selling, you can take advantage of it. Again, volatility means something's going in one direction and then it goes in the opposite direction that you think it's going to go. And in the case here of Amazon, this chart was strong. And I don't follow fundamentals. I'm talking about these things because they're of interest and I appear on news, several news channels. But people do love newsy things. For me, I read the gap and I read the price action in the gap. But I know that people are following very closely what's happening in the world right now because it's affecting a lot of stocks and it's affecting the market. And it is creating many of these gaps that we're seeing. Any questions here so far? Okay. So let's talk about another gap here. This was BYND. This was the play of the day in the trading room on Friday. Stop closed here, gap down. Again, closed at one price, open at another price. Okay. And then this felt. This was a short here in the tail. We shorted that. So what is another reason to trade gaps? Profits happen very quickly. And as a day trader, if you had a choice and someone said you could make $1,000 in five minutes or you could make $1,000 in six hours, which would you choose? Well, that's easy. You would prefer to make it fast. You would always prefer to make money faster than quickly. And also the longer you're in the market, the more your position is at risk. And right now because we're in this period, the market's attempting to rally. Is it going to last? Is it going to hold? I honestly don't know. Okay. I was shocked by the sell-off last week from Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Then I knew we were going to drop. But you know, when you're not short, you don't take any action. You just kind of lay low. I actually just got off the phone with somebody earlier today. I said, listen, just lay low right now. You don't have to be trading every day. You don't have to trade any second. You don't, you don't have to trade over all the time. All right. Way to something qualifies. Way to something happens. Because it's a lot better to make money fast when you see the volatility, rather than take a position and hold it because you're always at risk. Okay. People go in the market today. This could fall through tomorrow. This may not fall through tomorrow. All right. But even if you went long today, guess what? It's very iffy in the morning. The money wasn't fast today in the market. All right. Fast is good when you're an active trader. Fast is always good. Fast is always, always good. In fact, if the market goes straight right back up to the high, that would be the best case scenario for the market. The be the best case scenario for the market and the most aggressive thing for the market to do. I don't know if it does it, but fast is good when it comes to making money and when it comes to moves and stocks. Now, why also trade gaps? You can work from home. Okay. Work from home. It's nice. You can work anywhere in the world. So, if you learn how to trade the market, you can be your own boss and work from home. You can set your own schedule and work just a short time a day for a comfortable income, whatever that is. I usually say one risk unit is your goal per day. If you risk 500 in a trade, you should be looking to make 500 in a trade. If you're risking a thousand in a trade, you should be risking a thousand in a trade. Okay. There's a trading strategy I trade and teach. It sets up quickly. Each morning, the strategy is gaps. Gaps not only work fast, but they also offer a good risk to reward payout. This is important because you need a sustainable trading method if you want to be trading, if you want this to be your career. Someone's been saying about the gap down. The gap down in the S&P, there was no gap down this morning. If you're talking about the gap down on Friday, was near key support of moving averages when the bass was expected. How did I get conviction on market was going down. The conviction was on Thursday. We gap down Thursday and we gap down on Friday morning. We rallied on a gap down Friday. Yes, it was into support, but there's about a million support reasons in the market. So you don't, I don't go long support. That's not my strategy. It also isn't a consistent way to trade because the market gap down on Thursday to another support level, which could have helped but didn't, and I knew that it wouldn't. Buying support is not a consistent way to look at charts. Just so you know. And if we have time, I'll pull out some live charts here today and I'll go over a couple of examples. But that is also why, as well, I don't have a hundred percent conviction that the rally today is going to have follow-through and even if it does for three days, is necessarily going to follow through because there's many support levels in this market. This market has been strong and has been rallying and rallying pretty much all of 2019. You could have said at the prior highs was even a support. There's a baby support. There's a mini support. There's a bigger support. There's another support that's below where we were in Friday morning, to be honest with you. If you're just look at the two hundred pair moving average and try to go long every time the market sits on that or any stock, you're going to lose. That's not a way to look at things. Why? Because of the gap. I'm going to go over that in some trades from last week. I'm going to go over all the trades from last week of the day trades if I, if I can here get through this. But anyways, what you have to find is something predictable and reliable. Sets up often, almost daily, if not daily. There are some days around