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The Repeating Pattern That Has Produced Millionaires

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 6/17/2025 5 min read

The patterns and the process that I use to trade, they’re simple.

The only reason that trading is hard is because people let their emotions drive their actions.

Fear and greed move the markets.

Those who step back from their emotions have an opportunity to realize the recurring patterns in the market.

That’s exactly what I teach my students to do.

For example, yesterday a small fossil-fuels stock spiked +100%* and followed my breakout pattern perfectly.

We’ll break down this pattern in today’s blog. The stock is still in play this week.

I already have a few dozen millionaire students who use the exact same patterns that I use. And there’s another trader who’s closing in on the $1 million milestone …

We’ve had a golden opportunity like this before, to catch a student LIVE as they cross the $1 million milestone. And in this market, it could happen any day.

Here’s a video of Bryce Tuohey and me as he crossed $1 million in trading profits:

Bryce and I aren’t special. We simply learned how to recognize a key framework in the market.

Another one of my newest millionaire students, Evan Schunk, used to be a pizza cashier

You don’t have to be a math wiz to profit in the stock market.

The real question is whether you have the discipline to step back from your emotions to realize this common framework in the market.

Another one of my students is closing in on $1 million in profits …

We can follow along as he reaches this life-changing milestone.

The Hottest Pattern In The Market

On Friday of last week, June 13, Robin Energy Ltd. (NASDAQ: RBNE) started to spike in response to the very serious conflict between Israel and Iran.

RBNE is a fossil fuels company in the middle of a nervous oil sector due to the Middle-East conflict.

Quickly, we have to address this issue …

I never hope for conflict in the world. I even have a charity called Karmagawa that gives back to underprivileged communities and helps to preserve wildlife.

But … I donate 100% of my trading profits to my charity. And sometimes, we find great trading opportunities in the market as a result of global conflict.

I can’t stop the wars around the world. But I can profit from the catalysts and use those profits to do good.

RBNE spiked 510%* on Friday.

And on Tuesday this week, it followed our number 5 bounce pattern. The price spiked 160%* and showed us a huge breakout intraday.

Look at my post below:

These are the exact patterns that my students and I have used to make millions of dollars over the years.

And there’s another trader who’s on the cusp of the $1 million milestone … Strati has $921k in trading profits (including losses)!

Here’s a video from when he was at $800k earlier this year:

Strati studied my process relentlessly.

He followed other top traders in our community, like Jack Kellogg (Jack has $20 million in trading profits).

And he memorized my entire trading framework.

I’m going to try to get him on a livestream soon. Hopefully as he’s crossing $1 million in profits.

Make sure that you’re prepared to follow along …

A Common Framework

My trading framework consists of 7 steps.

RBNE followed a number 5 bounce on Tuesday of this week. And within the bounce there were multiple setups that we could have used to trade.

The bounce followed a breakout pattern intraday. It also offered a second breakout later in the day and offered multiple dip buy opportunities.

There’s so much opportunity to make gains in this market!

Look at the RBNE chart from Tuesday below. I included a few trade setups within the price action.

Every candle represents one trading minute:

RBNE chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

It’s easy for new traders to get confused with all of the opportunities on the table right now …

Do the best thing for your account: Learn my entire trading framework inside and out.

You can focus on one pattern at a time until you gain confidence, but an entire understanding of the framework is essential from day one.

Your goal should be self-sufficiency.

My trading framework is the answer!

Cheers

 

*Past performance does not indicate future results


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BerehaneJul. 04, 2025 at 3:05 pm

Focus on one pattern at a time. Thanks Tim!!


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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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