All right everyone. So I'm gonna give you a recap here for today: Finishing the day: red 1 694. small red day. Yesterday was a small green day I haven't really made much progress this week.

it's just been uh, well, kind of slow Hcdi. You know this one halted up on 130 000 shares of volume ends up opening like three points higher. Uh, what can you do? can't really chase that uh, chna or sorry chns um or chsn. that's the one that I traded this morning.

uh was green on it and then went red. So I got green on it I didn't trade it on this first pop I saw it didn't trade, it comes back up. Took a trade here as it squeezes through 250. Adding as it went up to three was up 800 and then um added.

Bought this dip at 297 and it flushes here all the way down to 270. I added on V web and then it broke V web and I locked up a loss. Um I ended up trying to get back in. uh, where was it I can't remember now I had a couple more trades on it I have probably five trades.

two winners and three losers. There were a lot of sellers on this one. I mean the sellers were stacked up and it was not easy to trade. so some high volume selling, highest volume there was red.

High volume selling here kind of comes back up, but there were just a ton of sellers, so that was our leading kind of most obvious gapper this morning. And it wasn't clean. So since I went right on that, you know I would have been happy and I did stick around. it's 10 30.

I was waiting for something else to pop up. uh, Hcdi hauled it up, but you know I didn't want to chase that and nothing else really came up that looked good. So just gonna shut it down here and live to trade another day. That's kind of my motto.

keep the red days small that way I can bounce back. sixteen hundred dollars is like not a big deal so you know I just kind of lock it up. let it be a red day and live to trade another day. Be back at it first thing tomorrow, so not much else to cover for today.

Overall Market Well I guess you could look at the S p we had CPI numbers that came out um this morning and those uh gave the market a nice pop here from 411 up to 4 15. So overall market right now is, uh, kind of. uh, you know it's it's in an interesting area because we're above the 200 moving average which is good. but I don't have conviction that we're going to stay above it because you know one, um, bad economic data and all of a sudden we're gonna flush.

So at this point obviously we would like to see for a bullish perspective the market back over 415 and then back through like 424. You know, getting into this window up here to 440, that would be very optimistic. but we may come back down to this blue ascending support line which isn't really perfect. Um, you know it's kind of.

It's a little tricky because we have some of these big drops which were the result of economic news. So like this big day where we gap down but then had a huge green day that was unexpected. Uh so I don't know. Anyways, that's kind of the big picture of the overall market and small caps just kind of.

You know the rising tide will lift that ship right now. You've got a lot of small cap companies that you know the stock pops up and then um, you know we end up seeing uh, offerings. Like the next day we saw an offering on Ensc which was strong yesterday. These are companies that are having a tough time in this economy and so you know the small companies can get beaten up in a weak economy.

and if they're publicly traded, they're going to do these offerings. So we'll see these pops and then offerings and that's that's probably going to last for a while, but it's just something. I've definitely been noticing so short-lived opportunities, but right now we're kind of in between a big move. We had top and we had Gfai As a couple of recent Big Move stocks, the AI stocks the Chinese stock.

So right now we're kind of in between things. Uh, so this is a good time for me at least. I'm thinking just be patient, try to keep my head above water. You know, chip away some green trades.

That's great, but not a time to go crazy. Definitely, this isn't a time to try to swing big. I'll most likely incur unnecessary losses. Um, if I go red on a day like today I'm not gonna fight it.

I'll just let it go. come back tomorrow. If I have a green day where I make you know three, four, five, six, eight thousand, that's great. I'm sure I'll have a few more of those this month even while it's slow.

but I'm not going to try to like go pedal to the metal and crush it because this just isn't the time we need a stock that's really obvious that's moving with some real um, you know, some real volume and we didn't. We haven't had that since the Chinese stocks have kind of cooled off. So I'm just going to be patient and uh, you know that's that's kind of the best way you could do it. Survive to your Thrive, just keep your head above water, tread water a little bit, um, and sort of pick your battles.

Know when is the time to dig deep and fight and really try to squeeze out as much as you can and when's the time just to hang back? And um, you know it's like why why swim, why swim up Upstream Why swim against the current, just either wait and when it starts to feel like the winds at your back, then all right, let's go. and I just think that's the better. That's the better approach. So anyways, that's what I'm doing right now.

my account is sitting. Um, only sixteen hundred dollars off of all-time highs. So from less than six hundred dollars to, well, well, probably now. Um, before fees and commissions 12 12 million something like that.

So I'm down 1600 off the all-time highs I Like to keep my account basically in as minimal a drawdown as possible. So you know drawdowns happen. but I don't want to have a big draw down because I want to make sure I can when things pick back up. I'm not recouping losses I'm just like, you know, adding more profit to the top.

All right, so that's it for me. Uh, reminder is always trading's risky. My results aren't typical, but uh, if you're a beginner Trader I encourage you to trade in a simulator practice before you put real money on the line and I'll see you back here first thing tomorrow morning. All right, see you then.