any good trades and has big moves because that's one individual trader. You need a dollar or more you know, preferably. But today's world is just not the same as 25 years ago or even 10 years ago, even five years ago, or even way before the bank bailout. What we think about is a secure job today. Maybe go on tomorrow, like that, okay? We can be great employees, productive, outgoing, hardworking, and it may not even matter to our employer in the end if the company can't keep you on. And this is unfortunate, all right? And you'll see this more and more. Remember, I don't know if anyone remembers. Remember like 20, 30 years ago when people used to get 3% annual raises? That's unheard of now. People don't, people don't get annual raises. People don't get Christmas bonuses either. Remember back in the day where if you did a good job you got a Christmas bonus, I'm sure some people here remember those days. They do not exist, okay? If a company has poor management, they may fail and it's nothing to do with you. You may be a great employee. Or your industry might fail and it has nothing to do with you. Right now, cruise lines are tanking, airlines are tanking, hospitality industry, all of this people don't want to travel right now, okay? And it has nothing to do with them. That's out of their control, out of their control about what's going on with this virus. If you're a skilled person with a great mind, you can do lots of things and you can work for yourself in the market. It may take some time to learn it. It may take some cost, okay? Whether it's paying for a class or depositing money that you would need to trade to risk. But you can create your own job opportunity yourself and your own security by working for yourself. And 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. So this is another reason why trading is good because you can work for yourself and that is job security because the market will always exist. It may go up and it may go down, but it will always always exist, okay? So one quality strategy in my opinion is all you need to trade the market. You can take different risk amounts by doing swing trades options or day trades, but I do the same thing no matter what I do, okay? And knowing how to use one strategy that you can replicate over and over and just add the size on to it can really change your trading world. I think a lot of people don't have good strategies or don't have one strategy or don't have that one thing that I have a hundred percent conviction in. Like here's like for me, like on Thursday morning I got up, I rated the gap. I have a very keen eye now that I can see right away when something's gonna go, but I still go through my process and I rate it. I knew a hundred percent, a hundred percent the market and everything's gonna fall on Thursday and we pushed back hard into lunch and I held the conviction. So that's where the focus, the focus on one thing that you believe in that you know allows you to take the size, allows you to plop on the risk, allows you to risk several thousand dollars so you can make several thousand dollars or even more, okay? So for me, my strategy is called golden gaps. I showed you examples of gaps, some of the good gaps. Today this rally is this gap up today in the market is not a good gap. I would not go along here. Are we rallying theoretically? Yes. Could you have gone long today, made money today? Yes. Was it the same as Thursday? No. Did I go long today though the market? No I did not. So this isn't quality. There's a difference between looking at a recognizing quality and not quality. So one is a golden gap. A golden gap is a gap that moves in the direction of the gap. Who makes golden gaps? Institutional money makes and creates the gaps. That's what moved the market and flushed it through on Thursday and to Friday, okay? And it was very, very powerful. And today that is not what's happening. You have some bottom feeders happening today. If institutional money was full on into the market here today, guess what? We would be up way, way, way, way, way, way more than we are right now and it's only 219. I know we theoretically have almost two hours left to close but I still think this rally today could have been way, way, way more. If we were going to really see the follow-through and completely wipe away all the losses, lickety-split. We still might, we still could but it's going to take a series of days at this point here today the way the market set up if we would. I don't think institutional money is back in the market today in a big way. How do I know? Because I got up in the morning and I rated the gap. I rated the bullish gap in the market and it said this isn't rate good enough to go long. Okay? Even though theoretically you could have gone long today, it wasn't something that I had a high level of conviction in. Okay? But in the case of a bullish gap like the one in the market today, institutions are buying the stock but I just don't think they're there today. In fact, I was trying to look for something, something or anything to call long today that I found a hundred percent conviction and it was gapping up. I saw nothing but you have day traders who like to buy this stuff. You have retail traders like to buy this stuff. You have people who like to buy and support. It doesn't mean it's a good quality trade. I'm looking for something that's going to have a big move right of ways and that you could potentially hold, hold through the overnight if you wanted to like from Thursday to Friday in the puts and in the shorts. So therefore when you have a gap up where institutions are buying they move it up. Okay? Stock