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The Best Trade Pattern In The Market

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Written by Timothy Sykes Reviewed by Jack Kellogg Fact-checked by Ellis Hobbs
Updated 3/18/2025 3 min read
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There are a lot of different profit angles in the stock market.

Some people use complicated trading indicators like the Fibonacci Retracement lines or Bollinger Bands.

But I try to keep things more simple …

My favorite patterns are visible within the regular price action on the stock chart.

You don’t need fancy indicators. You just need a solid understanding of my trade patterns.

Here’s an example of a trade that I made this week with a classic trade pattern …

Source: Profit.ly

Plus, the pattern that I used to trade Firefly Neuroscience Inc. (NASDAQ: AIFF), it’s perfect for new traders who also work a day job!

As I mentioned before, there are so many different profit angles in the stock market.

Choose a strategy that works for you.

The Pattern I Used To Trade AIFF

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This is a pattern that takes advantage of overnight inefficiencies.

Here’s how it works:

I look for strong stocks that spike during the day with news. And I buy shares above strategic support before the market closes.

Then, ideally the stock spikes higher into premarket the next day and I sell for a profit.

The inefficiency comes from traders finding these runners overnight and buying shares late, causing a spike the next morning.

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Look at the AIFF price action below. Every candle represents one trading minute:

AIFF chart multi-day, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

The pattern is especially simple for new traders because we can easily tell if the strategy is falling apart: We get out if the stock falls below our support level.

The best patterns have clear levels to get out in case of a failure. Because nothing is a 100% guarantee in the market.

Now, this pattern is most effective when there’s more time off from the market. For example, traders have more time to find these stocks over the weekend. As a result the morning spike grows larger.

That’s why this is usually referred to as my weekend trade pattern. But truthfully we can see this price action develop on any afternoon.

Watch my video below!

This is a perfect pattern for traders with a day job.

You can show up in the afternoon to scan for stocks that fit our trade pattern.

Then wake up early the next morning to sell shares.

Cheers.

 

*Past performance does not indicate future results

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* Results are not typical and will vary from person to person. Making money trading stocks takes time, dedication, and hard work. There are inherent risks involved with investing in the stock market, including the loss of your investment. Past performance in the market is not indicative of future results. Any investment is at your own risk. See Terms of Service here

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”