KISS Sprint Log — Week 2: The Rule That Pays For Itself
Two trades filled. Two days the volume didn't show. Two mechanical exits — and two stocks now sitting below where my stops were. This is what LVTD is for.
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WHERE WE ARE
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Six trades logged. 100% process compliance. Sprint sitting at -0.6R, info
only. Fourteen trades left to graduate.
Last week the story was a clean -1R loss taken in full compliance — the
system absorbing a designed hit (BIIB) and not flinching. This week is the
other side of that same coin. This week the rule paid me back.
Two of my trades filled and then failed to attract the volume that
confirms a real breakout. The LVTD gate did exactly what it’s built to do:
it got me out the same day, before the move could rot into a loss. Both
names are now trading below the stops I would have been holding. So let me
walk you through them, because this is the clearest proof yet that the
boring rule is the one that matters.
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WEEK 2 — THE TWO SAVES
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TRADE #5 — NVT (nVent Electric)
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→ Date entered: June 22 (Monday)
→ Setup: Pattern breakout, Industrials
→ Entry: $179.75
→ Stop: $167.00
→ Per-share risk: $12.75
→ Result: +0.29R
→ Compliance: ✅ All rules followed
→ LVTD: SAVED
This was the published Trade Plan of the Week from Sunday Drop #2. The buy
stop filled Monday morning — exactly as planned. Then I waited for the one
thing that turns a fill into a position: volume.
It didn’t come. By the 15:45 ET gate check, cumulative volume was below
1.5× ADV20. The breakout had no institutional sponsorship behind it. So at
15:55 ET I did the only thing the system allows — I closed the position.
It happened to close slightly green, at +0.29R.
Now look at the chart. NVT is trading at 162.92 — below the $167 stop I
would have been carrying if I’d “given it room overnight.” Holding would
have been a clean -1R, possibly worse on a gap. Instead the trade is a
small win. That’s not luck. That’s the gate doing its job: a -1R turned
into +0.29R, a swing of more than a full R, on a single disciplined exit.
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TRADE #6 — ETN (Eaton Corporation)
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→ Date entered: June 22 (Monday)
→ Setup: Pattern breakout, Industrials
→ Entry: $431.60
→ Stop: $404.75
→ Per-share risk: $26.85
→ Result: +0.15R
→ Compliance: ✅ All rules followed
→ LVTD: SAVED
Same day. Same story. ETN filled, and again the volume gate came in light
by 15:45 ET. Again I closed at 15:55 ET, this time at +0.15R.
And again, the proof is in where the stock sits now: ETN closed the week
at 402.68 — under the $404.75 stop. A held position would be red today.
The volume gate caught what the price chart alone could not: a breakout
that nobody was actually buying.
Two electrical-industrial names, both in a sector that’s been gaining
ground, both with clean-looking breakouts — and both lacking the one
ingredient that separates a real move from a trap. The pattern was there.
The volume wasn’t. LVTD is the rule that knows the difference.
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WHAT THIS WEEK ACTUALLY PROVES
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Here’s the uncomfortable part, and the whole point of logging this in
public: both NVT and ETN closed GREEN. A small green. The kind of result
that, in the moment, feels almost like leaving money on the table — “why
am I selling a winner at 15:55?”
Because the green wasn’t the win. The win was everything that didn’t
happen afterward. Two stocks that are now below my stops. Two -1R losses
that never landed on my account. That’s the insurance no one applauds,
because you can’t see the loss you avoided — you only feel the winner you
“cut short.”
The sprint R tells the quiet version of the same truth. Two weeks ago I
was at -1.0R. These two disciplined exits pulled it back to -0.6R — and I
did it without taking on a single ounce of extra risk. The system clawed
back over a third of an R by doing LESS, not more.
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THE SCORECARD
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Trades logged: 6 / 20
Compliant: 6 / 6 (100%)
Compliance threshold: 90% ✅ above the line
Sprint R (info only): -0.6R
LVTD saves: 2
Status: KEEP GOING — 14 trades to complete the sprint
CAKE and ZION remain open from Week 1, managed on the 20 MA close-basis
trail. No rule touched, no stop moved.
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THE LESSON I’M TAKING INTO WEEK 3
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A breakout you can see is not a breakout the market is funding. Price gets
you in; volume tells you whether to stay. This week the gap between those
two things was the difference between +0.44R booked and -2R avoided.
I’ll keep logging every trade — the green, the red, and the boring exits
that don’t make for a good screenshot but quietly keep the account alive.
Compliance is still the only number I’m chasing. Fourteen to go.
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Trade Tight · Think in R · Focus on Process
Trade Tight, RB
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⚠️ Educational only. Not financial advice. This is a paper sprint — a
public record of process, not a profit claim. Always DYOR.