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Weekly Recap · August 10–14, 2026

Every single trade — and the week the uncomfortable entries paid for everything

All 42 closed positions, in order, day by day. Wins, losses and the one scratch. Every row is in the public track record — and every trade was called live with an entry and an exit, not written up afterwards.

Closed
42
positions
Record
28–13
28W · 13L · 1 scratch
Win rate
68.3%
on 41 decisive
Best
+300%
$CRWV 8/14 90C

The week in one sentence

The two biggest winners of the week — $CRWV held through earnings and $DELL held two days for the gap — were also the two most uncomfortable entries on the book, and between them they returned +500% against −490% from all thirteen losses combined. The comfortable trades chopped roughly even. That is the entire week in one line, and it is not the lesson most recaps draw.

A note on what this page is not: the percentages below are per-position results on the contract, not account returns, and not what any member made. Position sizing is yours. Four of Friday's six losers landed in the same −38% to −41% band because they were cut on plan, which is the only part of a losing day anyone controls.

Day by day

Monday, August 10 · 7W 2L 1S · avg +25.4%

Waiting-room session ahead of CPI. The indexes went nowhere and the book reflected it — the money came out of single names, not the majors.

$AAPL
307.5C
+93%
$MU
900C
+74%
$TSLA
330C
+42%
$SNDK
1500C
+40%
$MSTR
100C
+25%
$SPY
774C
+24%
$SNOW
350C
+24%
$NBIS
220C
0%
$LITE
1100C
−33%
$MRVL
250C
−35%

Ten positions, one scratch, and nothing from the index side. On a pre-catalyst day the dispersion is in the names.

Tuesday, August 11 · 3W 1L · avg +6.3%

Pin day. The 775 strike was holding roughly 71% of SPY's gamma, which is a tape that goes nowhere by construction. Traded light on purpose.

$RKLB
79C
+30%
$AAOI
135C
+20%
$AMD
480C
+15%
$MU
900C
−40%

The smallest day of the week was a decision, not an accident. Four trades at +6.3% average is what a pinned tape is worth — and the $DELL position that paid Thursday was built here, while the indexes were doing nothing.

Wednesday, August 12 · CPI · 8W 2L · avg +56.9%

Cool print, market ripped. The two positions built before the catalyst were the two that got paid — $CRWV through its earnings print at defined risk, $NBIS on the September swing.

$CRWV
8/14 90C
+300%
$NBIS
260C
+162%
$SPCX
140C
+44%
$CSCO
124C
+33%
$AMD
490C
+30%
$CBRS
280C
+30%
$SPY
773C
+22%
$GOOGL
342.5C
+18%
$TSLA
322.5C
−40%
$IWM
302C
−30%

Best day of the week by average, and it still had two losers at −40% and −30%. A good catalyst day is not a clean one.

Thursday, August 13 · 5W 2L · avg +35.1%

$DELL gapped and the position that had been sitting there since Tuesday paid. It was taken because it had room to its call wall on a day when the indexes did not.

$DELL
500C
+200%
$MSFT
495C
+35%
$TSLA
340C
+32%
$PANW
400C
+30%
$HOOD
99C
+26%
$AVGO
422.5C
−33%
$META
600C
−44%

Strip the $DELL hold out and Thursday averages +7.7%. One position carried the day, and it was a position that did nothing for two sessions first.

Friday, August 14 · OPEX · 5W 6L · avg −1.0%

Monthly expiry, a retail sales miss, and no gamma room in either direction. Sized down going in, exactly as Thursday's plan said to.

$CIFR
20C
+75%
$TSLA
340C
+50%
$IWM
305C
+38%
$GLW
184C
+35%
$MU
995C
+26%
$SPY
777C
−26%
$MU
1000C
−38%
$AVGO
422.5C
−40%
$GOOGL
350C
−40%
$AAPL
310C
−41%
$META
605C
−50%

The red day. Six losers on eleven, and four of them cut in the same −38% to −41% band — which is what cutting on plan looks like in a table. A losing day, lost slowly. It is printed here at the same resolution as Wednesday's 8–2.

The honest numbers

Average winner +56.2%. Average loser −37.7%. Payoff ratio 1.49:1. Best trade $CRWV 8/14 90C at +300% (5.45 → 21.80 on the contract); worst trade $META 605C at −50%. Average across all 42 positions: +25.8%.

The average winner beating the average loser is unusual for this book — the week before, the ratio ran the other way at 0.96:1 and the edge came purely from a 77.1% hit rate. This week the hit rate fell to 68.3% and the week was still better, because of the payoff ratio. Two different weeks, two different reasons, and neither is a plan you can rely on repeating.

Here is the part worth sitting with. Strip out $CRWV and $DELL and the remaining 40 positions average +14.6%. Those two trades were the ones that required holding something through an earnings print and holding something that did nothing for two days. The uncomfortable trades paid for the week. The comfortable ones chopped even.

13 of 42 positions closed red, and they are all above. A win rate you cannot audit is not a win rate.

What the week actually taught

Three of the five sessions were decided by structure rather than direction. Monday was a pre-catalyst waiting room where the indexes had nothing and the names did. Tuesday was a pin — one strike holding the majority of SPY's gamma, which is a mechanical argument for trading small rather than a feeling. Friday was monthly expiry with no room on either side, and the correct expression of that was smaller size, not a different direction.

The two trades that made the week were both positions rather than day trades, and both were entered when the tape was boring. That is not a coincidence and it is not repeatable on demand — it is the argument for having room in the book on quiet days.

If you want the mechanism rather than the summary: what dealer gamma exposure is, and the free live map for any ticker.

These are posted live, not in a recap

Entry and exit the moment they fire, plus the daily gamma map and the conviction desk. The losses get posted the same way.

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