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How I Know When To Dip Buy

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 11/18/2022 6 min read

If you are having a tough time finding trades in this market, you aren’t alone.

Whether you are a new trader or an experienced trader, we all know that no trade is ever a guarantee…

But what you can do to prepare for it can give you the upper hand.

I am sure most of you have played a sport in your life, or maybe an instrument, so what did you do to get better…

You practiced!  I bet most of you probably practiced multiple times a week!

The same thing has to apply to trading, you need to practice! 

But you also had a tool to help you with that sport or instrument, and it could’ve been something as simple as a glove, or cleats…

These tools helped you perform better, and the same thing applies to trading.

There are tools out there that can help you find these opportunities, but how you trade them is entirely up to you.

In fact, I was alerted about a stock last week…

Link Reservations Inc. (OTC: LRSV)

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This tool helped traders profit up to 87% on just a single trade, so how would you trade it?

These tools can help you spot the opportunities, but what you do next is critical to your success.

So let’s break down a recent trade of mine, how I was able to spot it, and what you can do to get ahead of the game!

How To Know When To Dip Buy

I have met many traders who said, “I think this stock should go up” and traded it…

NOT the right approach, I don’t want ANY of you trading any stock just because you THINK it should go up.

I want all of you to have a plan in mind and be prepared for when a stock fits your trading strategy.

As many of you know, I prefer to dip buy, it’s one of my favorite patterns…

So how do I know a stock has the possibility of a panic?

First, you want to look at the big picture and see what the stock is doing.

You don’t want a stock that is trending downwards, or moving sideways…

You want a stock that is trending upward for the last several days.

Here is an example…

Vision Energy Corporation (OTC: VIHDD)

VIHDD chart 15-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

Notice that this stock moved up several days before it panicked, this is what you want to look for.

If it doesn’t have it, you don’t get the same predictability.

So how do you find stocks trending upwards?

Look for big percent gainers, there are a lot of advantages to finding these types of stocks with a small trading account.

Also, look for stocks that have high volume compared to their average volume and what the overall chart looks like…

Now you have found a stock trending upwards for several days, this is what you should do next…

Taking One Step At A Time

There are multiple steps from start to finish you need to think about before placing a trade.

Last week, I made a trade where I profited 8.33%

But it was a small trade, which I encourage all of you to do while you’re learning these patterns.

You can learn a lot from small trades and as we all know, practice makes perfect…

So let’s break down what I saw last week.

Looking at the chart, we noticed this stock was a multi day runner.

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XCPCNL Business Services Corporation (OTC: XCPL)

XCPL chart 15-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

The stock has started to panic over the last few days, but you can see it has a lot of support at $0.007.

XCPL chart 15-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

Noticing that there was a lot of support at $0.007 I was able to know what my exit price would be if the stock was to dip below that.

Below is where I bought and sold my position with XCPL.

XCPL chart 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade*risked $3,058 in capital to profit $255

Notice that once I dip-bought this, the volume flattened out, which didn’t give me the sharp morning panic I prefer…

But I was still able to profit from it with a small position size, giving me the practice that I need to stay sharp with these patterns.

Next Steps

There are thousands of stocks out there in the stock market, but I don’t want you trying to dip buy on every possible stock…

I want you to be able to spot the ones that have the best opportunities for you to be successful.

This isn’t about trading 10-20 stocks in a day…

It’s about finding 1, 2, or even 3 trades that fit your strategy perfectly.

In the end, it’s all about making money, not who can hold a record for the most number of trades in a day.

This week I want all of you to start looking for those big percent gainers and see if they are multi day runners…

Or if they broke through a key resistance level and have big volume…

Remember, practice makes perfect!

Until next time…

Tim

P.S – We all know it’s never easy to find perfect trades in this market.  But what if I was to tell you that Tim Bohen, our lead trainer, has a secret to help you find the perfect trades every morning and here is what you can do to find them! 



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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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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”