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Jack Kellogg’s favorite trade setup is back

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 6/23/2026 6 min read

People always ask how my student Jack Kellogg made so much money trading ($26 million and counting…)

Jack is a catalyst trader at heart.

He looks for upcoming events that could trigger huge moves in stock prices.

Earnings reports, new product announcements, or big changes to how the government regulates the market.

Once a catalyst is identified, Jack thinks about which companies are set to see the biggest gains.

He studies the company’s past performance, industry trends, and market sentiment.

Then he moves to the charts, looking for the specific patterns I taught him (the same ones I’ve traded for 25 years)…

Then he develops a plan, deciding what stocks to buy for the catalyst event, setting target prices and stop-loss levels to manage risk.

He enters the stock just before the catalyst event, monitoring the price action before, during, and after the event … ready to adjust his positions as needed.

This process has led to some of the biggest (and easiest) gains of his $26 million career…

Jack’s Best Catalyst Trades

The semiconductor selloff: SOXL / SOXS

The Trade

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On June 6, Jack made over $214,000 in a single session betting against chips. He shorted SOXL (the 3x semiconductor bull fund) for +$98,462, then went long SOXS (the 3x bear fund) for another +$67,916 and +$47,662. Same call, stacked two ways. And this wasn’t a one-off. He’d been leaning bearish on semis for two straight weeks before it paid.

The Catalyst

The semiconductor trade, the whole AI-memory and chip-leadership story that had carried the market, was rolling over. Once Jack decided that story was breaking, he skipped the penny stocks and went straight to the most direct vehicle for the call: the leveraged sector ETFs. The story made the trade. The instrument just expressed it.

Gain Receipts

SOXL short +$98,462 → https://profit.ly/1NChyJ
SOXS long +$67,916 → https://profit.ly/1NChyO
SOXS long +$47,662 → https://profit.ly/1NChyN

The SpaceX IPO: Long

The Trade

SpaceX went public on Friday, June 12, the biggest IPO in history. Jack bought 20,000 shares on the open day in the low-to-mid $160s and sold into Monday morning’s strength around $170. Two fills, +$68,367 and +$53,861, over $122,000 in a weekend hold.*

The Catalyst

This is the cleanest catalyst trade you’ll ever see. He traded SPCX because the most-anticipated listing ever was hitting the tape with every eyeball in the market on it. Volume and volatility were a lock, the story was too big to ignore. The event was the setup.

Gain Receipts
+$68,367 → https://profit.ly/1NCiT4
+$53,861 → https://profit.ly/1NCiSr

The SpaceX top: Short

The Trade

Jack crushed both sides of the SPCX IPO. After the stock ran to $225 intraday on June 16 and stalled, Jack flipped and shorted the top. He bought 200,000 shares of SSPC, a brand-new 2x inverse SpaceX ETF that had just launched June 15, for +$68,097, and shorted SPCX directly for another +$34,793 and +$30,751.*

Those trades cleared roughly $180,000 over two days.*

The Catalyst

The IPO hype that drove SpaceX up also set up the fade once it ran out of buyers. Jack read the story all the way through. Euphoria peaks, then the chase exhausts and the stock rolls over. He even found a vehicle that had been trading for all of one day to play it cleanly. He traded one event in both directions and finished green on both.

Gain Receipts

SSPC long +$68,097 → https://profit.ly/1NCiWB
SPCX short +$34,793 → https://profit.ly/1NCiW6
SPCX short +$30,751 → https://profit.ly/1NCiaJ

The solar merger: SUNE

The Trade

On June 8, SUNE exploded +379% in a day. Jack was long. He bought 385,000 shares around $4.85 and sold the next morning near $5.08 for +$87,855, with adds taking the name well over $100,000.

The Catalyst

SUNE only moved due to a merger. The SUNation-Suniva tie-up turned a sleepy solar name into the loudest mover on the tape overnight. Jack lives for a hard news event that drops a flood of new money and volume onto one super-tradable ticker. The key is that he recognizes these setups QUICKLY.

Gain Receipts
+$87,855 → https://profit.ly/1NCiAk
+$12,014 → https://profit.ly/1NCi6H

The Best Window Yet Is Only 5 Days Away

Jack has been in study mode for the past several months, all in anticipation of this one catalyst event window, set to open in 5 days…

Last time this setup showed up, Jack ran $160,000 into more than $8 million.

That’s 4,900% on his whole account in about 12 months.*

I added $2.5 million to mine that window.* Matt Monaco turned $15,000 into $1.5 million.*

Then it closed. Six years with nothing even close.

Until now.

Jack sees the window reopening on June 29th (and he’s more sure about this one than anything he’s called in years).

I’ve watched this kid trade since he was nobody. When Jack circles a date, I pay attention.

That’s why I’m going LIVE with Jack TONIGHT at 8 PM EST to walk through the entire setup. 

That’s 5 days before the window, so you’ll have time to understand the setup (and get positioned before it happens).

What you’ll get from this free briefing:

  • The one sector Jack thinks produces the biggest winners once the window opens.
  • A tool he didn’t have in 2020, the one he believes pushes his results even further this time.
  • His #1 stock pick, revealed live on screen, for free.

All you have to do is show up and take notes. No video games in the background.

We’ll give you everything you need to crush the most actionable trading window in over half a decade. 

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”