Holy what a start to the week, mostly good trades on my part and i'm very proud of the executions i had on the loan side, but you know definitely not proud of the flip on the short side, where i threw away a thousand dollars. So so, let's go over the ayro trade first, i was actually bullish on the stock. After yeah i did scalp a short trade uh for like what 20 cents, but over here i this is where i started loaning. This is where i recognize that holding this 470s area and at the time the stock was only up 50 percent which for a low floater like this.

It's that's nothing. So that's why i was leaning more bullish on the stock and this definitely details in the file lanes and everything like that. That made us feel like they had an incentive to keep on pushing the stock up and especially after the stock held a higher low here. In 480s, after trapping a lot of shorts pre-market and at the open, when i started squeezing and pushing i'm breaking above the five dollars level, that's where i started you know accumulating alongside so i had no pretty decent entry here entered here and added, and i'm always You know selling on the pushes, because, even though we had a loan thesis that doesn't mean it's gon na go straight up to eight dollars right like like over here the stock, you know after pushing towards 590s, i was pretty convinced that they were gon na.

Do a six dollar test when i didn't get that i have to stop out and only re-enter later um, you can't be too biased on either side, long or short, which, ironically, is the kind of the mistake i made later on, and let me show you so This is where i started accumulating even more long, and i was all out around this 6 30s area and my final sale on the long side was here, and this is where i started to get cute and flip short, and given that you know i have this Rule that if i'm flipping short or flipping bias on a stock, one of the straight has to be a scalp. That's just my personal rule. It makes sense for the way i trade. So if i was, you know more convinced on a long side early on the short should i bring a scalp right and then it should have been a trade where i cut my losses pretty quickly.

If i was wrong, i had pretty good entry here on this blow-off candle, 670s and added here, but this is where i was looking for this kind of move to cover and when we didn't get that i need to cover. But i didn't you know you could say you know, i think. Maybe i was feeling a little bit too confident that i nailed the long side and had a pretty decent gain on this and had another trade lmd. The ipo stock, in which i made a pretty decent profit on the long side as well, and i think i definitely got a little bit too.

You know a little bit too cocky. I will admit to that. It's monday, you know. After a long weekend, i was feeling good and that's where i you know, i made a mistake and you can see, i started adding scaling in and the silver lining is that you know i still kept my rule of.

If i'm scaling i'm scaling in with you know, quarter sizes or even one fifth, one, one eighth, so i was never down with full size. So that's you know the silver lining of this, but still i still throw threw away a grand on this short side. So not a good trade, and this is where i finally stopped out and i did re-enter the short around here - 790s and eight dollars that gave me a very nice average and this time i finally covered all my short position. I did try to re-short this um.

740S and then 730s and i was looking for this move and this kind of move potentially, but you know when we didn't get that i stopped out and followed my rule on the the second there's actually a third short trade. So this is a scratch. I made some profit on this, but overall the short side. I was still down a grand, so not not happy with the way i gave back some of my profit.

So, overall, on this trade, i made money on loan side and lost on the short side, and that's it you know it's a lesson i needed to learn lmd. So this is actually the trade of the day for me and it's it's a 90 stock. Now, when i started loaning this, it was a 78 dollar stock. This is a recent ipo lemonade.

You can see. We only have prior day history on thursday and today is a first day of trade after the long weekend. So so the loan thesis is that, after we prove that we can break above the daily and hold above the 71 mark over here, then that's why i wanted to buy the dips right. I'm not gon na buy the breakout, because this stock at one point, had a 50 cents to a dollar spread.

So this is definitely a stock. You want to size in slowly and on the dips like i did here, buying the dip here, never catching the perfect bottom, but that's totally fine, because i'm a set, as i said, i'm scaling in right and after we reclaim the ewop. That's why i started adding even bigger sold some just to take some profit, and you know i was looking to add even bigger, and i didn't see this kind of move from. You know 82 all the way to 95 within like what like three minutes.

So i definitely didn't see that coming and i didn't get a chance to add to full size, so i had about half size on the stock, but i did. I did of course want to sell into the push come on like 12 points move. That's that's ridiculous! So so i sold into this sold into this, but i still kept a small size because i i think you know this is just the first move. I was thinking we're gon na accumulate a little bit longer and make the test towards a hundred dollars.

We didn't get that, but i still have to stuck with my plan right. The same plan i had early on is to buy the dips and i started buying here re-entering, and this is why i slowly build a full-size position right. It builds a size here here here, um slowly right, so if your full size is thousand shares, you want to scale in with 250 250 250 and same thing with 100 shares. You want to build in with 25.

