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The Best Place To Find Actionable Market News

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 5/30/2024 4 min read
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On Tuesday, May 28, ReShape Lifesciences Inc. (NASDAQ: RSLS) spiked 175%*.

And most news services had absolutely NO CLUE why it was running, LOLOL.

Take a look at a screenshot below that I took from a major media outlet after RSLS started to move. I blocked out the author to spare them the embarrassment:

Source

My students and I knew there was a reason for the intense spike.

  • We knew why it was running …

AND

  • We had eyes on it right when it started to move …

The larger market doesn’t know how to follow small-account profit opportunities like RSLS.

Everyone else is concerned with stocks like NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA). Because that’s where all the money is. NVDA (by itself) has a market capitalization of $2.8 trillion.

When we compare that to a stock like RSLS, it barely registers for major media outlets.

RSLS has a market capitalization of only $10.3 million.

It looks boring and meaningless to them. But for small-account traders like you and me, these small-cap stocks can offer amazing profit opportunities.

The stocks spike +100%*, and traders can play the volatility for a quick short-term profit.

Take a look at the chart below of RSLS’ 175%* after-hours spike from Tuesday this week. Every candle represents one trading minute:

RSLS chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

And RSLS isn’t the only runner right now.

More Small-Account Opportunities

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It matters where you get your news!

Major media was reporting on RSLS waaaaay too late. And they didn’t even find the catalyst that started the spike.

They also missed big moves this week like …

  • Innovative Eyewear Inc. (NASDAQ: LUCY) spiked 230%* on Wednesday.
  • AST SpaceMobile Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS) spiked 60% on Wednesday as well.

In all of these cases, major media was either late to the move, or they had no idea what was going on, LMAO.

My students and I knew about every move!

See my post on X below:

And we got trade alerts at the beginning of each spike.

See the corresponding charts below, all the candles represent one trading minute:

RSLS intraday chart, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade
LUCY intraday chart, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade
ASTS intraday chart, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

To make serious trades, you need to take trading seriously.

Everyone who follows YahooFinance and CNBC … They’ll always miss the main part of the move.

Instead, Breaking News is the media that I use to find the market’s biggest runners.

>> This is where I’m waiting for the next alert <<

There’s a lot of time left in this shortened trading week.

Make sure you take advantage of the increased volatility!

Cheers.

 

*Past performance does not indicate future results

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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. Read More

* 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”