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The #1 Trade To Make Before EVERY Weekend

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 7/17/2025 4 min read

In this article Last trade Nov, 21 5:48 PM

  • FTFT-2.86%
    FTFT - NASDAQFuture FinTech Group Inc.
    $1.02-0.03 (-2.86%)
    Volume:  21057
    Float:  17.31M
    $1.02Day Low/High$1.11

Happy Friday, we’ve had another WILD week in the market.

🚨 And there’s one more opportunity to make gains before the market closes for the weekend 🚨

In fact, it’s the incoming weekend that inspires this specific trade setup. And it could be the biggest move of the whole week …

In this volatile market, there’s no telling how high today’s weekend stock could spike by Monday morning.

The market surged this week with these major catalysts:

  • Bitcoin pushed to new all-time highs.
  • NVIDIA resumed the sale of its advanced H20 chips to China.
  • Major indices, like the SPY made new all-time highs.

The stock market is on fire right now.

And all of the volatility influences our favorite low-priced plays.

For example, last Friday I traded a low-priced stock before the close and sold some of my shares for a 14% profit. In a matter of minutes.

Here’s the best part … The stock spiked 160%* that day. Which means, we don’t have to trade the price action perfectly.

There’s enough wiggle room to make a low-stress profit when we follow specific patterns. And every Friday I look for the same price action.

Watch my video below for the #1 trade to make TODAY, before the market closes.

Study last weekend’s price action to prepare for today’s runners!

My Weekend Pattern

The incoming weekend inspires a specific setup in the market.

Here’s how it works:

Every Friday, a group of traders will close their laptops early to get a head start on the weekend.

Then, on Saturday and Sunday they open their laptops to look for the hottest stocks in preparation for Monday. And inevitably, they find the Friday runners that they missed due to their early departure on Friday.

That’s when they buy shares.

On Monday morning, the buy orders fill and the stock spikes higher.

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Meanwhile, my students and I bought shares of these stocks on Friday. As a result, we get a Monday spike to sell into.

Now, every stock spike is a little different …

That’s why it’s so important to understand the specifics of the pattern from my weekend-pattern tutorial.

But we can learn from past weekend spikers to help us prepare for the next one.

Last weekend I traded Future FinTech Group Inc. (NASDAQ: FTFT) as the stock spiked 160%* with crypto momentum from the overall market.

I sold some of my position into the spike at the close of regular hours on Friday.

Technically that was a breakout higher. I should have followed the rules of my pattern and sold my whole position. But I kept some shares until Monday morning to give the position a little more time.

Look at what happened on the FTFT chart below. Every candle represents one trading minute:

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

I sold the rest of my position at a loss and locked in a total profit of just 4%.

It wasn’t a huge profit. But it was still a low stress trade because I was disciplined enough to take some profits on Friday.

My trade notes are below:

Source: Profit.ly

At least a handful of stocks will try to follow my weekend pattern this afternoon.

Make sure that you focus on the right setups …

Look for this price action in the afternoon today!

Cheers

 

*Past performance does not indicate future results


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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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* 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”

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