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Trump Tariff Stock Trades

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Reviewed by Jack Kellogg Fact-checked by Ellis Hobbs
Updated 2/3/2025 8 min read

Last weekend, President Trump finally announced his planned tariffs for imports from China, Mexico, and Canada.

The tariffs state a 25% import tax on goods from Mexico and Canada. Imports from China will face a 10% tariff. And energy imports from Canada will face a 10% tariff, instead of the 25% tariffs for other Canadian goods.

The overseas taxes go into effect today, Tuesday, February 4.

On Monday, the first day of trading after Trump’s announcement, the market gapped down.

Take a look at the multi-month chart of the S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) below. It dropped 1% on Monday.

Every candle represents one trading day:

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

Here’s the main issue …

Economists and experts generally agree that tariffs will raise prices for U.S. consumers.

That exacerbates the inflation issue that the U.S. has been dealing with since the COVID-19 stimulus.

Trump repeatedly maintains that the tariffs won’t impact Americans as much as believed. And that instead, America’s trade partners will bear the brunt of the cost.

Initially, it seems the market is fearful.

And Trump himself admitted that Americans could experience some “temporary short-term disruptions” as a result.

Luckily, I stayed out of a weekend trade last Friday. So I wasn’t holding any positions when Trump’s tariff announcement impacted the markets. Take a look at my post below:

But on Monday, the volatility in the larger market caused huge opportunities for small-account traders.

On Monday morning we saw …

  • Reborn Coffee Inc. (NASDAQ: REBN) spike 100%* higher.
  • BriaCell Therapeutics Corp. (NASDAQ: BCTX) spiked 50%.
  • Society Pass Incorporated (NASDAQ: SOPA) spiked 80%.
  • MDJM Ltd (NASDAQ: UOKA) spiked 230%*.
  • HCW Biologics Inc. (NASDAQ: HCWB) spiked 280%*.

Fear in the larger market can create perfect trade opportunities for me and my students.

Trump Tariff Stocks

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Immediately on Monday, share prices dropped for major U.S. automakers.

A lot of auto companies have a complicated system of manufacturing that usually involves overseas trade partners.

General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) and Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) both fell 5% while Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) fell 4%.

Here’s the key to trading right now:

I’m not following particular stocks that could benefit from Trump’s tariffs. That’s a dangerous guessing game in a market that’s sliding lower …

Instead, I look for strong volatility from low-float stocks. And I trade using popular patterns.

Low float volatility is the most important right now. The low float (low supply of shares) will help prices spike higher when demand increases. It’s a simple law of supply and demand.

We’re aiming for anything below 10 million shares in the float.

From Monday’s spikers …

  • REBN has a float of 2 million shares.
  • BCTX has a float of 2.8 million shares.
  • SOPA has a float of 2.5 million shares.
  • UOKA has a float of 4.3 million shares.
  • HCWB has a float of 18.9 million shares.

HCWB has a float that’s slightly larger than 10 million shares. But it’s close enough. This is an inexact science.

The biggest stock spikes of the day show up on StocksToTrade’s “Top % Gainer” scan. It’s already built into the system.

Every day, I go through that list and I look for low floats among the stocks.

Take a look at the screen shot below from Monday morning, February 3:

top stocks trading on Feb 3 2025
Source: StocksToTrade

Once we click on the ticker, we can see the float displayed below the price action chart.

Look at another screenshot below. This is REBN in StocksToTrade …

REBN stock chart
Source: StocksToTrade

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Here’s why:

  • Robinhood’s platform is a gross oversimplification of the stock market. It exists to take your gains.
  • On the other side of the spectrum, StocksToTrade has all the information that we need to help us make gains.

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How To Trade These Stocks

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So …

We looked through the “Top % Gainers” scan and found stocks with a low float.

Then we have to plan a trade using my framework.

Take a look at an example below from Monday when I traded REBN

Source: Profit.ly

The hottest stocks in the market can follow popular trade patterns because people are predictable during times of high stress.

You’d be stressed too if you were in a stock that was spiking +100% intraday …

As traders, it’s our goal to take a step back from the emotions and realize these profit opportunities on the chart.

We’re essentially trading human psychology as it manifests within a stock spike.

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In fact, these trade patterns are so similar, time and time again, that I taught them to an AI bot that can call these setups before they happen!

Use AI To Get Ahead

Every afternoon at 3:15 P.M. Eastern, we get trade alerts from the AI trading bot to watch specific stocks.

The AI gives us key entry and exit levels based on the current price action.

Take a look at an example below …

Silexion Therapeutics Corp. (NASDAQ: SLXN) spiked 490%* last week over two days. And after the first day of running, my AI trading bot found a solid entry into the afternoon on Tuesday, January 28.

Take a look at the chart below, every candle represents one trading minute:

SLXN stock chart alert
SLXN chart multi-day, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

We see +100% spikers like this every week.

And these are the best opportunities for small account traders.

The shares are cheap so we can build big positions. And the percent gain is big so we can take larger gains in a shorter period of time.

Big stocks like TSLA only move a couple percentage points a day. For example, TSLA dropped 5% on Monday morning. And that was considered a big move …

SLXN spiked 490%* last week. In two days.

Make no mistake, this Trump volatility is a good thing for traders.

Investors are nervous. And that creates volatility in the market. Volatility that we can ride using popular patterns.

Wake up every day and check the scan for the biggest percent gainers in the market.

Check to make sure that the float is low …

Then prompt my AI trading bot with the ticker.

You can wait for the 3:15 P.M. AI watchlist or you can ask the AI about your favorite stock at any time.

It will give you a trade plan as if you asked me directly.

Stay safe in this Trump tariff market!

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”