This Friday Trade Could Boost Your Account by Monday

Written by Timothy Sykes

Updated 10/30/2025 4 min read

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BYND-10.57%
BYND - NYSEBeyond Meat Inc.
$1.67-0.19 (-10.57%)
Volume: 147.66M
Float: 75.42M
$1.60Day Low/High$1.77
DVLT-5.62%
DVLT - NASDAQDatavault AI Inc.
$2.65-0.15 (-5.62%)
Volume: 41.34M
Float: 90.17M
$2.42Day Low/High$2.73

This Friday afternoon, most people are mentally checked out …

They’re clock watching, coasting, waiting for the weekend.

All the while, there’s a huge opportunity developing in the market.

Every Friday afternoon, a specific price action can lead to Monday morning gap ups. My students and I aim to buy shares above key support on Friday, within this specific price action, before the close.

Then we relax through the weekend and sell on Monday morning.

My weekend strategy is tailor-made for side hustlers: People with day jobs, parents, students, anyone who’s low on time.

It’s one trade a week.
At the same time.
With the same pattern.

Earlier in October, I nailed a 66% profit with this exact setup. And I sold way too soon.

My trade notes are below:

Source: Profit.ly

I sold my position at $1.04 per share …

The price spiked to $7.69 per share that Wednesday. A 630%* surge after my sell!

That perfectly illustrates the potential for this strategy.

Cheap shares.
Big percent gains.

Small-account hustlers: This is your moment!

While everyone else shuts down for the weekend, we’re setting up our next big win.

Past Weekend Wins

On Friday, October 17, Beyond Meat Inc. (NASDAQ: BYND) started to spike after the company teased a business update on its Instagram.

You can see the catalyst details here.

I noticed that the price action was following my weekend pattern on a Friday afternoon, so I bought shares.

And when I woke up on Monday morning, I sold my position for a 66% profit.

You can see Friday and Monday’s price action on the chart below. Every candle represents one trading minute:

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

But I had no idea it would squeeze higher into Tuesday and Wednesday …

More Breaking News

Look at the full BYND spike below. Every candle represents one trading minute:

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

There’s so much potential in this market for traders to make gains!

And BYND wasn’t my only weekend trade in October …

The next Friday, October 24, I noticed this pattern taking shape on Datavault AI Inc. (NASDAQ: DVLT).

My trade notes are below:

Source: Profit.ly

Here’s the corresponding chart.

Every candle represents one trading minute:

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

Both BYND and DVLT showed us key price action on Friday afternoon that led to a Monday gap up.

And this Friday afternoon …

I’m on the hunt for the same exact pattern from this week’s hottest stocks.

While everyone else checks out early this afternoon, I’m looking for the next big win.

All the details are in my video below. Make this trade at 2:59 P.M. Eastern every Friday afternoon:

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.

* 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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