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The Catalyst Pushing Stocks Higher. It’s Not AI …

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 11/24/2025 5 min read

Stocks are spiking 100%* to 1,000%* every week in this market, and Friday’s data release just poured gas on the fire …

On Friday, we learned the U.S. CPI data for September.

The numbers were announced 9 days later than originally planned, due to The Government shutdown, but they didn’t disappoint.

Inflation crept higher, to 3% in September, year over year.

That’s lower than analyst’s expectations.

Some inflation is expected due to Trump’s tariffs. But a push to 3% was smaller than projected.

As a result, the market shot to new all-time highs.

Look at the chart below of the Invesco QQQ Trust (NASDAQ: QQQ) in 2025. Every candle represents one trading day:

QQQ chart multi-month, 1-day candles Source: StocksToTrade

We’re in a wild bull market.

And there are new insane stock spikes every week.

From last week:

  • A popular food-industry stock surged 1,000%*.
  • Two medical stocks surged after announcing a partnership. One of them reached over 200%*.
  • A tiny AI stock spiked 250%* after developing a new microchip and revolutionizing AI computation.

Don’t sit this market out.

Traders will talk about it for decades. This is bigger than the dot com boom.

My friend and fellow trader, Tim Bohen, jokes that AI is bigger than the wheel and the discovery of fire.

The market is red hot right now.

Don’t miss out this week.

Huge Stock Spikes

I’m still watching some of last week’s runners.

Beyond Meat Inc. (NASDAQ: $BYND) spiked over 1,000%* as the newest “meme stock”, as it’s dubbed by the media.

I traded this runner for a 66% profit. But I sold on Monday, October 20, way before the supernova move that came later in the week.

My trade notes are below:

Source: Profit.ly

Here’s a chart of the entire move. Every candle represents 5 trading minutes:

BYND chart multi-day, 5-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

I’m not looking to trade this stock unless there’s another panic dip buy opportunity or a decent #5 bounce.

These spikes are great for traders, but they don’t last forever.

Another breakout on this stock is highly unlikely … If it happens, it will be obvious.

On Friday last week, Datavault AI Inc. (NASDAQ: DVLT) surged 55% after announcing a partnership for blockchain-enabled smart contracts. And it pushed past multi-day resistance on strong volume.

On the DVLT chart below, every candle represents one trading minute:

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

The same day, Friday, October 24, Welligistics Health Inc. (NASDAQ: WGRX) spiked 260%* for partnering with DVLT on the same block-chain project.

On the WGRX chart below, every candle represents one trading minute:

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

And the new AI stock that’s revolutionizing the industry with a new “APU” chip, GSI Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: GSIT) spiked 250%* on Monday, October 20.

The price action fell below $10 support on Friday. I’m still watching it for a number five bounce from my framework.

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

The Next +100% Spike

All of these stocks shared a few important factors.

There’s a reason they all spiked to insane heights. And we can follow those breadcrumbs to the next big runner.

Find the next +100% stock spike this week.

And the next one, and the next one, and the next one …

Watch my video below to never miss a massive run:

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”