trade is higher on the day or the market. In the case of a bearish gap, institutions are selling a shorting the stock. In the case of a golden gap, therefore the stock moves lower in the training day. You could short it or you could buy a put. But anything, anything you could do to put the odds in your favorite gives you an edge. It's about high probability. It's not about getting every longer short. For me, I'm looking at high odds. High odds something's going to happen. And do you see what I'm seeing here? It's like it's not high odds right now. There's a high probability the market's going to go straight back up to the highs. It's not really high odds. I could change my mind in two days, but right now not high odds. Just like last Monday when we gap down, by the way we gap down last Monday, do another support area for somebody that said that earlier what you could have bought and it wouldn't have worked. But anyways, it wasn't high odds one week ago that we would fall. I don't trade the news. And if you make trading decisions based on news, I think you're going to lose way more than you win. While you may have some wins that are big, you still will lose overall. Because you must have more winners and losers to make money. You must have more winners than losing trades to make money. Or you will not make it. Not only will you not make money by the end of the year, you won't be able to make a living out of it. You have to have more winners. Otherwise, how can you rely on paying your bills at the end of the week, at the end of the month? Okay, so for me it's high probability. I'm looking at 26 points. The point ratio is at a 20. That's the cutoff. I've got to see 20 points or more, okay, for me to take it in the direction of the gap. And I'll get this question a lot and say, oh that's a lot of points. It only takes five minutes or less than that to read a gap. If you're brand brand new, it might take you five to ten. But I don't read a thousand things in the morning. I read a handful of things that I'm picking out and qualifying and looking for. So the Golding App System, which is what I do, it's my strategy, is a 26-point rating system. And the purpose is to help you evaluate which gap to trade using a checklist and its high probability. This checklist tells me high probability it's going to go in this direction, in the direction of the gap. Now, how do I find gaps? You can pull this up on any platform.  Gaps happen in the pre-market and gaps also happen in the post-market. This should be free with any of your platforms. So we got 40 picks total of the downs here and here in both of the New York and the Nasdaq exchange. And then you have the gap uppers, which is the gainers here. Again, you would see these in the morning. Actives are just stocks that are active if you want to look at those as well. But this gives you 40 picks in either direction, which is a lot. Now, how many gaps do I get per week? In earnings season, we get a lot. All right? We get three to five a day in earnings season, or at least quality ones I'm talking about. There are many gaps, but I try to hone down on the quality. And in non-earning season, we may get five a week. Okay? Really try to hone down to find one good pick a day. But a quality gap is one that rates high enough to trade based on the 26-point rating system. Now, when I see a gap like I saw Thursday in the market, when I know the market's going to power trend, whether it's power-turning up or down, I will cost several trades with the market when I know everything's going to go with the market. Thursday was very, very easy to see that everything was going to go with the market to the downside. Even strong stocks sold off Thursday into Friday because of the market. Nothing was going to hang on, okay? Today's a different story. You could look for many, many, many things. Again, you have to find the quality. It is always about the quality. And that's how you also get a good risk-to-reward payout, which is, you know, one-to-one to me. But sometimes you can make three times as much, four times as much, five times as much, especially if you're doing trades where you're holding something overnight, okay? So if you want to hold a trade overnight, like an option trade, then you have the potential to make much, much more because it could do a secondary gap in the direction of the gap, all right? So you could have a gap down and then follow through, follow through with another gap down, which we saw in Boeing from Thursday to Friday, which we saw in the spy and the queues from Thursday to Friday, all right? So when it continues in the next day, as a gap up or a gap down, depending on where, which direction it went, those could be very, very profitable and very, very powerful, okay? Any questions here? So I'm going to go over, I'm going to go over the main pick from each day from last week for day trades. This is not options. I will talk about one option that I called, I think I've won in here, and then I'll show the winners and the losers from last week. These trades are with an advanced risk of approximately $2,500 per trade. Some are a little bit less, but when you're, when you're sizing yourself initially in the morning, some of these trades set up fast, I always do it by an average. So I don't take a thousand shares of everything or 2,000 shares of everything. The difference of risk has to be same over the cash risk.  