What's up, everyone? All right? Well, today is Thursday and finishing the day up about 22 400 in the large account. Ahpi, Acy. Those were the two I traded today. I was watching Fulc, I was watching Clove, but I wasn't in love with either of them.

There were a couple lower price stocks I was watching as well, but they didn't really give the right setups or seem like they were positioned for good follow-through So I got Green today and I'm locking it up. Which puts me up almost 50 000 on the week I was up 12. Well, I I don't remember even when I was up on Monday, but I was up 12 Tuesday, 15 Wednesday, and then 20 22 today. You know, just like that, those are three really good back-to-back days.

So I was green on Monday, but I don't think it was by a lot a couple thousand bucks or something. So anyways, um, a fifty thousand dollar week is great. So that is, uh, definitely moving in the right direction. It's a reflection that the market is heating back up.

We have had some great opportunities, which is good. more volatility, a bit more volume. So we're kind of off the low of that slow patch that we had at the end of July and the first week of August, which is good. Now tomorrow's Friday, it's August, so we'll try to finish up Friday with a couple trades, probably close down early, not overstay my welcome.

But then this marks the halfway point for the month of August and I've got in my head. you know, I'm keeping my head. above water, which is good. Uh, so a nice green week here.

If I can finish strong or even just finish tomorrow without having a big red day, that would be awesome. And then you know the last two weeks of August just kind of, uh, you know, get through it one or two trades a day, not taking a lot of trades, just getting green, shutting it down and finish the month of August Green that that's the goal. I would like to be up 100 000 on the month. I think that that's um, within reach for sure, but you know it'll be.

It'll be up to market whether or not we have good opportunities, so it's certainly possible. but if it doesn't happen, it's okay. On the other hand, I could also make that in one day and then be well up over 100 on the month if we have the right conditions. So that's the if.

Now, as a trader, I come in every day looking for those opportunities. If they're there, I'll capitalize. I'll get aggressive if they're not. No, that's what.

I've got to be really careful not to get overly aggressive on the wrong setups, because when I do that, that's when I dig myself a hole and I go around. And that's what happened the last week of July. That's what happened the first week of August. so I did well this week.

So far I have at least and um, I'm gonna try to keep myself grounded Friday, finish strong and then go into uh, the next week with sort of this green week under my belt. A little bit of confidence as a reminder. I hope you guys enjoy the recap, but as a reminder, trading is risky. Most beginner traders lose money and my results are not typical, so you should assume as a beginner trader you'll lose money and trade in a simulator before you put real money on the line.

All right. So with that, hope you guys enjoyed the recap and I'll see you tomorrow Morning Friday for, uh, the last train day of the week. All right, All right everyone. So I'm going to do my large account recap here today, finishing up uh, 22, 469 and 58 cents.

which is a great day. I'm happy with that. You know, I've had three good days in a row here. It's unprecedented.

Uh, based on how I've been, I don't know. Well, August is slow, but uh, three good days in a row now: 12 000 Tuesday, 15, 000 Wednesday, and 22 000 today. So in three days, that's um, let's see 27 plus 22. So 30, 40, 50, 000? That's fantastic.

That is the sort of little boost I needed. Now the fact is, I I'm uh, doing the best I can to be aggressive, but acknowledging that it is still August, it's not the time to go. Kind of really crazy. So acy for me.

The only one I lost on today. I tried to take a bounce off the view app right here and the first bounce off the V web work. The second one didn't work as well and stopped out for a loss. so so that's fine.

The loss on acy um but ahpi was was good. um volatile but good. I was watching it as we know yesterday. this big move which caught me off guard.

I didn't expect it but it squeezed here up to 1550 and then dropped back down. and what I noticed this morning because I had this chart up from yesterday and I noticed first of all that it was gapping up this morning right here and I thought boy, if this thing can break this descending resistance level and then break yesterday's high 1550, we got something to work with and as it broke. Overview: I'm gonna have the courage to buy and now if it hit the yellow line, I still don't think I would have had the courage to buy it because at that time it wouldn't have really been a very big gaffer. I don't know a lot of people would have noticed it, but our gap scan this morning wasn't phenomenal.

We didn't have a lot that looked really good so Hpi ended up being our fourth leading gapper and as it started to squeeze up, Oops, right here. over 14 30. I saw it first at 14, right at the V web here 14 and I said I was like 14 by 14 18. and that was 14 18 by 14 20.

you know the spread started to tighten up and there was bids and I was like you know what? uh oh here we go and I was thinking should I take it in the small account and I was like oh, I don't think I can which I wish I had but I didn't uh but I bought it in the big account and we got that squeeze and I added into the move which was a little aggressive but I added into the move we got to pull back here. I added on this dip off the yellow line, broke it, retested it, and then look at that rip up to 16 and I was holding shares into the open where we got the high of 1641. So I ended up trading it fairly well. I I couldn't have traded it a lot better except for taking larger share size um, my starter of 6000 shares, then scaling up to 12 which is a little aggressive because I've been trying to take it slow this week, but scaling up as we got that momentum, taking a little profit off, then adding back what I had taken off.

