What's up everyone? Your sensei's back. Finish the morning up $5,700 Best trade of the day up $9,500 That was my best winner of the day Wow I Needed it finally. First big win in like a month. We're gonna break it down in today's midday margarita.

All right everyone. So we're gonna do our midday market recap here. And today was A. Today was a wild day.

It was a very surprising day, both in the way it started and in the way it finished. This month has been just pretty pretty wild in general. So here we are finishing the day: my biggest winner today. Nine thousand Four hundred, Sixty Three dollars and Thirty One cents.

That right there is the biggest winner I've had in almost a month. so I'm very happy about that. But today started with another read trade and so let me pull up my my P&L here. So finishing the day up five thousand seven hundred Fourteen dollars Green is good GEVO got me for $3,300 So today's a day where I was actually read on two out of three names but that third one big winner and that makes up for it.

So you know today's like I say a little bit of a choppy day. very first trade out of the gates GEVO Took a loss on it but bounced right back with a big winner on X SPL So finishing the day green last trade I Closed up at 9:59 so thirty minutes of trading $5,700 Life is good and now it's time to enjoy the weather. Get outside and just you know, relax a little bit. But before we do that, break down the trades.

So this morning started the same as any other day. Alright, so started by looking at the Gap scanner. so let me move this over here for a second. All right, so that's the P&L So here's our Gap scanner.

Alright, so this is the tool that I use every single morning to find stocks to trade. So I'm gonna do a historical scan on this for 9:15 this morning I don't get up at 7 a.m. to start doing market research I don't have to do lots of homework at night I get up around well, whatever. 8 o'clock and then I'm sitting here in front of my computer by 9.

pre market analysis 9:00 to 9:15 9:30 and I'm ready to trade. So really, in 15 you can find stocks to trade. This morning this was with the gaps can roll with like. so we're searching the entire market and we're looking for stocks gapping up more than 4% So if a stock is gonna open up more than 4% in one day, that's exceeding the standard deviation of a stock.

Now again, if you put your money into mutual funds and you put it there for an entire year, it would only grow by 8% So for one individual security to move four percent in one day might not sound like a lot, but it's actually really substantial to the point where out of every single stock in the entire market, this is the entire list of stocks cap back up more than five percent more than four percent. and I'm actually just gonna adjust this just because I always say five percent and I'm just gonna switch it right now. All right. This is a very simple scan that I run.

It's not complex at all, so this let's see: I'm just gonna update to this to five and five. All right. So it'll be a few less stocks on the scanner and that's fine with me. So there we go.

Just like that, this is our list of stocks to look at. Alright, so we've narrowed down the list from 15,000 down to looks like about 20. I'm gonna focus on the top 10. So from maybe here up all right now, the leading gap or this morning only has a hundred shares of volume.

So I'm just gonna ignore that. All right. so that one's off the list, it's also only a dollar, so it's a little too cheap. All right.

so that one's off list. Next one down. GEVO GeV Oh Price: Five dollars and twenty four cents Float: One million shares. All right.

So that's how many shares are available to trade. Very low float gapping up 49 percent with a hundred and ninety eight thousand shares of volume. This I can tell just without even looking at the chart that is something I'm gonna want to look more closely at. Alright, we'll come back to it in a second.

Next one down PTC T It's a $50 stock I Don't trade stocks that expensive. It's off my list. OBS V I Don't usually trade stocks that are in this price range, but I'll take a quick peek at it just to see if maybe it's doing something really incredible I look at it I see that it is gapping up but not a lot of pre market volume which what I would have been looking at here at 9:15 So I'm just gonna say I don't think it's gonna be anything I would trade, maybe come back to it, but probably not. so that one's off the list.

Cbpo too expensive. $104 our CII We pulled this one up and we see that it's trading pretty much sideways, so that's kind of interesting. Why does that happen? Well, they accepted a $15 per share offer, which means they've been bought out. all right.

So bought out. it's gonna trade sideways at basically 15. so that one's off the list all right. Next one down EGC So just going down through the list here the next one down.

EGC Also a buyout and that one's off the list. q TNT this one we were watching 26 million share float is a little on the higher side. It did pop up out of the gates and we'll so we'll come back to this one. Alright so this one's a maybe.

next one down vs. TM 50 million share float. Don't like it? That's off the list. Alright so just like that, we pretty much have narrowed down from potentially ten fifteen thousand stocks to trade to to cute ENT and Gvo.

Alright so let's start with Gvo Gvo this one gapping up as you can see 50% nearly 50% I was watching it and I was looking at the pre market high of 528 I Looked at the news and saw that there was a PA approval approves registration of ISO butanol in 16% blends and gasoline. Alright so we've got a news out this morning at 9:00 a.m. Okay so there we go. We've got a headline.

So I see it moving up pre market and I'm thinking alright well when the bell rings I'm gonna watch for this pre market consolidation that we have right here to break. So the buy spot as a breakout would be a 528 I often buy early to anticipate these types of breakouts and so when the bell rang I had my order ready to go to buy at 525 the bell rings and I jumped in at 5:20 because I saw a pretty good amount of volume coming in. so I was like alright this thing looks interesting and you can see right now it just squeezed up 8% in the last 10 minutes. Just right Now look at it in a second.

