

Nvidia approves $150B stock buyback increase
| strategy | ticker | action | side | rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | NVDA | ● enter | ▲ long | verdict REPRICING, direction bullish -> long NVDA (other: Nvidia approves $150B stock buyback increase) |
| S2 | - | ○ skip | — | no counterparty in universe |
| S3 | - | ○ skip | — | no peer in universe |
| S4 | NVDA | ○ skip | — | overnight drift: long NVDA at close, exit next close (other: Nvidia approves $150B stock buyback increase) [skipped at close: outranked — mat 74 long lost to mat 87 long (decision 22296) for S4 NVDA exiting 2026-09-29] |
| strategy | ticker | side | qty | entry | exit | P&L $ | status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | NVDA | ▲ long | 4 | 228.38 | 228.53 | +0.60 | closed |
| ticker | mfe | mae | reflection |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDA S1 | +0.13% | -0.07% | The direction was nominally right — the stock inched up and the trade closed +0.60 — but the buyback news had already been absorbed by entry: price was +1.45% over the prior close and fading (-0.71% in the last 30m) at decision time, and the fill at 228.38 was ~+1.5% above the 225.07 close, so the trade bought after the repricing rather than ahead of it. Once open, the stock barely moved (best +0.13%, worst -0.07%), and the exit captured roughly half of that thin range, which is adequate execution given nothing was really on offer. The dominant factor is timing: entering after a 1.5% gap meant the "repricing" thesis was already spent, leaving a sub-0.2% range to trade. Whether the buyback headline was actually what drove the earlier move isn't settled by this data, but that doesn't change the diagnosis. |