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The Best Trade Setup Every Day This Week

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 3/13/2026 5 min read
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The market is under extreme stress.

Oil is a volatile whipsaw, and every other sector is holding its breath.

These are the only setups worth trading.

And most traders are completely oblivious, as perfectly good trades slip through their fingers.

Or worse… they throw money at random setups during a volatile wartime market that can flip on a dime overnight.

There’s only one setup that I’m paying attention to right now.

I’m doing my best to educate people:

Last week, while everyone was watching geopolitics, the same pattern that’s made my 50+ millionaire students rich played out right in front of us.

And it wasn’t from United States Oil Fund (NYSE: OSU).

On Friday, March 13, a stock spiked 155%… 

It followed my pattern perfectly.

And it’s the only setup I’m watching this week.

The Setup That Printed 155% Last Week

While the rest of the market was paralyzed by Middle East anxiety, on Friday, March 13, bioAffinity Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: BIAF) spiked 155%.

BIAF chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

The company announced that its CyPath® Lung test, a noninvasive diagnostic for early-stage lung cancer, saw unit sales surge 99% year-over-year.

Physician adoption jumped 67% and revenue from the test grew 87%.

That’s a great news catalyst. Bullish cancer news usually causes a good amount of volatility because of how scary the disease is. And when it’s included real-world physician adoption and revenue, that’s an A+ from me.

But the news alone didn’t create a 155% spike.

Something else was at play.

Why BIAF Spiked 100%+

Most traders see a stock spiking, and they want a piece of the action…

But there’s no way of knowing how high the stock will spike.

Are you already too late?

That’s why I only focus on stocks capable of spiking 100%+.

They hit my scanner once they pass a 20% move. And if they can spike more than 100%… there’s a lot of meat left on that bone.

The main factor that creates a 100%+ move: the float.

The float is the number of shares available to trade. It’s the supply. And a low supply spikes prices higher when demand increases.

I look for stocks with floats below 10 million shares.

For example, BIAF had a float of just 4.3 million shares on Friday, March 13.

When real buying pressure hit after a bullish announcement, there weren’t enough shares to go around.

That’s how prices spiked so high.

This is why I never touch larger-float stocks. NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) has 24 billion shares in the float. It could never spike 155% in a day with a supply like that.

But a stock with 4 million shares? When demand floods in, the price has nowhere to go but up.

And BIAF is not an isolated incident.

More Breaking News

We see these moves almost every day.

The Game Plan This Week

The market could improve from last week’s fear and anxiety.

But it could stay ugly. I’m not a fortune teller.

Either way, here’s what I know with absolute certainty: the strongest stock spikes will come from the exact same stocks.

  • Low float.
  • Fresh catalyst.
  • Already spiking 20%.

When the market is stressed, these plays outperform every other setup because the moves are driven by company-specific news, not macro sentiment.

And when the market is hot, the spikes go even further.

Either way the market moves this week, it’s a win.

Plus, BIAF spiked 155% in a single morning… You don’t have to watch the market all day long to capitalize. Wake up for the morning volatility, then go to your day job.

This is a perfect side hustle.

Once you find a stock that matches our framework, look for this price action on the chart:

USO and oil prices are the macro story right now. Every other stock is fighting upstream.

Stick to the framework.

Anything less is a gamble, and this week, gamblers are first on the chopping block.

Cheers

*Past performance does not indicate future results

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Timothy Sykes

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.
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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”