I Grew My Account +50% in 10 Minutes

What's up everyone? Welcome to day five of my 
brand new small account challenge of trading   in a $2,000 account using Charles Schwab as my 
broker. You'll notice that the background and   scenery looks a little bit different this 
week. That's because I'm traveling. Now,   you might think I'm time traveling back to the 
1970s with these curtains, but that's not the   case. I am still in present day and I'm on 
my traveling trading station. I've got my   laptop. I've got my USB monitor right here, super 
skinny. And I've got my Starling. all the things   we've come to expect in 2026. And this morning, I 
locked up another green day. Biggest green day so   far in the challenge. This is not a surprise 
again because I'm trading with more capital   each day as I grow the account. So, the goal of 
this small account challenge, as you guys know,   is to demonstrate what it looks like for a 
seasoned trader like myself to trade under   the constraints of a small account, which means 
I'm going to be focusing on quality over quantity,   trading the best setups because I can't afford 
risk. And all of the profit from these challenges   gets donated to charity. As you guys know, every 
time you hit the thumbs up in the episodes in this   series, I'm adding an extra dollar to how much I'm 
donating. We've already raised over $313,000. I've   already donated $319,000, which means I'm a little 
bit ahead on you guys. So, I hope you all hit the   thumbs up on today's episode. Now, let's go ahead 
and dive right in. Day five context. Big picture.   Yesterday, we had a stock that squeezed up after 
the opening bell over a,000% from a low of under   $2 all the way up to about $167 a share. That's 
a very impressive move. We love to see that. So   clearly we're still in a hot and very volatile 
market. There's attention on Chinese stocks,   foreign listed securities including Singapore, 
Malaysia, and Israel. We're also seeing some   momentum in space AI data center names. So the 
theme right now is generally it feels like if a   stock is a leading gainer in the market, it gets 
a lot of attention very quickly. But traders are   also fickle. They're jumping from stock to stock. 
So when one stock starts to look a little weak,   if another one pops up, boom, that other stock is 
old yesterday's news. And now traders are jumping   on the new one. And so it feels like a little bit 
of musical chairs. And that can be a little bit   tricky because you left feeling like your head 
is spinning. We're going from stock to stock to   stock to stock. So for me, it makes me feel that 
it's important to jump in pretty quickly when   something starts to pop up so I can capitalize on 
that very first part of the move because if I wait   until it's already made a big move, I'm concerned 
that my risk-to-reward isn't as good. I'm getting   in too high and if it fails that it's got a lot 
farther to drop. So this morning we had a stock   that um well first of all part of the context is 
big picture right now. We have a stock um which is   our leading gainer. It's SUGP. Uh when I grabbed 
this screenshot, it was up 100. It was up 57%.   As of right now, it's actually up 140%. So, this 
one's continued to gain more and more attention.   Uh which has been good. It's a little bit cheap 
for my liking. Uh but that can be arguably good   for the small account because of course you 
could buy more shares. But in any case, SUGP   was the stock that was squeezing up this morning. 
And again, Chinese stock. Um, now it actually did   have technically it had a headline at 8 am, but I 
think that one of the arguments here is that these   moves, even on the stocks that do have headlines, 
are far in excess of what you would typically see   from a headline. So, it's almost as if it's a the 
news is almost irrelevant in in a certain way,   which is a little unusual right now. So, that's 
day five, big picture. So, then at 7:18 a.m.,   we have this ticker UPC that hits the high 
of day momentum scanner. It hits the scanner,   it pops up right here to about 450. It dips down 
and this is the due diligence that I did. Okay,   number one, it's a Chinese stock. Number two, it's 
got a float of less than a million shares. It's a   very low float. Now, lowflat stocks um certainly 
can be more volatile and they can be risky because   they can flush just as easily as they can spike. 
But given the theme right now is on Chinese stocks   popping up for enlisted securities popping up, 
I felt like this one was the most obvious one   that attention would shift to. So it pops up on 
the scanner. It does a micro pullback and I'm   jumping in right there at the bottom of that micro 
pullback right around there for the break back   over $4. And I'm looking for a squeeze back up to 
$450. we end up getting this squeeze up to 450,   up to five, up to 550, up to six, up to 650. At 
that point, I was starting to think about some   of the other stocks that had made big moves 
this morning, like TDIC. This is a stock that   um we'll get zoomed in on here for a second. So, 
TDIC earlier in the day had a squeeze from $5 up   to 15. That's impressive. CRA popped up earlier 
today. This one put in a squeeze from, let's see,   it was about 350 up to $8. So, these are the 
types of moves that you can do really well on,   no doubt, if you can get positioned in the right 
way. If you can get in early and not overstay,   you're welcome. Now, both CRA and 
TDIC ended up coming back down. So,   neither of them held up super well over the 
course of hours of trading. And so this was   a concern, but it's also why I wanted to be 
aggressive at the beginning. So it pops up,   it does a micro pullback, and while it's doing 
the micro pullback, I'm now moving off of the   uh charts and I'm looking at the level two. The 
level two is our feed of market data where I can   see all the buyers and I can see all the sellers. 
And so it dips down. And when it dips down,   I see that there's some buyers on the bid creating 
support. Then I see some green going through the   time in sales indicating there's other buyers that 
are stepping in. I see those as strong indicators   of positive sentiment, bullish sentiment. 
