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The Best Video Lessons Every Penny Stock Trader And Short Seller Should Watch

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 1/26/2023 3 min read

Last week I wrote this great post showing off some of my most badass trading challenge students who basically will kick my ass if I don’t teach them well.

At the end of it, I featured 30 of the best video lessons out of 600+ that I’ve made.

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This list is very useful so it deserves its own blog post for you to bookmark to help make sure YOU WATCH EVERY ONE OF THESE VIDEO LESSONS as they’ll help improve your penny stock trading.

I’ve been meaning to do this post for a while now; here are the 30 best/most useful video lessons from my library of 600+ video lessons and yes to view them you need to be a trading challenge student or PennyStocking Silver subscriber..but I’ve made one of these free for everyone, get clicking!

1. 30-minute webinar explaining the basics

2. 35-minutes more of the basics

3. 30-minute video on how to spot a breakout before the stock triples

4. The importance of my favorite broker

5. How to buy earnings breakouts

6-9. How pumps collapse and here’s a second example and here’s a 3rd one if you still don’t get it and just for you here’s a 4th and probly the best one

10. Reserving shares to short ahead of time

11. The end of some of the biggest pumps in years

12. My biggest loss in years….what did I do wrong?

13/14. A perfect technical breakout and Right vs. wrong way of buying breakouts

15. Is a trade short-term or long-term?

16/17. My bread and butter pattern and here’s another example too

18/19. Indicators that lead to crashes on pumps and Predicting cracks before cliff dives

20. A GREAT intro to pump and dumps

21. Level 2 price action and risk/reward

22. Message boards and chatrooms

23. A well executed short sell

24. Betting against corrupt promoters

25. How being undisciplined can cost you thousands

26. Prepping for a trade

27. Press releases vs. legal filings

28. Everything about morning spikes

29. The top penny stock traders/promoters

30. 3 Stages of Supernova runups/crashes and here’s another step-by-step video lesson


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Tim Sykes is a penny stock trader and teacher who became a self-made millionaire by the age of 22 by trading $12,415 of bar mitzvah money. After becoming disenchanted with the hedge fund world, he established the Tim Sykes Trading Challenge to teach aspiring traders how to follow his trading strategies. He’s been featured in a variety of media outlets including CNN, Larry King, Steve Harvey, Forbes, Men’s Journal, and more. He’s also an active philanthropist and environmental activist, a co-founder of Karmagawa, and has donated millions of dollars to charity. Read More

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The available research on day trading suggests that most active traders lose money. Fees and overtrading are major contributors to these losses.

A 2000 study called “Trading is Hazardous to Your Wealth: The Common Stock Investment Performance of Individual Investors” evaluated 66,465 U.S. households that held stocks from 1991 to 1996. The households that traded most averaged an 11.4% annual return during a period where the overall market gained 17.9%. These lower returns were attributed to overconfidence.

A 2014 paper (revised 2019) titled “Learning Fast or Slow?” analyzed the complete transaction history of the Taiwan Stock Exchange between 1992 and 2006. It looked at the ongoing performance of day traders in this sample, and found that 97% of day traders can expect to lose money from trading, and more than 90% of all day trading volume can be traced to investors who predictably lose money. Additionally, it tied the behavior of gamblers and drivers who get more speeding tickets to overtrading, and cited studies showing that legalized gambling has an inverse effect on trading volume.

A 2019 research study (revised 2020) called “Day Trading for a Living?” observed 19,646 Brazilian futures contract traders who started day trading from 2013 to 2015, and recorded two years of their trading activity. The study authors found that 97% of traders with more than 300 days actively trading lost money, and only 1.1% earned more than the Brazilian minimum wage ($16 USD per day). They hypothesized that the greater returns shown in previous studies did not differentiate between frequent day traders and those who traded rarely, and that more frequent trading activity decreases the chance of profitability.

These studies show the wide variance of the available data on day trading profitability. One thing that seems clear from the research is that most day traders lose money .

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Citations for Disclaimer

Barber, Brad M. and Odean, Terrance, Trading is Hazardous to Your Wealth: The Common Stock Investment Performance of Individual Investors. Available at SSRN: “Day Trading for a Living?”

Barber, Brad M. and Lee, Yi-Tsung and Liu, Yu-Jane and Odean, Terrance and Zhang, Ke, Learning Fast or Slow? (May 28, 2019). Forthcoming: Review of Asset Pricing Studies, Available at SSRN: “https://ssrn.com/abstract=2535636”

Chague, Fernando and De-Losso, Rodrigo and Giovannetti, Bruno, Day Trading for a Living? (June 11, 2020). Available at SSRN: “https://ssrn.com/abstract=3423101”