It’s normal to lose in trading, like you said you lost $18 before If it was the same leverage as what you did today and made $26, your ratio is pretty near to 1:1.

Are you consistently following the default risk-reward ratio, or it just depends on your guts when to exit? without stop loss, you will always lose high amount.

If you are still a beginner, then you should learn from your mistakes, review what you did, and see why you lost $18 before and won $26 today.
Anyway, congrats on your profit and be consistent.