And so then I'm looking for that resolution,   that continu continuation higher. And that's 
exactly what we got. So on this one here,   I was in using my hotkey to buy with basically 
95% of my available buying power. So, based on   my available buying power this morning, which is 
all the profit from days 1 through 4, I was able   to buy 1,289 shares exactly. Now, I didn't type in 
1 2 8 9. I typed in I pressed shift 1 and my order   executed using that percentage of my buying power. 
I walked you guys through this hotkey during   um episode one when I shared with you that I was 
resetting my account back down to $2,000. So you   can go back and rewatch that if you need to brush 
up on the hotkeys. So as it rallies up, I end up   um basically holding as long as I can until I 
start to see a little bit of weakness and then   I just press the eject button and I was out. 
Ctrl Z exiting the full position. That's it.   And I'm out at 584. Why not 595? Why not 575? 
It was just the moment I saw an exit indicator,   which was that the buying paused and there was 
a little bit of a seller up there on the ask   and I said, "All right, I got to get out of this 
thing." Now, it doesn't mean it's not going to   continue higher. It just means that for my small 
account, that's the goal. Get in, get green,   get out. And right now, we have this benefit that 
we're in such a volatile market, the underlying   moves are much bigger than they were when the 
market was a bit cooler. So instead of getting,   you know, 50 moves, we're getting $1, $2 a 
share moves. So I ended up locking up $2,3747, my best day by far, which brings 
my account now up to $7,96.88. So the account is now up 295%. I have only taken 
six trades. I'm undertrading and I'm doing this   out of a fear of loss. I'm afraid of having a 
losing trade. And so I'm focusing on the highest   quality trades and the type of stocks I think 
had the potential to make really big moves. If   I focused on stocks that had the potential to go 
up only 10 or 15 cents, they might go up 8 cents,   which isn't really enough for me to lock up 
profit, then it rolls over and flushes and I end   up taking a loss. So one of the ways I'm avoiding 
loss is by having a very high quality standard.   And one of the requirements is that I'm looking at 
a stock and I'm thinking this has the potential to   go up 50 cents to a dollar a share. And if it 
doesn't have the potential to go 50 cents to a   dollar a share right now, I'm not taking it. Now, 
if the market was colder, I wouldn't have had any   of these trades over the last 5 days because 
we wouldn't we haven't in a colder market seen   $1,2 or $2 a share type of potential. So if the 
market was cooler, I would have to, you know,   essentially accept the lower gains and the 
slower growth in the account, uh, which I've   done in other periods of time. You guys can tune 
into previous small account challenges I've done,   which were in markets that were a little bit 
cooler. So this challenge so far is going pretty   quickly, going faster than others. If I was day 
trading, taking like 5, 10, 15 trades in a day,   could I grow the account faster, I would certainly 
subject myself to more losses. I haven't felt that   there's 10 plus opportunities for a 50 cent 
to dollar a share type of move. So maybe,   you know, on 10 trades, seven of them being 
winners, if I was trading that frequently,   my accuracy would go down to 68 70%. That's where 
I typically fall. Um, you know, seven seven base   hit trades of 15 20 cents each and then three 
losses of 15 cents each. You know, I I I guess   you'd be talking about $140 a share minus 40 cents 
a share. So maybe a dollar a share of profit. Um,   and then you know you and that's over the course 
of 10 trades with lower accuracy. So you know you   could end up having the misfortune of a couple 
bigger losses or you know whatever. And then here   on this trade, I got a $184 cents a share in just 
one execution. So, it's not to say I couldn't do   both. I suppose I could, but um but right now, 
early in the challenge, it's really important   to just have consistent green days, lock them up, 
and then come back again tomorrow. So, tomorrow   I'll have this much more buying power. Now, my 
buying power is coming up towards $8,000. So,   all of a sudden, you know, I could buy 2,000 
shares of a $4 stock and if that goes up two   points, I'm going to be up four grand. and then 
the accounts at 12,000 and then you know a $6   stock comes along I could buy 2,000 shares if that 
goes up three or four dollars a share because we   get a big move you know then things are really 
starting to pick up pretty quickly so you know   today just alone the account is up nearly 50% in 
one day uh I think I finished um well yeah must   have been $2400 today roughly um so that's what 
put me at 7900 so um yeah I'm in I'm in a great   spot right here today. Um, being up nearly 50% in 
one day. So, those of you guys that want to keep   watching the small account challenge and see um, 
how quickly I can continue to grow this account,   make sure you check out the twoe trial here at 
Warrior Trading. We'd love to have you guys join   us. It's two weeks for $20. It gives you a chance 
to watch me as I'm trading both in my big account   and my small account. I'm trading both of them 
well sort of sometimes at the same time, some one   and then the other. Depends on the day, depends 
on the stock. But in any case, you get to watch   over my shoulder and you get to see it all. So, I 
hope you guys check out the trial and I'll remind   you as always that trading is risky. My results 
aren't typical and there's no guarantee you'll   find success whether you trade with me or you 
learn on your own. So, please manage your risk,   take it slow, and always practice in a simulator 
before putting real money on the line. All right,   with that, I will see you guys back at 
it streaming at 7 a.m. tomorrow morning.