I have target exits, which I'll look at based on the chart, and then I also have time of the day exit, which would you look at something also with the market. So this was, this is a stock that's been getting clobbered, okay? As everyone knows, the airlines, like I said earlier, this was last week Monday AAL, okay? So this was a short. So what did it do? It gapped down. Stock closed here, gapped down. I rated the gap in the morning to see that this was fall. Again, this was it one week ago. So entry in this, this is a day trade, was 25.42, stop was 25.65, okay? Then it reset up again with the same position you could have doubled your size and added slightly, slightly above the price of 25.50, okay? What if cost averaged you up? This is an advanced concept, but I'm just going over it here. Again, stock dropped, went down to the target of 25 dollars the whole number, and was a really big trade. This trade was a beautiful move why? It fell. It never really pushed back that much. I always held the conviction this was lower. This is obviously tanked. I mean I don't even know where this is trading at right now, this AL, but this was a week ago. This is tanked, tanked, tanked in the last week. So you theoretically could have done this. Again, I used my rating system to qualify this as a short. You theoretically could have done a put in this. You could have done a swing trade in this, okay? From this initial day a week ago, you could have day traded it here where I called in the live run, or you could have done an overnight because the stock has fallen every day. Now the entry, though, for the overnight would have been here on Monday. That would have been a solid good entry which you could still be in it and you could would still be up in it. If you had done a put even at this price point okay or a swing trade, but this was a good day trade. A lot of size here, but a lot of volume in it. Oh it's at 1825. Look at that.  Look at that. So $7 down. So you can use my system for overnights, long-term moves, and you can use it for day trading. I do it for both. I do it for both, but this is a good example of something that has collapsed. Tuesday was EXAS. Again, this was a day trade, okay? Stock close to your gap down, fell. Entry in this one was 8830. Shares 2500. Stock was 8930. It was about buck, okay? Which is really good for this price point because this one wasn't cheap. Risk was 2500. Exit at 8725. Profit was 2625.  This was Tuesday. I think it went to 84 on that day. I like to trade in the morning. I like to be done in the morning. I like to be done fast, but this continued. I think this went $3 through the initial $87 and change exit that I had for this for the morning. So you can often retake these or trade them longer the day if you want. I prefer to focus on day trades for the morning trades, but you could have done this and held it and you could have done it again, okay? Again, I haven't looked at where this is at today, but this was a good gap last Tuesday. I think that was earnings. Where's the AAL was the newest gap? Wednesday was tall. This was an earnings gap, okay? So, stock close to your gap down, open, fell, boom. Entry in this one was 3960. Shares 2500. Stop was 4065. Risk was 2625. Exit 3912. $39 whole number out. This one continued as well. Again, I like to trade in the morning. I like to trade fast. The faster I can make money, the happier I am, but this one continued. This one went down to 38 and might have even broken 38 even on the day. It was a late bloomer as far as the sell-off, but it was a good solid short. Solid short in the morning if you didn't get out. Solid short of his day. What did that all day? Okay, now Thursday, Thursday there was a lot of trades on Thursday. I'm only showing you Boeing right here, but I will go over all the ticker symbols I did Thursday. Thursday was a wild day. I called a lot of options on Thursday. They were all puts and they all worked. The day trade run was very active and I was aggressive and I'm going to go all of those trades in a second here, but Boeing was, without a doubt, the best short on Thursday, whether you did it as a put, whether it is a day trade. I've been talking about Boeing lower since December of 2019. I mentioned it on Fox News and I remember because the other panelists that I was on with thought that Boeing was going to rally. I was right. Boeing was lower. It was lower than initially in January. Had the pushback here. This is a daily chart of Boeing. Had the pushback here in February and fell off a cliff. This was the first thing to go. Boeing is weak. I don't know where this is today, but this is still lower. I can tell without even looking at the chart today. I don't even care if it's rallying today. This is lower, okay? But all the trades I called from last week worked and I don't know what I'm going to call any more, but the reality is that this was, without a shout of a doubt, the best short on Thursday. So this was the entry for the day trade. $297.59. This is a kind of a big stock, but it's an expensive stock. Stock was $310. Again, your wish should be the same in almost every trade.  