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God Bless Short Sellers for Supernovas Galore

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Written by Timothy Sykes Reviewed by Jack Kellogg Fact-checked by Ellis Hobbs
Updated 6/10/2026 5 min read
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It’s not even every day anymore.

It seems like every single HOUR  there’s another Supernova.

Do you even REALIZE how much opportunity there is right now? 

I can’t keep up. My team can’t keep up.

The only people I know who are keeping up are short sellers…

And THEY are keeping Supernovas up, up, and away…

Because of their overaggressive, toxic, inability to adapt.

God bless you short sellers!

You are making me SO proud of upcoming Trading Challenge students by giving them…

Endless Short Squeeze Supernovas!

No matter where you are on your journey…

NOW is the time to study and trade.

This industry is SO full of fakes, scammers, and charlatans.

It’s only been a week since the PDT rule ended and penny stocks are going crazy.

Usually, when the overall market is down like the past two days, I encourage students to be careful.

Roughly 75% of stocks follow the overall market, so when it’s falling it’s better to stay in cash.

But the number of Supernovas every day makes it almost impossible.

If you are serious about trading, get up early every day and watch premarket trading.

If you are already trading, but your broker doesn’t allow you to trade premarket, I suggest calling them to find out why.

Because short sellers like to risk annihilation DAILY.

I talk to so many traders every day.

These short squeeze Supernovas are blowing up countless short sellers who simply refuse to admit how terrible of an environment it’s become for them.

Which makes it a GREAT environment for meticulous long-biased traders who are banking on it.

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First, this is what I LOVE about trading. You can do it from anywhere with WiFi. And for me, this is SO much better than sitting in a small room with a bunch of monitors, glued to my desk and overtrading…

But I also want to point out that even smart millionaire students are getting caught out by all the craziness right now.

Don’t feel bad if you miss any of these Supernovas or sell too soon. Take singles, one at a time, and move on.

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Catalyst Watch: The SpaceX IPO

It’s tomorrow. It’s everywhere.

My best advice, don’t let your emotions control you.

There has been so much hype around this IPO and NOBODY actually knows what’s going to happen.

Don’t play guessing games.

Have a plan, no matter what. If you are set on buying SPCX, follow your trading plan.

If you’re trading sympathy plays, follow your trading plan.

Don’t overcomplicate things.

Have a great day and let’s gooooooooo!

Cheers,

– Tim Sykes

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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”