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This Market Is Like a Buffet

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 5/22/2026 6 min read

If I had to guess, I’d say there are probably 30 to 40 good setups in a day right now.

It’s overwhelming. And it’s all times of day…

Premarket, midday, afternoon, after-hours…

It’s literally nonstop plays.

The best part?

You get to choose.

  • Which stocks you want to trade
  • What time frame you prefer
  • What patterns you want to trade…

It’s like a buffet of patterns.

If you look through my tweets and video lessons it’s a whole library of charts and squeezes.

The Setup

Last week I did a video lesson on these spikers we’ve been seeing.

Maybe you’ve already watched it.

If not, it’s one of those video lessons that everyone should watch more than once.

Here’s the video…

This Market Is Like a Buffet 

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Most of the time video lessons like that are reserved for Trading Challenge students.

But that Akari Therapeutics, Plc (NASDAQ: AKTX) spike was a PERFECT example of what we’ve been witnessing recently.

Check it out…

Source StocksToTrade AKTX 5/21/26 1min candles, after-hours spiker
Source StocksToTrade AKTX 5/21/26 1min candles, after-hours spiker

I’m so glad I filmed it live so you can see how freaking fast this stuff moves.

If you want to capitalize on this market (and the coming mayhem after the PDT rule goes away), you MUST start to…

Understand How Supernovas Move

Preferably in real time. You have to get used to seeing them, otherwise it’s too scary to trade them.

Whether I trade it and you study my trades, or you witness it live…

Find a way.

Because there are so many plays that you can speed up your learning curve just by watching.

AKTX is just one of hundreds of possible trades over the past month.

For example, Antelope Enterprise Holding Limited (NASDAQ: AEHL) spiked from the $3s to the $6s in 10 minutes on May 13…

Source StocksToTrade AEHL 5/13/26, 1min candles, after-hours spiker
Source StocksToTrade AEHL 5/13/26, 1min candles, after-hours spiker

Let’s say you don’t see it live, but you’re watching my old video lessons on YouTube, or some of the older DVDs, or even just studying charts…

It’s all about getting used to seeing these moves and understanding how fast they are.

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What’s the Best Time to Partake of the Buffet? 

I like premarket and after-hours spikers. But that’s just because of my crazy schedule.

Also, right now that’s when the fastest moves are happening (and I don’t have a lot of patience).

I like it when a stock can double or triple in an hour or less.

Huachen AI Parking Management Technology Holding Co. Ltd. (NASDAQ: HCAI) is a good example. (Is that the longest company name in history? Aye, aye, aye…)

On May 18 it more than doubled, from the $8s to $18 in five minutes…

Source StockstoTrade HCAI 5/18/26, 1min candle, premarket spiker
Source StockstoTrade HCAI 5/18/26, 1min candle, premarket spiker

That’s CRAZY.

Again, ideally you see these in real time.

But if you don’t, study, study, STUDY the charts and watch as many videos as you can.

You Have Endless Opportunities In This Market

Wake up early every single premarket and stay up every single after-hours.

Learn (and bank).

It’s literally premarket, morning spikes, midday spikes, after-hour spikes.

It’s actually insane.

Here’s another one…

GeoVax Labs Inc. (NASDAQ: GOVX) spiked from the $2s to $5 in four minutes in premarket trading on May 18.

Source StocksToTrade GOVX, 5/18/26 1min candle, premarket spiker
Source StocksToTrade GOVX, 5/18/26 1min candle, premarket spiker

Some people say “Penny stocks are dead! Small-caps are dead!”

Whoever says that is an idiot.

This is a buffet where you can just freaking order whatever you want…

As long as you’re ready.

Millionaire Moves

Every one of my millionaire students were in my Trading Challenge.

There’s a reason for that.

It is the most comprehensive program we offer.

Want to know one of the best things about Trading Challenge?

You get access to all the old DVDs and video lessons.

Some people wonder why I insist on keeping them. I mean how relevant is a video lesson or DVD from years ago?

If you take ANYTHING from this post, understand this…

Nothing I’ve included here is unique or brand new.

Yes, right now there are TONS of plays. Eat from the buffet.

That can speed up the process because you get to see these moves every day.

But the patterns are the same (even some of the stocks are the same).

There are hundreds of video lessons and webinars with live trading and screentime.

It’s one of the best ways I know for you to learn.

Are you ready?

Apply for the Trading Challenge Today 

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Have a great week!

Cheers,

 

– Tim Sykes



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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”