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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 5/30/2024 5 min read
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Welcome welcome welcome!

I hope you’re studying hard during this intense 2024 market.

The road to success can be challenging, but the destination is MORE than worth it. Take a look at my recent Instagram post below for some market motivation:

 

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It’s OK if you missed the earlier move on Innovative Eyewear Inc. (NASDAQ: LUCY) this week. There will be more opportunities to profit.

But don’t grow complacent! Keep pushing hard!

Every day that you ignore the market and these plays, your trading journey grows longer.

My students and I are hard-at-work every single day. You should be too!

See one of my student’s comments on X below:

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You’re not alone in this journey.

Most important of all, you’ve got me and my millionaire students to steer you in the right direction.

The #1 Trade To Make Today

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Cut out all of that fluffy crap you’ll find from the larger market …

“Maybe this stock will do this. Maybe it will do this. Maybe you should focus on this runner … blah blah blah.”

I’m not here to gamble on these positions. There IS a process for profits in the market.

And on Fridays, these plays grow even larger.

Fridays are historically bullish and volatile because of the incoming weekend.

The stock market is closed on Saturday and Sunday. Here’s what that means:

  • Short sellers are nervous of weekend bullish momentum. As a result they usually buy back shares to exit positions on Friday.
  • Long biased traders are looking to buy shares and take advantage of the same bullish weekend plays.

All of that bullish buying momentum can cause HUGE stock spikes in our niche.

One of the most recent examples of a massive Friday runner in our niche is AEye Inc (NASDAQ: LIDR). Take a look at the chart below, every candle represents one trading day:

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

That was last weekend …

My trade notes are below, with a starting stake of $22,490:

Source: Profit.ly

And today I’m watching for the exact same setup.

>> This is the #1 trade pattern to use today, May 31 <<

Follow the rules. Pay attention to the best setup.

You’ll be just fine!

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. Read More

* 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”