2026-08-11 · 4 min read
Session edge, AI coach verdict, and running P&L for 2026-08-11.
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) | 44 | +$786.39 | +1.08R | +0.024R | 40.5% | 1.12 |
| − single best + single worst | 42 | +$140.85 | +0.19R | +0.005R | 40.0% | 1.03 |
| − top 3 + bottom 3 (≈5% each tail) | 38 | −$637.58 | -0.87R | -0.023R | 38.9% | 0.84 |
Trimmed trades: Single best + single worst — removed PLAG +$1595.82 (best) · PLAG −$950.28 (worst). Top 3 + bottom 3 — removed 3 from each tail (by $ P&L).
Outlier-carried green session: a single best trade (or the top 5%) is effectively the entire P&L. The rest of the book was roughly flat-to-red. Edge leaned on a few big pots more than the tape felt like it did.
Session verdict
{"dayVerdict":"PLAG was the day's central trade and the only ticker with any real dollar concentration — four fills at or above 1R in size, split between three winners (+$1.60k at 11:28am, +$1.17k at 11:47am, +$756 at 11:27am) and one loss of -$950 at 3:45pm, plus another loss of -$920 at 11:17am. Net on the name looks like roughly +$650 across five material fills, meaning the trader extracted real money from a stock that traded 198M shares and $348M in dollar volume on the day, even though PLAG's own open/high/close prints are missing from today's market data so the size of the move it offered can't be measured directly.
MSGY was the other real winner, caught at 10:16am for +$1.04k; that stock opened at $2.75, ran to $5.88 by 11:41am (+113.8% open-to-high) on a share-consolidation catalyst, and held 22% of that move into the close at $3.43 — a stock that gave back the bulk of its intraday range but still finished up 24.7% from the open, and the trader's single fill landed inside that window rather than at the top.
Away from PLAG and MSGY, the rest of the session was a drag: four fills in the $0.50-1.00 bucket lost $733.78 combined with a 0% win rate, and four fills in the $10-15 bucket lost $805.69, also at 0%. None of today's other charted runners — FRTT (+134.3% open-to-high, closed -7% retained), AIHS (+115.8%, -3% retained), WXM (+29.8% but -88% retained after a 9am high), GLE (-130% retained, effectively erasing the move and more) — appear in the fills, so those losses in the sub-$1 and $10-15 buckets came from names outside this list, and there's no move data to say whether they offered anything real or were simply low-quality entries.
On net, this was a day where two names carried the entire result (PLAG and MSGY combined for roughly +$2.6k of gross winning trades against two PLAG losses of about -$1.87k) while a scattering of other positions bled the rest away for a final $786 net on 44 trades — a day where the trader found the one stock worth being in and then leaked money elsewhere rather than compounding it.
Today's list shows six other runners beyond PLAG/MSGY moving between +15% and +134% from the open, and the trader touched none of them — meaning the opportunity cost sits in names like FRTT and AIHS that moved well over 100% intraday but were never part of the day's 44 fills.
Looking at the trailing week, the pattern in pctOfMoveRetained keeps favoring names with tighter floats and a later high: YXT on 8/5 (float 1.8M, high at 3:21pm, retained 65%) and AMIX on 8/4 (float 1M, high at 3:44pm, retained 73%) both held the bulk of enormous moves, while premarket-high names like ELPW (4:09am high, -18% retained), DKI (4:14am high, -16% retained), and LGHL (4:05am high, -36% retained) all gave the move back. MSGY fits the holder side of that split closely — a sub-1M float name whose high came at 11:41am, mid-session rather than premarket, and it retained 22% versus the outright negative or deeply negative retention seen on every premarket topper in the set.
PLAG's own move data is absent, so it can't be scored against that pattern directly, but the fact that the trader's only two profitable names this week among the charted runners both missed the premarket-high, wide-float profile that has been bleeding out across the last seven days is a useful confirmation of where the real edge sits."}