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Updated 2/2/2021 3 min read

TIM $14,078 (up $105 on the day, up $1,663 or 13.40% in 8 days)

I awoke to see futures higher and all the high fliers that had gotten crushed yesterday up nicely in pre-market action. I immediately sold my 100 shares of JRJC at $26.10 for a lucky $60 profit (after commissions). As usual, I was too early in my exit as the stock surged another 70 cents within a few

minutes; no matter, I was very fortunate to get this bounce as it was stupid of me to enter into this one in the first place. Sure, the stock might continue bouncing, but the overall chart is broken so it’s very dangerous to be long here.

I’m not taking any more positions today and am 100% in cash as I’ll be traveling all day. Yes, it’s okay to take a day off, besides showing how much work it is to turn thousands into millions, I’m gonna show you that you don’t have to trade every single day. And to answer a ton of emails I’ve gotten in the past day–avoid ETFC!! It’s a complete guessing game.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve gotten more than a few emails telling me I need to structure my blog posts a certain way to conform to accepted industry standards–that way other financial websites will be more likely to feature them. I appreciate the advice, but to them I say screw you! Who cares what the rest of the finance world thinks–I think the system is incredibly messed up so why would I want to conform to it? Helllllo, I named my publishing company BullShip Press to cut through all the BS, not to add to it! I’m not always gonna go into long winded fundamental analysis because I don’t think that crap matters with some of the stocks I play. And, no links to inappropriate content –WTF?!?! To the vast majority of people out there, finance is boring–I’m gonna show them how fun it can be!

Guys, let me make one thing very clear here–for better or worse, I’ve always done things my way–I ain’t gonna change for nobody. This is my website and I’ll put whatever I feel like it on here.

Alright, I’m calm now, check out my latest feature:

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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”