Daily Journal · Q2 2026
dumping DAIC and BATL, then opening SNAP and PLUG
#DAIC
#BATL
#SNAP
#PLUG
#redday
-$216
realized this session · running total since April below
On June 16 I added a little more to both DAIC and BATL — 300 shares and 1,000 shares respectively — with no realized P&L. On the 17th I gave up on both.
Closing the losers
I sold 1,300 DAIC at $1.65 for -$178 and 1,000 BATL at $1.19 for -$38. Both had been profitable trades a week earlier; both ended as losses once I kept trading them past the original move.
And straight into two new names
The same session I opened 1,000 shares of SNAP at $4.87 and 600 shares of PLUG at $2.79 — both considerably larger, more established companies than the sub-$2 tickers I'd been churning. Neither ended well: PLUG cost me $171 eight days later, SNAP cost me $466 at month end.
I notice I never had a flat day. Every time I closed something, I opened something else the same session. Sitting in cash was apparently the one position I wouldn't consider.
Running total: +$5,052.
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