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They’re Finally Doing It. Don’t Miss The New Era Of Trading!

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 9/25/2025 4 min read

Hey! Tim Sykes here,

There’s a huge catalyst that’s about to hit the U.S. stock market!

  • In the middle of a trade war.
  • While stocks push higher with AI momentum.
  • And nations cooperate over crypto regulation …

This news came out of left field.

For the last two decades, a single outdated rule kept small account traders on the sidelines.

Limiting your freedom, restricting your trades, and killing your momentum.

But that’s about to change.

A major regulatory shift is already in the works, and when it sets in, we’ll see a fresh wave of bullish volatility.

We’re entering a new era of trading.

Make sure to prepare now … Or risk getting left behind.

The last time these barriers were lifted, we saw an explosion in trading volume.

There were massive stock spikes, and huge gains for those who paid attention.

I’ve already turned a small account into millions by trading volatile setups with consistency and discipline, all while this rule was in place.

My top students have done the same. Like Jack Kellogg, who turned $7,500 into $22.6 million (including losses). He started with my process in 2017.

And now … Our favorite trade setups are about to get bigger.

A New Era Of Trading

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On Tuesday, September 23, The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) voted to dismantle the Pattern Day Trading rule (PDT rule).

The rule was instated during the dot com boom in 2001 to protect unassuming investors from gambling too much on volatile tech stocks.

And over two decades later, as volatile tech stocks return to the market, a pending vote from the SEC could be the final nail in the coffin for the PDT rule.

The restriction limited traders with less than $25,000 in their account to just three trades a week.

More Breaking News

There will be a replacement rule.

But the new form of the PDT will apply to intraday trades instead of intraweek trades. And the trade constraints will relate to the size of the positions each trader uses, instead of a fixed account minimum.

We’re about to experience a new era of volatility as retail traders break free from the PDT chains that have held them down for over 20 years.

And here’s the best part:

The patterns that I trade won’t change as these spikes get bigger.

My strategies are based on human psychology. People behave predictably during moments of extreme fear and greed.

For example, Soluna Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: SLNH) spiked 220%* this week. And I traded it for a profit with a simple dip-buy strategy.

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

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

These kinds of spikes will be even bigger after the PDT rule is dismantled.

The fear and greed in the stock market is about to shoot through the roof.

Don’t wait for the momentum to hit.

Get ahead of these moves.

Learn my entire process for self-sufficient trading. Watch the 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”