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How To Trade Stock Spikes Today

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Written by Timothy Sykes Reviewed by Jack Kellogg Fact-checked by Ellis Hobbs
Updated 2/6/2025 4 min read
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This 2025 market continues to impress investors and traders alike!

For example, Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: PLTR) went on a meteoric spike past $100 per share after it announced bullish Q4 revenue. Despite the market scare caused by DeepSeek and Trump’s global tariffs.

Take a look at that chart below. Every candle represents one trading day:

PLTR chart multi-month, 1-day candles Source: StocksToTrade

And in our small-cap niche we’re seeing multi-day runners like Quantum Biopharma Ltd. (NASDAQ: QNTM).

I traded this stock on the first day of the spike after it announced the success of its trial for Unbuzzd, a treatment for hangovers.

It already managed to spike 460%* over three days. Look at the chart below, every candle represents one trading minute:

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

Get my next trade alert.

We’re seeing cheap stocks fly higher every week!

That’s the beauty behind this trading strategy … We can load up on shares because they’re cheap. Then we ride the percent gain for profits.

Stop sitting on the sidelines.

The #1 Trade To Make Today

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The hottest stocks in the market can follow the same patterns over and over again because the people trading these stocks are predictable during times of high stress.

Our job as traders is to take a step back from the emotions to realize these patterns on the market.

And today, Friday, February 7, there’s a very specific trade that’s setting up in the market …

When the market closes for the weekend, on Saturday and Sunday, there’s an information inefficiency that can cause stocks to spike higher on Monday morning.

Our goal is to buy shares on Friday afternoon and sell into the Monday spike.

Learn this trade pattern and get my alert before the potential entry this afternoon!

I didn’t make a trade last weekend because of the bearish volatility in the market at large.

DeepSeek had just rocked the U.S. market. And as it turned out, last weekend, Trump announced his global trade tariffs. So it was best that I stayed out of a weekend trade.

But this Friday … The bullish momentum is back in the market. And I’m looking for the hottest weekend trade setups.

Here’s an example of a weekend trade that I made earlier this year:

Source: Profit.ly

The Hottest Stocks Right Now

We find the best weekend setups on the strongest stock spikes.

Now … There are quite a few spikes from this week to choose from …

  • Quantum Biopharma Ltd. (NASDAQ: QNTM) spiked 460%*.
  • Lottery.com Inc. (NASDAQ: LTRY) spiked 390%*.
  • Invivyd Inc. (NASDAQ: IVVD) spiked 680%*.
  • Those are just a few.

But it’s also possible that we’ll find a perfect setup from the strongest first-day spikers this Friday. These stocks aren’t on our watchlist yet because they’re spiking right now.

Make sure to check your StocksToTrade scan for the “Top % Gainers” today. That’s where I find all the stocks that I trade.

There’s so much opportunity in the market right now. Hop to it!

Let’s get to work.

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”