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Written by Timothy Sykes Reviewed by Jack Kellogg Fact-checked by Ellis Hobbs
Updated 4/21/2025 3 min read
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The market fell again on Monday this week, April 21.

It was largely due to Trump’s threats to fire the Fed chairman, Jerome Powell. As well as some early signs of economic pressure as a result of the trade war.

But as usual, my students and I aren’t worried about the larger market …

A haunting dirge for the declining market is currently distracting most traders and investors. All the while, my students and I celebrate the sweet sound of triggering trade alerts.

We’re finding trade opportunities among small-cap stocks almost every day!

For example, while the market fell lower on Monday, Upexi Inc. (NASDAQ: UPXI) spiked 770%* in total!

$1,000 of UPXI last Friday would reach a value of $7,700 on Monday.

We got a trade alert from Breaking News at 8:26 A.M. Eastern when the share price was only $6.

Look what happened next. On the UPXI chart below, every candle represents one trading minute:

UPXI chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

Get the next Breaking News alert!

This stock could still show us opportunities for gains throughout the week.

But I’m actually more interested in a different stock right now … 

The Strongest Trade Setups

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I spoke about it momentarily in yesterday’s blog, April 21.

Take a look.

We’re most interested in first-day spikers right now.

Small cap runners, like UPXI, can spike multiple days in a row … For example, look up a multi-day chart of Janover Inc. (NASDAQ: JNVR) in April.

But the market as a whole is very uncertain right now. For every multi-day runner like JNVR, there are half a dozen stocks that spike and fail after day one.

More Breaking News

I’m looking for the hottest runner of the day, every day this week.

And it needs to satisfy this checklist:

  • Low share price.
  • Low float count.
  • A catalyst.
  • High trading volume.
  • At least a 20% spike on the day.

If you have any questions about these factors, watch my Bootcamp video below.

It’s dangerous to trade without the necessary information.

It’s generally accepted by the industry that 90% of traders lose money in the market.

That’s because most traders have NO IDEA what they’re doing.

They treat stock trading like it’s betting at a casino: There’s no analysis, there’s no trade plan, they just rely on gut feeling.

Don’t follow the same flawed strategy.

Instead, learn a systematic trading process that I’ve used for more than two decades. A process that my millionaire students use as well.

Go through the 10-Day Bootcamp!

The market will never look the same again.

Cheers.

 

*Past performance does not indicate future results

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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”