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How To Find The Hottest Stock Every Day

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 5/19/2025 5 min read

We saw A LOT of stocks that spiked higher last week.

For example, here are the trades that my AI-trading tool found:

  • GOGO was alerted on Friday, May 9 with a buy entry at $11.55.
    • On Monday, May 12, the stock triggered at the open ($11.60).
    • It hit a high of $12.90 that day.
    • The exit target was $12.41.
  • INZY was alerted on May 14 — and it absolutely exploded!
    • Buy Entry: $1.45
    • Exit Price: $2.12
    • The buyout news hit on May 16 and it spiked to $3.95!
  • IVVD was a more underwhelming play, but still hot. It was alerted on Monday, May 12.
    • Buy Entry: $0.80
    • Exit Price: $1.07
    • It hit a high of $1.09.
  • GRYP was alerted on Thursday, May 15.
    • The stock hit our buy entry at $1.10 on Friday morning.
    • It hit the exit price of $1.48 that day and it topped out at $1.50.

My newest students use the AI trading bot until they become self-sufficient in the market.

It’s the best way for new traders to follow my process on the hottest stocks.

Get the next AI trade alert.

All four of these stocks are still on my watchlist.

But I’m most excited about a fifth stock …

My #1 Watch On Monday

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Almost every day we see a stock that spikes +100% in the market.

But there’s a caveat …

The day before the spike, there’s almost no sign of an upcoming move. Indeed, if I could tell the future I’d have much larger profits.

Nobody can tell the future.

Instead, my millionaire students and I look for early bullish volatility from a new stock spike intraday. A stock that has a news catalyst and a low float …

Day one stock spikes are the strongest spikes in the market.

Which means, for my #1 watch today: I don’t have a #1 watch until I see it start to spike in the market.

Chances are, by the time you read this I’ve already found it.

Check my feed on X for the stocks that I’m watching today.

These are the scanner factors that I use to find the biggest runners:

  • A share price between $0.01 and $10.
  • A spike of at least 20% on the day.
  • A float of 10 million shares or less.
  • A news catalyst to push prices higher.
  • A trading volume of at least 1 million shares.

You can find most of these factors on any old stock scanner.

But, you might not find float data or a news scanner …

Use StocksToTrade to ensure your scanner matches mine.

After I find the biggest spike of the day, I wait for it to match one of my trading patterns.

Follow My Patterns In The Market

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You just saw it — four solid plays that were all spotted before the big move, using nothing but my AI trading bot.

This isn’t luck. This is automation backed by experience.

I’ve taken the exact criteria I use to find spikers — low float, high volume, news catalysts, and early price action — and I built them into an AI-powered alert system that does the scanning for you.

While most traders are sleeping or scanning blindly, my students and I are already stalking the next big mover.

This is how my newest students build confidence fast — they follow real alerts in real time, and learn the patterns by seeing them in action.

Plus, if you’re looking at a stock and you don’t get a trade alert, just prompt the AI with the stock’s ticker. It will give you a trade plan as if you asked me directly, or it will tell you to stay away.

No more guessing. No more FOMO. Just clean, disciplined trading based on data and experience.

Learn how to use my AI trading bot in the video below:

I built this tool because I remember what it’s like to start out — the doubt, the confusion, the missed opportunities.

Let my AI do the hard work while you sharpen your skills and study the patterns.

Then, when it’s your time to strike — you’ll be ready.

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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