🚨 Alert #6482 Mon Oct-05 13:00:35

The signal was wrong: the rationale called for a bullish repricing, but QCOM never traded meaningfully above entry (best unrealized only -0.12%) and finished -2.51%, so the predicted direction simply didn't materialize. Timing contributed only modestly — the stock was already +1.34% from prior close at decision time with a flat last 30 minutes, meaning the entry bought into an existing small gap rather than ahead of a move, though the data can't say whether that gap was the full "repricing" the podcast reference implied. The exit at -2.51% is essentially at the worst unrealized (-2.59%), so there was nothing better to capture; the dominant factor is a failed directional signal, not exit management.

Signal: the bullish call was directionally right — AMZN rose as much as +1.12% while the position was open against only a -0.32% drawdown. Timing: entry was fresh, not late; price was flat into the fill (-0.08% from prev close, +0.04% over 30m), so the move had not already happened. Exit is the dominant failure: the trade closed at +0.02% (+$0.12), capturing essentially none of the +1.12% that was available, so a correct signal with good timing was wasted by the exit. The journal doesn't show why the exit fired (time stop, trailing rule, or signal reversal), so the exit mechanism itself can't be identified from this data.