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New Year. Same Stock Spikes.

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 12/31/2025 5 min read

Happy New Year!

The market is closed today.

Take some time to nurse yourself back to health after last night’s festivities. Drink your electrolytes, take a nap, maybe find a sauna …

Because tomorrow it’s back to business. And the volatility isn’t quitting in this market.

Yesterday, December 31, my students and I watched as a low float medical-equipment stock spiked 180%*.

It followed my patterns perfectly.

Like all of the strongest runners right now, it spiked with a solid catalyst. The company announced a new manufacturing partnership that morning, during premarket hours.

There’s a new stock spiking higher every day right now. And that translates to opportunities for intraday trading gains.

I’m still watching the runner from Wednesday!

With a float of only 947k shares, this stock could squeeze a lot higher in the next few days.

Trade These Stocks In 2026

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The patterns never change.

The market changes every day. New tickers, new headlines, new hype. But the framework my students and I use to trade is the same I’ve used for over two decades.

These patterns endure because the market is a mirror for human emotion.

Greed, fear, panic, euphoria, those emotions never go away. They repeat in cycles. And that’s exactly why these patterns keep working. Every time a low-float stock gets a hot catalyst, traders pile in with the same emotional reactions.

They chase. They panic. They repeat history.

When you understand the framework, you don’t have to predict the future. You just recognize behavior that’s already played out hundreds of times before.

Whether it’s a morning spike, a panic dip buy, or a first green day setup, these are just reflections of human psychology on a chart.

And here’s the best part: You don’t need a huge account to capitalize on these setups.

I started small. So did my top students. And it’s still possible today because we’re not trading $300 blue chips.

We’re trading cheap, fast-moving stocks that can spike 50%, 100%, even 300% in a single session.

When a $1 stock doubles, that’s a huge percentage move. And it helps small accounts grow fast if you manage risk like a sniper, instead of a gambler.

You don’t need to swing for home runs. You just need to trade with discipline, cut losses quickly, and take singles when the patterns show up.

A single on a 100% stock spike could be a 10% gain intraday.

Tomorrow, when the market opens for the first trading day of 2026, I’ll be ready to apply this same framework again.

Don’t miss the first setup of the new year.

My Top Watch On January 2

The biggest runner from Wednesday, December 31, is still at the front of my mind.

During premarket hours that morning, Intelligent Bio Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ: INBS) announced a strategic manufacturing partnership to expand production of its Intelligent Fingerprinting Drug Screening Reader.

The deal boosts INBS’s manufacturing capacity by 4x, cuts annual production costs by over 40%, and is projected to improve gross margins by about 20%.

The move positions INBS to scale operations more efficiently and strengthen profitability as demand grows.

With a float of only 947k shares, a catalyst with this kind of credibility has the opportunity to squeeze share prices much higher than Wednesday’s 180%* run.

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

INBS chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade
INBS chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

I alerted this setup for students in the Challenge chat too.

See the post below:

Notice the strong sideways consolidation on the chart. That’s a key characteristic of the bullish momentum that we like to trade.

Some of the strongest patterns have sideways consolidation like this …

And in 2026, INBS is the first stock in a long line of runners that will continue to follow these patterns.

This is the year you take control of your account with a trading process that works.

Join me on January 2, LIVE @ 12:30 p.m. ET for my entire trading process.

And reuse it on the next hottest stocks every day this year.

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”