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One Pattern Made Me $1k … Learn It. Trade It. Love It!

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 8/1/2025 7 min read

There are new +100% stock spikes every week in this 2025 market.

But I know that some traders are still struggling to learn this process … It’s easy to feel frustrated.

Every new trader has experienced this at some point in their journey .

Don’t let it frustrate you. Instead, accept it as part of the learning process, and charge ahead.

Today we’ll go through a simple trade pattern that you can look for this week on the market’s hottest stocks.

I used this pattern to trade BioNexus Gene Lab Corp (NASDAQ: BGLC) last week on July 30. Look at my notes below:

Source: Profit.ly

In this trade review, we’ll treat the stock as if the pattern developed right in front of us.

It’s impossible to tell what the stock will do next.

Here’s how to use my breakout pattern on the market’s hottest stocks:

On July 30, during premarket hours, BGLC announced a business agreement that was touted as a DeepSeek moment for AI-driven biotech.

The stock immediately spiked 27% in the first minute of the announcement. That’s when it popped up on the “Top % Gainers” scan in StocksToTrade.

The Breakout Pattern

On all of these BGLC charts, every candle represents one minute.

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

In the second minute, the spike extended to 64%.

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

By the third minute, the stock started to pull back … This is where our pattern begins to take shape.

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

But I still wouldn’t enter my trade for the next 10 minutes …

We don’t have to be first to profit from these moves. Instead, we wait for the trade to come to us.

Breakout Pattern

Every stock spike will look a little different.

But seeing enough of these plays, especially in real time, will help traders truly recognize these setups as intraday profit opportunities.

Now, a lot of traders would jump the gun and enter a spike like BGLC too early.

The initial pullback on a spike like BGLC only acts as our frame of reference to find support.

You can see on the chart below, BGLC dipped toward $6 quite a few times but never broke it.

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

After the first true bounce off of $6, pictured below, it’s still tempting to buy shares as the stock moves toward the breakout level around $7.50.

But we have to remember, this bounce acts as our frame of reference. It could spike higher from here, but taking that trade would be too risky.

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

On the chart below, we can see BGLC reach toward $7.50 resistance, only to end the minute with a pullback.

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

And look what happens next …

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

Let’s say you put $1,000 into the first bounce … You probably didn’t time the bottom perfectly, and now the stock is falling toward the support level at $6.

See what I mean? There’s too much stress involved in that strategy.

Let’s see what happens at this $6 support level:

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

This is a perfect example of a double bottom on key support.

The stock bounced off of $6 at 8:06 A.M. and consolidated on either side of that minute until it double-bottomed at 8:13 A.M. and rallied upward.

This has my interest now and I’m looking for an entry that’s close to support at $6.

On the chart below, you can see my entry after the stock started to surge upward again:

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

Now, if the stock falls below $6, that’s my signal to cut the loss and get out.

In this case, I was early to the spike, the news was hot, and the stock spiked to new highs.

Here’s my exit just a few minutes later:

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

As I said in my notes, I might have sold too soon.

It’s possible that the stock surges higher after a short period of consolidation. But there’s nothing wrong with taking a quick 17% profit.

Let’s see what the stock did next …

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

It failed at the highs and sank lower minute after minute.

Again, I’m not looking for that kind of stress in my life.

BGLC spiked 100%* that morning and I took the meat of the move. That’s a good trade.

Get my next FREE trade alert in my Telegram.

And follow the stock as the price action unfolds in real time.

You’ll learn this process so much faster.

Cheers

 

*Past performance does not indicate future results



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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”