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Where I’m Looking For The Next +100% Stock Spike

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Written by Timothy Sykes Reviewed by Jack Kellogg Fact-checked by Ellis Hobbs
Updated 7/11/2025 5 min read
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Welcome to another week in this INSANE 2025 stock market.

The market is full of momentum right now.

From large-cap stocks to small-cap stocks:

  • NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) passed the $4 trillion market cap. valuation last week. It’s the first stock on the U.S. stock exchange to achieve this milestone.
  • A small stock spiked 1,100%* into the end of last week after announcing a merger and asset tokenization. It’s still in play this week.

I’m most interested in small-cap stocks because I can load up on cheap shares and capitalize on the MASSIVE percent gain.

For example, last week’s 1,100%* runner spiked from less than $0.50 per share to $4.40 per share.

You don’t need a ton of cash to trade these stocks.

But I’m still watching NVDA closely because it influences some of the biggest spikes in our small-cap sector.

Take a look.

There are a lot of areas where traders can make gains in the market right now. You just need to know where to look.

Here’s my process…

How I’m Trading This Week

I’m always looking for the biggest runners that announce news.

But in this market, it’s important to only focus on the strongest of these runners.

Remember that this market momentum can switch at any moment.

Right now, there are four main factors/catalysts that make the strongest spikes.

We’ll go through them one at a time …

#1: AI News

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This should be a no-brainer.

NVDA just pushed to new all-time highs last week.

The last NVDA-partnership stock was Cyngn Inc. (NASDAQ: CYN). It announced the partnership on June 26 and spiked 720%* that day.

More Breaking News

Any bullish news related to NVDA, or related to AI, has the potential to spike stocks to insane heights right now.

#2: Crypto News

This sector is a little under the radar, depending on your feelings toward crypto.

For some people, there’s still a lot of hesitancy to trade crypto stocks or even follow the sector.

Maybe they’ve been burned before by the volatility. Maybe they’ve heard it’s a scam …

People, times are changing.

We have to adapt with the market.

  • The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on a stablecoin bill early this week. And it already passed in the Senate.
  • Bitcoin surged to new all-time highs last week.
  • Last week’s 1,100%* stock spike was from Above Food Ingredients Inc. (NASDAQ: ABVE) after it announced asset tokenization.
    • Keep an eye on it this week.

Now, this next part is very important …

ABVE is just one example of a crypto spike from last week.

And it’s outnumbered 10-1 by stocks that spike in premarket with crypto news and then fail intraday.

There are huge opportunities to make gains in this sector. But we have to stay disciplined.

Respect your risk level and sell if the play starts to work against you.

#3: A Low Float

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This is simple math.

And it’s a law of economics.

A stock’s float tells us how many shares are publicly available in the market.

When there are fewer shares, an increase in demand will cause the price to spike higher.

I’m looking for stocks that have 10 million shares or fewer in the float.

Sometimes I’ll trade stocks with a higher float. But the difference of the volatility is definitely noticeable.

To ensure that you’re trading stocks capable of spiking way past 100%, make sure the float is near or below 10 million shares.

#4: Pre-Market Hours

The strongest spikes are during pre-market hours, right after the stock announces news.

That’s when the hype is at its strongest and trade conviction is at its highest.

Look at my post from last week about Friday’s pre-market runners:

Make sure to wake up early this week and look for my patterns in the price action.

These four factors are the strongest contributors to stock spikes right now.

  1. AI News
  2. Crypto News
  3. A Low Float
  4. Pre-Market Hours

Follow these factors. They should keep you on track this week until our live trading conference on Wednesday and Thursday.

Together with some of my top students, we’ll cover the hottest trade patterns, accessible setups, and the overall process that we use.

Reserve your spot!

Good luck this week, I’ll see you Wednesday.

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”

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