SessionTuesday, August 11, 2026· 1h 04mMembers only

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.

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The morning in figures

Trade ideas (13 legs)

62.5%

Win rate (trades)

5 / 1 / 3

Win / flat / loss (trades)

+1.26

Net points / share

+1.15%

ROCE

Net points are per share. Apply your own size to get your own number: at 1,000 shares, 1.26 points is $1,260.00. At 100 shares it is $126.00. At one share it is $1.26. The desk publishes the move, not a dollar result, because the dollars depend entirely on how you size, and that is your decision rather than ours.

Every trade called that morning

Losers included. Rows with more than one leg were scaled out; open any row to see each exit.

Said on the day

Saying a level out loud before you're in it makes the entry and the stop easier to hold later.

Two stops in a name are not a reason to abandon it, but they are a reason to come back smaller.

Taking half off and moving the stop to breakeven turns a stalled trade into a non-event rather than a loss.

A trade that goes sideways past its thesis is finished, whatever the stop says — cutting at breakeven is a decision, not a rescue.

Scaling out in stages let a single working name carry more weight than the attempts that failed in it.

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