Position Resolved — $MNST & $DG
Mar 03, 2026
MNST Closed Entry: $83.50 | Exit: $80.50 | Result: -3.6%( Monster
DG — Closed Entry: $150.00 | Exit: $152.00 | Result: +1.3%
Small loss. Small win. Net roughly flat.
Not the week we wanted but not a disaster either.
Both trades got ambushed by the same thing. US and Israel escalated against Iran over the weekend and Monday opened like someone pulled the fire alarm. Neither stock had done anything wrong before that. They just got caught in the mess like everything else.
MNST was the better trade of the two. Clean setup, proper stop placed below structure, thesis was intact right until it wasn’t. Monday’s candle broke the 20 EMA on volume and that was that. No debate. No giving it one more day. Out.
DG was always the more questionable entry. The breakout above $153 never fully convinced me. Volume was decent but not the kind of volume that makes you feel certain. When the tape turned ugly DG gave the breakout back immediately. Weak breakouts do that. They’re the first to fail when conditions deteriorate.
Exited both. Moved on.
No drama. No revenge trades. No pretending the market owes us anything.
The tape told the story and we read it correctly. That has to count for something even when the result is flat.
What this week actually reminded us is that geopolitics doesn’t care about chart patterns. A clean setup on Friday can be irrelevant by Monday morning. We can’t control that. What we can control is how quickly we respond when the evidence changes. This week we responded quickly.
Capital mostly intact. SNA still running. Watchlist ready.
The next clean setup is out there somewhere. We’ll find it when the dust settles.
Not financial advice. I’m not here to tell you what to buy. I’m here because writing about mistakes in public is cheaper than therapy and more honest than pretending I have it all figured out. You want a sure thing, wrong address.
— Andrew