TESSA'S BACK!!!!! February 2026 recap

February Trading Recap

Tessa Lamping says she returned to live trading on February 1, after about four years away from the market. She is trading a $100 account and plans to increase it to $1,000. Before going live, she paper-traded for roughly six months.

February’s market was less consistently upward-trending than the market she had practiced in, so she adjusted by taking profits more quickly.

Her reported results show a 5.45% average win, a 53.57% win rate, and a 46.42% loss rate. She says her average losses are currently larger than her average wins. She describes having nine losing days and being roughly 50/50 on winning versus losing days.

The report appears to show an overall loss of about $20, though she says she had not verified that figure. She also flags a reporting issue: one ticker’s displayed loss combines trades across dates. She says a particular trade was actually a $4.50 loss, not the larger amount shown. She confirms that separate losses of $9 and $8 were accurate.

Strategy and Process

• Focus on a continuation pattern: a stock spikes, consolidates, then breaks upward again. She describes it as a smaller version of her “spike consolidation spike” setup.
• Use EMAs and MACD as chart indicators and follow the trend. She says a chart line is typically her risk level.
• In current market conditions, take profits quickly rather than assuming a move will continue. She often holds for about nine minutes or less, and sometimes only seconds.
• She used market orders and gave an example of entering when the price broke above consolidation, then selling near resistance as the move weakened.
• In stronger markets, her earlier approach was to scale out 25%, 50%, then the final 25%. With a small account, she says she often cannot trade her usual position sizes, so she is currently prioritizing locking in gains rather than scaling out.
• For March, her priorities are to trade with discipline, cut losses at her risk level, avoid setups outside her pattern, and not trade out of boredom. She says she wants trading to be “boring” and predictable.
• She notes that she took too many trades during one week: 11 total, with six in one week and five in another.

Key Figures, Instruments, and Cautions

• Account: $100; plans to increase it to $1,000.
• Performance: 5.45% average win; 53.57% win rate; 46.42% loss rate.
• Illustrative goal: She remarks that 1% per trading day across 18 trading days would equal 18% account growth. This is an example, not a reported result.
• Assets and instruments mentioned: Stocks, EMAs, MACD, and market orders. No individual tickers or other asset classes are named.
• Risk cautions: She admits she sometimes failed to cut losses at her planned risk level, including holding positions while hoping they would not fall further. She warns against this and stresses discipline and risk control. She also says some losses followed frustration and taking trades outside her pattern.
• Trade tracking: She says she uses TraderSync to review trades and also logs them on Profit.ly.

Presenters and Sources

• Presenter: Tessa Lamping.
• Other source mentioned: An unnamed trading partner who previously moderated for True Trading Group and has been coaching her.
• Trade-journaling and tracking platforms: TraderSync and Profit.ly.