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The Same Trading Pattern – Three Times In A Row!

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 5/21/2025 4 min read

In case anyone was looking for a simple trading pattern to use on a +100% stock spike …

Metaplanet Inc. (OTCQX: MTPLF) spiked 260%* already this week. It’s a Japanese company that has ties to Bitcoin consulting.

And in case you hadn’t noticed, Bitcoin is once again bumping against all-time highs as a stablecoin bill works its way through congress.

This stock went full supernova!

And the intraday price action has already followed one of my trading patterns THREE TIMES.

I traded it twice thus far. I missed the third setup. But there’s no use crying over missed trade opportunities, especially when I already banked almost $3k.

Look at my trade notes below:

Source: Profit.ly

FYI … MTPLF isn’t the first supernova we’ve seen this year.

We see a few spikes like this every month.

Here are some more examples:

  • MLGO spiked 1,100%* to end March.
  • JNVR spiked 1,800%* in April.
  • AREB spiked 1,300%* in April.
  • UPXI spiked 860%* on April 21.
  • SBEV spiked 1,200%* in April.
  • KIDZ spiked 820%* in May.

Learn how to trade these insane spikes before the next one goes vertical!

Watch my video below:

My Trades On MTPLF

I outlined my first trade, from May 20, in this blog.

And I posted a video lesson with a full breakdown to YouTube:

And the day after my first trade, the stock followed the same pattern again.

Twice!

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

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

I don’t have much more to say …

This is a simple pattern!

Especially when it comes from an OTC stock.

OTC v.s. Listed

The OTC market is a stock exchange for sketchy companies that don’t meet the same listing standards as listed stocks on the NASDAQ or NYSE.

There’s less attention paid to these stocks and less trading volume.

As a result, these stocks can follow my trading patterns more rigidly.

For example, let’s look at MTPLF on the morning of May 21. On the chart below, every candle represents one trading minute:

MTPLF chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade
MTPLF chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

Notice how the price bumps up against these price levels.

There’s very little arbitrage around the major support and resistance levels.

And we can compare this price action to a stock like NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) that trades on a listed exchange.

On the NVDA chart below, from May 21, every candle represents one trading minute:

NVDA chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade
NVDA chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

I used to exclusively trade OTC stocks for this exact reason.

But in the last few years, the OTC market has been illiquid and quiet. MTPLF is the first strong OTC runner that we’ve seen in a long time.

Could this be the return of the OTC momentum?

I’ll believe it when I see it.

In the meantime, I’m looking for more textbook-trade setups from MTPLF.

And you should too!

Cheers

 

*Past performance does not indicate future results


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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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