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My Recent Market Gains – Mimic This Process!

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 3/12/2025 6 min read

After a few days of small losses and ugly overall market price action … I finally found some solid profits using my patterns.

Take a look at one of my trades below from the Wednesday spike on Interactive Strength Inc. (NASDAQ: GV).

Source: Profit.ly

Use Breaking News to find these runners in time.

The company announced an agreement with Pegasus International Group to move into Hong Kong’s vehicle battery-swap market. The stock spiked 55% as a result.

I snagged a 4% profit from the 55% that was available … And that’s all it takes!

We don’t need to swing for the fences. There are new stock spikes every week, just play our trade patterns and move to the next big spiker.

Let’s cover some trade examples so that you know what to look for:

My Trades This Week

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I made three trades on Wednesday this week.

Notice that my most profitable day of the week thus far was during the short term rally in the larger market. The S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) spiked 2% from its lows on Tuesday, March 11.

That’s not random!

This market momentum trickles down to our smaller niche.

That means:

  • When the market is bearish, we see fewer spikes among small-cap stocks.
  • When the market is bullish, we see stronger spikes among small-cap stocks.

Even a short term rally can cause enough optimism to spike small-cap stocks in our niche.

On Wednesday, I made three trades on three different stocks and they all resulted in profits.

  • Interactive Strength Inc. (NASDAQ: TRNR) spiked 30%.
  • Visionary Holdings Inc. NASDAQ: GV) spiked 55%.
  • Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) spiked 40%.

Here are my notes followed by the corresponding price action.

Look at my TRNR trade notes below:

Source: Profit.ly

Here’s the price action that I traded. Every candle represents one trading minute:

TRNR chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

Here are my GV trade notes from the same day:

Source: Profit.ly

Here’s the price action that I traded. Every candle represents one trading minute:

GV chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

Here are my GRPN trade notes:

Source: Profit.ly

Here’s the price action that I traded. Every candle represents one trading minute:

GRPN chart multi-day, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade
  • I took a 3% profit from TRNR.
  • A 4% profit from GV.
  • And a 2% profit from GRPN.

These aren’t huge gains …

I’ve even been to conferences where Wall Street guys laugh at me for making a few hundred dollars from huge stock spikes.

But here’s the trick: With these ‘puny gains’ we can grow a small-account more quickly than Wall Street ever could.

How To Grow Your Small Account

This strategy applies to anyone with an account of $10,000 or smaller.

See, when people put money into the market, they often expect it to grow into a healthy nest egg for their retirement. But there are issues with this idea … 

  • What if you don’t have enough money to build meaningful gains?
  • What if the stock that you bought crashes on year three, four, or five?
  • What if the entire market crashes before you’re ready to liquidate?

By comparison, my trading process doesn’t have the same issues …

  • With large intraday percent gains, we can make gains more quickly. For example, some investors look for 20% on the year, I’m looking for that in a single day.
  • I don’t hold shares for years. Usually, I’m in and out within a few minutes or hours. That drastically lowers my exposure to risk.
  • When the market shows us weakness, there are still low-priced stocks that spike higher. There are still opportunities to trade!

Plus, new traders don’t need to risk money to learn this process.

You could buy one share at first and focus on the percent gain. Or you can paper trade. There’s a lot of flexibility for small-account traders in this market.

That’s what all my millionaire students learned on their way past the $1 million milestone.

It doesn’t matter how much you start with. It matters how you end up.

You can tailor my trading process for your account …

Learn my entire strategy starting today!

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”