This was on Thursday. Dream target $290, even $285. It did get through all those numbers on a Friday. In fact, it went through $280. It was just a huge move for the stock and the stock can move. If you're familiar with the stock, it can move. Again, you can say, well, is this effective by this thing, that thing, whatever. I called this stock short in December before anybody knew about the coronavirus in the US. I just, you know, look at the technicals and I've been reading the gaps in this and just waiting, waiting to short this. So this was a huge profit. This was a day trade. So this, in this case here, was a huge, huge risk to reward. It was a three times the amount, $75.40. Now again, what if you can't take a thousand shares? A hundred shares of this was a good trade. Two hundred shares of this was a good trade. Two hundred shares of this, the stock moves $7. You're going to make $1,400 plus with 200 shares. You don't have to take a lot of size if you can't afford to and if you don't want to, but you've got to get it right, okay? What if you can't get in the opening bell price? First of all, I don't get in on the open at $9.30, so I don't worry about that. Aren't you at the mercy of the market makers? You probably get a price way lower than the opening get price was only the floor you can get. I don't get in any trades at all at $9.30 am Eastern time. None, okay? When you're in an option, you choose the price that you want to take it. If you want to take it, many trades I'll call before the open, but you can't take options trades before the open. I'd wait the first five minutes of the day for it to flush out and you put or you can put an order out to see if you get filled and then move it into the open. We never take any trades at $9.30 in any of your trades, but I'm not trading things that don't have volume. So no, it's nothing to do with that. I'm trading momentum. This is nothing to do with the market makers at all. You don't know what those market makers are doing and nobody does. If I'm trading momentum and if Boeing's going to sell off, it's going to sell off. Whether I take the trade at $9.35 or $9.40 or $9.45, I'm always waiting for a setup. So I don't just short randomly even at $9.31. I don't only short at $9.31. I may not take a trade till $9.45. I may not take a trade till $9.40, $9.52. I try to get in within the first half hour of the day. If it's an option, I try to get in the first 5, 10, 15 minutes because they can move rather quickly, but I'm trading momentum. So you're never going to get in at the high of the day in a short and you're never going to get in at the low of the day in the long. I wait for it to set up. That's something that I teach in the class, but I don't just take trades into the open. I don't take anything into the open at all. The stock has to prove itself. Theoretically, the market on Friday might have continued lower. It didn't, but I didn't know that on Friday in the pre-market. I did know we were down. I knew all the trades, all the puts were going to be up a lot, but the reality is that I did watch the market on Friday morning. And the market on Friday morning, you wouldn't have shorted in the morning and you wouldn't have gone long in the morning because it gapped down, but you maybe could have shorted the market on Friday morning if you'd watched it, but it never set up. I didn't know that till I watched it. So part of it is trading live and also seeing something live. So that's why I don't take anything in the open. Nobody can tell anything, you know, when something's moving that fast on the open when we're in the volatility land that we are. I don't use a gap full strategy. To be honest with you, it does not exist. That to me is nothing. I know people call it a strategy. It doesn't work consistently in the market. For every 10 trades you take like that, that you would take, you might make money in two and lose on the other eight. It doesn't have a high wind ratio. It doesn't work. Have you ever heard someone from Goldman Sachs saying that they bought a stock to fill a gap? No. I'm looking for institutional money so institutions don't do gap fills. So think like a professional trader. Think like you're going to go work for Goldman. That's how you have to think. That strategy doesn't work. There is no such thing. There is no strategy called a gap fill strategy in my world. It doesn't work and you'll have to unlearn those habits if you're used to doing that. Okay? Again, if we have time at the end, I'll probably pull up some charts to show you what I mean for that. Friday was one boom and done BYND. This is the stock that I'm not surprised at all that fell this was in earnings. This is nothing to do with the market. And again, the market rallied on Friday. BYND fell. This was a nice trade too. This is the only one I really like Friday so I'm glad we got it. I do prefer to short for day trades as well. Entry 90-10, shares 1200, stop 92-30, risk was 2640. Boom. Exit 85-20. There's a great exit on this. This was a really good exit on this then. I went back and looked at close. It flipped. So, so happy we got out of this in the morning. Nice trade, big profit, great trade. Really good move. Got it at the right time into the rally. Again, not shorting this on the open. It went boom, rally, set up, don't drop and we got it. And again, this is a daily chart of BYND. Stock closed here, gap down. This was in earnings. It said nothing to do with the market, but this was a nice short. I wouldn't be surprised if this is lower. In fact, I have 100% conviction that this probably is lower too, even though today this capped up. I would not go long this year today. Some people probably will because again it capped up and it could say it capped up to support. And I'm not even relative to 50% moving average and I still wouldn't buy it there. All right. So anyways, here was a week. This was Monday. This was Tuesday. This was Wednesday. Now there was a lot of trades in here and go over. We aggressively did the SPY, short and got stopped. We aggressively did the Q's, short and got stopped. And aggressively did Microsoft and got stopped. Aggressively did AAL and got stopped. This is all Thursday morning. I mean, these happened like that by the way. AAL then retook it, was break even. CCL then we did and worked. SPY then did a second time retake, worked. Q's ended a second time. Really big trade here worked. Did