Aug 20, 2026: +$84, and how I turned a $340 trade into $71

A green day that I don't feel good about. The number says +$84. Underneath it, one trade made $195 and two names gave back $109 through pure churn, including four round trips in a bread company at 4pm. Read: the day I made 23 trades and $46 →

TWIN: the overnight trade, working again

Bought 200 TWIN (Twin Disc) at $23.59 at 15:38 yesterday. Sold 130 at $24.60 and 70 at $24.50 at 09:32 this morning. +$195.00.

Four attempts at this now: +$386, +$233, -$192, +$195. Net +$622 across four trades and eight orders. Still a small enough sample that I'd call it encouraging rather than established.

SGLY: made $340, gave back $269

This is the one worth reading, because it's the same mistake I've documented half a dozen times and apparently still make.

09:33 — bought 1,000 SGLY at $4.0099. 09:35 — sold 1,000 at $4.35. That's +$340 in ninety seconds. A good trade, cleanly executed, finished.

Then instead of stopping I bought it back four more times as it fell: Read: my actual strategy, and the three places it breaks →

• Back in at $4.07, out at $4.00 — -$70
• Back in at $3.95, out at $3.9209 — -$29
• Back in at $3.91 × 1,000, out at $3.74 — -$170

Net on SGLY: +$71. I turned a $340 trade into a $71 trade by refusing to accept that the move was over. Every re-entry was lower than the last, which is the signature of chasing rather than reading.

FLO: four round trips in a bread company

FLO is Flowers Foods. They make Wonder Bread and Nature's Own. It is a $7 consumer staple with the volatility profile you'd expect of one, and I traded it four times in two hours.

• 14:11 in at $7.315, 14:45 out at $7.345 — +$20
• 15:36 in at $7.185, 15:45 out at $7.1709 — -$8
• 15:46 in at $7.11, 15:47 out at $7.106 — -$2
• 15:48 in at $7.07, 16:08 out at $6.756 — -$188

Total: -$179.76. The first three were noise. The fourth was the one that mattered, and I took it at 15:48 — twelve minutes before the close, into a stock that had made three consecutive lower highs while I was trading it. Read: two orders in two days that beat sixty-four in one →

Every re-entry was cheaper than the one before, in both names, on the same day. That is not a strategy with a bad session. That is me not being able to leave things alone.

The honest read on a green day

Strip it back and the day was one good decision and a lot of activity:

• One overnight hold, two orders: +$195
• Twenty-five intraday orders in SGLY and FLO: -$109

That is the site's whole thesis reproduced inside a single session. I have written it as 890 trades, as 23 trades to make $46, and as four orders beating sixty-four. Today it happened again between 9:33 and 4:08.

At 15:58 I bought 100 shares of BKE (Buckle) at $42.565 and held it overnight. Fifth attempt. It's marked +$7.50 as I write this, which means nothing yet.

Day: +$84. Running total across published sessions: +$2,916.