2026-08-05 · 5 min read
Session edge, AI coach verdict, and running P&L for 2026-08-05.
Trim Review
How much of today's result was carried by a few outliers? The table recomputes the core session stats with the biggest movers removed. Trimmed rows are colored vs baseline: green = holds most of the move, amber = meaningful erosion, red = collapses or flips sign.
| Scenario | Trades | Net P&L | Total R | E[R] / trade | $ WR | PF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline (all trades) | 41 | −$12739.77 | -15.54R | -0.379R | 43.9% | 0.42 |
| − single best + single worst | 39 | −$3919.99 | -4.78R | -0.123R | 43.6% | 0.66 |
| − top 3 + bottom 3 (≈5% each tail) | 35 | −$2393.25 | -2.92R | -0.083R | 42.9% | 0.69 |
Trimmed trades: Single best + single worst — removed INLF +$1560.66 (best) · YXT −$10380.43 (worst). Top 3 + bottom 3 — removed 3 from each tail (by $ P&L).
Bottom-heavy red session: most of the loss came from a few prints. The broader distribution is closer to neutral than the total P&L suggests.
Session verdict
{"dayVerdict":"YXT dominated the day's activity and also dominated the damage. Nasdaq-compliance news sent it from $7.32 to a high of $32.14 at 3:21pm ET, a 339% open-to-high move that still held 65% of itself into the close at $23.43 — one of the better closes-versus-high readings of anything traded this week.
The trader was in and out of YXT six separate times and never found the direction that mattered: three small wins near the open (+$991 at 9:00am, +$991 at 9:01am — wait, one entry — and a +$991 fill) were wiped out by a single -$10.38k loss at 11:29am, plus -$1.08k at 10:16am and -$1.06k at 9:05am and -$853 at 9:00am. Net on the name was deeply negative on a stock that ultimately kept two-thirds of a 339% move — proof the size of the move was never the problem, the side and timing of this particular set of entries was.
JLHL was the second-largest position and it behaved the opposite way — it made its high of $16.14 at 11:11am and gave back almost all of it, closing at $9.35 for only a 26% retention of the move. Here the trader caught a small piece correctly, +$950 at 9:59am ahead of the top, but then lost -$1.55k at 10:19am after the peak had already passed.
INLF was traded twice early, both for gains (+$1.56k at 9:11am, +$1.41k at 9:35am) on a stock that only ran 21.5% from open to high before bleeding back to a -92% retention by the close — the trader's two entries were the correct side of a name that ultimately gave every bit of its move back, which is the one clean piece of skillful reading in the day. ZYBT added a further -$2.38k loss.
Across the ten material trades, four were profitable and six were losses, and the four winners (INLF x2, YXT, JLHL) totaled roughly $4.9k against six losers totaling over $17k, with the single YXT loss at 11:29am alone exceeding every winner combined.
At the day level, this was a session with one enormous, genuine mover — YXT's 339% swing with 24 halts — traded aggressively but net-negative, alongside a second sizeable mover (JLHL, 130%) that also bled hard into the close and was traded on the wrong side of its peak. Six other names in today's set moved between 15% and 37% intraday (AMIX, RITR, INLF, BJDX, PCLA, DFNS) and none of them were touched beyond INLF, so the opportunity cost sits mainly in the fact that the day's two largest moves absorbed nearly all the capital and still lost money on net.
Looking at the trailing week, the pattern in which names hold their moves is fairly consistent: DFNS has appeared four times in the last week (highs at 07:39, 14:11, 17:04, and today at no fill) and every instance but one held at least 19% of its move, with the 08/03 print holding 68% — a name whose repeated resilience the trader never actually traded into today despite watching it price a fourth straight session. By contrast, single-day spikers with premarket or very-early highs — BJDX at 4:11am, PCLA at 4:00am, RITR at 8:06am among today's set — all gave back the bulk of their gains, finishing with retention between -80% and +15%; that same fade pattern held for last week's ENSC (04:00 high, -23% retained) and VSEE (08:47 high, -143% retained).
YXT and JLHL, the two names actually traded today, split the difference — YXT fit the afternoon-high, hold-the-move profile (high at 3:21pm, 65% retained) while JLHL fit the fade profile (high at 11:11am, only 26% retained) — meaning the trader was long the strongest holder of the day and still lost money on it, and long the weakest holder of the day on the wrong side of its top."}