Globex session · Thursday, October 1, 2026
Net +$636.46 on 1 trade, 1 win and no losses. One gold trade, one clean win. The trend kept running for another hour after I got out.
+$636.46
Net, after $3.54 in commissions
1–0
One GC contract, long
~82%
Capture of a 7.8-point move, estimated from 2-minute bars
11.5 min
Held, 10:47 to 10:59 PM ET
The numbers
| Net / gross P&L | +$636.46 / +$640.00 (commissions −$3.54) |
| Trades / contracts | 1 / 1, GC (full-size gold) |
| Entry / exit | 4187.9 / 4194.3, +6.4 points |
| Hold | 11.5 minutes, 10:47 to 10:59 PM ET |
| Best / worst price during the trade | about 4195.7 / about 4185.7 (estimated from the chart) |
One Apex account. The journal has no MAE/MFE record for this trade, so capture and heat are read off the chart’s 2-minute bars, not measured.
What the execution data shows
- Best price during the trade was about 4195.7. That makes the capture roughly 82% of a 7.8-point move.
- Worst price was about 4185.7, so heat was roughly 2 points at most. The entry came off the low of a pullback, as the buy arrow on the chart shows.
- After the exit, gold kept climbing to 4215.5 by 12:06 AM, about 27 points above my entry.
Takeaway
A full-size GC contract, well executed: tight entry, little heat, solid capture. The trend kept running for another hour after I got out. If the read is a trend continuation, a partial runner on the next one could catch part of that extension.
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