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This Tiny Stock Is Now Critical To U.S. AI Plans

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 9/25/2025 4 min read

Hey! Tim Sykes here,

This AI momentum isn’t slowing down.

And neither is the geopolitical fire that’s fueling it.

Yesterday we saw a +100% breakout from a U.S.-aligned rare-earth mining stock that now holds the keys to America’s AI and EV future.

This is a direct result of government intervention in the supply chain battle against China.

Here’s what you need to know:

  • AI demand is exploding. And the U.S. is scrambling to secure the rare earth elements needed to power the next generation of data centers, electric vehicles, and autonomous tech.
  • A key North American mining company just doubled as news broke that the Trump administration is seeking a direct equity stake to secure its massive lithium project.
  • This follows a familiar blueprint from earlier this year when the government took a 15% stake in another rare earth company. Those shares also doubled shortly after the deal.
  • With China’s state-backed mining dominance looming large, the U.S. is making bold, unprecedented moves to control the supply chain.

This is a big deal.

The stock just surged 100% in a single day. And it’s still early.

The first phase of the mine isn’t set to go live until 2027, but momentum is building right now as government, corporate, and geopolitical forces collide.

There’s so much momentum in the AI sector right now!

Keep reading to learn more about the U.S. government’s newest rare earth investment stock.

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U.S. Rare Earth Play

I’ve got an entire rare-earth AI watchlist full of stocks that are moving with this momentum.

Take a look.

And now I’m adding one more to the list …

Lithium Americas Corp. (NYSE: LAC) spiked +100%* on Wednesday, September 24 with news of a potential U.S. Government investment.

It’s the second rare earth stock that the Government has eyed in 2025.

In July, Trump’s administration announced a 15% stake in MP Materials Corp. (NYSE: MP). Look what happened next.

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On the MP chart below every candle represents one trading day:

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

Now … That doesn’t mean that a stake in LAC is an automatic home run.

We still have to be careful about our entry to prepare for the worst case scenario.

My trading process allows me to take advantage of these moves while protecting against downside risks.

On the intraday chart of LAC below, we can see good consolidation that points toward a future spike.

But our entry is key.

Every candle represents one trading minute:

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

An incorrect entry could cause traders to exit the stock early, and miss all the momentum.

That’s one of the worst feelings as a trader.

Don’t miss the setup on LAC!

Watch my video below for a full tutorial of this process:

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”