The Automation Trade · prep page · 11 Nov 2026

The One Percent

NVDA · a 1% target on a small account · information and a worksheet only. No levels are provided here.

On a $200 account, one percent is two dollars. The arithmetic is simple. The difficult part is understanding what must happen to earn those two dollars, what could be lost in the attempt, and how much remains after execution and costs.

Wednesday, November 11 begins with a question: what has changed since yesterday? The figures below are a dated starting point. Before the opening bell, new information may have changed the context. A company statement, a regulatory announcement and a report citing unnamed sources carry different kinds of evidence. Recording that distinction is part of understanding the market.

NVDA is the subject of this exercise, but the lesson extends beyond one stock. A price movement is observable; its explanation is often provisional. Several things can happen together without establishing which caused which. The useful habit is to write down what is known, what is inferred and what remains unresolved—and preserve those distinctions when the price starts moving.

The worksheet makes assumptions visible. Its calculations describe what would happen at the prices and costs entered. Actual execution may differ. A planned loss is therefore a scenario, not a guaranteed ceiling, and a profit target supplies no evidence about the probability of reaching it.

A small account also makes the mechanics difficult to ignore. Funding, currency conversion, spreads, execution and withdrawal conditions all belong in the accounting. The broker round trip can be mapped before committing money, and a paper exercise can test whether the instructions are clear enough to follow.

At the end of the session, the journal should tell a story someone else could reconstruct: the information available, the decision made, the assumptions used and the result observed. A gain does not establish a repeatable method. A loss does not explain its own cause. Either outcome becomes useful when the record is honest.

Tomorrow’s page is complete when that record is complete—even if the decision was to observe.

Read first. This page gives no entry, stop or target and is not investment advice. The author is not a licensed advisor. A 1% target is a wish, not an expectation: most traders lose money, and NVDA is in a headline-driven selloff with earnings on 17 Nov. Gaps can fill your stop far from the price you set. Never risk money you cannot afford to lose.

10 Nov 2026 · what is known

Close	$168.80, down 5.53% ($9.87) (author-checked against a live quote; other feeds differ by a few cents)
5 Nov	Closed $181.60, down about 9.3% on the day
Earnings	17 Nov: results about 1:20 pm PT, call 2 pm PT (NVIDIA announcement of 28 Oct)
Headline	Board inquiry announced 8 Nov; further allegations are press reports under inquiry (see the NVDA page)
Day open / high / low / volume	Not verified here. Enter from your own quote below.

Open

High

Low

Volume

11 Nov · check before the open

Premarket price versus the $168.80 close, and premarket volume.
Any new statement from NVIDIA, its board, or a regulator.
Analyst target changes (Citi and Wells Fargo cuts were reported; check for others).
News on the congressional briefing request and any export-control change affecting China sales.
Anthropic IPO updates (pricing is press-reported for about 18 Nov) and other AI-sector news.
Broker check: order types vary by broker and region; confirm what your account supports, and the real fees and spread.
Your own rules: maximum loss for the day, and the time you stop trading.

Safeguards: complete before entering

Having an exit point is not the same as having safeguards. Tick each item only when it is written down before the trade. If one cannot be ticked, do not enter.

Maximum loss in dollars, written down first
Exit rule: the price or condition where I leave, and what makes me do it (stop order, alarm, classmate)
If the stop fails: what I do if the price gaps through my exit
No adding to a loser: I will not buy more to average down
Daily stop: after one loss at my limit, I stop for the day
Time limit: the time I close the trade even if it has not moved
Money test: this is an amount I could lose without touching rent, bills or savings

My maximum loss today ($)

My exit rule, in one line

Worksheet · enter your own numbers

Risk is what we think we can measure. Uncertainty is what we can’t. This worksheet measures the first and cannot see the second.

Account ($)

Max risk (% of account)

Entry ($)

Stop ($)

Target ($)

Slippage on stop ($/share)

Lesson: the broker round trip

The lesson is learned by doing it: money in, a trade, money out, then the accounting. Start only with an amount you can afford to lose. This is education, not a recommendation of any broker.

Deposit method and fee
Currency conversion cost
Spread and trading fees on the trade
Withdrawal fee and minimum
Days until cash is back in my bank
Cost of moving to another broker (transfer or sell first)
Total cost of the round trip ($)

Which order types did my broker not offer? What did I do?

Profit or loss after all costs ($)

Stress: when did I feel it, and did I follow my rules?

Journal (stored only in this browser)

What I planned

What I did (fills, times)

Result and what I learned

Log losses as clearly as wins.

Status of the facts above as of 10 Nov 2026; prices must be re-checked before any use. Educational and entertainment purposes only. Not financial advice.