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Low Exposure Trades On Huge Percent Gainers

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 11/13/2025 5 min read

This market is UNREAL right now.

It’s not just 100% or 200% spikes anymore. We’re seeing +1,000% runners, and they’re showing up every single month.*

The newest runner was on November 11, and it’s still in play this week …

These low float stocks are essentially time bombs, loaded with spike potential and ready to detonate in the market.

They can spike from $1 to $10 per share intraday. At that rate, you either catch the move, or you miss it entirely.

By now, my students and I know this price action like the back of our hands …

  • MMTec Inc. (NASDAQ: MTC) spiked 1,100%* in less than 48 hours, starting November 5.
  • Cambium Networks Corporation (NASDAQ: CMBM) spiked 1,000%* in less than 48 hours, starting October 29.
  • Beyond Meat Inc. (NASDAQ: BYND) spiked 1,300%* in a single week, starting October 17.

And the most recent spike: A tiny stock that launched into the stratosphere on November 11, spiked more than 1,000%* into after-hours.

Yes, in one trading session …

Don’t sleep on these moves heading into the holiday season. Especially considering all the crazy global catalysts that are currently squeezing the market.

The volatility is ramping up.

Look at the chart below of Leifras Co. Ltd. (NASDAQ: LFS) from November 11, the most recent 1,000%* runner.

Every candle represents one trading minute:

LFS chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade
LFS chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

To the untrained eye, this looks like a messy surge to $19.

But to me and my millionaire students, there’s an obvious pattern at work.

I can teach you this trading strategy.

It Always Starts The Same Way

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Supernova spikes aren’t random.

They almost always start with a few key ingredients:

  • A low share price.
  • A tiny float.
  • Some kind of news or a short seller bias.
  • And a flood of trading volume.

Let’s break down these factors …

A low share price, typically under $5, means we can load up on shares even if we have a small account.

It also means that the price can spike higher from a percent perspective. For example, a $1 stock that spikes $1 higher moves 100%*. A $2 stock that spikes $1 higher moves 50%.

That percent gain directly translates to our account.

A low float, under 10 million shares, means that supply is limited.

When demand spikes, whether from news, chat rooms, or short sellers getting squeezed, the stock can spike much higher due to the low supply.

Then there’s the news catalyst. It might be earnings, an acquisition, a patent, or even just a cleverly worded press release. And if there’s short seller bias involved? Even better. Look for things like a stock that’s spiking after it reached new 52-week lows.

Short sellers that bet against a low float stock often get caught in the fire and have to buy back their shares to exit the position, fueling the rally even more.

Add it all together and you’ve got the setup for a Supernova.

The Same Pattern Every Time

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Here’s the thing most traders never learn: There’s more at play than the factors that cause these spikes.

I’m talking about human emotion.

Fear of missing out. Fear of being wrong. Greed to chase the move. Greed to hold too long.

That’s why the charts of these 1,000%* runners look so familiar.

No matter the ticker, the pattern repeats because there are the same emotions driving the price higher.

Yes, when hysteria is at its peak, these spikes can be dangerous.

But since the spikes are so quick, we don’t have to expose our accounts to this price action for long.

My account sits in cash until I see a setup that I like. Then I get in and out.

I trade the same exact setups every week. It’s the same process I’ve taught to every one of my millionaire students.

Here are a few examples:

  • Tim Grittani started with $1,500 in 2011. He now has $13.5 million in verified profits.
  • Jack Kellogg started with $7,500 in 2017. And now he’s at $24.5 million.
  • Bryce Tuohey started in 2020, risking just $2 on every trade. And now he has $1 million in trading profits.

We can teach you this process.

No fluff. No wandering around in the dark, looking for the next puzzle piece to the pattern.

All at once, in just two days, starting Friday, November 14.

Skip the months of scattered learning. Learn it all in one weekend.

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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”