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How To Find Trade Setups Right Now

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 3/10/2025 5 min read

The market selloff continued on Monday after Donald Trump’s comments about tariffs and the economy inspired increased fears among investors.

Look at the headline below:

Source: CNN

You don’t have to experience the same market pain!

While the market dives lower, there are stocks that spike the opposite direction.

For example:

We don’t have to hold and hope in the market! Instead, focus on the hottest runners every day.

It’s better than holding through this weakness … Even seemingly safe assets can dive lower in this market.

Here’s another example, orange juice is down 45% from the highs in September of 2024. Look at my post below:

Source

Learn to take profits.

Especially during times of market fear.

How To Find Profitable Trade Setups

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It’s essential that we only focus on the best setups right now.

If there’s something that I don’t like about a stock, I won’t even watch it.

Here’s what I need to see at a minimum:

  • A catalyst to push prices higher.
  • A low share price so that I can load up on shares.
  • At least 1 million shares traded on the day so that there’s enough liquidity to get in and out.
  • At least a 20% spike on the day. That volatility points toward future volatility intraday.

Read this blog post for recent examples.

Now, during down markets, sometimes there are days where we don’t see any stocks worth trading.

That’s OK. 

Sometimes ‘no trade’ is the best trade to make.

For example, on Monday this week, I didn’t see anything that I wanted to trade, so I sat on my hands.

How To Take Gains On A Good Stock Spike

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It all starts with a trade plan.

Understand that it can be easy to recognize a good stock in the market. But when new traders buy shares at random, it also means they have a random plan to take profits.

And that usually results in losses because they overstayed their welcome on a volatile spike.

It’s key to approach these stocks with a plan of attack. 

Lucky for you … There’s a science behind this trade process.

The hottest stocks in the market like to follow specific patterns. That’s because the people trading the stocks are predictable during times of high stress. We’re trading human psychology.

And since human beings have always behaved similarly under stress … These patterns haven’t changed in the +20 years since I first traded them.

There are new stock spikes every week that we can trade. Even during down markets!

Remember, I mentioned the 550%* spike on PSTV last week. Get ready for more price action like this:

PSTV stock chart
PSTV chart multi-day, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

It wasn’t alone either, Visionary Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: GV) spiked 640%* last week as well.

Take a look:

GV chart multi-day, 1-minute candles source:StocksToTrade

Only focus on the best stock spikes. And make sure to take profits!

New traders use my AI trading bot to track these patterns until they become self-sufficient. I taught the AI my entire trading process!

Prompt the AI with your favorite stock and it will give you a trade plan as if you asked me directly.

Cheers.

 

*Past performance does not indicate future results


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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”