Small Account Day Trading Challenge, Week 2, +72.2%
The market was a wild ride this week, wrestling with a flood of economic, tariff, and geopolitical news, capped off today with Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s speech. The VIX (CBOE Volatility Index) spiked, and the S&P 500 mostly churned sideways with some sharp reversals. Still, we held it together — though it felt like an emotional rollercoaster.
We wrapped the week with a balance of $3,424, a solid +71.2% gain. Not too bad when you stack it against the big indices: $2,000 invested in the Nasdaq on February 19 would be down 9% today, and the S&P 500’s off 6%.
Here’s a quick look at our stats since the challenge kicked off. We started with $2,000, and now we’re at $3,424*.
It’s only been two weeks, so we won’t overanalyze yet. The one thing we’ll flag is our average win/loss trade (reward-to-risk ratio) — it needs work. To fix that, we’re switching to micro contracts. This way, we can sell 50% at our first target, let the rest ride, and trail our stop loss. The past two weeks, our purchasing power limited us to one contract of ES, NQ, RTY, etc., but going micro (MES, MNQ) should give us better flexibility and results.
As a reminder, you can catch us trading live every day starting at 7:30 AM PT on our YouTube channel (though we likely won’t be streaming on Monday or Tuesday). You can also check out daily recaps on our socials (https://linktr.ee/beymanncapital), and we do our best to share real-time alerts on our Discord (https://discord.gg/MX5DkfWq).
See you next Friday! 👋
*Note on the ending balance:
Net profit is gross profit minus broker commissions — that’s what TradeZella tracks for us. But every night, regulatory fees get tacked on (which TradeZella doesn’t catch), so even though we made money this week, our actual balance dipped below last week’s…
