first trade since my losing streak earlier

After watching the market for the second half of the trading session, I took this long in BIDU when I thought the market might make a little late day pop. I had a 40 cent winner in BIDU but because it was only 3:40 pm and I still needed 5 mins before I could exit a trade without stopping it out, I couldn't take the gain. While writing this, price has dropped down and I had to stop it out inside my window of opportunity; it was stopped out at 3:45:40 seconds. Bummer, the pop ended just before I could take the money and run. Doesn't matter, I picked a good spot to go long with the direction of a short-term trend, had an acceptable gain, and kept faithful to my exit rules even though it was so close. The only one I would have hurt by cashing it in early would have been me, so all stop out losses today but ending on what I consider a positive note.