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Study This Trading Opportunity

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Written by Timothy Sykes Reviewed by Jack Kellogg Fact-checked by Ellis Hobbs
Updated 4/30/2025 4 min read
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There are new trade setups every day in this market.

Actually, let me rephrase that …

The trade setups are the same. And we’re seeing them over and over again on the hottest stocks in the market.

I’ve used the same trade patterns for over two decades.

And I’m not the only trader who sees these opportunities. Every day my students get to learn from a new setup.

Eventually, the process clicks …

Look at the posts below from X:

I had to redact some of the following profits because X doesn’t verify trades …

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I can teach you how to trade these runners.

My students and I see these tradeable setups every day.

I’ve been harping on a very specific part of this process recently … It’s tied to the shakiness of the market.

And it puts traders in the best position to find strong stocks that are capable of spiking higher.

The Best Setups For Traders Right Now

You NEED to wake up for premarket trading.

The market is shaky right now. And that means the bullish momentum can quit during regular hours.

When we wake up early to find stocks during premarket, we have a better chance of trading the front half of the spike.

More Breaking News

The most recent example was Jeff’s Brands Ltd. (NASDAQ: JFBR) from yesterday, April 30. The company announced that it plans to sell key U.S. assets to a Canadian company, Plantify Foods, Inc. (TSXV: PTFY).

The price spiked 110%* during premarket hours after the news was announced.

And we had multiple opportunities to build positions within consolidation before the price reached the highs.

Look at the JFBR chart below, you can see exactly when the news came out and when the stock started to spike. Every candle represents one trading day:

JFBR chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

This stock fit our checklist perfectly:

  • A low share price.
  • A float below 10 million shares.
  • A catalyst to push prices higher.
  • At least a 20% spike on the day.
  • A trading volume above 1 million shares.

And JFBR is the latest premarket spiker in a long list of runners. There’s a pattern to this.

For example, the day before, on April 29:

  • Ohmyhome Limited (NASDAQ: OMH) announced significant revenue growth for 2024 and spiked 90%.
  • WW International Inc. (NASDAQ: WW) announced integration with Eli Lilly’s pharmacy and spiked 130%*.

StocksToTrade’s Breaking News service can alert these spikes before the price turns vertical!

That’s how I find stocks during premarket hours. Don’t worry about peaking through sleepy eyes at a trading screen. Just wait for the Breaking News alert.

Watch the video below to learn how it works:

Make sure to wake up early!

That’s when the best spikers start to run.

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”