2026-09-23 · 5 min read
Session edge, AI coach verdict, and running P&L for 2026-09-23.
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) | 80 | +$8477.71 | +9.58R | +0.120R | 53.2% | 1.73 |
| − single best + single worst | 78 | +$7014.86 | +7.93R | +0.102R | 53.2% | 1.76 |
| − top 4 + bottom 4 (≈5% each tail) | 72 | +$4655.21 | +5.26R | +0.073R | 53.5% | 1.69 |
Trimmed trades: Single best + single worst — removed VSA +$3855.59 (best) · ARTL −$2392.74 (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":"You closed the day at +$8.48k gross across 80 positions, and the biggest dollars came from the two names that moved the most. VSA offered +254% from its $2.010 open to a $7.120 high at 2:41pm, holding 32% of that move into the $3.640 close; you had one entry at 2:33pm, before the high, and it produced your largest win of the day at +$3.86k — a clean, well-timed capture of the session's single biggest move.
ARTL offered even more, +290% to a $15.73 high at 1:09pm across 11 halts, but 12 of your 14 entries came before that high and the stock gave back 72% of the move by the $7.310 close; net you lost $2.28k there, including the day's largest single loss of -$2.39k at 12:31pm and a +$1.81k win at 11:46am — you were positioned correctly on direction but the give-back after the high erased the edge.
BENF is the day's volume story: 31 positions from 9:15am to 4:03pm against a stock that only offered +7.9% from open to its 12:03pm high before closing 9% under its open, giving back the entire move (-9% retained). Across 39 halts, 26 of your 31 entries came after the first one, and you still finished +$3.08k on a stock that barely moved — proportionate skill relative to what was actually available, not a move you rode.
WHLR and TNMG were smaller but efficient: WHLR offered +67.3% and you took +$1.64k from three entries (two after the 10:14am high) even though the stock kept only 7% of its move by the close; TNMG offered +78.8% and you took +$1.49k from a single entry before its 10:34am high, on a stock that held just 18% of its move. MSS, by contrast, offered +53.9% by 9:04am and gave almost all of it back (4% retained) — your 14 entries there, 11 of them after the high, netted only +$736, the weakest dollars-per-move-offered ratio among your winners.
HCTI (-$272) and DBGI (-$448) were the day's clean misses: HCTI offered +183.8% before giving back the whole thing (-10% retained), and your four entries, three after the 10:01am high, lost money on a stock that moved almost 3x; DBGI, on the other hand, held 96% of its modest +22.6% move into the close, and your two late entries (both after the 3:41pm high) still lost $448 on a name that actually held its gain — a rare case where the stock behaved and you didn't capture it.
Of the two runners you didn't trade today, one moved over +30% from the open (the other under), and that mover gave back the entire gain by the close — so the untraded opportunity cost today was minimal; you were already in essentially every real mover of the session, 12 of 14 names on the list.
Looking at the trailing week's runners in aggregate, the pattern around who holds a move versus who fades it keeps tracking to when the high was made and how violent the halting was: several of the multi-halt names this week that made their highs mid-morning (9:30am-11:30am) gave back 60-100% of the move by the close, while the handful with highs after 1pm tended to hold more. Your two biggest winners today fit that split cleanly — VSA's high came at 2:41pm and it held 32% of the move (an afternoon topper that behaved better than the morning group), while ARTL and BENF, both with highs before 12:10pm and both hit with double-digit halt counts, gave back nearly everything, exactly the profile of this week's morning-halt fade group; you still made money on ARTL only through timing your ARTL entries mostly ahead of the top, and lost only where you chased BENF and HCTI's morning highs.
Against your own validated lanes, the day sorted almost exactly as your study predicts: the 9 positions in the 2+ halts, held 30 seconds or longer lane (A+, validated at +11.2 per $1k historically) made +$3.17k today, and the 13 positions entered within 2 minutes of a resume (A, +4.1 per $1k) made +$7.59k — your best dollars came from exactly the lanes your data says to lean on. The DONT lane of 2+ halts scalped under 30 seconds cost you -$2.32k across 37 positions, and that lane alone essentially accounts for the gap between your +$8.73k net and what the A/A+ lanes alone produced; the 11 positions sitting purely in A+/A lanes with no DONT overlap made +$8.51k, versus -$2.32k across the 38 positions that touched a DONT lane."