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The Best Trade Setups In The Market

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 4/29/2025 5 min read

One of my most successful students, Jack Kellogg, already had a massive trading week!

He’s hovering just under $20 million in career profits.

And this week he traded Hims & Hers Health Inc. (NYSE: HIMS) and AGM Group Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGH).

Look at the post below, from April 29, with more details:

Jack is alerting these stocks before the patterns play out!

He uses the same patterns as myself and the rest of my millionaire students.

Watch my video below. Learn how to use Jack’s alerts for A+ trade setups, even in this shaky market:

Want to know how we find the best stock spikes day-after-day?

Top Percent Gainers

We’re always looking for the biggest runners on the day.

There are a few other factors involved, but essentially, stocks that spike the highest give us the most room to take gains.

And within the spike, our goal is to take the meat of the move. Only when the stock’s price action matches our patterns.

Volatile stocks can follow the same patterns because people are predictable during times of high stress. Like when they’re trading a stock that’s spiking +100%.

As traders, we have to take a step back from the emotions and focus on the larger patterns at play.

Now … Remember that it all starts with the right stock.

In StocksToTrade we have a built in scanner that looks for stocks:

  • Between $0.01 and $20 per share.
  • A volume of 1 million shares.
  • And an intraday spike of at least 20%.

Those three criteria will help narrow down thousands of stocks to a more manageable list.

There Needs To Be A Reason For The Run

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Next, we look for a catalyst.

Jack traded HIMS and AGMH earlier this week.

  • HIMS had a visible catalyst.
  • AGMH was a short squeeze without a visible catalyst.

For new students, I suggest they stick to trading stocks with visible catalysts.

Yes, short squeezes can offer huge opportunities to profit for long-biased traders. But the volatility and the lack of a catalyst can throw people off.

A news catalyst makes things much clearer.

For example, look at the HIMS chart below. We can see the news was announced on Tuesday, April 29 during premarket hours.

Every candle represents one trading minute:

HIMS chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade
HIMS chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

HIMS was trading above $20 per share when the news was announced. So our small-account scanner wouldn’t have picked up this runner.

But the idea applies perfectly to smaller stocks as well.

For example, WW International Inc. (NASDAQ: WW) spiked 130%* on Tuesday, April 29 after the company announced pharmacy integration with Eli Lilly.

This catalyst is very similar to HIMS’ …

Look at the chart below of WW. Every candle represents one trading minute:

More Breaking News

WW chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade
WW chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

The AGMH Short Squeeze

We can take a look at the AGMH short squeeze as well.

But keep in mind, short squeezes can be more unpredictable.

It all comes down to the source of the spike.

  • When there’s a news catalyst, we’re buying shares alongside other bullish traders.
  • When there’s a short squeeze, we’re buying shares alongside short sellers who are blowing up.

It might look like people are making money on a short squeeze. But it’s mostly short sellers losing over-and-over again.

Here’s a chart of the AGMH price action, every candle represents one trading minute:

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

There’s a process that my millionaire students and I use to trade these runners.

Stop wandering around the market randomly …

Sign up for Jack’s trade alerts and study his process!

There are new spikers right around the corner. Don’t miss the next run.

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”