2026-08-10 · 4 min read
Session edge, AI coach verdict, and running P&L for 2026-08-10.
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) | 77 | +$5372.50 | +7.95R | +0.103R | 48.1% | 1.54 |
| − single best + single worst | 75 | +$4057.07 | +6.00R | +0.080R | 48.0% | 1.53 |
| − top 4 + bottom 4 (≈5% each tail) | 69 | +$3077.05 | +4.55R | +0.066R | 47.8% | 1.67 |
Trimmed trades: Single best + single worst — removed SCKT +$3636.57 (best) · WYHG −$2321.14 (worst). Top 4 + bottom 4 — removed 4 from each tail (by $ P&L).
Broad green session: still clearly green after trimming the biggest movers, so the day was a stack of small plus-EV decisions compounding — not a few home runs.
Session verdict
{"dayVerdict":"SCKT was the day's biggest exposure and the numbers show a real fight over one name. It opened at $2.61, ran to $3.97 (+52.1%) by 9:07am, then bled all the way to $2.13, closing down 18.4% from open and retaining -35% of its move — a stock that gave back everything and then some.
The trader caught this from both sides: +$3.64k at 9:06am on the initial long, then -$1.87k at 9:30am, then +$794.86 at 9:56am, for a net of roughly +$2.56k on a name that ultimately handed the market a loss. That's the opposite of the passive-holder profile — this was active trading of a fast bleeder that paid because the entries were timed around the intraday swings rather than held through the fade.
WYHG was the second major theme, but it wasn't today's stock — its huge move (+216.8% open-to-high, 26.17 high, retaining only 9% into the close) happened on 8/6. Today's WYHG fills (11:57am +$1.02k, 10:56am +$771, 12:09pm -$2.32k, 12:30pm -$700) were trading a stock well off its highs, and the net on the day was slightly negative (-$1.23k), consistent with chasing a name whose real move had already passed.
STKH offered a cleaner opportunity: open $3.86 to high $7.10 (+83.9%) by 10:18am, closing up only 11.4% from open (14% retained) — a fast, sharp mover that faded hard, and the trader captured +$1.99k on a single 10:16am fill right near the top of that move, a genuine share of a real move rather than a small win on a small move. XHLD similarly ran +59% to $4.69 by 9:53am and gave almost all of it back (9% retained); the 9:51am entry for +$974.88 landed right at the top of that spike.
At the day level, this was a day with two or three genuinely large moves (SCKT +52%, STKH +84%, WYHG's residual chop) and the trader extracted real dollars from each rather than sizing into moves and losing on them — six of the nine material trades were winners, both trades at 2R-plus were winners (SCKT +5.38R/$3.64k, STKH +2.94R/$1.99k), and the three losses were smaller than the wins that surrounded them. RDGT moved +137.7% intraday and DKI +98.3%, neither traded, alongside several other double-digit movers among today's twelve runners — meaningful opportunity cost sat untouched, but the trader's actual positions concentrated on names that offered outsized moves rather than quiet ones.
Across the trailing week, the pattern in pctOfMoveRetained keeps splitting on how fast and how violently a name moved rather than on float alone: YXT on 8/5 retained 65% of a +339% move that ran into a 3:21pm high with 24 halts, and AMIX on 8/4 held 73% of a +358.7% move into a 3:44pm high — both late-day toppers with heavy halt counts held their gains, while premarket toppers (DKI at 4:14am, HUDI at 4:00am, LGHL at 4:05am) all closed deeply negative, retaining -16%, -96%, and -36% respectively. SCKT and WYHG, the trader's two names, both made their highs in the morning (9:07am and prior-day 11:31am) and both gave back most of their moves by the close — SCKT to -35%, WYHG's 8/6 session to 9% — fitting the fader profile rather than the holder profile, which is exactly why trading them actively around the swings, rather than holding through the retracement, is what turned them into net winners today."}