AlgoxFlow← AlgoxFlow
Weekly Recap · August 17–21, 2026

Every single trade — and the one position that was a third of the week

All 27 closed positions, in order, day by day. Wins, losses and the one scratch. Every row is in the public track record, and the aggregates below are computed from the rows on this page — add up the column and you will get the same numbers.

Closed
27
positions
Record
20–6
20W · 6L · 1 scratch
Win rate
76.9%
on 26 decisive
Best
+280%
$MSFT 485C

The week in one sentence

One position — $MSFT 485C on Wednesday, +280% — produced 30% of everything the week made. Take it out and the other 26 trades still work, but the average falls from +25.1% to +15.3% per position. That is not a complaint about the week; it is the shape of this kind of book, and any recap that quotes the headline average without saying where it came from is describing a distribution it hasn't looked at.

What this page is not: these are per-position percentages on the contract, not account returns, and not what any member made. Position sizing is yours. Entry and exit fills are not printed here because this week's log arrived as per-trade results rather than fills — and back-solving them from a percentage would be inventing them.

Day by day

Monday, August 17 · nothing logged

No closed positions in the log for Monday. Stated as recorded rather than dressed up as a decision — "we sat out" and "nothing was logged" are different claims, and only the second one is supported by the book.

Tuesday, August 18 · 4W 2L 1S · avg +2.6%

Dispersion day. Single names paid and the indexes did not — both index positions were the losers, and the winners were all individual equities. Seven positions for a net of nearly nothing: a 4–2 day that felt busy and finished flat.

$ADBE
270C
+38%
$GOOGL
347.5C
+26%
$AAPL
310C
+21%
$AMZN
265C
+4%
$TSLA
345C
0%
$SPY
768P
−33%
$IWM
303C
−38%

Wednesday, August 19 · 5W 1L · avg +64.7%

FOMC minutes. The best day of the week by a distance, and the only day where a single position ran away — $MSFT 485C at +280%. Note the two $TSLA rows: the 8/24 360C paid +40% while the 345C was cut −40% the same session. Same name, opposite outcomes, both on plan.

$MSFT
485C
+280%
$NU
15C
+42%
$TSLA
8/24 360C
+40%
$SPY
769P
+33%
$SMCI
38C
+33%
$TSLA
345C
−40%

Thursday, August 20 · 3W 1L · avg +11.8%

The quietest day on the book — four positions, tight results, nothing outsized in either direction. Days like this are what the win rate is actually made of; they just never end up in anybody's screenshots.

$MU
1000C
+30%
$SPY
769C
+29%
$TSLA
357.5C
+21%
$TSM
425C
−33%

Friday, August 21 · OPEX · 8W 2L · avg +22.5%

Monthly OPEX, and the busiest day of the week — ten positions, eight of them green. It also held both of the week's worst trades: $AAOI −47% and $AVGO −56%. Expiration days give the widest distribution in both directions, which is exactly why they are sized differently.

$SPY
766C
+87%
$TSLA
360C
+60%
$MSFT
487.5C
+50%
$SPCX
138C
+36%
$QUBT
9/11 9C
+32%
$GOOGL
345C
+24%
$RGTI
17C
+22%
$META
557.5C
+17%
$AAOI
138C
−47%
$AVGO
377.5C
−56%

The number most recaps leave out

The average winner was +46.25%. The average loser was −41.2%. That is a payoff ratio of 1.12:1 — winners and losers are close to the same size, which means the 76.9% hit rate is doing essentially all of the work.

Run it backwards: at this payoff ratio the book breaks even at a 47.1% win rate. There is real room between 47% and 77%, and that gap is the edge — but it is an edge that lives in how often, not in how much. A week where the hit rate slips toward the low fifties would print very differently from this one on the same average sizes, and anyone reading a 76.9% and mentally pairing it with a 3:1 payoff is reading two different books at once.

Closed positions27
Winners · losers · scratches20 · 6 · 1
Win rate (26 decisive)76.9%
Average winner+46.25%
Average loser−41.2%
Payoff ratio1.12 : 1
Average trade+25.1%
Average trade excluding $MSFT+15.3%
Break-even win rate at this payoff47.1%

Two things the log says that nobody would guess

$TSLA was the most-traded name and returned below the book average. Five positions across four days — flat, +40%, −40%, +21%, +60% — averaging +16.2% against the book's +25.1%. Familiarity with a name is not the same as edge in it, and the log is the only place that distinction shows up.

$SPY worked in both directions. Four positions: the 768P was cut −33% on Tuesday, then the 769P paid +33% on Wednesday, the 769C +29% on Thursday, and the 766C +87% on Friday. Averaging +29.0%, on calls and puts alike. That is what trading structure rather than a directional opinion looks like on paper — the same instrument, read differently each session.

What the week was, honestly

A good week carried by a high hit rate and one outlier, on a payoff ratio thin enough that the hit rate has to hold. Tuesday was a wash, Wednesday was the whole month in one session, Thursday was quiet, and OPEX Friday delivered both the widest wins and the two worst losses. Twenty-seven positions, every one of them printed above.

Get the calls, not the recap

Everything above was called live with an entry and an exit — this page is just the receipt. Premium members get the alerts as they fire, the daily SPY gamma map turned into a trading plan, and a journal that computes their own numbers the same way this page computes ours.

See what's inside →

AlgoX Flow provides market analysis and education — not investment advice. Options trading carries a substantial risk of loss. Results are per-position percentages on the contract and are not account returns. Past performance does not indicate future results.
Public track record · All briefings · Free gamma map