BA quick, scouted it, got out, and then the big one in the BA that was a big drop. So all in all, this was a really crazy day on Thursday because I did a lot of trades. Not normal, but I did aggressively go after. I attacked everything out of the gate in the first five minutes on Friday in anticipation of the fall. It took a little bit longer than I thought. I took my stops. I went back into everything except for the Microsoft, but if I had that would have worked that did fall too. But then we ended up doing the bowing. So Thursday was a crazy day. And then we just did the one again on Friday. So normally I do one tick or symbol a day, but every once in a while I'll be in attack mode when I know that something's going to fall. But I do still put stops in. So you've got to put the stop in and take the stop because you want to make sure that it's going to hold. And if these trains hadn't held up, I wouldn't have gone back into them, okay? But total for the week was really good. So average risk was $2,500 a train. Good week. $2,6005.81. It's a nice week. So Thursday was a crazy day. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday were easy peasies. So it was a nice week. But anyways, I think you should look for most days to make one amount and focus on one tick or symbol. This week we have some big ones. Targets tomorrow morning. KSS is tomorrow morning. I don't know what they do, but I will be watching those are the two top ones for me for Tuesday. So again, they're in the morning so I can't look at them at night. There are gaps out tonight. There are earnings. Nothing that I'm enthralled with. Okay, but we do have retail here now in the month of March. And the ones I'll be watching are the target and KSS tomorrow. Now this, this was one I called, okay, this was early in the week. Monday, I did have conviction that Facebook would drop. This has nothing to do with the market. And I sent the trade out at 1035 and I said if Facebook breaks 201, it's valid. Meaning you can do the Facebook puts. I thought this was a great exit on this because I didn't really anticipate the market falling all week. So this was just a take in and get out. This trade ended up going much, much further. The stock fell all the way down. I don't even know what the low was last week. 198, 197, 196, I don't know. This was just a trade. Just a trade on a Monday that I thought was a good solid option trade and a put. Just take it and get out. Okay, but this ended up collapsing into the week as well if you held it. But know that if you hold something, in my opinion, whether it's a day trade all day into four or whether it's an overnight trade, you really gotta have a hundred percent conviction that it's gonna continue. I felt that way Thursday into Friday with the market. But I wasn't sure that we would fall like we did this last week on Facebook. But I knew Facebook would fall the day that it did a Monday. Okay, so I thought this was a good solid trade. So anyways, my philosophy is to analyze a large time frame to make the trend decision on directional bias for the gap. This doesn't necessarily mean the trend of the actual chart. All large traders of every kind look at large time frames to make decisions, particularly institutional traders.   To make entry decisions and exit decisions, I'm also looking at a minutia one minute. Why? Because I'm only taking several thousand shares. I'm not taking several million shares. Okay, so I'm trying to find a high degree of accuracy and focus on what I'm doing on a one minute. So those are the trades I'm taking on the one. Using the daily chart though allows me to make the decision for the stock pick, allowing for accuracy in the direction. And using the one minute chart allows for good risk to reward, which is obviously what we all want. Okay, but the only difference between making twenty-six grand a week or twenty-six hundred dollars a week, which is good for many many people, since a lot of people lose. And twenty-six hundred dollars a week or twenty-five hundred dollars a week is ten grand a month. Many people would love to make ten thousand dollars a month trading. Many people are losing that much and more. Okay, many retail traders lose. Why? Because they don't have a strategy or they're doing something that they think is a strategy and it's really not. Okay, but you can risk more once you get a good strategy and you understand it and you're doing it and you're replicating it, you could step your risk up. Okay, then you can risk more.  I've had a huge start to the year too. I've made a lot of good calls this year. She's decided to double her size.  Okay, she was risking about twenty-five hundred a trade in the options trades. Now she decided to risk five thousand. Okay, she's got the money to do it. She feels like she can. She's quadrupled her account like within the first two months of the year, so she stepped up her risk. You need to know when that point is when you can double your risk. Okay, you can take it easy. You can just up it a little bit, but I think that when you go from quarter to quarter to quarter, it's good to look at your risk not every week or every month, but from quarter to quarter. So I said, look at it, give yourself three months. See how you're doing. If you're making money the first three months, you're doing well, you grew your account. Second quarter, you can increase it. Doing good second quarter. Third quarter, increase it. Okay, I know everyone makes a lot, wants to make a lot of money right away, but really most of the reason that people want to make a lot of money right away is because they've been losing for years and then they