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The ONLY Trade Setup To Watch This Week

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 3/6/2026 5 min read

Last week was a “fire at will” market.

Everything in our small-cap sector was spiking.

Just look at the runners from Friday:

These are 50%+ intraday stock spikes.

And there’s one thing in common among every move…

  • From STAK Inc. (NASDAQ: STAK) on Monday last week (a 170% spike)…
  • To Decent Holding Inc. (NASDAQ: DXST) on Friday (a 140% spike)…

It’s the same pattern, over and over again.

I’ve traded with this framework for over 20 years. It’s the same framework my 50+ millionaire students use to trade. And it isn’t changing anytime soon.

Learn the strategy, and you can reuse it on this week’s newest stock spikes.

The Best Trade Setups

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When a stock runs 100%+ intraday, it’s easier to take 10 – 20%.

Especially when you consider that most blue-chip stocks only move a few % every day.

It’s impossible to trade NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) for a 10% intraday gain when it only moves 3%.

Over time, those 10% gains add up.

Too many traders lose their heads when they see a 100%+ stock spike…

We don’t need to swing for the fence on each run. We don’t need to aim for 100% profits (that’s a recipe for disaster).

Instead, aim for taking 10% gains into the strongest part of the spike.

It’s amazing what a simple process like this can do for your account. Even for traders who start small.

One of my students, Jack Kellogg, started with just $7,500 in 2017… As of March 2026, he has $24.5 million in profits (including losses).

He used to be a valet driver. Now he’s on the bow of a fishing boat in Florida using StarLink to catch megalodon-sized gains:

Never underestimate the possibilities of a small account (when it’s equipped with the right strategy).

Our Plan for This Week

The market will try to tempt you.

It will show you illusions of “could-be” stock spikes and lie to you about half-baked entries.

Your job is to put the blinders on.

These are the only setups to look for:

Low float runners, with a catalyst, that are setting up for a breakout to new highs.

Let’s look at last week’s examples…

From Monday, STAK spiked 170% due to the war in Iran (it’s an oil stock). StocksToTrade shows a float of 13 million shares.

Look at the intraday breakout below:

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

From Friday, DXST spiked 140% after announcing an AI-powered senior care platform. It had a float of 25 million shares.

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

I have two important notes about the moves on STAK and DXST:

  1. We’re aiming for stocks with a float fewer than 10 million shares. But 13 and 25 million are close enough.
    • The low supply of shares helps prices spike higher when demand increases.
  2. These stocks consolidated at different distances from the breakout level before pushing higher, but it’s still the same breakout pattern.
    • The uniqueness of each stock spike directly impacts our entries and stop-loss levels.

There’s a science to this.

My millionaire students and I use the same framework every day.

And it’s available to you right now.

I’ve spent over 20 years documenting every pattern, every setup, every profit, every loss.

I turned it into a step-by-step curriculum, so you don’t have to learn the hard way, like I did.

The runners will keep coming. This market hands us new trade opportunities every single week.

The only question is whether you’ll show up to take them.

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”