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The Perfect Trade Schedule: Friday + Monday

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Written by Timothy Sykes Reviewed by Jack Kellogg Fact-checked by Ellis Hobbs
Updated 9/4/2025 3 min read
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There’s a unique occurrence in the market every Friday afternoon …

As we approach the market close, things can quiet down. Most traders rush to clock out early.

But if you know where to look — There’s a high-odds setup that continues to pad my wallet week after week.

Last weekend, this setup came from Fangdd Network Group Ltd. (NASDAQ: DUO).

  • On Friday: The stock started to spike. And it followed the front half of my pattern.
  • On Monday: It surged higher into the morning.

Look at the chart below. Every candle represents one trading minute:

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

I bought shares on Friday afternoon at an average price of $2.30. By Tuesday morning the trade passed a 40% profit opportunity.

One trade every Friday …

It’s a simple process for A+ setups.

That’s the power of the weekend pattern.

Plus, it’s tailor-made for side-hustle traders who don’t have time to watch every runner throughout the week.

  • You don’t need to trade every day.
  • You don’t need a big account.
  • And you don’t need a bunch of profit angles.

This is the same weekend setup that I’ve taught and traded for years.

For a full tutorial, watch my video below:

Study my past weekend trades for more real world examples.

Past Weekend Examples

DUO wasn’t the first weekend runner to follow my pattern.

Before last weekend’s runner, I was on a win streak for the last four weeks, at least …

  • August 22: Incannex Healthcare Inc. (NASDAQ: IXHL)
  • August 15: Verb Technology Company, Inc. (NASDAQ: VERB) (the stock delisted in August)
  • August 8: Alector Inc. (NASDAQ: ALEC)
  • August 1: TMC The Metals Company Inc. (NASDAQ: TMC)

All of these stocks started to spike on Friday and show strength into the close.

More Breaking News

So today, make sure that you check the “Top % Gainers” scan in StocksToTrade for the biggest runners of the day.

I specifically designed the scan to whittle down all the stocks in the market to a more manageable watchlist, full of the few hottest runners.

Once you have the watchlist, make sure that each spike has a catalyst.

DUO started to spike last Friday after the company announced bullish financial data: For the first half of 2025, revenue jumped 45.3% while gross profit improved 5.7% to RMB 18.5 million.

Once you find the hottest stocks with news …

Look for this price action in the afternoon.

The specific weekend pattern helps us build positions that mitigate risk. That way, we can cut losses quickly if the setup fails.

Always remember that nothing is a guarantee in the market.

These plays can fail.

But with my weekend pattern, we can protect against unnecessary losses that blow up accounts …

All while targeting the hottest trading opportunities of the week.

Start this Friday!

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”