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Testing AI trading: Amazon, closed by hand at 270
Trade #4 closed two sessions after entry, at 270, by a stop I walked up three times in one evening. What that did and did not prove.
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Testing AI trading: AMAT, stopped out
Trade #3 closed by its stop a week after entry. What the trigger rule did and did not tell me, and what I'd do at the open next time.
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Testing AI trading: Amazon, after the earnings drop
Trade #4 in the series. Amazon bought on a resting limit the night Applied Materials stopped out, bigger than Claude's size, with the wide stop left on purpose.
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Testing AI trading: Boeing, back at the 2020 price
Trade #5 in the series. Boeing bought at the open the morning after its trigger close, a week after the earnings gap, at the price I first paid for it in 2020.
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Testing AI trading: GM, sold above target
I sold my 15 GM shares at USD 85.86, nine days after buying, for a realised gain of USD 132.73. The target was hit and I took it.
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Testing AI trading, #3: Applied Materials
My third AI-assisted trade: 3 shares of Applied Materials after it closed above the previous day's high, with the stop attached to the buy.
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Intel stopped out: the stop did what it was there for
My first AI-assisted trade hit its stop two days in. Intel sold at USD 87.05 for a USD 73.03 loss, close to what the plan allowed.
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Testing AI trading with small money: General Motors
The second trade in the AI-assisted series. GM, bought the day after a good quarter was sold off. The ticker, size, price, stop and target were Claude's; the decision was mine.
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Testing AI trading with small money: Intel
I asked Claude for an actionable trade, it proposed Intel, its own entry rule had not fired, and I bought anyway. A small position, a real stop-loss, and a record of who thought what before the result is known.
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The pump and dump experience
A record of buying Clearbridge Health at the peak of what looked like a pump and dump, the loss that followed, and the lessons learned about FOMO, research and risk management.
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My first outside trading hour trade
I woke up on a Saturday to find OCGN at $7 after hours. I had bought it at $1.60. I tested whether I could sell outside trading hours on Interactive Brokers. I could.
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Fear and the lost opportunity
I bought Medtecs at 10 cents, sold it for a $10 profit, and watched it go on to a 20x rise. This is the story of how fear cost me more than any bad trade ever has.