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My Two Most Valuable Trading Tools

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Written by Timothy Sykes Reviewed by Jack Kellogg Fact-checked by Ellis Hobbs
Updated 2/12/2025 5 min read
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It doesn’t get any better than this …

On Tuesday, February 11, during premarket hours, we got an alert that Firefly Neuroscience Inc. (NASDAQ: AIFF) was spiking higher after it announced that it was accepted into NVDA’s connect program.

The price spiked 170%* higher after the alert …

On the chart below, every candle represents one trading minute:

AIFF chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

Get the next Breaking News announcement.

Then … That afternoon we got a specific trade alert on AIFF from my AI trading bot.

It gave us an entry at $8.40 per share. With a goal of $10.46.

The price ran to $14.44 the next morning, February 12.

Take a look, every candle represents one trading minute:

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

Breaking News alerts the hottest stocks ASAP after the news comes out.

And XGPT is an AI bot that follows my trading process on the hottest stocks.

In tandem, these two tools are the peanut butter and jelly of trading.

How To Use These Tools:

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There are new stock spikes every week.

And the strongest spikes come from stocks that announce bullish news.

But most traders don’t see the news or the spike until it’s already well underway. That’s just one example of a disadvantage that small-account traders have in the stock market.

Wall Street has intercepted market news from the public for decades.

StocksToTrade’s Breaking News feature helps to level the playing field.

You already saw the alert that we got on AIFF this week … And it wasn’t the only alert from Breaking News.

Here’s another example: Tivic Health Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVC) spiked 130%* higher after yesterday’s Breaking News alert, on February 12.

On the chart below, every candle represents one trading minute:

TIVC chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

Now … Finding these stocks and trading them are two different things.

As you might have expected, a lot of stocks announce news in the market. But they’re not all +100% runners.

Here’s a tip from a trading veteran (yours truly):

Wait for the Breaking News stock to spike at least 20% on the day. A stock that spikes 20% can spike higher.

How To Trade A +20% Stock Spike

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Let’s revisit AIFF as an example …

The price immediately spiked 50% after the NVDA news on February 11. It pushed past my goal of 20%, so I knew that it could spike higher.

But in the morning, there’s no way of knowing that AIFF would go from this …

AIFF stock chart
AIFF chart multiday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

To this …

AIFF stock chart
AIFF chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

Understand, we’re not trying to time the spike perfectly.

That’s almost impossible. And the chance that you time every spike perfectly is beyond comprehension.

Instead, my students and I focus on the most volatile parts of the price action and we trade using popular patterns.

  • We only focus on the best setups.
  • And we have a specific plan for every trade.

The most volatile stocks in the market can follow our trade patterns because people are predictable during times of high stress.

We’re trading human psychology as it manifests in the market.

And right now, my newest students can use AI to follow these patterns on the hottest stock spikes!

The trading patterns are the same every time …

I knew that an AI could learn this process eventually. And now it’s helping my students understand my daily path to profits.

Lean on the AI trading bot until you become self-sufficient as a trader.

You can:

  • Wait for the AI trading watchlist at 3:15 P.M. Eastern.
  • Or prompt the AI at any time with your favorite ticker. It will give you a trade plan as if you asked me directly.

>> Try My XGPT AI-Trading Bot Now <<

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”