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A 1% daily target may not sound like much — until you see how this strategy has produced 172 straight winning trades, which Jeffry Turnmire will break down live at 7 p.m. ET on Sunday [tap to save your seat]!
March 20, 2026 — Quad Witching Friday — one of the most volatile days of the year. I took a punch square in the face…
A $49,000 loss.
It was actually $51,000 before some offsetting trades. But when you’re watching years of disciplined work evaporate in a couple of hours, the exact number doesn’t matter. What matters is how it happened…
I broke the rules, plain and simple. And I’m the only one to blame.
Trading at three standard deviations was the rule, and it should have been what I did — not a suggestion I could bend because I wanted a bigger win, which is exactly what happened…
I was up $38,000 for the year in my $50K Challenge account, pushing to hit the $100,000 milestone by April 15. And I got greedy. I moved inside my safe three-sigma zone.
I was running 17 contracts on NDX index options instead of my usual five. And the market punished me for every bit of it. I entered around 1 p.m. ET and was forced out by 3:30 p.m. The damage was immediate and brutal.
But what happened next is the real story.
Getting Back to Work When You’re Down Big
The next Monday, March 23, I got back to work. No drama, no self-pity. Just complete acceptance for something that was clearly my own fault.
Back to the rules. Back to the 3-sigma method that’s kept me safe for years. I kept a tracking sheet right in front of my keyboard showing the deficit — down $49,000.
Seeing that every day kept me grounded.
And this part is hard to explain unless you’ve lived through a hit like that. Looking back at the charts from that day is mind-blowing. The swings, the speed, the extremes — enough to shake anyone if you don’t have a process to fall back on.
You don’t need to predict the market, but you do need a process to keep you centered when everything feels chaotic.
That process meant targeting just 1% per day. Slow, methodical recovery. By May 4, I’d made back $21,000. Then a moment of hesitation led me to close a trade too early on April 23, costing me $10,000 and eight days of progress.
Painful, but still within the statistical expectations of my strategy. Statistics say you might get in trouble one out of every 333 trading days when you’re trading outside 3 sigmas.
That day was one of them.
46 Days Later: Full Recovery
By May 28 — 46 trading days after that devastating Friday — I had recovered every dollar of the $49,000 loss.
My year-to-date performance still showed $132,000 in profit across 525 winning trades and only three losses. And here’s the kicker: On the same day I blew up the $50K Challenge account, one of my other accounts — the one that followed the 3-sigma rule — took no damage at all.
Staying disciplined showed up in the results instantly.
That tracking sheet is still on my desk. A reminder that discipline is not optional. It’s survival. You can break your rules and get away with it for a while, but eventually the market collects. The only way out is to return to what works and do it every single day until you’re whole again, and then beyond.
So that’s the lesson here: Don’t push it and get greedy — have a trading plan and stick to it.
P.S. If you want to learn how I clawed everything back, I’m going to show everyone the strategy of how I target 1% a day, every single day, at 7 p.m. ET on Sunday. If it sounds interesting to you, please don’t hesitate to save a seat and join us!
Jeffry Turnmire
Jeffry Turnmire Trading
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I’m just a regular dude in Knoxville, Tennessee: a husband, father, civil engineer, urban farmer, maker and trader.
I’ve been at this trading thing with real money for 20-plus years, and started paper trading over 35 years ago. I have a knack for making some epic predictions that just may very well come true. Why share them? Because I like helping other people — it’s the Eagle Scout in me.
*This is for informational and educational purposes only. There is inherent risk in trading, so trade at your own risk.
P.S. What Happens 2 Hours Before the Close?
There are no guarantees when it comes to trading…
Virtually anything can happen. You know this, I know this, we all know this…
One tragic event…
One earthquake…
One wrongly launched missile strike could trigger a cataclysmic event that could crush even the most stable stock.
But then, in one small corner of the market…
I’ve found a pattern that’s repeated every single day, no matter what, for at least two decades.
It didn’t matter who sat in the White House…
Or what our foreign policy was…
Or what new evil gimmick the deep pockets on Wall Street were up to.
This little-known pattern has played out two hours before the close, every single time.
Seven months ago, I began trying out a new approach to playing this pattern for a shot at a 1% payout per day.
The result?
A 100% win rate on more than 172 trades so far…
Making this my most consistent path yet to Income Independence.
The question now is…
Would you like to get on the same path with me?
Yes? Then you’re in luck.
Because right after celebrating our nation’s independence this Saturday…
I’ll be going live on July 5 to point you in the right direction of your own Income Independence.
Of course, I can’t make trading guarantees here, but…
We develop tools and strategies to the best of our ability but no one can guarantee the future.There is always a risk of loss when trading, and past performance is not indicative of future results. From 10/9/25 – 6/29/26 on 172 live trades taken with real money, the win rate is 100%, 1.04% average return, with an average hold time of less than 2 hours.
