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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 4/23/2025 5 min read

Almost every day, there’s a new stock spiking to insane heights.

These plays can spike +100% intraday!

The only problem is … Most people don’t have time to sit in front of the computer all day for the best trade setups.

I completely understand, most of my students start as part-time traders.

  • People with a day job.
  • Parents who look after children.
  • Students in school.

The truth is, successful trading isn’t as time consuming as you might think.

My students and I focus on the hottest time frames in the market.

Yes, we might miss plays outside of these windows … But it’s impossible to catch 100% of the profit opportunities in the market regardless of the time that we put in. So we try not to stress about those missed opportunities.

And the best part is, we get alerts for all of the best stock spikes.

Here’s How It Works

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The best opportunities come from stocks that follow our trade patterns on the front half of the spike.

With all of the uncertainty in the market right now, our back-end plays aren’t performing as well. Panic dip buys, regular dip buys, number 5 rallies on the framework larger, etc.

We want to buy shares on the front end. It’s where the hype and the demand are at a frenzied peak.

And in the U.S. market, the biggest spikes start in the morning. Usually during premarket hours.

It’s because people wake up, and they need to make money.

Simple as that.

For example, yesterday, on April 23, Ensyce Biosciences Inc. (NASDAQ: ENSC) announced that it received a U.S. patent for its treatment of Opioid disorder, at 8 A.M. Eastern.

Within 30 minutes, the stock spiked 170%*.

And it consolidated twice before pushing higher. Those were perfect areas to buy shares with a clear risk level.

Look at the chart below, every candle represents one trading minute:

ENSC chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

There was a bit of a back-end bounce off of $4 …

But the front-end moves were much stronger. Do you see what I mean about trading the front versus the back?

Here are my trade notes from ENSC that morning:

ENSC chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

I wasn’t the only trader who found this play …

Look at the post on X below. I had to redact the exact entries and exits because X can’t verify trades:

Source

Silexion Therapeutics Corp (NASDAQ: SLXN) was another great runner with a solid catalyst to support the run.

The same morning, April 23, at 9:20 A.M. Eastern, SLXN announced a new business partnership to advance cancer therapies. The price spiked 80% before noon intraday.

Here’s a chart of the price action, every candle represents one trading minute:

SLXN chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

Get On The Front-End

These spikes can fail intraday …

That’s the nature of the stocks that we’re trading. They’re garbage.

The stocks can spike to insane heights because there’s almost NEVER any good news. As a result, when the company announces a new patent or a new business partnership, there’s a huge boost of trading activity compared to the average day.

But the momentum will eventually fail.

We need to find these stocks right after they announce news.

I use StocksToTrade’s Breaking News alerts for the biggest runners …

On the stock charts above, the green bubbles show where the news came out for each runner!

Use StockToTrade Breaking News to find these stocks before they turn vertical.

Watch the video below for an explanation of this process:

There will be opportunities to trade during the next premarket session …

Don’t miss out!

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”