25. 25. 25.. That's the that's! The definition of scaling in and even when, i'm scaling in, i want to make sure if i do get a breakout move, i want to sell some into it.

You can always add back your sales skill position started building my position on the dip. So, after all the scaling i had about a 88 average, which is nice, but i was looking for that big move to retest 97 and then going to 100. We didn't get that so after i you know after we did start hovering for a while and we're just kind of consolidating, but with a lot lower volume. This is where i decided that you know we.

I see this test, i'm not in a hurry to sell, but if we fail this test, i'm gon na get out so, which is what we got. You know like we pushed to 96, but we didn't have enough volume and juice to break out to 97.. When this failed and that's where i scaled out and no i'm out so - which ended up being a pretty nice sale, considering the stock later tanked to 85., if i didn't sell, if i was too convinced of my long thesis, i would be down pretty big. So you know whether you are on the right side of the trade on the wrong side.

You have to trade according to your plan, even if i didn't get the thesis i had wanted. This just ended up being a smaller win which, on a stock like this, when you moved 12 13, that's still a really decent profit, but unfortunately, this this trade is the reason i got a little bit too cocky on ayro. So you know definitely you know some pretty decent lessons on today and the final trade, which is also a loss, is nyo, but you know when the the way i trade is, i add, into my winners and when the thesis is not proven, i don't add so. I was wrong on a starter size which i'm i'm perfectly.

Okay with london did not around 1160s. I was looking for a reclaim of 1180s and 12 dollars. We didn't get that so i was stopped out. Um lost about 10 cents on the straight on starter size.

So that was perfectly fine with me, so ending the day pretty nicely with and vs a couple of the stocks such as tesla and the mvx and ayro. So i'll talk about amvs in vs, i actually missed the shorts early on the stock is on ssr and that's why i was thinking they're gon na squeeze it a lot higher to tense before the drop at the open. So i wanted this move, but i thought we were gon na get this kind of squeeze at the open for me to short into, because if a stock is on ssr, you have to short on the uptick. You cannot slam on the bid, so you have to essentially short the breakouts, so i missed my entry and this entire move would have been a very nice, a dollar and over a dollar share drop.

I missed everything and when i enter on these kind of bounces, that i wanted it's a with a lot smaller size and give me a lot of room to add, because, with these small cap low floats, this kind of shenanigan can always happen. This is why i started scaling new shorts over here and added somewhere here, but i took a very nice stop out which i'm very proud about by the way. Again, it's a low float stock on ssr after they have trapped all the shorts down here, including myself, they're, probably just doing one of those low float manipulations to squeeze everyone out and very interestingly. This is kind of very similar move to what we saw on ayro.

Yesterday so it's kind of almost like they took the exact same playbook, but this time around i did stop out right, according to my plan on starter size, so it's only with the fact that i did stop out that i can really quickly flip. Back short, i started right after i stopped out i've seen a lot of sellers around this pre-market heist area, and i took it on the starter and i added on the squeeze up to 10 20s and that's because 10 20 is 10. This whole area pretty market high, this rough range a lot of selling into this area and every time it tries to spike. We have these kind of wicks here right.

When you get these kind of wigs on the candles, it means the moves. The breakouts are being sold into so you know that's a very basic technical analysis and price action reading. So i shorted here but again i could only do that because i stopped out of my initial short shorter here shorted some more on this ten dollar push. I covered some just to pay myself in case we get another one of those uh v, wap reclaim move that we saw here and but after seeing that we're really weak when i bounce in we're not bouncing so i started scaling him back in and back to.

My original short position and i accumulated a nice little average here about 850s. After all these ads - and you know pretty nice, you know - and essentially i got at the moment - the bottom tick around 660s. I wanted more on the fade, but after seeing that we're reclaiming sevens and now we're grinding higher, i stopped out of all my rest of my um short position, but i didn't cover it on the way down always have to do this with a with a low Float stalks like these, so i'm very proud of the way i cut my initial short entry here. This is something i should have done with ayro yesterday, so i definitely learned my lesson right.

It was like what, over a little bit over a thousand dollars lesson on that yesterday, you know, gave back a chunk of my profit from the day, so today i'm very happy. I took the paper cut and it's only after you take the loss that you have. The clear mental capacity and the clarity in your head to think you know with an open mind to re-enter the stock short again. So that's something i'm very happy about, and amvs was my biggest trade on the day.

