everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Armo with the Stock Swoosh and I'm doing the Black Friday holiday sales now. I'm starting them now. If you would like to sign up and take advantage of them, you can even join and start in the live trading room this coming week. And if you wanna start trading options, you can sign up and start trading options this week as well. So again, 2022 has been a very good year to short. For those of you that don't know what I like to do the most, my favorite position in the market is always to the downside. We do go long, we have come along this year and we'll go long again, but I do prefer to short and 2022 was really an amazing year to short. If you have questions, you can email me at melissathestockswoosh.com or you can call me at 929-3200 GATT. Feel free to follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or Skype. I try to put television hits when I'm on there too and also specials like I'm doing right now. So as I was saying, 2022 really was a great year to trade. And again, I started trading in 2008 and even then I really enjoyed the short side of things. And then by 2009, I was like, I love to short. So I focused everything on shorting and that really became a niche for me. And then once I became an expert in shorting and then I became an expert in going long as well. So I think the focus on doing one thing really will help you make money. And again, it's very often about one trade because you only need one pick, one pick a day. That's all you need to make money in the market. But 2022 was a great year because there was a lot of trades to the downside that went big or big moves and we captured them. We got them and we had perfect timing them because I used my strategy, which I'm going to talk about a little bit too. So again, this time of year means what? Holidays, family, fun, celebration, joy, celebrating life really, and so many other things that go on in our lives. This is a time of year between now and the end of the year to just really enjoy ourselves. While 2023 is right around the corner, you still have time to make money trading yet in 2022. So I'm offering these specials early for people that want to jump in and start trading now. So the Black Friday sales are all going on through Sunday, November 27th. If you'd like to sign up for my main class, the Golden Gap course, which is where I teach the 26 point rating system of how I rate the gaps that I pick every day, how I make the picks. The combo tuition price is 74.99. It includes a Golden Gap course and the trends course. These classes are both in December. So if you sign up for the Golden Gap course combo Black Friday special, you'll receive the following. The trading room free for one year, the options newsletter free for one year. And really this is huge because the options newsletter subscription for 12 months alone is 69.99. And the room alone is 39.99. You must be a student of the Golden Gap course to join the room. All of these sales end Sunday, the 27th. This gives you plenty of time to plan, plenty of time to reach out and email me or call me if you have questions. Now, if you just want to do options, the Gap options newsletter annual subscription, the 12 month Black Friday sale is a really nice deal because it's normally 69.99 for 12 months. I'm offering the 59.99 price, which is 1,000 off. And I'm giving you through the end of 2023. So for example, if you sign up right now, you would get a bonus month and a half, which is great. You'd also save $1,000. And I'm also offering the Gap options course free with this special too. That's a really nice bonus. That class is December 15th. The Black Friday half annual options letter subscription is only this subscription. This is six months of the newsletter. No classes, but you do get 1,000 off. And that's actually a good amount of time to be on the letter. So it'd be 39.99. That's a great deal as well. Now, the other specials I'm offering, the market report for half off, only $250 a year. Specialty classes, the trends course, again, half off, $500 only. This is a half date class that's in December. It teaches long-term trends. The wealth manifestation course is very popular. Everyone loves it. And again, that's half off, $300. Entries course teaches entries. That's half off for $750. And then if you're interested in live mentorship with me, 10 sessions are 30% off. So 4,205 sessions are 30% off, 3,100. And then the gap options course is $1,000 off. This is a half date class. And that includes one month free of the gap options newsletter. So all of these things I'm offering, all of my products and services for people, because if you're interested in, you wanna sign up and you wanna learn, really take advantage of one of these sales. And I know some of you have been following me not just for 2022, but you've been following me actually for several years. I'm not sure why it takes people so long to decide to change your life, but really you are in charge of making that decision. If you wanna start trading, if you wanna be profitable, if you wanna change careers, if you wanna do this part time in the sign. And if you are trading and you're not successful, I really don't know what you're waiting for because you have to sometimes take a step back and realize, wait a minute, if you're doing a strategy and you're losing, then it doesn't work. Or if you don't have strategy at all and you're losing, well, it's probably because you don't have a strategy. And that's a problem. It's all about making money in the market. That's what you want. You wanna be successful. It's very important to be successful when you trade. So again, it's about the fast trade in and out very quickly. We chunk it out. I'm looking for calculated risk when I take a trade. So for example, if you be risking $1,000, I'm looking to make 500. If I'm risking 2,000, I'm looking to make 1,000. 