Session archive

Tue, Sep 15, 2026

An Oracle long held all the way to target on a do-nothing morning

Our desk opened by saying the day before the Fed was not worth pushing — size down, shorts into pops, expect a tight range — and the morning proved that read right. One Oracle long was taken at the level the desk had flagged, the stop was trailed up three times as price based, and the full position was held until the eighty-cent target filled. The same name was worked much harder elsewhere on the desk: an entry with adds that stopped, a re-entry off the lows, and a break-even exit that missed target twice by a cent. A QCOM daily-breakout short and two small shots at Amazon gave back very little, because nothing was carrying real size.

Mon, Sep 14, 2026

An RKLB gap-to-close short set the tone early

Our desk had the RKLB gap-to-close marked premarket with a resting short order, got filled on the open, added into the position with a defined stop above the high, and then scaled out in two pieces as the gap filled rather than holding for the last of the move. A second short went on at the same time and was cut back to flat when it stopped cooperating — a smaller idea managed small.

Fri, Sep 11, 2026

Oracle Re-Entries and a Google Target Carry Friday

Oracle gapped hard on cloud backlog news and our desk worked it long from the open, taking three stops under the lows before the fourth entry ran, scaling out in quarters and trailing the rest. A pre-planned Oracle breakout order was cancelled when the gap ran away from it, and the focus moved to Google long off the two-hundred-day, held to a chart target rather than settling for a partial. A Meta long was scratched after half came off, and a Dell short cost the desk after a stop that was never moved.

Thu, Sep 10, 2026

An Apple short pays early, then META gets worked twice

The desk opened with an Apple short, called the level, missed the first fill, re-offered and got short anyway — then scaled the whole position out for a gain. The rest of the morning was spent on META: a first long stopped at the stated risk, a re-entry with a planned add and a fresh average, then thirds taken off the top with the stop pulled to breakeven, which is where the last piece ended. The session closed with a short setup passed on because the level sat too close to VWAP.

Wed, Sep 9, 2026

A UNH long scaled out into strength while Apple fought back

Our desk took a UNH long off a hard morning flush with a defined stop, then let it work — peeling a third, another third, then splitting the last piece again rather than guessing at one exit. Around it, an RKLB breakout attempt and an Apple VWAP dump both demanded repeated re-entries on a slow tape, and by the half-hour mark the desk was mostly flat with a HOOD breakdown short and an MU short still running.

Tue, Sep 8, 2026

RKLB and Oracle longs carried a stubborn tape

A premarket read — fade software, buy compute — set the watchlist, and the compute side turned out to be the harder half. An RKLB long, scaled out in pieces with the stop trailed over the highs, and a patient Oracle entry taken on a deliberately wide stop were the two trades that held together, while repeated NVDA attempts kept getting kicked. The desk named the problem out loud early and adjusted to smaller, faster exits rather than pressing for continuation that wasn't there.

Fri, Sep 4, 2026

Amazon and a Google 200-day long put the morning right

Apple fought the desk from the open — orders placed, cancelled, flipped short, then long again at the previous day's low, and stopped on wicks more than once. The turn came when our desk traders stopped forcing it: Amazon was scaled out in pieces on the high-volume flush, a NVDA short was worked down in thirds, and the RKLB bottom-band long was re-entered with a tighter stop after the first attempt stopped. A full-size Google start on the 200-day touch closed the session, managed to breakeven once it had moved.

Thu, Sep 3, 2026

An RKLB short fills on the retest and scales out

The stated bias was gap-ups and buying dips, but the only thing that actually paid attention to a level was RKLB — a short worked on the retest, filled where the order was waiting, and scaled out in pieces rather than being held for more. Everything else was managed by cancellation: Oracle and an earlier RKLB order pulled when they wouldn't come in, Apple pulled after the fill was missed, HOOD given a five-minute timer that expired without a trigger, Amazon looked at on VWAP and passed. Our desk traders closed the session out with Google at the level.

