Aug 17, 2026: +$386 on one overnight hold in H World Group

Friday was sixty-four trades. Today was one.

On Friday I churned CAPR fifteen different ways, ran SPCE, ONFO, VWAV and SKHZ, and finished the whole session up +$43. Then four minutes before the close I bought 100 shares of HTHT at $41.71 and went home.

That one position made nine times what the other sixty-three trades made combined.

The trade

HTHT is H World Group, the ADR for the Chinese hotel operator formerly called Huazhu. It is not a $2 micro-cap and it is not a leveraged ETF, which by itself makes it unlike most of what I've been trading. I bought 100 shares at $41.71 at 15:35 on Friday and sold them at $45.5701 at 09:32 this morning.

Gross +$386.01, eleven cents in fees, +$385.90 net. One buy, one sell, and about sixty-six hours of doing nothing in between — most of which the market was closed for.

Two orders. No screen time. More money than my last eleven sessions combined.

The part I'm less proud of

The fill wasn't as clean as the number suggests. I put in a limit at $41.69 and cancelled it. Then $41.70, cancelled. Then $41.71, filled. Three orders in twenty-three seconds, chasing a stock two cents at a time while the close came at me.

It worked out, and it was still the wrong process. If I'd been that impatient into a falling tape instead of a rising one, the same behaviour writes a very different entry.

What I did with the money

At 15:47 — thirteen minutes before the close, same habit — I bought 120 shares of AS (Amer Sports, the parent of Arc'teryx and Salomon) at $32.38. Another mid-cap, another overnight hold, no plan to touch it intraday.

So the day's realised total is +$386, and that puts my running total since April at +$2,692. The account itself sits at $4,812 net liquidating value with one position open.

I've written a lot on this site about how two decisions made $5,420 and roughly 980 trades gave back $3,150. Friday and today are that same sentence in miniature: sixty-four trades made $43, and one trade made $386. I'd like to say I've internalised it. The evidence is that I have to keep relearning it.