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Tim Bohen’s Rubicon Strategy for the Win

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Written by Timothy Sykes Reviewed by Jack Kellogg Fact-checked by Ellis Hobbs
Updated 5/18/2026 5 min read
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If you haven’t heard about Tim Bohen’s Rubicon strategy, sit up and lean in.

And if you have…

Lean in even more.

Look, the basic idea of this pattern has been around since long before I was born.

Legendary trader Jesse Livermore referred to it as trading a Pivotal Point.

But the way Bohen has his algo set up for this…

And the way the market is right now…

And the fact that the PDT rule is coming to an end in just over two weeks…

Means…

THIS setup is gonna be ON FIRE…

The Setup

Before I share Bohen’s tweak (and my trade) here’s the basic idea…

When a stock passes a certain price, there’s a psychological trigger that causes more traders to pile it.

The more “round” the number, the better.

For example, when a stock crosses $100 per share for the first time.

Or when a penny stock goes Supernova and spikes over $10 per share.

If you start watching stocks when they approach these numbers, you’ll see what I mean.

But if you want to see something special…

Something with a higher than average win rate (which does NOT guarantee a win trading this pattern)… .

Then you will LOVE…

Tim Bohen’s Rubicon Strategy

Do you know the story of the Rubicon?

In 49 BC, Julius Caesar broke Roman law when he led his army across the tiny Rubicon River in northern Italy.

Image created by Google Gemini: Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon with the 13th Legion
Image created by Google Gemini: Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon with the 13th Legion

It kicked off a civil war. Caesar won and turned Rome from a republic into an empire.

What does this have to do with penny stocks?

Check this out…

When a stock crosses the $1 level, it gets attention.

Crossing $1 seems like nothing, right?

But imagine how many traders there are with small accounts who are too scared to trade stocks under $1.

But like Bohen says…

When it crosses a dollar, “it’s like a flip gets switched.”

Tim Bohen’s Rubicon algo includes a couple of tweaks that make it more selective than any old dollar cross play.

I suggest you watch The 9,900% Amendment now to learn more and get access to the Rubicon Trading System.

Just like Caesar said as he crossed the Rubicon…

“The die is now cast.” (Okay, he said “Alea iacta est” but, you know…)

That’s exactly what happened with Sunshine Biopharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: SBFM) yesterday (May 18).

The flip got switched…

Source StocksToTrade, SBFM 2d-5m, Rubicon Cross
Source StocksToTrade, SBFM 2d-5m, Rubicon Cross

As you can see, SBFM spiked fast after it crossed $1.

Before it chopped around and then got the rug-pull, SBFM ran all the way to $2.64 or +757%.

Here’s my trade…

Source StocksToTrade SBFM
Source StocksToTrade SBFM

Did I sell too soon?

Like I said to Trading Challenge students during my webinar on Monday, I thought it probably could spike more.

But I’d had an undisciplined trade earlier and it was more important to lock in the single.

The lesson?

Lock in profits.

More Breaking News

You can’t go broke or blow up an account if you lock in profits.

Millionaire Moves

In case you wonder why I prefer to lock in profits on a stock like SBFM…

SBFM dropped to just above its offering price of $0.50 by the end of the day.

Remember, 99% of these companies fail.

When they get a spike, for whatever reason, companies often use it to raise money.

That’s exactly what Sunshine Biopharma did.

Catalyst Watch

If you don’t know who Leopold Aschenbrenner is, look him up.

Briefly, he’s a German AI researcher who got fired from OpenAI in 2024.

Then he created a hedge fund called Situational Awareness LP.

Any guess what he invested in?

Check this out…

We are still in a bull market. Take advantage of it while you can.

Key Takeaway

NOW is the time to study and take advantage of this opportunity to learn.

Even if you’re brand new. Watch and learn every day.

The only way to build your knowledge account is to keep making deposits on a daily basis.

Cheers,

 

– Tim Sykes

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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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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”