He sat, staring at his laptop, wondering if he made a huge mistake.
The market was open. The stock’s candles flashed on the screen, red, green, then red again. Order numbers flew by on the tape.
It came down to ten thousand dollars. That’s all he had.
Money that he saved skipping dinners out, tirelessly working his day job, and cutting corners wherever possible.
He wasn’t rich. He wasn’t a finance major. He wasn’t even sure he belonged in the market.
But something in him refused to quit.
He kept studying. Every night. Every weekend.
- Chart patterns.
- My trading lessons.
- Past trading livestreams.
He learned how to spot panics before they happened … How to control greed when everyone else was chasing it.
And slowly, trade by trade, he began to see the market differently.
Fast-forward to this year: That same $10k account crossed the $1 million milestone.
His name is JayRay, and he’s my newest millionaire student.
Look at my post below:
⚠️NEW MILLIONAIRE STUDENT #52 ALERT, PLEASE CONGRATULATE JAYRAY!!⚠️ Whewwwwwww, what an emotion day today has been! Give props to my 52nd millionaire student JayRay who just crossed $1 million live trading on my weekly https://t.co/occ8wKmlgm webinar a few hours ago — he made a… pic.twitter.com/STUgG9uffo
— Timothy Sykes (@timothysykes) December 31, 2025
In this blog post, I’m sharing every detail of JayRay’s success.
The trades, the setups, the mindset … Exactly how JayRay joined the ranks of millionaire traders.
This is the newest example of a millionaire trader in the market. Follow his process.
Table of Contents
JayRay’s Biggest Lessons
JayRay’s journey from $10k to $1 million is special … But in the grand scheme of things, anyone can do this.
He faced the same fear, doubt, and mistakes every new trader does.
But instead of quitting, he studied every loss, refined every setup, and built discipline one trade at a time.
Now he’s sharing the principles that changed everything for his account. The habits, patterns, and mindset that separate consistent traders from the crowd.
Here are the biggest lessons behind his rise to millionaire status.
Wait For Underhand Pitches
Too many traders force positions on inopportune setups.
Some of the trades could work, but they don’t have the best supporting factors.
It’s like trying to hit a 90 mph fastball. You might make contact, but the odds are low.
Why waste time with fastball setups when the market is constantly serving underhand pitches?
There’s a checklist that I use to determine which trades are worth taking.
JayRay has a similar checklist. And in the livestream we did for Challenge students on December 30, he broke down the exact strategy he used to trade EKSO. The trade that pushed him over $1 million in trading profits.
It’s called a failed breakdown.
I overlaid the pattern on the chart below. Every candle represents one trading minute:
JayRay only trades under a handful of circumstances, the failed breakdown strategy is one of them.
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Stop trying to hit fastballs. Wait for the underhand pitch that fits your process.
Abs Are Made In The Kitchen
Everyone thinks: To get good at trading, I need to trade.
But that’s only half of the equation.
In the beginning, traders need to meticulously study during slow market conditions to build their conviction and solidify their process.
I’ve often heard from gym rats that “abs are made in the kitchen”. No matter how many situps you do, if you eat like crap you won’t get abs.
That’s similar to trading. No matter how many trades you make, if you don’t study you’ll never learn this process. You need both factors to become a successful trader: Knowledge and trade experience.
Just like the necessary balance of exercise and diet to get abs.
One Good Trade
The effectiveness of this process clicked for JayRay at the end of a huge losing streak.
He was 0 for 17. Loss after loss after loss.
But on the eighteenth trade, he made it all back and closed green on the month.
When we control our losses, one good trade is all it takes to wipe out our losing streak and push our account forward.
Too many traders get caught up trying to turn every trade into a win.
We don’t need every trade to be a win when it takes one good trade to wipe out a streak of losses.
A+ Setups Can Fail
In the market, any trade can fail.
Even with an A+ setup, it’s possible the stock holds an offering and the floor drops out from under us.
- Use that knowledge to cut losses quickly.
But also …
- Don’t get discouraged if your A+ setup doesn’t work once or twice.
Log the data. Look for a lesson to learn. And understand that sometimes the market will defy all expectations.
Grow thick skin and trust the process.
This is trading, not knitting with your grandmother. Sometimes we’re forced to deal with uncomfortable truths in the market and soldier on.
Process Over Profits
Go watch the livestream with JayRay. It was posted on January 3, 2026.
You’ll hear me practically screaming at him to lock in profits and claim his millionaire status.
But he stuck to his process and traded EKSO perfectly into the afternoon on December 30.
Yes, he left a lot on the table, but he also gave the chart enough time to try and break to new highs. And that would have secured even more gains.
JayRay wasn’t thinking about the money. He was thinking about executing the trade to the best of his ability.
Over his trading career, he’s logged almost 800 different data sets to support his trade thesis.
According to the data, there was a 70% chance that EKSO would break out higher that day. So he stayed in the position to try and ride the wave.
Ultimately, the trade broke down. And he sold his shares for a profit even though the trade failed.
Only One Re-Stab
JayRay had to make some rules for himself to curb bad habits.
One of the most notable was his habit of retrading the same stock intraday, losing over and over again. This is known as revenge trading.
JayRay’s solution was to limit himself to one “re-stab” on each stock intraday.
Sometimes we need to set hard limits for ourselves just to stop from over-trading.
What Helped The Most?
I asked JayRay which tool contributed the most to his success. And without skipping a beat, he mentioned all the content that’s in the Challenge.
- The video lessons.
- The trading livestreams.
- The DVDs.
JayRay said he watched Tim Grittani’s DVDs at least 7 times each.
He would even turn them on in the background instead of re-binging some old TV show.
The patterns that we use to trade never change.
Whether you’re watching a livestream from last week, or a DVD from over 20 years ago, you’ll see the same patterns on the chart.
And once you’re in the Challenge, you’ll start to recognize these patterns before the stocks spike …
It’s where all my millionaire students got their start.
Follow in their footsteps. Use a trading process that works.
Cheers
*Past performance does not indicate future results
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