Two sessions after I bought Amazon, it gapped up 7% at the open and I was out at 270, near my +10% number, within the first hour. This closes trade #4 in the AI-assisted series. The ticker, the price and the original stop were Claude’s; the size, the raised stops and the exit were mine.
Trade summary
| Action | Sold (stop raised to 270, triggered) |
| Ticker | AMZN, NASDAQ, USD |
| Quantity | 5 shares |
| Exit price | USD 270.02 (stop 270.00, GTC) |
| Proceeds | USD 1,350.10, commission 1.12 |
| Executed | 4 Nov 2026, 23:10 SGT (10:10 ET) |
| Entry | USD 246.00 on 3 Nov 2026 (2 Nov, US time) |
| Realised P&L | USD +117.98 after fees (+9.6%), from IBKR |
| Days held | 2 (two sessions) |
| Followed the plan | Yes |
What triggered the sell
Amazon opened 4 November at 264.93, up 5.7% from the 250.69 close, and ran to 271 inside half an hour. The push came from the post-election relief rally across US stocks, the AWS “essentially sold out” comments from the Q3 call being picked up by upgrades, and a sector that rose more than 5% on the day. None of it was my analysis. I was in the right stock on the right morning.
At 22:32 SGT, two minutes after the open, with the stock at 267.55, I asked Claude to prepare a sell at 270. Then I decided to wait and see. Instead of selling I started walking the stop up: first to 260, then at 22:39 to 266, then at 23:01, with the stock at 271, to 270. Nine minutes later a one-dollar dip filled it. I’ll be honest about how those three numbers were chosen: not by any calculation. Gut feeling, each time.
What executed
Stop order 270.00 GTC, the same order that had been sitting at 223.50 since the buy, modified three times (260, 266, 270) and filled at 270.02 on a dark venue. Five shares, 1,350.10 in, 1.12 out in commission. IBKR shows the realised gain as 117.98 US dollars, or 151.19 Singapore dollars.
Why I sold
Because +10% was the target and the stock had just handed it to me in two sessions. I did not want to watch it come back, as Applied Materials did the week before, up 7.5% and then stopped out. The raised stop was a way of taking the target without pressing sell: if the run continued, I would still be in; if it stalled, I was out at the number I wanted.
Basic TA at exit
AMZN, as of the 3 Nov 2026 close, from IBKR daily bars.
| Indicator | Value | Read |
|---|---|---|
| Price | 250.69 | Just below both moving averages |
| MA20 | 253.82 | Price 1.2% below; MA20 rising (251.25 twenty sessions earlier) |
| MA50 | 253.79 | Price 1.2% below; the two averages have met |
| RSI 14 | 48.7 | Neutral |
| Trend | Sideways | Range 229 to 265 since September |
| Support | 241.55 (30 Oct high, the trigger level) | 3.6% below price |
| Resistance | 265.34 (28 Oct high) | 5.8% above price |
| Volume | 24.6M vs 23.3M 20-day average | Normal |
Overall read: nothing in the chart at the 3 Nov close said “sell tomorrow”. The exit came from the gap, not the setup. The gap cleared the 265 resistance in one bar.
Did I follow the plan
Yes. The stop was never lowered. The exit was my own decision, which the rules allow. I’ll note two things against myself, because the scorecard is only worth keeping if it’s honest. I bought five shares when the call was two, before the trigger had printed. And I moved the stop three times in about twenty minutes on the way up, which is a trailing stop by hand, not a plan I had written down.
Claude
Claude’s entry call was Amazon at a resting limit of 246, stop 223.50, reference levels 266 and 278, decision point 1 December. On the morning of the gap, when I asked for a sell at 270, Claude prepared it and noted the day’s high was two cents short of my price, that the stock had closed above both averages the day before, and that the next level was 278. When I asked about a stop at 260 instead, Claude said it would lock in about 68 dollars and could be hit by normal noise, and called it a reasonable choice.
Me
I waited on the sell. Then I raised the stop three times, 260, 266, 270, on gut feeling, not on any calculation. The middle one was going to be 265 until I remembered Claude’s 266 reference level and used that instead. The stop did the rest. I had also asked Claude to prepare the 270 sell order; it created the order instruction straight away instead of showing it to me first. I rejected it. New rule: nothing goes to IBKR until I say send.
I was in the right stock on the right morning.
What Claude got right and wrong
Right: the pick. Amazon was the first name on the list because it was the one large stock that had already had its bad days, with earnings behind it and the correction three months old. That reasoning held. The stop under the 224 to 226 floor was never tested. The 266 level, the first reference, was where I parked my first raised stop.
Wrong, or at least unproven: the wave count. The weekly chart said the August high was the end of a five-wave rise and this was a bounce inside a correction. Two sessions and a 10% gain prove nothing either way; the invalidation is still 287.20. And Claude created an order I had not told it to send. That is a process fault, now fixed.
What I’d change
- Write the trailing rule down before the next trade, not during it. Tonight’s three stop moves were gut calls made inside twenty minutes. It worked. That is not the same as it being right, and I won’t know which until it has happened a few more times.
- Keep the half-size rule or drop it. I have now broken it twice and it worked once.
- Nothing on the pick or the stop placement. The floor held, the target came. Luck on the timing, but the position was built so the luck could land.
Series so far
Four trades closed: two stops, two closed by hand at a profit. Realised: +USD 129.18, about +5.5% on the most I had at work at once. Followed the plan 4 of 4. Boeing is still open.
5 Nov 2026, scoring note. This post first went up scored as a target exit. The levels agreed before I bought were 266 and 278; I sold at 270 after moving the stop by feel. Under the rule I set on 5 November (target means sold at the agreed price; anything else is manual), it is scored as manual. Title and series line updated to match.
Sources
- IBKR Trades and Orders, 4 Nov 2026 23:11 SGT (fill, commission, realised P&L; the 266 and 270 stop modifications timestamped 22:39:45 and 23:01:13 SGT; the 260 step is from my own record of the evening).
- IBKR daily bars, AMZN, May to 4 Nov 2026 (moving averages, RSI, support and resistance, the 4 Nov open and high, computed and drawn in code).
- TradingKey, 4 Nov 2026, “Amazon.com Inc Stock (AMZN) Opened Up by 7.24% on Nov 4” (the drivers of the gap).
- Entry post, 3 Nov 2026, for the call and the levels.
Updates to this post
| Date | What changed |
|---|---|
| Outcome rescored target to manual under the 5 Nov rule; scoring note added | |
| Title, summary and series line updated; stop moves corrected from two to three |
This is a record of one small trade in my own account, written to learn from. It is not advice. Claude is an AI tool, not a financial adviser, and neither am I.