The other stock that added up really nicely actually was tesla. So tesla, you know. Initially, it was just a scope right, just scalp by essentially trying to risk the previous. They closed around 1 380 and you know sold into the push into 1400..

I missed this entire move, i wasn't short tesla and after it starts, you know, reclaiming this red degree move is where i you know putting another starter size. I was thinking that you know if we continue holding this area we're going to get this kind of squeeze and because it is a starter size. That's why i was okay with having a wider stop. If we did close beneath this 1360s area, that's where i would stop out on my original short excuse me, my original starter, long entry and no tesla is one of those stocks and loves to reclaim v-wap and if it does hold this v-wap, it's gon na squeeze Time again, if you look at the past charts on the breakout days, that's what it almost always does you know it's almost always it's not 100 guaranteed, but i had seen it enough times for me to go long again.

That's what i added to a pretty decent size, half size. You know with a stock like tesla. I don't want a sizing too big. It is a 1400 dollar stock.

After all, so you know pretty decent size sold into the first target around 1400, and this is where i got greedy and i didn't sell into 1420s, which was my second price target. You know and that's another 20 point move from 1400 all the way to 1420s. I didn't sell because i was just being a greedy little bit and so that did cost me. You know some money and i did eventually you know i was you know, holding here thinking.

Okay, i missed the sale. I want to see if we hold 1400 and we make another push and when we didn't get that i stopped out, so i did stop out in the money. I still make a pretty decent profit. After my average about 13 81, i sold the the last.

The last position around 13 98. - it's still pretty decent, but you know i did miss this entire. What 23 dollar move had you know the plan was to sell into 14 20 and i didn't follow that. So you know i'm human.

After all, i do get greedy. Sometimes so you know definitely something to learn through all your winners and losers, but i'm glad i still you know, follow the second plan, which is to stop out if we cannot hold 1400. So i'm. I am happy about that.

Last trade on the day is nvx. Um so mvax, i was actually extremely bullish on the stock. It's a stock. I made money, i'm both short and long before, but i'm seeing this gap up i've.

I thought you know once you know. If we can hold this 105 104 area, we're going to push higher and we might see pre-market highs and potentially 120s, you know i did have a starter. You know the the price actually on the stock. Wasn't that wasn't exactly clean like the past breakouts that i traded on this day and this day i believe so, that's why you know i didn't have much size on this entry and you can see you know once you know.

We start wicking around this breakout area around 110. That's why i took you know my position off, even if it started size, i didn't want to let it turn into a loser. You know because i think we're going to retrace lower to this 104103s area, which we did and i tried to long again didn't work and that's why i stopped out of my second loan. So i did take a loss on a long trade and after seeing that was extremely heavy and breaking down the support area.

That's why i was flipped short and ended up paying nicely on the short side. Flip short here and added some more after confirmed, breakouts and volume coming in and covered some into the flush re-added into this 100 uh bounce and covered some into the downside flush around 97 90s. I missed this flush to 95. No, i was waiting around 94.

I thought we would, you know test that area before you know reversal and going higher like it's doing now, but you know missed the cover you know i did. Try to you know add some back in in anticipation of the 94 dollars breakdown. Didn't get that so you know once i see this wick getting bought back up. You know, that's uh, usually a pretty good sign.

That's gon na reverse! So that's why i stopped out of the rest of my position in the money, so pretty decent trade on the short side so took the loss on the long sides, but made it back and more on the short side. So today is definitely the day where it kind of started, starting to feel like the regular summer that we had in the last few years, where all the runners kind of gap up pre-market and just sell off at the open without any major bounce. Like the stock. Dss right so, and it was all kind of like this yesterday nvc, i don't think i didn't record it yesterday, just because there wasn't that cling of a trade.

For me, nbc, i had a small just a tiny winner on the short and we see also, you know same chart as dss pretty much you can see. You know we gapped up a pr pump or whatever you know, and if you look at the daily charts on nmvc. It's being you know, spikes fail. Spikes fail, so there's a lot of bag holders above 11 dollars on nnbc.

So when the stock finally gapped up to finally 10 dollars from single digits for so long, you know you would expect all the bad coders to want to get out on the stock and that's why mvc barely had any bounce and i had a shorts on it. But it was so tiny, it wasn't really worth doing the recap about. So you know very similar charges dss today, um, except for this one. You know i, since the stock is a microfloat, i think it was about 2 million shares float.

I actually thought we'll get one final push to 12 right because 12 dollars, you can see, there's um, you know resistance here and then even 1360. So i was no. That was my wishful thinking, so i had to start her long here on the first major pullback. 11, uh.

