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Follow This Formula For Big Stock Trades

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Written by Timothy Sykes Reviewed by Jack Kellogg Fact-checked by Ellis Hobbs
Updated 8/13/2025 3 min read
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My students and I watched another stock spike +100% in the market on Wednesday.

We see +100% runners every day in this 2025 market.

And these stocks can stay in play for multiple days.

Here are the details on Wednesday’s runner …

  • The stock started below $3 per share and spiked 700%* after announcing bullish quarterly earnings. Notably, the company’s Vegan Silk platform grew twenty-three-fold year-over-year.

And it showed up on our scans well before the multiple intraday breakouts on Wednesday.

Traders who pay attention right now have incredible opportunities to make gains.

This vegan silk stock is still in play … But you should join me and my students on the first day of these moves.

That’s where the momentum is the strongest.

Watch the video below to see how my millionaire students and I profit from these stocks BEFORE most traders hear about them:

You’re a little late to the 700% spike from Wednesday.

But it’s still in play with a specific pattern …

This Week’s Supernova Setup

We see a few big spikes like this every month.

See more examples from 2025 here.

These supernova spikes come from a specific kind of stock …

Every day my students and I look for spikes with:

  • Cheap shares.
  • Bullish news.
  • A low float.
  • High volume.

Wednesday’s spike fit the framework perfectly …

More Breaking News

Bolt Projects Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: BSLK):

  • The stock started below $3 per share.
  • It announced earnings that beat expectations, and a booming Vegan Silk platform.
  • StocksToTrade shows the float is only 1.2 million shares.
  • It traded +200 million shares on Wednesday.

Look at the insane intraday move below.

Every candle represents one trading minute:

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

There were multiple breakout opportunities intraday on this stock.

And the price could definitely spike higher …

At these astronomical levels (already a 700%* spike), this momentum is mostly a short squeeze.

If short sellers continue to guess the top and continue to blow up, there’s no telling how high it could spike.

With that said, I’m also looking for panic dip buys and an eventual number 5 bounce to buy into.

With my supernova framework, I can play these spikes on the way up AND the way down.

>> Catch The Next Move From BSLK <<

The volatility on these stocks is intense.

But with my patterns, we can protect against losses while we ride the momentum.

Stay disciplined this week, and keep an eye out for the next supernova!

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”