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The Perfect Setup For Side Hustlers

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 10/16/2025 4 min read

Let me run you through a scenario that I see every week …

There’s a quick change that you can make right now to increase your trading account over and over again.

Picture this:

It’s Friday afternoon. You’re mentally clocking out after a long week. Work’s done, you’re tired, maybe scrolling your phone, wondering what to eat …

And you’re ignoring some of the best trade setups in the market.

Like clockwork, one of the market’s most popular patterns is starting to set up.

And while most people check out on Friday, the side hustlers lock in.

It’s the same pattern I’ve traded for years …

The same pattern my top students stalk week after week …

One trade. At the same time. Every Friday.

Trading doesn’t have to take all week long. Instead, my students wait for a very specific play during a very specific time frame.

I’ve been teaching this setup for years.

It helped guys like Jack Kellogg grow their small accounts into seven figures. 

Jack didn’t come from Wall Street. Instead, he showed up every day, studied my patterns, and made a move when it was time to strike.

This pattern is perfect if you’ve got a full-time job, limited time, or you just want one clean shot a week to grow your account.

Let’s make this Friday count!

Friday Afternoon Stocks

Tim trading with Jack Kellogg
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I’m looking for the same stocks today that I look for every day.

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  • Big percent gainers.
  • A low float.
  • A catalyst for the spike.

But on Friday afternoon, the price action has to match a specific pattern.

See, every Friday, there’s a group of traders who close their laptops early and get a head start on the weekend.

It also means they miss the biggest Friday afternoon runners … 

Then, over the weekend, they buy shares of these stocks as they scan the market for plays. Their orders get filled on Monday morning, and it leads to a Monday gap up.

My strategy is to buy shares on Friday afternoon, and sell into the Monday spike.

But you might have guessed … This isn’t a fool proof plan.

Our entry matters so that we can protect against losses if the trade fails.

Before I buy shares, I’m looking for the markets strongest stocks to consolidate into the close on Friday, above a key support level.

Here’s an example.

If the stock drops below that support, I sell for a small loss and I try again on the next trade.

Always remember that losses are part of the process, but we have to keep them contained.

Watch my video below for the entry price action that we’re looking for this afternoon:

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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