Wed, Sep 2, 2026

A CRDO Re-Entry and a JNJ Short Carry the Morning

Our desk worked CRDO around a daily moving-average level twice — long, out flat on the first attempt, then back in lower and scaled the second one all the way out for the best trade of the session. A JNJ short was started early into all-time highs, the desk said plainly that the average was worse for it, and it was still scaled out in thirds into VWAP. Dell was the name that kept taking money back, and the desk eventually stood down from it.

Tue, Sep 1, 2026

Three fast opening trades carried the whole session

Our desk did essentially all of the morning's work inside the first five minutes — an Oracle long off the open, a Rocket Lab short into the drop, then a Google long scaled out in two pieces. After that the tape flattened, and the later attempts to short Apple into a level that kept expiring were the cost of trying to make a second act happen.

Mon, Aug 31, 2026

NVDA and GOOG longs set the tone, with Amazon scalped for repeat halves

The desk opened with an NVDA long off the lows, taken off ahead of the previous day's close rather than pressed into overhead resistance, and closed the session long GOOG at the 200-day with the first half scaled and the balance added back. Amazon was worked three separate times against a strong daily: a small stop on the first attempt, then the same half-dollar extracted twice by ratcheting to break-even instead of hoping. An SMCI short never resolved — it coiled, gave a partial, then stopped at break-even.

Fri, Aug 28, 2026

A Third INTC Short and Repeated NVDA Re-Entries Carry the Morning

Our desk worked one idea in INTC all morning — short into the previous-day close area, targeting VWAP and the overnight shelf — and was stopped out twice before a third entry finally ran, trailed down step by step to a lower high and scaled out through a frustrating partial fill. NVDA took the same treatment: repeated re-entries around a weekly pivot zone, a flat exit taken deliberately ahead of the Fed speech rather than holding through news, then two later attempts that both scaled out. The thesis never changed; the entry and the stop distance did.

Thu, Aug 27, 2026

Apple adds and an Intel scale carried the morning

Our desk built an Apple long in three pieces on the reversal off the band, moved the stop to breakeven once the second add filled, and scaled out into the push. An Amazon short followed on the gap fill in light size, with the add taken before the stop was set above the average, and an Intel long off the cross near previous-day levels was scaled out in thirds after the planned second entry was cancelled when the level held higher than wanted. Robinhood was the one name that would not cooperate, and it was stopped both times rather than argued with.

Wed, Aug 26, 2026

A META long carried a green morning, with three scaled exits behind it

A META long taken after the gap filled did most of the morning's work — held patiently while the rest of the desk watched it run. Elsewhere our desk traders opened with a GOOG long off the cross, shorted NVDA into a pre-set level and covered in pieces, and took a quick TSLA long off VWAP for a clean scalp. The friction came later in NVDA, where one long stopped small and a second attempt, given deliberately more room, came off flat.

Tue, Aug 25, 2026

An NVDA short off a pre-market level, then a long into the headline

The desk's morning was made on NVDA and an early GOOG scale-out, with a pre-market resistance level doing the heavy lifting — our traders faded it almost to the cent, scaled out on the way down, and later re-entered long the instant a geopolitical headline snapped the tape back up. Apple was the drag: both a starter and a full-size build got shaken out near VWAP, and a Rocket Lab long stopped exactly where it was planned to. The trades that worked were the ones taken at levels written down before the open.

Mon, Aug 24, 2026

The desk kept buying a tape that would not follow through

The morning wire came in short-biased on almost everything, but the actual attempts our desk traders made were long — INTC, NVDA and twice in AMZN — each a tight-risk starter into a pop that never extended. The problem was named out loud early, that the tape was giving small bounces and nothing worth building on, and it was still worked a few more times before the desk stood down. The RKLB long was the one that behaved: a piece scaled, the stop trailed up, then to break even, and taken out there.

Fri, Aug 21, 2026

An MRVL long held to the stop undid a morning of clean scale-outs

Most of the session ran the way our desk drew it up — gap-fill and level reclaims in GOOG, INTC, AMZN and RKLB, scaled out in thirds. What turned the morning was the last trade: an MRVL long off the low-of-day thesis, taken with a stop far enough away that when it went, it took back more than the earlier scale-outs had built. HOOD also cost the desk twice on the short side before it was left alone.

