The Media’s Late. My Students Are Already Banking

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 10/23/2025 6 min read

There’s a new “meme stock” in the market, as it’s dubbed by the media.

In truth, we’ve seen multiple +1,000% runners this year that the media didn’t cover …

But I’m not one to complain.

My standards for media coverage are low when it comes to the biggest opportunities for small-account traders.

Big names like NVDA and AAPL tend to steal the spotlight.

Plus, these “meme” stocks move so quickly, it’s difficult for the media to report on them, let alone make sense of them, before the moves are over.

But for me and my millionaire students, we know what to look for.

And we’re banking!

Since Friday’s announcement on October 17, Beyond Meat Inc. (NASDAQ: BYND) has spiked 1,100%*.

My most successful student, Jack Kellogg, pulled multiple millions from this move, with trades like the one below:

Source: Profitly

Jack is trading with a much larger position nowadays.

But in 2017, he started with just $7,500 saved up from valeting cars. And with my patterns he’s grown his account past $27 million.

I still trade with a small account to show my students the true strength of this process.

Look at my trade on BYND below:

Source: Profit.ly

That was a 66% profit with a few thousand dollars. And I used a simple pattern that shows up every Friday afternoon.

For more data on these “meme stocks”, don’t wait for the media to inform you on spikes that already happened.

Here’s how to find the next setup …

BYND Stock Spike

To find the catalyst that caused this spike, we have to do a bit of digging.

Most major media doesn’t cover the social media post made by BYND the Friday before the spike.

News outlets do state that earlier in the week the company swapped a lot of its debt for public stock, diluting the shares and causing a much lower share price.

That’s theorized as the catalyst that lured in short sellers and dip buyers alike …

But the real spark that lit the match was Friday’s post on Instagram, a teaser of something big to come.

Look at the post below from October 17:

After checking online, I couldn’t find a product launch or any significant news that came out on Monday.

On Tuesday, October 21, the company announced a partnership with Walmart to bring select products to over 2,000 stores nationwide.

Maybe that’s what they were teasing … Or maybe it was a stock pump all along.

In any case, I bought shares that Friday afternoon, theorizing the stock could surge into Monday as the news circulated.

I was right about the move. But I had no idea it would explode into one of the market’s biggest runners of the month.

Look at the BYND chart below, every candle represents one trading minute:

BYND chart multi-day, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

I sold my position at $1.04 per share on Monday.

The stock ran to $7.69 per share on Wednesday. That’s an extra 630%* after I sold!

And all the while, media outlets struggled to keep up with this information.

They’re still citing stories about GameStop from 2020 and 2021. But there have been multiple +1,000% spikers this year.

These moves are not new. And BYND is far from the last …

How To Find The Next “Meme Stock”

Jack and I aren’t the only traders to find these runners.

Look at some of the posts below, I had to redact certain values because X doesn’t verify trades:

Source

Here’s another example from a student who logs their trades in Profit.ly. Terry has $150k in recorded profits since he started in 2024.

Source: Profit.ly

He snagged 6% from BYND.

That’s great!

With this trade process, you won’t become a millionaire overnight.

But with discipline and persistence, we can effectively grow small accounts at a rate that’s more suitable for people who have less money in the market.

For example, if you invested in the S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) at the beginning of 2025, it would take you 4 months to reach a 6% profit.

And you would need to time it perfectly. There’s no margin for error when the move only offers 6%.

By comparison, Terry traded the 90% spike on BYND on Wednesday and snagged a cool 6% in a single morning.

Low stress. With manageable risk. And tons of meat left on the table.

We don’t have to be perfect when there’s this much opportunity.

Today, Friday, October 24, I’m watching a specific setup into the market close. It’s the same pattern that I used to trade BYND last Friday.

The incoming weekend inspires specific price action in the market. Price action that can lead to huge Monday gap ups.

Don’t miss the entry this afternoon! Watch my video below:

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”