18S. You know these are misprints. The stock never went up to twelve dollars by the way, and it was just a week. You know all the bounces, you know all these wicks are just being sold into and that's why i got out of a small loss on the long side and actually flipped short.

I don't really like shorting pre-market. I prefer to wait for the open, but when i do you know it's, you know just pre-market size same thing as over here right and i had a had a small short on from 1070s covered some, but the goal is to short on any pops. If we get a 1080s test at the open, that's where i want to short um with bigger short size, but unfortunately we never got that because you can see the bounces are just so weak. You know we had about the 90s touch, no, not even 1977., and it was just extremely weak and i thought to myself: oh my god.

It's not going to pop to 1080. It's going to do the exact same thing as nnbc yesterday. So that's you know. That's where i got.

In short, i was ready to cut if we reclaim 10 and then we short higher, but no, unfortunately, we we never got about 10 above 10 and it just kind of tanked. So you know i'm pretty happy with the way i added and i was actually really patient. As you can see, i had a short tier covered, some small but re-shorted again after cena was so heavy and we're breaking down this uh nine dollars level. This line breaks.

It's the final line, ascend right, so nine dollar breaks down. You know we have a gap, fill all the way down to you know possibly 760., so i showed it, and that was my last entry and i just held it. I'm actually kind of proud about my patience on this one i held it covered some and no. The idea is that i want to see this.

This support crack poured at 780 honestly even lower to 760s. Perhaps but we just kind of started grinding up and by this time it's around midnight here in taiwan. I don't, like you know, holding any position for too long. You know i'm on vacation.

I just want to close it out and be done with it. The second stock is also traded with a lot smaller sizes clsk, because i was focused on dss. I had a few shorts. You know really tight range on this one.

I completely missed the squeeze here. You know had most of the shorts here covered into this. I reshored it some, i was being patient with ess and i didn't really add into this, but later failed four dollars and then came back down. So i did have a few long trades on dss and also nkla.

Both the long trades didn't work you can see. I took a loss on this. I was thinking that you know we're holding this gap up. We have a potential to test the daily highs, but the the spy was extremely heavy and uh we're just selling off, so it was just so weak.

We couldn't even hold v-wap and you can see. I had two entries. I trimmed some size. Just to you know, make sure i protect my downside, but when we cannot hold 59 and then cracking down v-wap, that's why i decided you know i need to get out.

So that's why i did so took a loss on the loan trade on nkla. The only loan trade was a scalp and it worked out, but you can see i left a lot on the table was roku, so roku. If you look at the daily charge or breaking out on a daily, you know, i think it's probably gon na run into earnings, there's upside to um 160s on the chart. But so so i took a long here below this view update with an average after two entries, i had an average about 140 60s, something like that and i sold into 141.60 and 142..

You know when the spy is dumping really hard. The bounces are just scalp loans. For me you know you can say. Oh, i left a lot on the table.

The stock went to 150, but i don't have a crystal ball right. You know at the time everything was so heavy and everything's really red. I don't want to outstay my welcome and turn this into a loser. This could have just as easily sell off the entire gap down to 136.

We've seen the big caps do that. So you know i'm happy with the trade the scalp on the on this loan trade and in a market where everything is read. Most of the stocks that's been working were the short trades, and this was the only long that that kind of worked out for me. So, to be honest, i wasn't expecting too much out of this friday, just because the past two days has been kind of slow in terms of small caps.

So today i kind of want to focus on large cap loans and short small caps and now ending the day nicely green. But of course it's not without a few stupid mistakes on my part, you know i'm human. After all, it happens right, so the first stock on the day was wimi. I had a lot of hope for the stock to go parabolic to touch tents and pull back and it's a low float stock and it's a recent ipo you can see.

We don't have much chart history above six dollars and it's also you know, six million shares float. You know i did expect some more squeeze move, but right at the opening just kind of dumped and it was extremely heavy. It was you can see. I waited a few two minute candles until really going into short, because i want to see if we're gon na hold this eight dollars right.

We tried to hold it here and i was thinking okay. This could potentially be a long when we didn't get that and we flushed down and stayed heavy. That's why going short, so you know i feel like i'm chasing here, so i want to still slowly scale into my shorts cover, some just to paint myself and then you know add some more add some more on the pop and cover it most into here. You know we're still heavy around here and that's why i want to scale back in and scale back in here and around the v-wap.

