Desk log: 2026-07-21
Bull day on Agentic: midday BANC MAE lesson, power-hour scanner upgrade, fail-closed SBRA/TSM/HBM arms, late SBRA TP, hard-flat BA cleanup.
Educational process log from a Robinhood Agentic equity scalp session via Trading MCP. Not financial advice. Not a performance track record. See /disclaimer.
Regime
- Bull day into the afternoon: SPY/QQQ green vs prior close and above session VWAP
- Bias: long-only continuation / late push: not fades
- Shared discipline: after a midday loss, prefer ≤1 afternoon name; same-day stopped-out re-entry banned
Sessions run
| Block | Status |
|---|---|
| Midday Agentic | BANC long → MAE cut → mark skip for afternoon re-entry |
| Power-hour Agentic | Scanner logic upgrade; multiple fail-closed arms; SBRA TP; BA hard-flat cleanup |
| Schwab (separate book) | Manual HBM fade scratch: not part of the Agentic desk scorecard |
Playbook: Equity Scalp Playbook.
Scanner runs
~14:02: EOD gainers (liquid prefilter)
| Symbol | Snapshot | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| EGO | ~+10%, RVOL ~2×, RSI/MFI extended | Avoid immediate chase |
| HBM | ~+10.5% | Avoid re-entry after prior fade scratch |
| BANC | Same-day MAE earlier | Skip same-day re-entry |
| CPHI | Microcap / parabolic | Reject liquidity + market-cap gates |
~14:32: recheck
| Symbol | Verdict |
|---|---|
| BANC | Avoid chase on expansion bar; hypothetical needs pullback/hold |
| HBM | Conditional only: break/hold above $23.19 with volume: no trigger |
| EGO | Support held; MACD hist weakening: no order |
| CPHI | Reject unchanged |
~15:15: scanner-logic upgrade
Saved EOD gainers kept as liquid prefilter only. After 14:30, rank by time-of-day gates (price > VWAP, RSI 50-68, MACD hist quality, RVOL): not % Change desc.
Created "Power hour: bull continuation" (RVOL sort; RSI/MACD filters). Initial hits: BANC then SBRA; HBM/EGO filtered on RSI/MACD.
| Symbol | Power-hour verdict |
|---|---|
| HBM | Reject: momentum broken |
| SBRA | Reject at this stamp: late-push gates already failed once |
| EGO | Reject: RSI/MACD weak |
| BANC | Technical pass only: same-day re-entry skip |
~15:19: large-cap bull screen
Universe expanded (larger last/mcap). No large-cap cleared RSI 50-68 + MACD hist >0 + price > VWAP at the stamp (TSLA/NVDA/AMD/MU/TSM/SMCI/COIN/ORLY all failed at least one gate).
Trades & plans
BANC: Midday → MAE cut
| Field | Plan / outcome |
|---|---|
| Context | Midday long without Tier-A stack |
| Exit | MAE cut |
| Discipline | Marked skip today for afternoon re-entry |
Lesson: no midday chase without Tier-A.
EGO: Armed plan, never placed (~14:19-14:25)
| Field | Plan |
|---|---|
| Pullback / reclaim | Support $30.45-$30.52; reclaim $30.58-$30.60 |
| Quality | Spread ≤0.15%, RSI <75, strengthening momentum |
| Outcome | Price tagged reclaim zone; MACD hist weakened through zero: no order |
Primary counterfactual candidate for after-close review: process: review ≠ place.
HBM Agentic long: Dual preflight fail closed (~14:58)
Written trigger: 5m close >$23.19 then hold. Preflight failed on price structure, RSI drift, and MACD hist deterioration (desk-mode gate also failed for any paired Schwab path). No review/place.
SBRA: Late-push arms → fail closed → later TP
15:14 plan: Regime B late push requiring post-15:05 5m close/volume + reclaim $21.95. Recheck fail closed (soft volume, MACD flipped neg).
15:20 conditional: Operator pre-auth on first name printing all gates before 15:30: SBRA reclaim/hold $21.93 or TSM hold $425.34. SBRA printed the close/volume bar then lost the hold within a minute: no chase. TSM never held. Mark never filled.
15:36 fill: Operator green-light after structure + rising MACD hist returned.
| Field | Plan |
|---|---|
| Trigger | Hold breakout after the 15:20 false start |
| Size | Baseline band (~$500-750 example) |
| TP | Tight late-clock ~0.5× ATR limit |
| Cut | Bid through planned MAE shelf → cancel TP, marketable sell |
| Exit | TP · short hold · book flat |
Retrospective: fail-closed on the false start, then re-enter only with rising MACD + structure. Post-exit sold off toward the MAE shelf: tight TP matched the late clock.
BA: Late print → hard-flat cleanup (~15:51-15:53)
Another Agentic place appeared near the close (not from the primary flat path). Monitor cancelled the working TP and flattened into the 15:55 hard clock. Exit class: time / hard-flat (scratch).
Skips that mattered
- Same-day BANC re-entry ban held through power hour despite technical passes
- CPHI microcap/parabolic exclusion validated as non-scored risk avoidance
- Large-cap expansion without gate quality → still sit
- Below-VWAP reclaim screen ~15:48 (TSLA best candidate): too late for new risk before hard flat
Session close
- Hard flat satisfied by ~15:53: no open Agentic equity risk
- Process scorecard: 1 midday MAE cut · 1 late TP · 1 hard-flat scratch · many fail-closed sits
- Agentic day finished session red on process (exact dollars omitted here); Schwab HBM scratch kept off this scorecard
Lessons
- Same-day re-entry ban after MAE is a first-class rule: BANC technical passes do not override it.
- Review is not execution: EGO reclaim without MACD confirmation stays flat.
- Fail closed on lost holds (SBRA 15:20), then allow a clean second print with rising MACD.
- Power-hour ranking must use RSI/MACD/VWAP post-filters, not
% Change desc. - Hard flat is a tool: adopt and flatten late orphans into 15:55 rather than inventing a new thesis.