Stocks That Spike While The Market Sinks

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 11/7/2025 5 min read

On Thursday and Friday of last week, November 6 and 7, major indexes looked as if they would completely unravel.

The warning lights are flashing red. AI-bubble fears are growing. And everyone’s watching the market sink lower.

Here’s a chart of the S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY). Every candle represents one trading minute:

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

And the worst part is, this could just be the beginning.

But here’s what most are missing …

Last Friday, while the SPY sold off and panic spread, a little-known stock ripped 110%.*

And just two days earlier? A tiny software play exploded 1,100%* in under 48 hours.

That’s not a typo.

This isn’t the time to blame the market or sit on your hands. While the crowd complains, disciplined traders continue to find massive trading opportunities.

Right in the middle of the chaos.

The best part? These aren’t random spikes. They’re following predictable patterns that I’ve taught for years.

The Tape Is Changing — Adjust or Get Run Over

Look, this isn’t the AI boom of 2023 and 2024.

We’re missing the intense momentum that was spread across 30 tickers at the open.

And in a free falling market, gamblers won’t get away with chasing anything that moves.

However, every day, one or two names show massive range in their price action. Often with a clean catalyst, float rotations, and multiple breakouts intraday.

On Friday, November 7, BIO-key International Inc. (NASDAQ: BKYI) spiked 110%* after the company announced that it secured a significant biometric security deployment with a major Middle East defense sector organization.

The pattern held. Shorts got squeezed.

And the result? A ton of room to find a trade setup amid a scary overall market.

We’re not hoping the market gives us setups. We’re preparing to act when it inevitably does.

The Setup to Know: Intraday Breakout

Let’s break down BKYI. It’s a classic number five bounce on the daily chart. And intraday it showed us a beautiful breakout over $1 resistance …

BKYI is a former runner. The stock spiked 150%* on October 27.

And since past runners can run again, when the price spiked during premarket on November 7 with news, I knew this stock had enough juice for a number five bounce from my 7-Step Framework.

On the BKYI chart below, every candle represents one trading day

BKYI chart multi-day, 10-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade
BKYI chart multi-day, 10-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

This price action is not random.

The 7-Step Framework exists for a reason.

And intraday, the trade pattern is even more glaring.

On the chart below you can see BKYI where every candle represents one trading minute:

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

After the market opened for regular hours, BKYI spiked past $1, consolidated above that level for a few minutes, and then pushed even higher.

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This was a classic breakout play with a ton of time to recognize the pattern.

Discipline Is The Edge

And remember, BKYI wasn’t the only name that ran last week while the rest of the market sold off …

MMTec Inc. (NASDAQ: MTC), a tiny software play, delivered a jaw-dropping 1,100%* spike in just two days. That’s proof that the right setups still work even when everything else is falling lower.

And I’m still watching it as the price moves sideways.

On the MTC chart below, every candle represents one trading minute:

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

These runners aren’t once-in-a-blue-moon miracles. They show up every week.*

And they always follow specific patterns that show up again and again on a stock chart.

You don’t have to guess. You don’t have to gamble. You just have to study the right setups and know what to look for.

Watch my video below to catch the next Supernova stock spike:

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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