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The Only Job Security in an AI Economy

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 2/27/2026 4 min read

Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and Block, Inc. (formerly Square, Inc.), just fired 40% of his workforce.

That’s 4,000 employees. Gone.

And you’re running out of time to avoid the same fate…

His explanation? “Our business is strong.”

Why cut 4,000 people if the business is thriving?

It’s simple, AI does their jobs now.

The layoffs aren’t coming because companies are struggling. They’re coming because companies are thriving without you.

Dorsey went further, “Within the next year, I believe the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion and make similar structural changes. I’d rather get there honestly and on our own terms than be forced into it reactively.”

And then there’s the Citrini Research report that’s filling inboxes across the internet right now…

  • White-collar workers flood into gig economy jobs.
  • Private credit markets collapse.
  • Mortgages default.
  • A movement called Occupy Silicon Valley sets up camp outside Anthropic’s offices.
  • The S&P drops 57%.

All by June 2028.

Is that prediction accurate? Who knows…

Here’s what I do know:

I’ve traded through the dot-com crash and rally, the housing market crash and rally, the COVID crash and rally…

I’ve seen every bubble, every boom, every bust, every moment people realized the world changed while they were busy living in the old one.

This moment feels different.

The AI shift is real. Companies are replacing workers with software.

You can still outrun the AI shift. But you’re almost out of time…

Fight Fire With Fire

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The Citrini scenario ends with ghost GDP.

An economy that looks healthy on paper while millions of Americans scrape by on universal basic income in 10×10 apartments, priced out of the life they thought they’d built.

I, for one, refuse to settle for a dog kennel apartment in a UBI economy.

Here’s my solution:

My students and I are already using AI to find valuable trades at lightning speed.

We’re not fighting the wave. We’re riding it.

But the window to learn this process is closing. You might not get a chance to play catch-up…

Don’t wait for AI to come knocking at your place of work. Make this change NOW.

Dorsey said most companies are “late.” He meant it as a warning to CEOs.

I’m passing it along to you. Because the same math applies. The traders, entrepreneurs, and investors who learn to leverage AI right now, before the structural shifts Dorsey described, are the ones who come out the other side with some freedom to spare.

The ones who wait will have to compete for gig work with four thousand ex-Block employees and everyone who comes after them.

This isn’t about becoming a tech genius.

My top student, Jack Kellogg, started as a valet. He didn’t wait for the perfect moment or the perfect skillset. He studied obsessively and grew faster than the people around him.

After starting with $7,500, from 2017 to 2026, he’s profited $24.5 million.*

Discipline is still the play. Only now, the tools have changed.

You have months, maybe a couple of years if you’re lucky. Use them.

AI Trade Setups

On February 24, Larimar Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: LRMR) announced an FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation (BTD) for its therapy, nomlabofusp.

The stock spiked 42% that morning and then consolidated into the afternoon.

At 3:15 P.M. ET, before the market closed, my AI trading bot alerted an entry on LRMR.

Look what happened next:

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

The stock spiked 71% higher after the alert, for a total move of 128%.

And that’s on the small end of spikes we’re seeing right now…

The week before, my AI bot alerted a trade on a 355% runner: Moolec Science SA (NASDAQ: MLEC).

The barrier to entry in the market has never been lower. When Jack started in 2017, you had to look for your own stocks, draw your own levels, calculate your own risk…

Now AI does the heavy lifting.

All we have to do is:

>> Push The Button <<

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”