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Trading Tesla Around VWAP: Lessons From Today’s Action
In today’s session, we broke down several key intraday setups in Tesla (TSLA), focusing on how price action behaved around the Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) and standard deviation bands.
The morning trend was clearly lower, and our first short entry came as TSLA rallied back into VWAP — a classic retest area where institutional bias often shows its hand. That setup, combined with a 38.2% retracement, gave us an early trade down to our $318.32 target.
As the day unfolded, TSLA repeatedly tested VWAP and two standard deviation levels, creating a series of scaling opportunities. While some entries looked shaky at first, patience and disciplined trade management paid off. Scaling into shorts near 322–323 allowed us to ride retracements back toward VWAP and the mean reversion line at $321.83, locking in multiple points per trade.
We also highlighted two of our Around the Horn intraday patterns — the Infield Fly and Double Header — which gave reliable reversal signals throughout the session. These setups, paired with RSI momentum confirmation, kept us aligned with the broader Nasdaq trend, as Tesla moved in near lockstep with the index all day.
The big takeaway:
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VWAP is your roadmap. Below it, short setups have edge; above it, long bias gains traction.
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Two standard deviation moves offer high-probability reversion targets back to the mean.
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Scaling with discipline allows trades that start red to finish green.
It wasn’t about the number of trades — just four solid setups on TSLA today — but about position sizing, timing, and conviction at key levels.
Market Highlights
Today's Trading Recap
U.S. Markets — August 20, 2025
Major Index Performance
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The Nasdaq Composite led the declines, plunging ~0.7% (or ~1.5% by some reports), pressured by a continued sell-off in big tech and AI-linked stocks Yahoo Finance.
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The S&P 500 dipped 0.2–0.6%, oscillating between modest gains and fresh losses as tech weakness kept pressure on more broadly AP NewsInvestopediaReutersYahoo FinanceNasdaq.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average was mostly flat, edging lower by less than 0.1% Reuters+14AP News+14Investopedia+14.
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Russell 2000 dropped around 0.3% AP News.
Market Dynamics & Sentiment
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Tech-led pressure was the common theme, with NVIDIA, Palantir, Micron, and others under the microscope amid AI bubble concerns The Economic Times+15Wall Street Journal+15AInvest+15.
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Retail earnings added to volatility: Lowe’s posted strong numbers and raised outlooks, while Target’s shares slumped on CEO news and weak guidance The Economic Times+6Investopedia+6Wall Street Journal+6.
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Investors are cautious ahead of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s speech at this week’s Jackson Hole symposium, looking for direction on policy Bloomberg.com+8Investopedia+8Wall Street Journal+8.
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Rotation into defensive sectors was evident: energy, healthcare, and consumer staples outperformed, while tech lagged Reuters.
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Volatility ticked up, with the VIX rising roughly 4% to 15.6 Nasdaq.
Today's War Room Opportunities
August 20, 2025
| Plan | Symbol | Position | Entry | Stop | Target | Exit | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manz Bandz Planz | TSLA | Short | 329.18 | 330.36 | 328.04 | 328.04 | 2.32 |
| Manz GAPZ | TJX | Short | 142.31 | 142.71 | 140.50 | 140.50 | 2.21 |
| Manz GAPZ | KEYS | Long | 154.5 | 153.9 | 155.32 | 155.32 | 0.82 |
| Manz GAPZ | TGT | Long | 96.02 | 95.5 | 96.75 | 96.75 | 0.73 |
| Manz Planz LIVE | TSLA | Short | 319.87 | 322 | 318.66 | 318.66 | 3.34 |
| Manz Planz STW | THC | Long | 178.88 | 177.93 | 180.31 | 179.6 | 0.72 |
| PENDING TRADES WILL BE HIGHLIGHTED IN YELLOW | Total Per Share Traded | 10.14 | |||||
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