I was thinking we're gon na reject and we did for a second here, but when we start holding the seven tens low sevenths area, that's where i think okay, they could try to squeeze it up, and this is why i covered most of it. Here i tried. I did try the re-add into the hole very small, though, and that's why you know because of the small size, that's what gave me the clarity to cover the shorts here. So i did take a looser on the shorts on the re-entries here, which is okay.

You have to respect your stop right. This could have just kept on squeezing to nine dollars and ten dollars and there's no way i'm gon na keep on holding through that. It's much easier to exit the trade and think with a clear head whether to go long or short, then, to keep on adding, adding, adding on the way up to a loser. You don't ever want to do that.

That's that's a big no-no! You might get bailed out once or twice, but the one time where you don't get bailed out, you're gon na blow up. I'm saying that because it's happened to me before so i know i i rather just take the loser and miss this downside. You can see the stock later slammed down, but i just have to protect my downside um. I did re-hit it small on the short side cover some for, like you know, small base hit, and this is why i made a mistake.

I was trying to cover all of it just because we kept on holding sevens, and you know you can see technically seven dollars is a support area from pre-market we kept on holding, and that's why you know i much rather, you know exit the entire position to Avoid this connection and re-enter higher than to keep on holding and hoping that's going to drop, but when i covered, i accidentally longed 2 000 shares. So you know i still make mistakes and i turned around. I saw that i was loan the stock and i was thinking - oh my god. Why am i alone the stock? You know when that happens.

I accidentally enter a trade. My rule is to just get out, so i did take the loser on the loan trade by accident. I think that cost me about 800 dollars, but it's okay, it's more important to me that i follow the rule on the stock like this. So take a took.

A loss on the loan trade by accident and the short trade overall made some decent profit. The second trade on the day is also on the short side. This was a pump pre-market and it's a stock that traded time and again. So i'm pretty confident about this pump.

That's you know. Eventually, reality is gon na hit we're gon na drop. You can see on the daily chart. You know lots of bag holders above the eight dollars area.

So that's why i was more sure biased. I started a starter added some more, but i want to add to bigger size how many pops so when it popped to nine dollars. I added cover some just to pay myself, but that gave me the conviction, because i scaled him slowly right, but i gave me a conviction to continue holding it, and that gave me a really nice. I guess i think it was 840s average and i covered most of it here around 740s and i did try to re-hit it a couple more times here covered something to here.

You know not much here only 20 cents and i was all out of the shorts here because you know the volume is kind of dropping and it's also friday. So i don't want to outstay my welcome so my second loan on the day was roku and this one wow it's probably going to 160 163 now, but i loaned the stock. You know yesterday i played the stock loan for a scalp, but today i wanted a trend following move right, you know, roku is a momentum stock. It's a stock, i've traded time and again when there's momentum, witness trending, it loves to push it's a train.

Essentially, you don't want to get in front of this train right, so i loaned the full first pull back. I didn't want to chase the breakouts here. You can see. You know we had a slight gap down pre-market, but we really quickly reclaimed previous day close.

So you know i long the first step to view up here. First, entry. 151. 80S.

That's where i got my starter. I would i do want to add into my full size at the time spy was kind of heavy. So i i kind of want to give a little bit more time to prove to me that it does want to continue trending up and it did have a push above high. So that's a good sign and on this pullback is what added to i didn't.

I still didn't get full size just because you know the spy was kind of making me nervous, but i did get a decent. You know three-quarter size on roku, so i'm very happy about my entries and my patient patients - and you know i did write it after this. This ad, i had an average about 150 340s after this ad here and i sold the first partial into 156 50s. So that's a pretty decent two point move.

I wanted this 160 touch for my final sale, but you know when we kind of start doing this kind of candle. That's where i thought now we could see a reverse, so so i want to lock it in, and i was out after i got stopped out here, but you can see the stock. You know really strong. It's probably gon na keep on grinding up to 160 163s.

On the daily, so i love these um large cap stocks in the summer, especially right now, where you know a lot of these small caps are just kind of grinding and chopping around. I prefer to short the smokecap gap ups and long, the large caps. That's what historically have proven to be more consistent in the summer months, for me at least the last year and the year before has been like this, so i'm just doing what works for me and along on roku works, really well right. This is essentially like what a seven point move to the upside, so you know this is what i used personally to build my small accounts.

When i was, you know, trading the first few years, it's trading these large caps, the small caps, are a little bit just too unpredictable and the large caps respect the support and resistance. So much better. If you're patient - hey guys thanks for watching, i hope you enjoyed the video and the bad jokes. If you want to see more day trading content, make sure to subscribe and follow me on twitter and instagram for more.

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