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How Jack Made $300k On One Stock

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 2/10/2025 5 min read

We’re seeing A LOT of stocks spike higher right now.

And these are huge moves. Mammoth stock spikes!

BigBear.ai Inc. (NYSE: BBAI) spiked 140%* last week.

That’s just one example … It’s also the stock that Jack Kellogg traded for $300k in profits during the spike.

Take a look at the chart below. Every candle represents one trading minute:

BBAI chart
BBAI chart multi-day, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

Jack is a trading prodigy!

He started in 2017 with $7,500. And in 2025 he has recorded trading profits of $15.6 million (including losses).

Jack shares all of his trades, profits and losses. Just like I do.

We’re transparent traders in an industry of fakes and frauds.

If someone doesn’t show you their trades, there’s no way of verifying their profits. And a lot of times these people are selling snake oil to try and make money.

I’m proud to show Jack’s trades on BBAI.

How Jack Made $300k

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Jack and I follow an effective process for trading in the market.

But it’s essential to follow the rules.

Breaking the rules will cost you money.

If you want to trade like Jack and myself, you’ve got to understand the mathematics behind these spikes.

It’s all a ‘game’ of percents.

Let’s say that a stock spikes +100% intraday …

  • What percent of that are we aiming to capture?
  • What percent are we risking?
  • What percent of our account are we using?
  • What percent of the time are we winning?
  • Which percent of our trades are most effective?

Let’s look at BBAI for example.

It spiked 140%* and Jack pulled a 3% profit and a 2% profit. Take a look at his notes below:

BBAI trade recap with notes
Source: Profitly

You can see his entry on this chart:

I pulled a 2% profit from BBAI as well.

Here are my trade notes:

Sykes BBAI trade notes
Source: Profit.ly

With 140%* on the table, I think we’re both a little disappointed that we didn’t snag more of the move.

But that’s not the mindset to have right now.

We’re not trying to pull a perfect percent gain. The goal is to trade the hottest stocks confidently with the same patterns over and over again.

In a market where 90% of traders lose. Jack and I are consistently part of the 10% that wins across our entire career thus far.

We make trades that we’re confident in and we know exactly how much we’re risking. There’s a science to this!

Jack’s Trading With $12 Million

jack kellogg and sykes in italy
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I know, Jack’s position sizes are huge right now 😆

I trade with a smaller position size to help give my students a better example of small-account trading. But understand, Jack is still following the same patterns from when he first found success.

That’s the beauty behind this process. Traders can start small and scale up as they gain success.

Last week, BBAI never spiked above $10 per share.

While you’re learning … Just buy one share. That’s a perfect way to minimize your risk in the beginning.

Get Jack Kellogg’s next trade alert!

He’s on fire in 2025. And this volatility keeps pushing stocks higher.

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”