50% is good. Many times we get more than that. Many times we get 100%. Sometimes we get more than that. It's about turning it over one if we can get it. And again, I'm trying to do the trades very fast in the morning. But 2023, like I said, can still be the year that you've always dreamed it to be in reference to your trading, also financially. People are feeling the pain right now of inflation, but no one's gonna solve that problem for you. And so the reality is you have to solve the problem for yourself. You have to move forward in life and take some risk. And sometimes that's what it is in life. When you wanna change your life, sometimes you have to take risks. So 2023 really can be your best year yet. It's important to have a positive and optimistic attitude. Now let's go over one of the trades that we did here. This was in Metta. Again, for those of you that don't know what I do, I trade gaps. And I'm looking for the best gap to trade every single solitary day. Start close to your gap down, fell. Here was the volume. This was an earnings. We had a nice move in here, nice push. That actually was on Halloween. So what did we do? We shorted it, and she was 97.40. And again, I'm calling the trades live in the room. Shares was 1,400, risk was 2,940. Added 97.20, we did an add. That's an advanced concept, but we took more size. It was going in our favor, 2,800 shares with an average price of 97.30. Eggs, it was 94.90 profits, 6,720 dollars. And again, this may not look like much, but it actually was a huge trade. We had a perfect entry. We had a perfect everything here. And you still could have held it even more, actually. We did an option in this too. I like to get out of the day trades fast, like I said, in the first 30 minutes of the day. And then I can hold the options. But you could have held this all the way down, came all the way down to 93 and broke. So you could have made a minimum of another $2 on this trade. It was just a beautiful, perfect, perfect entry. So one of the advantages of, again, this special, the Golden Gap course combo special is you'll get the live trading room free for one year. Not only will you learn the class, you'll get the trading room free for a year, and then you get the options newsletter too. And again, we did an option in this as well. So this was another trade that we did in the spy. This was an option. If you sign up for the Golden Gap combo, this is what the options newsletter looks like. If you sign up for the options newsletter separate, this is what the newsletters look like. They get emailed to you. Most of them were sent in the pre-market before the open. This was sent at 840, September 13th. We did the 402 spies expired, 923 was a put. Was a put. September 13th, let's go over here. Stack close to your gap down. Again, this is a spy. Take it over. We did the 402s. Get the drop. It was a really nice trade. And again, a put is a short. The cost was $7. 10 contracts risk was 7,000. Sold at 19 profit was $12,000. A 171% return in investment. And again, you could take one contract of the options. The cost was seven. You could have done two or one. $1,400 was the cost for two. Sold at 19 profit was 2,400. Return in investment, 171%. It's so great when you get these beautiful moves. Like if you did this trade, you were never down. The second you took it into the open on the 13th, you were never down in the trade, it just went boop. I mean, how great is that? And again, you could have held it even more because it's expired on the 23rd. I just wanna show you here where this was in the 23rd. Not that I'm saying you should hold it all the way through. But this was actually down around 365-ish. Broke that actually on the day. This was $35, $37 through the strike on the very last day. You would have made more money than 171%. I'm very good at picking the gaps. I'm very good at options because I'm good at finding the momentum, spotting the momentum in the quality of the gap. And that's again, what you're gonna learn in the Golden Gap course. You'll learn the 26.8 rating system. That's how we determine what stock, I think, is based on the rating system, the analysis that I'm doing in the pre-market. This is what you'd learn in the class.  