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How To Prepare For The Next Trade Setup

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 5/7/2025 5 min read

On Wednesday, May 7, right after the market opened, I made almost $1,000 from the spike on Pony AI Inc. (NASDAQ: PONY).

Look at my trade notes below:

Source: Profit.ly

Traders who missed this play. It’s OK.

You probably weren’t prepared. We can fix that.

I wouldn’t have found this trade setup if I wasn’t prepared. For example, PONY was already on my watchlist before Wednesday’s spike. Because it’s a multi-day runner that already spiked 240%* before the May 7 run.

An up-to-date watchlist is part of my preparation.

But it’s also essential that traders understand how to trade these setups when they find an opportunity, like the spike this week from PONY.

In my trade notes above you can see that I made a dip-buy trade off of the intraday highs. I’ve studied that pattern for years. That’s another form of preparation.

I can show you how to find these stocks and how to trade them.

And today, Thursday, May 8, we have a perfect opportunity to prepare for the biggest trade opportunity of the week.

Watch my video below for more details:

Find The Next Hot Stock

Every day, there are stocks spiking higher in the market.

But some stocks spike higher than others …

My students and I look for the biggest spikes because it gives us wiggle room for gains.

When a stock spikes +100%, it’s easier to take a 10% profit. Compared to other stocks that only move 1% or 2% intraday.

Everyday I check the Top % Gainers scan on StocksToTrade. The scan is built into the software and it sifts through thousands of stocks to instantly find the biggest runners of the day.

Our scanner picked up PONY’s price action earlier in the spike. I was able to trade the May 7 rally because it was already on my watchlist.

But yesterday, May 7, our scanner also found Asset Entities Inc. (NASDAQ: ASST).

The stock spiked 330%* on May 7 after it announced a Bitcoin merger agreement.

I was preoccupied with PONY, but a lot of my students found the spike on ASST without an issue. Look at a screenshot of the Challenge chat below.

I had to redact certain values for legal reasons:

tim sykes Challenge chatroom
Source: Profitly

Gain access to the Challenge chat.

It’s essential that we build a watchlist of the hottest stocks every day.

If the chart falls lower we can remove the stock from our list. But to find profits, we first have to find the right stocks and continue to watch them.

Here are the stock-spike factors that our scanner looks for every day:

  • Share prices between $0.01 and $10.
  • Trading volume of 1 million shares.
  • A spike of at least 20% intraday.

Use StocksToTrade for this scan or build your own using these factors. It’s essential that you’re watching the right stocks every day.

With that said, the next part of this process is most important …

Trade The Price Action

I used a dip-buy pattern to trade PONY on May 7.

There are multiple patterns that we use to trade within the larger framework that these volatile stocks like to follow.

For my newest students, I recommend that they focus on one pattern at a time.

The saying goes, “jack of all trades, master of none.”

While it’s true that some of my students have mastered multiple trade patterns, too many patterns can confuse people in the beginning.

Here’s my advice, as a millionaire trader and a mentor to a couple dozen millionaire students: Focus on my weekend-trade pattern.

Here’s an example of a weekend trade that I made recently. From Friday, April 25 to Monday, April 28:

CYFRF trade
Source: Profit.ly

This pattern is perfect for new traders who also work a day job.

  • The setup comes around once a week. So it’s almost impossible to overtrade and you don’t need to stress intraweek.
  • The pattern is the same over-and-over again.
  • There are clear entry and exit levels to protect our position.

Our next opportunity is this Friday afternoon.

You still have time to learn this pattern and look for the setup!

Use our scanner to find for the hottest stock spikes on Friday. Then look for this pattern!

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”