want to make all the money back that they ever lost in the market. That's, that should not be your single goal. Your goal should be to move forward and start making money, period, because if you're going to make money from down until the end of time, what do you care about the whatever money you lost? Whatever money you lost in the however many years you've been trying to attempt to do this and failing, who cares how long it takes you to make it back. The fact that if you can move forward and make money and you learn something good and you know something good, you have the rest of your life to make all the money in the world and more. So your goal should not be to try to make it back. What you lost last year, what you lost paying for a class, you didn't learn anything. What you lost for the last 10 years, you shouldn't think about going back. When you're thinking about going back, then you're going back. When you think about moving forward, then you're moving forward. And that's how you have to look at it. And it's really not as hard as you think. It's the mindset, it's the mentality of people that that corrupts.  A lot of people to trade. I'm a losing mentality in the market. I have a winning mentality. That's just I think of the way that I was raised as a as a child. I have great parents and I was raised to be a winner. And I was raised to be a fighter. So when I also am down, when I first take trades when I'm down right away, it's like a Wednesday morning before I took all the great trades that I took on Thursday. It didn't bother me. It doesn't faze me. I just go bow like that. Okay?  You may not right now. You can you can gain that over time. You can you can learn how to have a winning mentality. But don't work against yourself. That's the best thing I could say. Anyways, training with size is important. If you want to make a lot, if you're small, you have small accounts, you have $5,000 in a prop account, a prop account, take a $200 R, risk $200 per trade. Take 200 shares. Okay? So again, it's about the move. If you get a dollar moving something and you have 8,000 shares, you can make $8,000. Okay? It's it's about the size, but first you have to learn it and then you plop on the size. You have to have the cash to be able to do that. The amount you choose to risk must be in accordance with your individual risk parameters which you set yourself. So I teach a class once a month. The class is called the Golden Gap course. It teaches a strategy on how to trade gaps. The course teaches a 26 point rating system to find the best stock to trade each day. The course also teaches students how to play the stock on the day. The course teaches students chart analysis and technical analysis on an advanced level. It's the checklist. It's the points. It's how I knew of Thursday morning. And I actually re-rated the market four different times on Thursday morning because we were moving that much. From the time I rolled out a bet at 5 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday which we were down until the open. I re-rated the market four times because when things are moving like that sometimes it's what you have to do it. But gaps are very useful tools. Many people don't know how to use gaps to their advantage and they do things like someone mentioned to hear gap fills which don't work. Then sometimes people lose money in gaps and then get scared because they move a lot, but that movement can be profitable if you know how to trade it. Okay? So let's say about 80% of the gaps I trade have follow-through for swing and court trades. I showed you these charts here from last week. You can pull them up yourself and see where they went. But the reality is that I like to day trade for the fast moves. Even options when I do them I like to do them pretty quickly. But I mean get in and get out within the same day or 24 hours or two days. Like I just I want to get out of something when I'm up. The money isn't yours until the fat lady sings and it's in your bank account.  So you have to take profits. That is an integral part of trading and being an active trader. You're not a long-term investor if you are an active trader.  That chunking it out sometimes is small, sometimes it's medium, sometimes it's big. But if you have the mentality that you want to pull money out of the market, you're not holding it, holding it, holding it forever because you will eventually give it back. You will lose. Things don't keep going forever and ever and ever. And the market's a good example of that I think in the last week. A lot of technical indicators. I'll go back and look at a few charts. I just have a couple of things. I just have the moving averages and the candlesticks. That's it. I don't, I don't, I don't use any of those fancy dancey things that people use. I look at the price. That's my best indicator and it's your best indicator too is the price and for me it's the price in the gap. But trading can be a great career if you want to make it yours. It doesn't mean it's going to happen overnight. I wouldn't quit your day job today. I wouldn't quit your day job until you're making enough money trading in order to do that, to support yourself. So you have to kind of wean your way into it.  Well you kind of wean your way into it. You chip away at it. Well I'm going to, I'm going to go into it for two days and it might take a break. I'm going to eat a little bit less for the next week and then then I'll dive into it the next week. Or an exercise routine, anything. I mean you have to kind of like just wean your way into it where you get in the habit of it. Okay of doing it and learning and understanding what you're doing and getting into the right mindset. Like wow I really can do this. This is possible. I think I can do this. Wow all of a sudden. Okay and and it's convincing yourself. Okay you have to convince yourself. So many people are shut down in themselves. I just I'm as long as I teach people which have had the business since I don't know what is it. 2008 I've had the business. I'm just uh no not 2008. 