One paid, one didn't — the plan was the difference
Short · Risk & sizing · October 7, 2026
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FIGS paid about 10% in eight trading days. IVA was up about 5% on its second day, then turned and never paid. At the start the two looked the same. What was yours to decide was the plan: where you're out, and what that costs.
Part of the full lesson: Everyone Predicts the Market. We Publish Every Result.
The lesson in writing
FIGS paid about 10% in eight trading days. IVA was up about 5% on its second day, then turned and never paid — it finished about 33% down.
At the start, these two looked the same.
What it is
What was yours to decide was the plan: where you're out, and what that costs. Not which of the two would pay — that was never yours to know.
You can predict all you want. What you really need to do is decide before you click.
Where Olympia calculates it
Right where you log a trade, Olympia keeps your sizing rule on top — 1% of the account at risk — above every other number on the window.
And it warns you: change it per trade and it stops being a rule. It becomes something else.
The whole lesson, with the scanner, the practice book and the why, is in Everyone Predicts the Market. We Publish Every Result..
FIGS (✓ Weekly, flagged 2026-09-18) and IVA (✗) are off Olympia's Death-of-a-Trade card, 2026-10-02 — every Weekly, Daily, Monthly and Hourly signal tracked for six months, misses included. Historical, not predictive.
