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How To Spot A 640%* Stock Spike

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 7/23/2024 6 min read

Yesterday we watched ANOTHER huge spike in our small-cap niche.

On Monday it was MIRA Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: MIRA), a low float biotech that announced preclinical success for its ketamine delivery system.

The price spiked 630%* intraday, take a look at the chart below:

MIRA chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

And yesterday, Tuesday, we watched another low-float biotech stock launch to insane heights.

The stock announced new patents to strengthen its intellectual-property portfolio. Prices spiked 640%*.

Look at the chart below:

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

These low-float biotech stocks are some of the hottest trade opportunities right now.

Understand: They’re mostly short squeezes.

See my post from X below:

Over-aggressive short sellers pile in when the stock first starts to spike (these stocks don’t deserve to spike 640%* lol, they should fail).

When there are too many short sellers in a stock, any bullish momentum could cause short sellers to panic. They buy to cover, and that momentum can turn into a domino effect of short sellers blowing up.

And thankfully, we can use popular patterns to trade these intense runners. It’s not a buy-and-hold strategy. The price will crash eventually.

Our goal is to take the meat of the move.

Using these patterns, take a look at my profits from yesterday’s runner:

Source: Profit.ly

Get ready for the next HUGE stock spike in this 2024 market!

Traders Had So Much Time …

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My students and I had eyes on this runner while it was still trading in premarket!

StocksToTrade Breaking News sent out a trade alert at 8:43 A.M. Eastern, right when the spike started!

Take a look at the chart below:

Get the next Breaking News alert!

From the trade notes I shared earlier, you can see that my first trade was at 9:00 A.M. Eastern … And the stock was just starting to heat up.

Here’s a screenshot of the Challenge chat where my students collaborated to find solid setups:

Source: Profit.ly

There were great premarket opportunities, but a lot of my students prefer to trade the volume surge right after the open.

There’s so much opportunity in the market right now!

The issue that a lot of new traders have: They don’t know which patterns to play, or when to play them, or how …

It can seem like an Everest of trading knowledge to climb.

That’s why most traders lose. They don’t take the time to learn, they get frustrated, and they quit.

But in 2024, my team and I:

  • Shortened the learning curve for new traders.
  • Solved the frustration issue.
  • And hopefully saved a lot of traders from quitting the market altogether!

Here’s how …

Stay On Track This Week!

stock trading for beginners in 6 steps
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There will be another insane runner like MIRA and AZTR. It’s only a matter of time.

The question is whether you’re ready.

As I mentioned, most traders lose because they don’t understand how to play these stocks.

There’s a science behind my trading profits. I’m not buying at random.

A few years ago, it would have taken my students months or years to effectively follow these setups.

Not in 2024 …

This year my newest students can start tracking the market’s hottest stocks overnight!

See, the framework that I use is always the same.

Volatile stocks like to follow this framework because people are predictable during times of stress. Like when they have a few thousand dollars in a stock that’s spiking +100%.

Once a student learns these patterns they can reapply them over and over again on the next hottest stock in the market.

Thanks to the emergence of artificial intelligence, I was able to create a highly-versatile autonomous-trading system that follows my trade patterns!

My students can enter their favorite ticker into this AI bot and it will spit out a trade analysis as if you asked me directly.

It works for MIRA. It works for AZTR. And it will work for the market’s next massive runner …

>> Use AI to build smart positions on the market’s hottest stocks <<

Stop sitting on the sidelines!

Cheers.

 

 

*Past performance does not indicate future results


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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”