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Still thinking about Friday. One of those days that reminds me why I love this game even when it humbles me constantly.
STAK — never heard of it before Friday morning. Energy name, float is basically nothing, like \~7M shares. I'd actually seen it run once back in early June and again mid-July, and honestly my first reaction seeing it green again was "nah, it already had its move, I'm not chasing this." Classic mistake I keep making — treating a stock like it's "used up" instead of just watching the chart in front of me.
Glad I didn't fully write it off though. Watched it grind up off $1.27 all morning, bouncing off the 9-EMA on the 3min over and over like it was glued to it. That kind of clean, repeated EMA respect is usually telling you something.
Then it hit $4.58 — which had been acting like a lid on this thing — and just ripped through it. Wick-less candle, volume came in huge, no news anywhere. Pure momentum, retail piling on. That's the setup I actually trust: no catalyst, no bagholders from a news pump, just supply/demand doing its thing on a stock with almost no float to soak up buying pressure.
From there it just kept going. $4.58 → $8 → $11 → topped out at $12 before fading hard into the close. 840% off the base at the high. On a stock nobody was talking about at 9:30am.
The annoying part — I *saw* almost every piece of this setup in real time and still didn't size in the way I should have. Had it broken out clean above $7 after that consolidation, the plan should've been simple: wait for the pullback to the 1min 9-EMA, add aggressively there. Instead I hesitated because "it already moved so much." Left a four-figure day on the table probably.
Writing this down mostly for future me: the fear of buying "too high" is genuinely more expensive than just trusting a clean setup. Every time I've deviated from "stay on strength, don't fade momentum," it's cost me. Every single time.
Anyway — not a stock pick, just documenting the day a few days late. Curious if anyone else caught this one or had a similar internal battle with the "it already ran" mental block.