2026-09-17 · 5 min read
Session edge, AI coach verdict, and running P&L for 2026-09-17.
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) | 36 | −$2093.86 | -2.48R | -0.069R | 38.9% | 0.73 |
| − single best + single worst | 34 | −$1360.67 | -1.61R | -0.047R | 38.2% | 0.77 |
| − top 2 + bottom 2 (≈5% each tail) | 32 | −$913.67 | -1.08R | -0.034R | 37.5% | 0.80 |
Trimmed trades: Single best + single worst — removed DAIC +$1090.82 (best) · WETO −$1824.00 (worst). Top 2 + bottom 2 — removed 2 from each tail (by $ P&L).
Broad-based red session: the loss is still there after trimming the biggest movers — this wasn't one bad trade, it was the whole book tilted the wrong way.
Session verdict
You finished today at -$2.09k gross across 36 positions, and the loss came from a day that offered real moves in nearly every name you touched but that you mostly caught on the wrong side of the high. Seven of the eight runners in today's list ran through you, and every one of them moved 65% or more from the open before giving a large chunk of it back — this was a day of legitimate volatility priced poorly rather than a quiet day traded hard.
DAIC was your best read: open $4.120, high $7.149 at 9:51am (+73.5%), closing +28.6% versus the open with 39% of the move retained after one halt at 9:45am. Six of your eight entries came before the high, and you took +$2.11k gross out of it, anchored by a +$1.09k win at 9:44am.
DTSS was similarly well-timed on entries — all five came before the 11:25am high of +136.1% — and even with the stock giving back all but 19% of that move by the close, you still netted +$651, with your largest win, +$549, coming at 11:19am, one minute before the top. Those two names show you can extract money from a fast, halt-heavy mover even when the stock itself fades hard.
The rest of the day inverted that pattern. AEMD made its high of $14.00 (+65.1%) at 6:43am, well before your first entry at 9:14am — all seven of your entries came after the high, and the stock closed -20% versus the open, -31% of the move retained; you lost -$446 on it.
TURB ran +155.5% to $3.96 at 8:33am, also premarket relative to your 10:08am first entry — none of your five entries came before the high, and TURB gave back essentially the entire move, closing -13.5% versus the open; you lost -$1.00k. KXIN moved +66.3% to $2.81 at 10:34am, and you split entries three before / four after, but the stock kept only 5% of its move into the close and you lost -$1.09k across seven positions.
WETO was the worst of the day: it topped at $3.54 (+67%) at 9:09am, two of your three entries came after that high, it closed -12.3% versus the open (-18% retained), and you lost -$2.27k, including the day's largest single loss of -$1.82k on a 9:10am entry. The one runner you skipped moved only +43.4% and held under half of it, so the opportunity cost sitting outside your trading was small — the damage today came from names you were in, not names you missed.
Across the trailing week, the pattern in which runners hold their move keeps showing up around halt counts and how late the high forms: DTSS, this week's most halt-heavy name at 17 halts, still gave back 81% of its move despite the halts, while names making highs well after 11:00am with fewer halts, like DAIC's 9:51am top, have generally held more. Your DAIC and DTSS entries — the two names where you actually got ahead of the high — line up with the sessions where retention was better; your WETO, TURB, and AEMD entries were all chasing highs that had already happened, which matches the fader profile in this data far more than the holder one.
Your own lane data confirms the split: the five positions built on names with 2+ halts before entry made +$649 today, consistent with that lane's +3.2 per $1k historical edge, and the four-plus-halt subset (also 5 positions, +$649) matches its +4.5 per $1k tier. All five of those same positions also sit in the validated DONT lane for scalping under 30 seconds, historically -3.4 per $1k, though they were profitable today.
None of your 36 positions landed in a clean A+/A lane with no DONT overlap attached.