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Rate Decision Fallout. My Next Trade …

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 9/17/2025 3 min read

In this article Last trade Sep, 26 7:30 PM

  • QMMM0.00%
    QMMM - NASDAQQMMM Holdings Limited
    $114.500.00 (0.00%)
    Volume:  0
    Float:  7.45M
    $0.00Day Low/High$0.00
  • SPY-2.75%
    SPY - NYSESPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
    $652.70-18.46 (-2.75%)
    Volume:  168.73M
    Float:  1.01B
    $646.20Day Low/High$673.95

The Fed announced its newest interest rate decision yesterday, September 17, at 2 P.M. Eastern.

And it was a huge catalyst for the market.

Trump’s been pushing for interest rate cuts ever since he started to seek tariff deals in early 2025.

But the Fed has expressed hesitancy because continued high interest rates will help control any inflation as a result of Trump’s tariffs.

Now, to Trump’s credit, a lower interest rate would give U.S. businesses more room to breathe amid a more challenging global trade environment.

It’s a difficult tightrope to walk.

And due to the implications for the larger market … Yesterday’s scheduled announcement had everyone on the edge of their seats.

Including small-account traders in our community.

The volatility in the larger market can trickle down to our favorite setups.

And in a market where we’ve already seen runners like QMMM Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: QMMM) … It spiked 2,500%* on September 9

Today’s moves, after yesterday’s Fed announcement, could break the scale.

Interest Rate Volatility

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Small-account traders need volatility to find decent setups.

Yes, volatility can be scary, but it’s absolutely necessary for the trade strategy that my millionaire students and I use.

Due to our small accounts, we can’t rely on Wall Street’s measly gains to build our wealth.

Hedge fund managers are happy with a 20% gain on the year. Similar to the yearly gains of the S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) in 2023 and 2024.

At that rate, an account of a few thousand dollars will take decades to reach a useful size for retirement.

There is another way …

Forget 20% every year. With my trade strategy, my students and I look for 20% gains intraday.

I already mentioned the 2,500%* spike on QMMM.

More Breaking News

We have more wiggle room to profit 20% when the stocks spike this high.

QMMM is a bit of an outlier … But still, we see new +100% runners every week.

Since Monday, September 15:

  • NanoVibronix Inc. (NASDAQ: NAOV) spiked 160%*.
  • Turbo Energy S.A. (NASDAQ: TURB) spiked 650%*.
  • SciSparc Ltd. (NASDAQ: SPRC) spiked 240%*.

And that was during the lull before yesterday’s interest rate decision …

I’m looking for specific patterns in the price action today.

My students and I look for the same patterns on every new stock spike. The patterns are based on human psychology and human emotion.

Specifically: Fear and greed.

When a stock spikes +100% in the market, logic goes out the window for most traders. Fear and greed are at a maximum.

That’s when my patterns work the best.

Traders who learn my patterns, and control their emotions, are free to take gains from these insane runners.

And this is one of the best environments for it. During this post-interest-rate decision volatility.

I’m watching a specific setup right now due to this catalyst.

Watch my video below for all the details:

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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