Thu, Aug 20, 2026

An Apple scale-out and an RKLB long set the tone

The desk started HOOD small on the cross, added into it, and when the bounce came in weak moved the stop to break even and let it go rather than argue with it. The better trade was Apple crossing back through the lower band, scaled out in thirds up to VWAP with the stop trailed behind each piece. RKLB was taken long off a double bottom at a pivot with a tight stop underneath, targeting just under VWAP and closed there.

Wed, Aug 19, 2026

A DELL long and an Apple reversal carried the morning

Our desk spent most of the first hour waiting on a 30-second trigger in DELL that kept not arriving, took an Apple short in the meantime that stopped over the highs, then got the DELL entry it wanted and scaled out in four pieces on the way up. Apple was later worked from the long side once it crossed, with halves and quarters taken into the move and the stop moved to break even rather than guessing at the top. Earlier stops in INTC and PLTR were re-entered at pre-defined levels rather than chased.

Tue, Aug 18, 2026

An Amazon scale-out and repeated Rocket Lab longs carried the open

The desk's first hour ran on band-to-band setups: an Amazon long started off the lower band and scaled three times as price worked back toward the upper band, with the stop moved to break even and the planned add cancelled once the first piece paid. Rocket Lab was traded the same way and revisited twice more, sized to hold and scaled out at pre-set levels rather than exited in one go. The quieter names — a half-size Hood long cut immediately, an Intel start abandoned for lack of room to VWAP — were closed fast and small, which kept the friction from becoming the story.

Mon, Aug 17, 2026

A META long scaled cleanly, then a DELL flush took it back

The morning's best work was a META long taken off a signal the desk had been waiting on rather than guessing at — started small, scaled out in stages on the way up, last piece let run. Later, a DELL starter never got the add it needed; the spread stayed thin, and by the time the fill came, two heavy red candles hit the stop. Elsewhere the desk fought broker order-routing problems all session, cut an AMZN long under the lows and kept an ORCL long small and short-leashed to break even. The desk finished slightly red.

Fri, Aug 14, 2026

An RDDT short and a staged AVGO long carried the morning

The desk opened with a short into an overnight gap-up and closed the position in full on a fast push rather than argue with it, then spent the middle of the session building a semiconductor long in pieces — a deliberately small starter after having to chase the level, planned adds below, and profit taken a third at a time on the way up. Elsewhere the desk was shaken out of two tight-stop longs in the same name before the third attempt worked and was scaled out. A chip long got scaled at the first target, then held for a higher band that never arrived and gave the remainder back at break even.

Thu, Aug 13, 2026

An INTC Short, Scaled Out Four Times, Anchored the Morning

Intel went vertical on heavy green volume and our desk traders read it as short covering rather than real demand — one started short into the spike and scaled out in four pieces, another took the same idea and worked out in two. Around that, the desk bought NVIDIA's dip into the gap-close and used a resting stop-limit to get long Oracle on the break. Two Apple longs bookended the morning, and a HOOD short took two stops before the third attempt paid.

Wed, Aug 12, 2026

An RKLB round trip banked early, Google gave it back

Our desk worked RKLB from both sides in the opening stretch, scaling out of a long and then flipping short into the highs for a clean second take, and a patient Google re-entry after an earlier stop was the best-managed trade of the session. But Amazon refused to hold a base across two attempts, and a later Google long taken well off the earlier levels went against the desk without a scale, which is what tipped the morning slightly red.

Tue, Aug 11, 2026

A GOOG long and a fast RKLB short set the tone

Our desk traders chased an RKLB short and took a point out of it almost immediately, then went long GOOG at a low that had been called out ahead of time, scaling most of it at the first target and trailing the remainder to a pre-stated objective. ORCL was the grind: the first two attempts stopped in the lows before a third one paid out in three scales. An AAPL long that refused to move was cut at breakeven rather than argued with.

Fri, Aug 7, 2026

Open House — a morning on the desk