2026-09-18 · 5 min read
Session edge, AI coach verdict, and running P&L for 2026-09-18.
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) | 40 | +$6478.31 | +7.87R | +0.197R | 45.0% | 2.22 |
| − single best + single worst | 38 | +$5321.08 | +6.47R | +0.170R | 44.7% | 2.18 |
| − top 2 + bottom 2 (≈5% each tail) | 36 | +$4345.93 | +5.28R | +0.147R | 44.4% | 2.14 |
Trimmed trades: Single best + single worst — removed IMCC +$1957.23 (best) · GIPR −$800.00 (worst). Top 2 + bottom 2 — removed 2 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
IMCC was the day's defining name and you priced it well: it opened at $3.240, ran to $8.650 by 10:10am (+167% from the open), and closed at $4.230, holding just 18% of that move. You ran 21 positions in it for +$6.31k gross, with 16 of your 21 entries coming before the 10:10am high — your two largest wins, +$1.96k at 9:56am and +$1.66k at 10:06am, both landed while the stock was still near its high.
That is a real share of a big move captured, not a lucky scalp in a name that barely moved.
Everything else on your sheet was a name that moved plenty but paid you little or cost you. GIPR opened $1.490, spiked to $1.730 by 9:40am, then collapsed to $0.7183 — giving back the entire open-to-high move and then some (-100% retained) across 9 halts.
You took 5 positions there for a net +$452, with your largest single loss on the day, -$800, coming at 9:41am on that name, right as the halts were stacking up. QNME offered the single biggest percentage move of anything you traded — +255% from open to its $1.030 high at 11:32am — but all 5 of your entries came after that high, and you finished +$259 on a move that size, essentially catching only the retreat.
NCPL ran +63% to a $1.120 high at 11:07am and kept just 12% of it into the close; your 5 positions there netted -$409. TNMG and BTTC were smaller drags — TNMG's high was made premarket at 8:07am and it closed down -10.8% from the open, and your 2 entries there (both after the high) cost you -$146; BTTC's high was also premarket (5:22am) and gave back the whole move, with your 2 late entries netting only +$14.
On net you extracted almost all of today's +$6.48k gross from one name that made its high mid-morning and that you were positioned in ahead of that high, while four other moving names you were consistently entering after the top on returned little or lost money. Of the 4 runners you left untraded today, 2 moved 30% or more from the open (largest +45.9%), and neither of those held more than half its move into the close — modest opportunity cost, nothing left on the table that would have changed the shape of the day.
Across the trailing week, the runners that kept the largest share of their moves tended to make their highs later in the session — several holding 35-60%+ made highs between 12:00pm and 3:45pm — while premarket-high names were mixed to poor on retention (BTTC and TNMG, both premarket highs today, gave back their entire moves). QNME and NCPL, your two mid-morning/late-morning-high names, held 36% and 12% respectively, roughly in line with that later-high-holds-better pattern, while your premarket-high names (TNMG, BTTC) landed on the fade side as the pattern would predict.
By your own validated lanes, the split was stark: the 6 positions that sat in an A/A+ lane with no DONT lane attached made +$2.64k, versus +$578 across the 11 positions carrying at least one DONT lane. Your entries within 2 minutes of a resume (8 positions, tier A) contributed +$2.39k, and names with 4+ halts before entry (6 positions, tier A) added +$175 — both validated favorable setups showing up in the dollars today.
The DONT-tagged sub-$1 scalps held under 30 seconds (7 positions) still made +$319 today despite the historically unfavorable -4.2 per $1k tier, and the 2+-halt scalps under 30 seconds (7 positions, DONT tier) actually contributed +$826 today against a -3.4 per $1k historical read — a day where the DONT lanes didn't bite, unlike the favorable lanes which clearly did their job.