2012. I I'm just I'm I'm amazed. I'm amazed and I'm amazed how people lack such confidence. I'm I'm if I could sell my confidence like a perfume and you could buy and spray it all over yourself I'd be a billionaire. I don't know how to do it. But I tell you right now people lack confidence. I don't know why. I mean I credit my parents because they they they raised me right but I tell you you gotta have confidence if you want to train. You gotta have confidence if you want to go out there in this world to be successful. You gotta have confidence if you want to make money in the market but quite frankly you have to have confidence if you want to go out in the street and do anything at all. Okay the world is very competitive. Social media has made it more so. So no matter what you do any job any career that you have you have to be confident in your own abilities and we all each have unique abilities. We all have things that we're good at. You don't you don't you don't have to be good of everything. Just find your niche that one thing you're good at and build on your own confidence with that. Okay but a career in trading offers a limited potential for growth and success and I teach the class like I said once a month. Next class is March 21st and 22nd. So what else do you need to succeed? I've kind of been talking about this besides my class I call it the four C's. One is clarity. What to do? Is there anything to trade or not? Or is there nothing to trade? What should I do today? Okay the checklist tells me because I go through the checklist. If I find any stock that reach 20 points or more I know that I can do it. If I don't then I know that we won't do anything. That I won't take any trades. That's okay. So it's very very clear. Also tune you need confidence. Again if you don't have a if you're not a high confident person if you if you lack confidence you've got to start reading books. Go to seminars. Get some new friends. Hang around some people that are confident. Work on this. You can work on this okay. You can build your confidence over time. But for people I find what helps your confidence of reference of trading is green. If you make 50 days 50 dollars a day for 30 days your confidence is going to improve. You may say well it's not a lot of money by the end of the month it's not as much as I want and I can't support myself on that. Yeah but you were green every day 50 dollars and then you say wow I can actually make money. It may not be as much as you want but it's the idea of the green.  So you need to rebuild it okay. And for me it's conviction. So Thursday and Friday were nice days. I didn't have any conviction the market would sell off on Monday but when I saw it on Thursday when I saw the gap down I had 100% conviction and I never wavered. Even with the aggressive stops I took on the day trades all the puts went but even with with what has aggressive as I was I never wavered. I have that ability but I've been doing this a long long time and also don't forget I teach it. And when you teach something it really becomes part of you and I think that has made me better over over the number of years as well. You also need commitment again commitment to trading commitment to doing this for a career commitment to making the money commitment to being successful commitment to winning not a commitment to losing a commitment to winning okay. There's a big difference winning. So my class is the golden gap course it's a complete system to use to trade all the pieces of puzzle that you need and again I teach a class once a month. So it's a full and two-day course on how to strategically fine pick and play stocks at our professional bearish gaps. Actually the bullish class is next week which I forgot to put in here. I only do the bullish class once a year. The bullish class is March 9th, 10th and 11th during the week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. The bearish class is March 21st and 22nd classes online. Class of the class is the same. It's 69.99 US dollars so seven grand and again this is in a month and the bullish class is next week. If you'd like a trial to the rim for the rest of this week again I'm going to be watching Target and calls tomorrow morning. You can email me and Melissa at thestockswish.com for a trial but you've got to get in the right path this year. If you're interested in anything I said today email me or if you have questions. Empower yourself to trade and not only that think about what I said about having a strategy because it's very very important and also think about what I said about having the right level of confidence. Let me see if I can pull up a chart here. I don't know if this will work on this this thing here. I don't think it's going to work because I don't think this zoom thing I can flip back and forth. Does anyone have any questions? For the person that wanted to know about something email me separately at Melissa at thestockswish.com but again just briefly I don't use any other fancy indicators. I have price, I have candlesticks, and I'm moving averages and that's it. Any last minute questions here? Thank you so much David for having me. Thank you Anka. Thank you all the ladies here today too and good luck this week everybody.