So I'm watching the by I jump in there at 5:20 and sadly it hits 524 and then it promptly drops all the way down to 485. This was a pretty nasty drop I was really disappointed with it and I ended up taking a loss on it and now here you go. look at it. Now it's now.

it's breaking over that video app and squeezing up hitting 555. But the reality is, there's no way I could have known this would happen. So when I got in it I did the right thing I was getting in for a breakout and then it just swept down I stopped out, took the loss and so on that one I was down three thousand, three hundred fifty one dollars. So a pretty good-sized loss.

Disappointing there and at that point I was like well, you know we're in a difficult market and I just took a good-sized loss I haven't been seen $3,000 winners So now I'm gonna probably spend the rest of the week trying to dig myself out of that hole. and then we see this stock excess PL hit the scanners. So when X SPL hit the scanners first at 855 I looked at it and I was like okay just with one scanner alert I can see the volume is light, but I can see that it's up 13% on the day, which is certainly interesting. 960 4000 share float is 960 4000.

that's very low and the volume last five minutes is 3959 times higher than average. So just like that, it's medium massive volume, low float. Even though the relative volume is low or the total volume is low, the relative volume is high. So I see it hit once and I see someone in the chat room type hey, this one has news I see a hit twice, three times, four times, five times and I'm like okay, I'm pulling it up.

so what I do is I type it in XS PL I type it in just like that I see on lightspeed are sorry I see on on em on East signal right here that there is news on it today. So I'm like, okay, there's a headline interesting and once I saw that and I could tell how quickly it was moving I jumped in. This was an aggressive trade, no doubt about it, but when a stock squeezes up this quickly in the past, that's meant good things. And you can see here this is a recent IPO breakout and the nearest resistance point was $12 The spot that I have circled right here.

that's where this line intersects would today's candle. Potentially All right. So I jump in this one and I'm in at 9:19 9:45 and 976 it squeezes up to a high of $11.63 I Mean if I'd held the whole thing, that would have been a $15,000 trade I Sold into the move and booked a profit of nine thousand, four hundred, sixty three dollars. So just like that my day turned around.

from being down 3k to being up 5k, that's a big turnaround. I Mean that really is, you know I don't usually get that type of turnaround so you know. the thing with this one is that I had a little bit of FOMO because I had just taken a loss and so when I did see something hit the scanner I was willing to be a little bit more aggressive. You know sometimes when you get hit and you get knocked down you, you put your spring back up and you're like okay, I'm ready to I'm ready to get back and you're ready to swing because you just got knocked down.

You're ready to get up and swing. As a beginner trader, you're gonna just be flailing your arms because you don't know where swing you're just do I go for this. do I go for that. do I go for that now.

I'm a seasoned trader, but you know that FOMO can take you off your game a little bit could take you off your game, make you a little bit more aggressive than usual, a little more impulsive than usual. but when you've got years and years of experience, you're more likely to just sort of instinctually make a good decision because it's it's influenced by years and years of trading experience. So even though I gave in to a little bit of FOMA by chasing it, not waiting for the pullback, I think this was the right one to be aggressive on for a couple of reasons. Number one: by the time that I was getting in, it was already up to 25% on a day, so it was showing it was moving very quickly.

It was on our scanner right here for massive volume. the float was very low and it's a recent IPO breakout which is a set that was working really well. last month on IMT was I am te, Bo XL and several others. so you know on this one I was willing to be a little bit more aggressive and I was looking at that $12 potential price target.

Now I only took 7,500 shares I didn't take 15,000 the way I might have in May you know I didn't I didn't go super super heavy, but it did step up to the plate and in this case that worked out really well. So I mean at an average of 945 and it squeezes up I end up adding at 1050 it taps a high of 1103, it gets halted, it resumes, it dips down, we do a little dip buy set up there and then squeezes up to a high of 1163. From there it's been. It's been selling off so you know this is one that gave a surprise opportunity, got redemption on it, did really well and then G fell on the other hand, did this.

You know, kind of horrible sell-off out of the gates and then here out of nowhere at 10:30 squeezes up a dollar per share. So you know we say stock can be irrational longer than you can remain solvent. It just is to say that in this case yeah sure I could have held this whole position here and I guess I would have come out breakeven but I would have had to hold through such a loss it wouldn't have been smart and even in this one it it got me for a much bigger loss than I wanted it to but I tried to get out I was hoping the here on a 1-minute micro pullback it would pop back up. This is what I was looking at I held through here because I thought first one-minute camel to make a new high we would read and go right back up and that was certainly possible.

but when we broke the Lowe's I had to stop out on this candle right here. so that was the right thing to do based on my strategy. but definitely a disappointing loss. So today is kind of a wild day.

I had one of my biggest losers of the month and I also had one of my biggest winners and it's really not uncommon for that to happen to me because the big loss can just come from bad luck. I mean just being a little too aggressive on the wrong stock and getting knocked down. And then the big win comes from the fact that I'm being a little more aggressive to compensate for being in the red. Now this is also the same type of trading that can get you into even bigger loss because if I had lost on X SPL I was already down 3,000 on the day.

So if this had popped up and immediately dropped back down.