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Open HouseFriday, August 7, 2026· 2h 20m live

Open House — a morning on the desk

The desk opened half an hour early so Adriano could screen-share the Morning Wire process end to end: how the levels get built, what makes one invalid, and why the order goes at 224.85 rather than 225. Then the desk traded the open together, and two graduates of the Savages programme talked about what actually changed for them.

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The morning in figures

18
Trades called
9 / 4 / 5
Win / flat / loss
+3.68
Net points / share
+1.42%
ROCE

Net points are per share. Apply your own size to get your own number: at 1,000 shares, 3.68 points is $3,680. At 100 shares it is $368. At one share it is $3.68. The desk publishes the move, not a dollar result, because the dollars depend entirely on how you size, and that is your decision rather than ours.

One of the eighteen was the Morning Wire's own published level, and it stopped out.

Every trade called that morning

In the order they were called, losers included.

SymbolSideEntryExitPointsCalled by
PLTRShort163.80164.40-0.60Morning Wire
AMZNShort276.47277.00-0.53Kerly
AMZNShort276.36275.86+0.50Kerly
AMZNShort276.36276.36+0.00Kerly
RKLBLong79.9480.44+0.50Kerly
INTCLong99.4698.98-0.48Kerly
INTCLong98.5099.50+1.00Kerly
RKLBShort81.1680.86+0.30Kerly
RKLBShort81.1680.76+0.40Kerly
INTCLong101.56102.06+0.50Brandon
INTCLong101.56100.95-0.61Brandon
INTCLong100.28100.28+0.00Brandon
INTCLong100.2899.70-0.58Brandon
AMZNLong275.23275.23+0.00Brandon
ABNBShort175.75175.00+0.75Chris
ABNBShort175.75175.75+0.00Chris
AMZNShort277.43276.90+0.53Martin
MULong863.56865.56+2.00Martin

What the morning covered

  1. 01

    A level is built from what already happened

    Walk the previous one or two sessions. Mark where the highs, the lows and the consolidation sat. Put the levels there, then sanity-check the distance against ATR — and adjust when earnings have skewed the ATR, which they had on Apple that week.

  2. 02

    Never put the order on the round number

    Adriano liked 225 on Nvidia and refused to use it. "It may hit 225, stop some people, then we get a smash down." The order went in at 224.85, fifteen cents underneath, to be filled by the sweep rather than caught in it.

  3. 03

    A level has an expiry

    The levels are built for the open. If price reaches one between 9:15 and 9:30, he treats it as dead and will not take it. The Morning Wire itself says "valid for the first 10 to 15 minutes", and he meant it literally.

  4. 04

    The 50 does not count for much at the open

    Liquidity coming in at the bell runs straight through it, so he targets just below rather than at it. After the first five or ten minutes it starts to matter again.

  5. 05

    Say the stop out loud, before the entry

    Kerly called Intel at 99.46 and named her stop, under 99, before she was in. Four minutes later she took it at 98.98 and moved to the next thing without an explanation. Entry is only half the battle.

Come to the next one

We open the desk to everyone on the first Friday of most months, and being in the room is not the same as watching it back. You can ask a question before the bell and get an answer. Free, no card.

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