So trading around average share size probably 12 to 15 000 shares. I wasn't being super aggressive on it, but uh, considering on stocks earlier this summer, I was trading 30 to 40 50 000 shares on a regular basis. But but right now isn't the time to be that aggressive. And so that's okay.

So this same trade you know, this same setup back in June or July might have given us a ripped like 20 bucks and I might have felt confident taking 20 to 30 to 40 000 shares. And this could have been a fifty seventy, five hundred thousand dollar day. It's kind of a combination of bigger momentum, bigger moves than confidence taking bigger size because we've got more volume and it just all sort of compounds in a positive way to create bigger winners. And now it can go the reverse.

Um, but and it sort of did at the end of July when I had some losses. But anyway, so Ahpi tried to do some dip trades on it and then eventually said, you know what I'm going to give up and focus on something else Acy Made a nice move, but kept feeling like I was chasing it. waited for a five minute pullback. we finally got one, but then it just faded.

It's a bummer. so that's Acy. and and those are the two stocks I traded in the main account today, so that's it for me. Um, 22 000 on the day.

It's a green day and it's Thursday, so we've got one more day in the week and I'm up 50 000 on the week, give or take. So hopefully we can finish the week tomorrow with, you know, a couple more decent trades. I am right in the small account. Today I didn't take a Hpi, but I did take acy lost on that one and then I had two other small losses.

So I'm writing a small account today, which is a little bit of a bummer, but green and a big account and that that's good green account. The big account being the green account. There's days where I've been down 20 000 in a big account, but up like 110 in a small account and I'm like hey, well at least the small account is green but I'm still down like 19 000 of the day. so I it's You know, if I was going to choose one of the other, I'd obviously have to choose the big account to be green in or the small account to be read in, but I hope that I'm able to bounce back with a couple of nice trades in the small account.

I did the small account recap separately, just talked about the challenges of trading in a small account and having sort of patience and the problem for me. The biggest problem is that the momentum that we've seen in the last couple weeks has all been on higher priced stocks and those are just harder to trade In a small account, you can only afford to buy a couple hundred shares and the next thing you know you're down a dollar a share and you're like i don't want to stop out yet. Then you're down two dollars and three dollars and now you're just. it's just frustrating.

So the the lower price stocks are better. for a small account, we just haven't had a lot of them that have been clean. They pop up and then they drop but you know it'll pick back up. I think part of that is just seasonal.

So anyways, that's it for me. Thank you guys for tuning in as always. In case you didn't already know, day trading is risky. Most traders lose money and my results are not typical.

so take it slow one train at a time, practice a simulator, and you know, try to keep your head above water. This is not the time of year to be swinging for home runs and getting super emotional and going big. If you do that, you're just gonna dig yourself a hole like you watch me do in the last week of July and first week of August. So this week has been much better and I've got to try to stay focused on finishing strong.

Then you know we'll be halfway through the month of August. So my head I've my i've broken clear of the water line as I'm now green on the month so keeping my head above water I was my head was underwater for a little bit there but I'm green on the month, which is good. But I guess I still do have a little bit of progress to make versus the losses from the last week of July because I had a couple of back-to-back you know, 25, 30, 000 red days so I've kind of got to get those back. but I you know it's It's not a if, it's a when and I just have to be patient with sitting with that loss and not getting that out of shape.

And it's easier to do when you're uh, in a new month and you're green because that new month kind of stands on its own. you know, July still finished up 200 and I think it was 31 000 after fees and commissions. So you know August here isn't shaping up to be a record breaker month, but that's no surprise. I just got to get my get myself through the month and September is right around the corner and then Q4 is where I'm going to be, making sure the engine is tuned and ready to go, pedal to the metal, super aggressive into the last three months of the year October, November, December.

That's statistically when I start to really rally as I finish the year a final push and then into the new year January, February, March. usually really strong. That's been statistically when I have traded the best in my career. So then between you know May and September is when it is slow.

Typically, of course, some years have been an anomaly. Last year was a bit with everything being shut down, the markets were still open, so the markets got a lot more momentum than we would have expected last year during the summer, but typically summers are pretty slow. So anyways, that's it for me and good luck for those who keep trading. But I got to shut it down and not look at charts for the rest of the day because I don't want to risk going back in for one more final trade.

turning a pretty decent day in my big account into a well rented that would be terrible. So anyways, that's it for me and I'll see you guys first thing tomorrow. I hope you really enjoyed that video and make sure you hit the thumbs up and subscribe to the channel if you haven't already. Our goal is to hit 1 million subscribers this year, but we won't get there without your help.

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