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The Best Strategy Right Now To Catch 1,000% Runners

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Written by Timothy Sykes Reviewed by Jack Kellogg Fact-checked by Ellis Hobbs
Updated 9/8/2025 5 min read
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Every month we see multiple Supernova stock spikes …

These moves are so massive they’re in a class of their own.

And in September of 2025, the most recent came from Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: OCTO).

The stock exploded 3,800%* on September 8 as it announced a $250 million private placement and an additional $20 million investment to start the “world’s first” Worldcoin (WLD) treasury strategy.

The spike followed my Supernova framework to a T.

I locked in a 28% gain in a matter of minutes. And I left A LOT on the table.

Look at the morning price action of OCTO below. I had to use two charts because the scale of the spike is so big.

Every candle represents one trading minute:

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

This spike had everything that we look for:

  • A Low float
  • Big breaking news
  • Huge volume
  • Perfect premarket price action

It’s the exact kind of play that my students and I train for.

And it’s the same setup that my student, Jack Kellogg has used to turn $7,500 into $20.5 million.

Study the OCTO chart above to prepare for the next move …

But understand that every stock spike is a little unique, like a snowflake. To fully understand and capitalize on this market phenomenon, watch my tutorial below:

Understand the psychology and the reasoning behind these explosive moves.

Because when the next stock goes Supernova …

You don’t want to watch it. You want to trade it.

Supernova Stock Spikes

OCTO initially started to move due to the investment and crypto treasury news.

But it didn’t deserve to spike 3,800%* …

This was a short squeeze.

The market is oversaturated right now with greedy short sellers who try to play any and every crap stock that spikes too high.

And a few times a month, we watch these spikes reach insane heights as too many short sellers congregate in a single place and squeeze each other out.

As the stock spikes higher, long-biased traders have an immense opportunity to take advantage of the bullish panic from short sellers.

I’m up early every morning to look for these moves. Here’s why:

More Breaking News

  • The spikes usually start during premarket hours.
    • I focus on the beginning of the move, the strongest part of the spike.
  • The price doesn’t halt during premarket.
    • Volatility halts can make trading more difficult.

I alerted this stock on X at 6 A.M. Eastern when it was trading around the $4 level.

Look at my post below:

I posted about it again after the market opened and it hit $22:

The stock hit $57 per share before noon.

There’s so much opportunity on these stocks. And the best part is, we don’t have to trade them perfectly to find sizable profits.

For example, I pulled a 28% profit from OCTO in a matter of minutes …

I sold too soon at $6.54. But I’m still ecstatic with 28% gains on the day!

By comparison, investors hope to make 20% on the year.

Early in my trading career I realized that I didn’t have time to stack a measly 20% profit each year with my small account.

So I sped up the process with these massive movers.

I first stumbled upon Supernova spikes over two decades ago … And I’m still trading with the same framework today!

This pattern repeats in the market because people are predictable during times of high stress.

Learn how people think when they see runners like this …

And as a result: Unlock my Supernova strategy.

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”