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This Chart Could Flip Your October Strategy

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Written by Timothy Sykes Reviewed by Jack Kellogg Fact-checked by Ellis Hobbs
Updated 10/4/2025 4 min read
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It’s still early in October.

But already, a key sector is red hot and growing hotter.

No, it’s not AI.

Assets in this sector are pushing to new all-time highs and eliminating any short sellers in the way.

Make no mistake, there are people who bet against cryptocurrency. But this October, referred to as “Uptober” by crypto bulls, might not be the time for a short-biased crypto strategy …

Bitcoin just surged to new all-time highs.

On the chart below, every candle represents one trading day:

BTC chart multi-month, 1-day candles Source: BitcoinWisdom.io
BTC chart multi-month, 1-day candles Source: BitcoinWisdom.io

That’s not all, look at the headline below:

Source

Let me be clear:

I’m not buying cryptocurrency to take advantage of this momentum.

Instead, I’m interested in small-cap stocks that spike alongside the crypto momentum.

We saw a few runners that fit the description last week:

  • BENF spiked 230%*.
  • SKYQ spiked 80%.
  • MSS spiked 580%*.

And I’m looking for more crypto stocks to spike this week.

Hot Crypto Stocks

Every day I comb through my Top % Gainers scan to look for the biggest runners in the market.

The scan is automatically built into StocksToTrade’s software.

It whittles down all the stocks in the market to a more manageable list of the few strongest runners.

The factors it looks for are:

  • A share price between $0.01 and $10.
  • A trading volume above 1 million shares.
  • A percent change of at least 20% on the day.

And in StocksToTrade I can see the news that causes the spike directly on the chart.

More Breaking News

For example, look at the chart of MSS below after it announced a $70 million private placement. This is a 580%* spike.

Every candle represents one trading minute:

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

Get the next Breaking News alert from StocksToTrade.

These moves can last for multiple days.

On the chart below you can see BENF’s spike, consolidation, and then a spike higher past the highs.

Every candle represents one trading minute:

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

Crypto stocks are some of the hottest runners in the market right now.

And I expect this momentum to continue as Bitcoin pushes higher.

Keep an eye on crypto assets this month. And use the momentum to trade the hottest crypto stocks.

Watch my video below for the pattern to use when looking to build positions:

Random positions lead to random results.

Trade smart!

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.
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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”