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Written by Timothy Sykes Reviewed by Jack Kellogg Fact-checked by Ellis Hobbs
Updated 11/26/2025 5 min read
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The clock’s ticking. This Friday’s setup moves fast.

The market closes at 1 P.M. Eastern today. Which means our usual weekend trade window, normally around 3 P.M. Eastern, is now pushed up to noon.

There’s no time to dilly-dally.

This isn’t just another weekend setup. It’s a holiday-fueled pressure cooker.

With Thanksgiving distractions at their peak, this Monday’s gap-up could be even bigger than usual.

Even bigger than my 66% profit from BYND in October:

Source: Profit.ly

Traders are already mentally checked out for the Thanksgiving weekend.

They’re half-watching football, half-packing for family trips. Most of them probably won’t even show up to the market today.

Which means, all the buying power from Thursday and Friday will hit on Monday morning.

And most of those buy orders tend to gravitate toward a specific setup …

All we have to do is find these stocks before the market closes today.

Weekend Pattern Examples

The weekend pattern comes around every Friday like clockwork.

For some recent examples, let’s start with Beyond Meat (NASDAQ: BYND).

On Friday, October 17, BYND teased a “big announcement” on Instagram, right when most traders had already logged off for the weekend.

I took a small Friday position, expecting weekend buzz to build … And it did.

By Monday, the stock started to climb. By Wednesday, it exploded into one of the month’s biggest runners, over 1,100% from Friday.

My own trade locked in a 66% gain, but my student Jack Kellogg pulled multiple millions from this same move.

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

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

On Thursday, November 6, Organogenesis Holdings (NASDAQ: ORGO) dropped record-breaking Q3 revenue, up 31% year-over-year.

The stock spiked Friday morning, consolidated beautifully into the afternoon, and I took my position when everyone else had mentally checked out.

By Monday, ORGO spiked 11% higher, and I locked in a 4% profit with a paper trade.

Look at the chart below, every candle represents one trading minute:

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

Then came Oscar Health (NASDAQ: OSRH) the week before Thanksgiving.

While families were focused on family, travel, and food, OSRH quietly checked every box of my weekend setup:

Low float, fresh catalyst, and consolidation into the close.

The company announced a global licensing deal that morning, sending shares up 60% intraday. By Friday afternoon, while others tuned out, I waited for confirmation and took my entry.

On Monday morning, it pushed higher, delivering a 9% paper profit before breakfast.

Look at the chart below, every candle represents one trading minute:

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

No stress. No all-day screen watching.

Just the same stock pattern, doing what it always does.

It would take months for the S&P 500 to deliver the same return as even my low end weekend gains.

Plus, it’s the ultimate side hustle for traders with day jobs, families, or limited screen time.

One trade. Once a week. At the same time.

The Weekend Setup Checklist

Catch today’s move before the 1 P.M. close.

Here’s your checklist. The same one I use to spot every weekend runner before it explodes:

  1. Fresh Catalyst (Ideally Thursday or Friday Morning)

Earnings beats, new partnerships, PRs, or sector news. Anything that sparks attention just before the weekend.BYND’s social media teaser. OSRH’s licensing deal. ORGO’s record revenue. All perfect examples.

  1. Morning Spike and Afternoon Consolidation

Let the morning spike prove demand, then wait for price action to settle into higher lows by mid-to-late afternoon.

  1. Low Float

Low floats fuel fast moves. When shorts get trapped and bullish news spreads, the Monday gap can really run.

  1. High Volume

A float rotation would be wonderful. But 1 million shares of trading volume is necessary at a minimum.

Today’s plan:

  • Scan aggressively between 10:30 A.M. and 11:45 A.M. Eastern.
  • Find tickers with catalysts, volume, and consolidation.
  • Make your list. Choose your setup. And remember — the window closes at noon.

While others are packing for the weekend, the next BYND, OSRH, or ORGO could already be loading under our noses.

This holiday weekend, gratitude’s great, but preparation pays.

 

>> Get My Weekend Trade Alert To Ensure You’re On The Right Track <<

 

Cheers

 

*Past performance does not indicate future results

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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”