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I Missed The Big Run And STILL Made Money

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 4/24/2025 6 min read

There’s so much opportunity in the market right now.

Especially for small account traders.

Opportunities to make gains and opportunities to learn!

In the video below, listen to Jack Kellogg explain his MASSIVE trade, that’s all thanks to this market volatility:

Jack is a shining example of the possibilities for small-account traders in this market. He has $19.4 million in trading profits (including losses).

And there are a bunch of traders right on his heels.

Look at the post below from an up-and-coming student of mine:

Source

Whether you’re trading or studying … 

Put the pedal to the metal.

There’s so much volatility in the market right now. For example, yesterday, April 24, I traded a 70% runner for a 13% profit. But I missed the larger move … a stock that already spiked 260%* this week!

I can teach you how to trade these big stock moves.

Watch my video below for an introduction:

Recent Trade Opportunities

My millionaire students and I use the same patterns to trade over-and-over again.

Volatile stocks like to follow these patterns because people are predictable during times of high stress.

We’re trading human psychology as it manifests on a stock chart.

And since humans have always behaved similarly under stress,these patterns have always existed in the market.

The trick is:

  • Recognizing the pattern as it develops in real time.
  • Buying at the right price level.
  • Taking profits or (cutting the loss) when the pattern plays out (or breaks down).

The more times that you see these patterns, the quicker you’ll recognize them in real time.

And once you recognize the patterns, I can teach you how to trade them.

Let’s take a look at the spikes from yesterday, April 24.

  • CERo Therapeutics Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: CERO) spiked 70% after the company announced a cancer institute to host its treatment trial for Leukemia.
  • Cantor Equity Partners Inc. (NASDAQ: CEP) spiked 260%* this week after announcing a $3.6 billion merger deal with a Bitcoin company.

Here’s my trade on CERO and the resulting price action:

Source: Profit.ly
CERO chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

We’re going to look at CEP in two different charts. The size of the spike distorts the chart a little bit.

Here’s what CEP looked like on April 24 in the morning. Every candle represents one trading minute:

CEP chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

Here’s the stock later in the day. It surged past the $24 breakout level:

CEP chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

How To Trade This Price Action

The price action is NOT random.

At the same time, key support and resistance levels CAN fail. For example, CEP pushed through $30 no problem, but couldn’t push past $40.

That uncertainty is why our entries and exits are so important.

We have to put ourselves in the best position to realize gains (or minimize losses). Otherwise we’re just gambling on a hot stock.

For my newest students, these details are difficult. There are a lot of questions to answer:

  • Should I buy at THIS support or wait for lower support?
  • How close to support should I try to buy?
  • Which resistance are we trying to break on the upside? And why?
  • How long should I hold shares if the stock pushes higher?
  • How do I recognize a dangerous breakdown versus consolidation weakness before a push higher?

Use my AI trading bot to build smart trade plans.

The AI follows my exact process for gains and it analyzes stocks in real time. On any given day, prompt the AI with the hottest stock in the market.

It will give you a trade plan as if you asked me directly.

Lean on the AI until you become self-sufficient!

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”