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We Have Less Time To Trade – Don’t Miss Out!

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Written by Timothy Sykes Reviewed by Jack Kellogg Fact-checked by Ellis Hobbs
Updated 6/27/2025 4 min read
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Welcome to the beginning of another short trading week.

Two weeks ago on Thursday, the market was closed in observance of Juneteenth.

And this Friday, the market is closed for the fourth of July.

During short trading weeks, the volatility in the stock market can reach a fever pitch. It’s a perfect catalyst for our small-cap sector.

When there’s less time to profit in the market, degenerate traders greedily try to squeeze out the same amount of profits in a shorter time frame. That’s what contributes to the volatility.

Instead of getting caught up in the hype, my students and I lay in wait with the same trading patterns we’ve used over and over again. And we let this volatility carry us to new heights.

A short trading week means that last week’s $1k profits could turn into $2k trades with this week’s volatility.

Look at my trades below from last week. I’m looking for these same setups again!

Source: Profit.ly
Source: Profit.ly

I’m not promising myself larger profits …

I’m simply tweaking my strategy to prepare for larger stock spikes.

The Biggest Trade Opportunity This Week

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Intraweek, I’m looking for the same setups as always.

  • Breakout patterns.
  • Panic dip buy patterns.
  • Regular dip buy patterns.
  • Etc.

And the stocks that spike this week will have the same characteristics as always.

  • Recent news.
  • Low float.
  • Low share price.
  • High trading volume.

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But there’s one pattern that I’m most excited for …

The #1 setup that I’m looking for during this short trading week.

Here’s the play:

Every weekend the market closes. And traders use the downtime to reset and scan for runners that they missed the week before.

A handful of these traders will buy shares of Friday’s most promising stock spikes. And when the orders execute on Monday morning, the stocks push higher.

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With the help of my weekend pattern, my students and I buy shares on Friday afternoon and sell into the Monday spike.

Due to the market holiday this week … We’re looking for the same pattern, but on Thursday.

There will be traders who close their laptops early on Thursday to kick back and fire up the grill.

Which means, we’ve got a three day weekend to help lure in even more lazy buyers than the typical weekend.

Now, we only get a few opportunities like this every year. When a market holiday perfectly lines up to create a long weekend.

We have to take advantage of it.

The last time this happened, the market was closed on Monday, May 26, in observance of Memorial Day.

I bought shares of Uranium Energy Corp. (AMEX: UEC) that Friday, May 23.

Read my trade notes below:

Source: Profit.ly

There’s another long-weekend trade opportunity only a few days away.

For all my side-hustle traders … This is the only setup that matters right now.

You don’t need to watch the market all week. Just pay attention on Thursday afternoon.

Watch my video below for a full pattern tutorial:

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”