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Do You See Opportunity in This Market?

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 7/30/2026 5 min read

When the overall market looks like an airplane getting chopped around at takeoff…

Struggling traders tend to write long, introspective tweets on X, talking about how hard it is.

My students and I see a completely different market.

It’s CRAZY how much opportunity there is.

And it’s not like I’m ignoring the overall market.

I constantly warn my students to…

Be Meticulous With Every Trade

Especially when the QQQ looks like this…

QQQ, 1-month, daily candles, down trend into correction territory
QQQ, 1-month, daily candles, down trend into correction territory

When the broader indexes hit correction territory, I warn students.

Not only about the trades they take, but how long they stay.

It’s this kind of market environment that new traders have to be careful with…

…and experienced traders have to survive (because for several months they had it easy).

But STILL there is opportunity after opportunity.

If you’re not seeing it, you might be looking in the wrong place, because I’m seeing…

Made-to-Order Spikers

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Thanks to the overaggressive, toxic short sellers

They’re happening at all hours of the day.

For example, check out what Autonomix Medical, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMIX) did on Wednesday:

AMIX, 5-day, 1-min candles, after-hours spiker, premarket spiker, morning spiker
AMIX, 5-day, 1-min candles, after-hours spiker, premarket spiker, morning spiker

And that’s after AMIX had a premarket spike on Friday (July 24), and an after-hours spike on Tuesday (July 28).

My favorite time to trade right now is after-hours (there’s a reason why I find after-hours easy to trade).

It fits my schedule, time-zone, and patience level.

But don’t think that’s the only time to trade.

There are morning spikers, afternoon short squeezes, premarket spikers.

Not to mention all the opportunities based on my 7-step pennystocking framework

You get to choose.

Millionaire Moves

T3 Defense Inc. (NASDAQ: DFNS) is another great example of the opportunity we’re seeing. It was a perfect short squeeze Supernova

DFNS, 7/23-29/26, 1-min candle, short squeeze Supernova
DFNS, 7/23-29/26, 1-min candle, short squeeze Supernova

There were SO many opportunities to trade DFNS. Especially if you’ve studied my framework.

What an incredible run from the $3s to the $90s in three days!

The key is to understand that…

The 7-Step Framework Is Playing Out Faster

What used to take weeks or days sometimes happens in a day or two (or three).

Which means that if you don’t know it inside out, you should start studying it now. Today.

It’s the same pattern playing out again, and again, and again.

The only difference is the speed.

Catalyst Watch

Two important market events are coming up in August and Jack Kellogg is watching. What are they?

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ: SPCX) and NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) earnings.

Why is Jack watching?

Because his AI picks up trades around these events that most traders miss (or see late).

Jack’s AI is specifically designed to seek out opportunities before everyone else catches on.

In fact, it’s based on the same idea that he used on some of his biggest winning trades.

Discover how Jack’s AI finds these overlooked opportunities

On My Radar

I’m in Bali to open a few Karmagawa schools this week.

I’m super proud but also grateful that trading and teaching allows me to live out my childhood dreams…

Key Takeaway

Do NOT listen to all the sad traders and so-called teachers wringing their hands and saying “this market is really hard to trade.”

The key, as always, is to look for the top percent gainers.

Then, be meticulous about your entries and exits.

And do your best to not overtrade or overstay your welcome.

Like Matt Monaco told me yesterday…

This is a day trader’s market.

Take advantage of it.

Cheers,

– Tim Sykes


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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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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”