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Signal: correct — the short gained 0.92% (+$8.68), though whether the Nvidia/Hugging Face news was the actual driver of AMD's decline can't be settled from this data. Timing: partially late — AMD had already fallen 0.93% from prior close by decision time, and the position endured a -1.64% adverse excursion before turning profitable, so entry timing was mediocre. Exit: excellent and the dominant factor here — the +0.93% best unrealized was essentially fully captured (exit at ~+0.92%), meaning the trade banked nearly everything available despite the rough ride in between.

Signal: The bullish sympathy call didn't play out — AMD drifted down over the hold, and the best unrealized gain was only +0.71%, so even a perfect exit captured little; the predicted repricing largely failed to materialize in AMD.

Timing: The stock was already +1.09% on the day at decision time, consistent with some of the Nvidia-sympathy move being priced in before entry, though the data here can't fully separate "already moved" from "never moved much" — note the fill (477.11) sits oddly below the prev close (480.93) given the +1.09% context, which the data doesn't explain.

Exit: The -0.28% realized loss landed between the +0.71% best and -1.43% worst — the exit was unremarkable, neither capturing the small peak nor riding to the bottom. Dominant factor: weak signal — the sympathy thesis simply didn't produce a tradeable move in AMD.

Signal: The close-to-close direction call was wrong — the trade lost -0.79% — though price did trade up to +2.25% unrealized at some point, so the upside wasn't entirely absent, just not sustained to the mechanical exit.

Timing: The move was already partly in: the news-driven surge had pushed AMD +1.27% by entry, so the strategy bought after the catalyst was public and priced, which is the classic failure mode of an overnight-drift entry on a stale headline.

Exit: The fixed next-close exit captured near the bottom of the range (-0.79% vs. a +2.25% best and -1.91% worst), so meaningful upside was available and given back — but since the rule is mechanical, this reflects the signal fading rather than a discretionary exit error. Dominant factor: timing — chasing a surge that had already happened.

Signal: Weakly right at best — the bullish call saw only +0.61% peak upside while open, and note the rationale is a sympathy play (Nvidia earnings anticipation), so whether the underlying catalyst validated the thesis isn't determinable from this data. Timing: Entry at 480.96 was ~0.37% above prev close after a -0.51% 30-min pullback — mildly elevated, but not evidence the move was already spent. Exit: This is the dominant factor — the trade closed at -0.32%, essentially at the worst unrealized (-0.38%), surrendering the entire +0.61% that was available; the exit captured nearly the trough of the trade's range.

Signal: direction was right within the window — price fell after entry — though the rationale itself (record Nvidia revenue) is a bullish sector datapoint whose bearish read-through to AMD isn't explained, so whether the thesis or noise drove the move can't be settled here. Timing: price was up +0.76% from prior close at decision, so the entry wasn't chasing a move that had already happened; the small prior 30m dip (-0.59%) doesn't indicate staleness. Exit: the +4.32 realized (~0.45%/share) captured essentially all of the +0.46% best unrealized — near-perfect exit, even though it was mechanical (netted out against an opposing AMD long, not signal-driven) — so the dominant factor is a lucky-but-complete exit on a small favorable move.

Signal: Directionally right, at least briefly — the trade reached +1.24% unrealized, so the bullish call had something to capture. (Whether the rationale's logic holds is another matter: a non-Nvidia custom chip beating Nvidia is an odd basis for an AMD long, but the data here can't settle that.)

Timing: Partly stale — decision-time context showed AMD at -0.88% (479.18), yet the fill came at 484.58, ~1.1% higher, meaning a meaningful chunk of the move occurred between decision and entry.

Exit: This is the dominant factor. The position was closed not on merit but because it was netted out against a competing short decision, exiting at -0.34% and turning an available +1.24% into a -$3.28 loss — the exit captured none of what the trade offered.

Signal (dominant factor): The predicted overnight drift was simply wrong — AMD fell ~3.75% from entry, and the best unrealized gain while open was a negligible +0.04%, so there was essentially no upside to capture at any point.

Timing: The stock was already +1.28% above the prior close at decision time, so some of the news-driven pop had occurred before entry — but even a flat entry wouldn't have saved this trade given the subsequent decline.

Exit: The mechanical next-close exit at -3.75% landed near the worst unrealized (-4.60%) but that reflects the trade's trajectory, not a poor exit choice; with a peak of +0.04%, no exit rule could have made this profitable. Bad direction call is the story here.

Signal/timing: The bullish thesis never played out over the holding period — the trade was underwater the entire time (best unrealized was still -0.58%). Timing looks like the dominant problem: the market-share news is the kind that gets priced quickly, AMD was already +0.99% at decision time, and the fill at 477.26 was another ~0.7% above that, so the entry chased a move that had largely happened.

Exit: The exit was actually decent — closing at -0.70% versus a worst unrealized of -2.95% captured most of what was salvageable, given nothing positive was ever available.

Dominant factor: Stale entry into an already-extended move; whether the underlying bullish signal was flat-out wrong or just fully priced in can't be settled from this window alone, but there was no upside available to capture from this entry price.

Signal: Correct — the long thesis played out, with AMD rising ~1.2% from entry to exit. Timing: Mostly fine — entry at 468.38 was only ~0.4% above the prior close of 466.42, so little of the move had been consumed before the fill (though the +0.64% last-30m drift suggests some momentum was already underway). Exit: The mechanical next-close exit captured +1.18% against a best unrealized of +1.95%, so roughly 60% of the peak was banked; the -1.11% drawdown was ridden through without harm.

Dominant factor: signal quality — the directional call was right and drove the profit; the exit rule left about a third of the available gain on the table, which is a secondary observation, not the story of this trade.

Signal: Right — the bullish call paid off; price rose from 465.0 to 468.56 (+0.77%). Whether the move was actually driven by the Google/AMD TPU story can't be determined from this data.

Timing: Good — entry at 465.0 was below the prior close (466.42), and the worst unrealized drawdown was only -0.02%, so the trade was not chasing an already-completed move.

Exit: Near-perfect capture — +0.77% realized against a best unrealized of +0.81%, leaving essentially nothing on the table. The dominant factor here is a correct directional signal executed cleanly; nothing in this trade's data points to a flaw.