October 2026 Swing Trades Recap: I Cut $TTWO at a Loss

Disclosure: As of October 31, 2026 I hold positions in CDNS, GOOG, NCLH, ORCL, TQQQ in the account this recap covers. This is a record of trades already taken, not a trade idea; open positions can change at any time after publication without notice. Not personalized investment advice. See full disclaimer below.

The Month in One Paragraph

3 swings closed in October, and 2 of them were losses I cut on the same morning. On October 30 I sold all of $TTWO at $193.55 and all of $INTC at $69.00 before the open, 4 days after closing $KOD for a win a week later than I should have. The bright spot was $NCLH, where I trimmed 1/4 of my calls at $3.20, close to double what I paid. I opened $GOOG and $TQQQ in the last 3 days of the month and finished October with 5 swings open.

Closed This Month

$TTWO

I opened $TTWO on August 31 at $219.97 as a starter, with room to add if it fell further. It fell, and I added twice on October 13 at $200 and $201, which brought my average down to about $211.10. On October 30 I decided staying in was the wrong call and sold the whole position before the open at $193.55. It works out to an 8.3% loss on my average and 12% below my first buy.

The adds lowered my cost, but they also made the position bigger right before it dropped 3% to 4% under both of those fills. The part I'll keep is the exit. Once I decided I was wrong I got completely out before the open instead of letting the loss run further.

$INTC

$INTC went on in this account on September 2 at $90.05, and I held it for almost 2 months with no adds and no trims. I sold all of it the same morning as $TTWO, before the open on October 30, at $69.00. I made the same call on both: staying in was wrong, and I'd rather take the loss than let it get bigger. It's a 23.4% loss, the deepest percentage hit of the month.

$KOD

$KOD was my top EP long of September 28, a day trade I kept as a swing at a $71.99 average. It started October strong, near $98.86 on October 1, about 37% above my cost, and I trimmed 1/3 into strength at the open on October 5. I closed the rest on October 26 for a win.

I should've closed it the week before, but I was on vacation and totally forgot about it. The fix I took from it is simple: every swing goes on a checklist with a reminder while I'm away, so nothing sits past its close point.

Adds and Trims

On October 29 I trimmed 1/4 of my $NCLH January 15, 2027 $15 calls at $3.20 to lock in profit. I bought them in late September at $1.62 and $1.63, a $1.626 average, so the trim came in about 97% above my cost.

$GOOG was messier. I opened it on October 29 at $281.85 as a starter and went in a little heavier than I meant to. When I went to trim half, I hit buy instead and added at $282.92, then made the real trim at $283.16, selling about 2/3 of what I held by then. The gain on the trim was small, about 0.5% over my first fill.

Still Open

$NCLH is the one that's working. I started the calls in late September and they run to January 2027, so time isn't the pressure on this one, and after the trim I still hold 3/4 of them. What would change the read is the cruise business itself, not a few ugly sessions.

$GOOG went on October 29 at $281.85 as a starter, and what's left is the piece I kept after the trim. It's only a few days old, so there's nothing in it to grade yet.

$TQQQ is the newest swing, bought October 30 at $63.91. It's a leveraged Nasdaq 100 fund, so this is a swing on the index trend itself rather than on one company, and it stops making sense if that trend rolls over.

$CDNS is the swing lot I opened in September, separate from the $CDNS I hold in my position account. Nothing happened to it in October.

$ORCL works the same way. This account's lot went on September 28 at $133.75, I hold $ORCL separately as a position trade too, and I didn't add to it or trim it in October.

Carrying Into Next Month

5 swings go into November, and 2 of them are less than a week old. $NCLH matters most because it's the one with a real gain behind it, and the read there is about the cruise business, not the calendar. October gave me 2 losses I cut and 1 winner I closed late because I was away, so the $KOD fix matters more to me than any single name on the book.

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Howard is a full-time trader based in New Jersey with 13 years of experience across Forex, crypto, equities, and futures. He started Position Note to document his trades and analysis in public. All positions are disclosed. Nothing here is personalized investment advice.