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From 0 To $100 Million. Copy This Process In 2026.

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 12/29/2025 5 min read

The first few trading days of the new year are always electric.

The charts are explosive. There’s fresh momentum. And fresh chances for traders to rewrite their trading journey.

The same thoughts are collectively spreading through the market as we approach 2026: “This is the year it happens.”

  • The year you stop watching from the sidelines.
  • The year you stop hesitating.
  • The year you finally grow your account.

I’ve watched students go from broke and uncertain to seven-figure traders.

Not once or twice … I have over 40 millionaire students now.

And they all started with a small account.

We’re not geniuses, we’re not Wall Street insiders, we just made a decision. We all reached a point where we said, “Enough. I’m ready.”

That’s all it takes to start. One decision. The day you stop wishing and start building.

The New Year is a perfect time to make this decision once and for all. Turn over a new leaf.

To give you a jump start, I recently sat down with one of the best traders in the world. Over $100 million in trading profits. And I got the scoop on how he did it.

In 2026, follow his top trading lessons.

A $100 Million Trader

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When I sat down with Lance Breitstein in Dubai, I knew the interview was going to be special.

He’s a trader who turned years of losses and frustration into over $100 million in profits. And he’s still as humble, hungry, and sharp as ever.

Lance is a former Trillium Trading legend, known for his precision, risk control, and relentless drive to improve.

In our conversation, he broke down the mindset, habits, and turning points that separated him from the thousands who quit before they found success.

This was a masterclass from someone who’s lived every up and down of the trading grind.

Here are the three biggest lessons from our talk. Lessons that every trader needs to hear before they reach 2026.

Focus On Survival, Not Speed

Lance’s blunt warning hits home for every successful trader in the market:

“Traders don’t want to get rich, they want to get rich quickly.”

That leads to mistakes.

Those who skip the basics of risk management and position sizing will destroy their accounts. Especially traders who initially make money. They found fast profits without structure. And eventually the corner cutting will come back to bite them.

Build your foundation before you chase profits.

As Lance puts it, “If you make $10 million without discipline, it’s gone just as fast.”

Your entire trading career will collapse if you don’t have the proper foundation.

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Take care in the beginning. Learn as much as you can. And size up incrementally as you gain success.

Survive The Learning Curve

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Lance admits he was second to last in his class at Trillium. He lost $37K in his first year.

The only reason he made it? He didn’t quit.

He shared during our conversation that other trainees dropped out while he outlasted them. That survival bought him enough time to find his “aha moment” trade: A Tesla exhaustion gap that finally helped the process click after years of struggling.

Consistency and endurance outlive talent and beginner’s luck.

Every trader must survive long enough for their breakthrough moment to arrive.

Get 1% Better Every Day

When Lance later ran Trillium’s Chicago office, he drilled one mantra into his traders:

“Forget about P&L. Don’t leave the office until you’ve gotten 1% better today.”

He ties growth to coachability, feedback, and intentional practice, warning that mindless repetition (“swinging the same bad golf club 500 times”) just cements bad habits.

The greatest traders don’t chase big days or big profits, they chase incremental improvement.

Watch my entire interview with Lance below:

Follow A True Trading Process In 2026

Everyone’s thinking of new year resolutions right now.

  • Go to the gym.
  • Eat better.
  • Connect more with friends and family.

For traders, the goal is to find lasting success.

And that starts with a trading process that actually works.

Lance and I have similar outlooks on the market and the best setups for small-account traders.

The difference between us is … I have 40 millionaire students who followed my strategies to find self-sufficient gains.

And starting January 2, you can learn this entire process in just two days.

Make the decision right now.

Start your trading journey in 2026. A journey for success in the market.

>> Reserve Your Spot For My 2-Day Trading Bootcamp <<

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”

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