But as far as the day trades again, I prefer to be fast in and out and done. Now, if you wanna scout the options, you could do that too. You could do two different options, get out at one hole, the other, whatever works for you. But we do not trade all day long. The trading room opens at 9 a.m. and we're done by 10, 10, 15 in the morning. Fast trades in and out is extremely important. Now, I've had this question recently, someone that's new. If you're a beginner, you can come and do the class. Yes, you may have a lot of questions. That's okay, that's fine, you ask them. I do beginner analysis at the beginning of the Golden Gap course. Will I go over candles and how I set up my charts? You should trade on a demo if you've never traded before and you're new for a short period of time, maybe a week or two, or even a month if you think you need it, and then start with small size, a hundred share lots to get used to trading. You know, I suggest people don't trade on a demo for really longer than a month because you gotta trade live money so you understand really how to do it and you get the feel of it. And again, you learn how to put the stop in. You go over that in the class as well. But it's all about making money and really having fun while doing it. I try my best to make the room fun every morning and educational and really we're focused on making money. So it's very important to be focused on the money. I always say you can be perfect for 30 minutes a day. I can be perfect for a half an hour a day. I can be perfect for an hour a day. It gets harder and harder as the day goes on. It'd be perfect for six and a half hours a day. I don't know if anyone can do that. So it's rough. When you're trading, you do have to be on top of it. The trade set up quickly sometimes. Sometimes I go quickly. Again, this is chunking it out. This is active trading. This is a long-term investing. But it is about working for yourself. And it is about taking, like I said earlier, taking it upon yourself to take steps forward to change your life and better your own financial situation because no one is gonna do it for you but you. You have to do it yourself. You can have anything, anything in this life if you're willing to pay for it. And guess what? You can have everything, everything in this life if you're willing to work hard for it. So I think that people really have to put the pedal to the metal and make decisions coming to the end of the time that you're beginning next year when people do new year's resolutions. Where do you wanna be 12 months from now? Next Thanksgiving week, where do you wanna be?  And again, this is a good time of year to think about all these things in your mind, in your heart. But education is really a gift to yourself. You're investing in yourself for your own well-being and your future. It's an investment in your future. Like sometimes when you go and you buy a home, I'm moving actually and it's a lot of work to move. And it's an investment to do it because I'm going to be changing my life quite a bit. So I think that taking risk is necessary in order to improve our lives. It's something that I've always known and I've always been willing to do. And I think it's one of these things where if you accept the challenge and you move forward after you do it, then you realize it was a great decision and then you're through it. Sometimes people that over-analyze themselves are too much in their head. That works against you with trading and it works against you with making decisions about moving forward with life. You have a system, you go through the system, you rate the gap and if it sets up, you do it. You don't agonize about it all day long. So again, the process that I go through following the process is a golden gap checklist. This is what you learn in the golden gap course. This is the main course, the meat, potatoes, the class, where I teach the rating system and in the two-day class, you will also learn the entries as well. So the class is called the golden gap course. It's December 10th and 11th, the last class for 2022. I'll be in my new apartment by then. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern Time class tuition is $69.99. Class is online, you can be anywhere in the world and take it. Now the combo, like I said, it's $74.99. You will receive two classes, this class and the trends. The trends class is Tuesday, December 13th. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., it's a half-day class and with the Black Friday special, you will also get the trading room free for one year and the options newsletter free for one year. So again, this is going on through November 27th. The options sales again for Black Friday is 1,000 off, both the 12-month subscription and six-month subscription. The benefit of doing the longer subscription is you receive the gap options course free and you get the extra bonus time on the newsletter. Again, you'd be on the newsletter then if you signed up this week for 13 and a half months for 1,000 off and the gap options course free and that's in December as well. So remember, it's a great time of the year to invest in yourself and really think about your future. And for those of you that have any questions about the Mark Report Trends course, Wealth Class Entries course, the Mentoring Sessions, there's no prerequisites by the way, or the Gap Options course, feel free to email me at melissathestockswish.com. I'm happy to also talk to you on the phone, you wanna call me at 929-3200 Gap. Go to the website, www.thestockswish.com. If you have questions, you gotta email me, do not miss out on these sales. It's the biggest sale time of the year where I'm doing the biggest bonuses and the biggest discounts, don't miss out. Have a safe and happy holiday everyone.


