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My Friday Plan For Gains Right Now – Follow My Process

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 8/4/2025 4 min read

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  • SNGX+13.50%
    SNGX - NASDAQSoligenix Inc.
    $3.15+0.37 (+13.50%)
    Volume:  49.15M
    Float:  3.16M
    $3.01Day Low/High$4.32
  • TMC-3.83%
    TMC - NYSETMC the metals company Inc.
    $5.71-0.22 (-3.83%)
    Volume:  33.08M
    Float:  203.55M
    $5.28Day Low/High$6.69

In this hot 2025 market, my trade patterns work better than usual.

Here’s why:

These patterns rely on volatility. And during a volatile overall market, the volatility among small-cap stocks reaches a new level.

My patterns benefit from that surge in momentum.

For example, I’ve pulled profits from the market with the same pattern six weeks in a row.

Every Friday, the incoming weekend inspires specific price action. My students and I look for the same setup every Friday afternoon.

Then we sell into the spike during after hours or on Monday morning.

Last weekend I pulled nearly $2k from the market using this exact pattern.

My trade notes are below:

Source: Profitly

And I wasn’t the only trader to find a weekend setup with this pattern …

Look at the post below. I had to redact certain values because X doesn’t verify trades:

Source

Learn this pattern before this coming Friday’s volatility!

My Weekend Pattern

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Every Friday, there are traders who close their laptops early to get a jump on the weekend.

Then, on Saturday and Sunday, these traders scan the market for Monday plays and they find the strong Friday stocks that they missed.

That’s when they buy shares.

The orders execute on Monday morning, the stock spikes higher, and I sell my shares into the strength.

Last weekend, on TMC the metals company Inc. (NASDAQ: TMC), I sold my shares during the afterhours spike because it hit my goals.

But the price spiked even higher on Monday during premarket hours!

Look at my post below:

This next part is key …

I don’t wish that I held my position into Monday morning.

On Friday, the stock followed my plan and I pulled a solid 16% profit. I got out to protect my account and lock in gains.

My trade pattern is so essential because it helps us pull gains while protecting against risk.

Look what TMC did after the market opened for regular hours on Monday. Every candle represents one trading minute:

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

The stock quickly fell through my entry level.

No, I didn’t sell at the perfect highs … But that’s almost impossible anyway. My goal is to take the meat of the move. And 16% is a pretty big chunk of meat.

Another Weekend Example …

One of my students also found a trade setup on Soligenix Inc. (NASDAQ: SNGX) last weekend.

The price spiked 60% into Monday morning. On the SNGX chart below, every candle represents one trading minute:

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

We don’t need to trade the same stock to profit with this pattern.

There’s so much opportunity in this 2025 market.

And one good trade a week can make all the difference for your account.

Learn my weekend pattern TODAY so that you’re prepared for this coming Friday.

Watch my video below for a full tutorial:

It’ll be Friday before you know it.

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”

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