cutting PLUG for -$171

-$171, nearly all of it Plug Power.

PLUG didn't work

I sold all 600 shares of PLUG at $2.50 against the $2.79 I'd paid on June 17, a loss of -$171 or roughly 10%. Eight days, one direction, cut it.

I also sold the 250 SPCE shares I'd bought the previous day at essentially breakeven — down thirty-two cents in total. Read: the position I did nothing with for six weeks, and what it paid →

The pattern by now is obvious

Six sessions into the post-DAIC stretch and the shape is unmistakable: the trades that made money were the ones I sat on, and the trades losing money are the ones I entered and exited within days of each other. I was trading more and earning less with each passing week. Read: the single day two decisions made $2,206 →

My April self bought a stock and waited six weeks. My late-June self couldn't hold anything for eight days without cutting it. Same account, same person, worse results.

Running total: +$4,839. Read: what 890 trades looked like once I reconstructed the statement →