Hello, DAV National Agent Mark Burgess here with an important update on the impact this pandemic has had on DAV's mission of service to our nation's veterans and their families. Out of an abundance of caution for the health, safety and well-being of DAV members, their families, our guests and staff, we've canceled the 2020 DAV and Auxiliary National Convention scheduled for August 1st in Dallas. This decision was made only after all options were thoroughly researched. It was our sincere hope that we would have been able to hold the event that honors our volunteers and leaders. However, as we monitored conditions and guidance over the past few months, we came to the conclusion that we just couldn't hold the event in a way that would make it accessible to our members. Social distancing requirements that will be in place through the date of the event would make it impossible to accommodate an effective event. As you know, in many cases, we are seeing increases in infections and areas that have recently reopened. The safety of our veterans, many of whom are particularly vulnerable as a result of their military service, is a paramount concern and travel would put them at additional risk. We will continue to update the National Convention page on our website and use other DAV channels to inform all of our members on any developments. We'll also look to host a virtual event and post content so that we can honor our members, update the nation on the state of DAV, and inform and educate the many who carry out our mission on a regular basis. We still plan to carry out our centennial celebration in Cincinnati in late September. We'll update that page on DAV.org if anything changes with those important events. We remain committed to providing our crucial services to the men and women who serve, and I'm proud of our nationwide DAV staff and their ability to adapt to the new reality brought on by the outbreak. It is a testament to the unwavering dedication from everyone on the DAV team. Now more than ever, DAV stands ready to assist all veterans in need, and to continue our vitally important mission to keep our promise to the nation's veterans. As you can imagine, we're implementing some changes to adjust to our nation's current needs. However, all DAV offices still remain closed to foot traffic and walk-ins to reduce the chance of transmitting the coronavirus. But you can speak to a benefits advocate Monday through Friday, 9am to 4pm Eastern Daylight Time by calling 1-888-604-0234. You can also send an email to your local DAV office by going to benefitsquestions.org. All of our in-person career fairs have transitioned from physical to virtual events for the remainder of 2020. 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So if you're interested in volunteering with DAV, please email vavs.dav.org. That's vavs.dav.org. If you need to travel to a VA facility for an appointment, leave early to give yourself extra time for the screening process. VA is requiring masks or other face coverings before entering any of its facilities. If you have your own, you should bring it. If you can't, VA will provide one. VA is following the CDC's guidelines for COVID-19 testing. But if you are tested, it will be free of charge. And remember, do not go directly to a VA facility without calling first. If you've lost employment or business income due to the pandemic, DAV is offering $250 grants to any veteran with a VA rating. To apply, go to DAV.org slash COVID relief. Funds are being distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. And there's no membership requirement. DAV had an opportunity recently to help present the Financial Path Forward, a virtual town hall for America's veterans. Through our partners at Comcast, NBC, Universal Military and Veterans Affairs, CNBC, and Acorns Invest in You Ready, Set, Grow, this event featured some great veteran panelists. It was hosted by Contessa Brewer. The link can be found on our Relief page for those interested. Lastly, the National Disabled Veterans Tea Tournament for 2020 is canceled. VA made that decision out of an abundance of caution and to limit exposure to veterans, especially for those with underlying medical conditions. We are constantly reviewing all of our planned events. And if anything changes, we'll be sure to let you know. Remember to take care of yourself and those in your community. Please share this message with any veteran you think needs help during these trying times. Stay tuned to DAV.org slash COVID for updated information on the impact of the pandemic and our response.