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Here’s How I’m Trading One-Day OTC Spikers

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 3/1/2023 6 min read

Every morning there are traders who sift through a laundry list of stocks, analyzing charts, looking for big percent gainers in preparation for the market open.

For beginners, this can be overwhelming…

Fortunately, there is a way to streamline this process and identify some of the best trades without spending countless hours of your day glued to a screen!

Even while traveling, it’s possible to find and execute lucrative trades with the right mindset and tools.

So today, I am going to break down my $1,372 win from Tuesday (I risked $25,900 in capital) and explain how you can find trades like this…

Without the hustle and bustle of searching through hundreds of stocks every morning!

Let’s begin…

I Always Remember…

I write down every trade, good or bad…

You see, you can’t be in 50 places at the same time, and when the market’s hot…

You won’t be able to trade every single stock imaginable, and nor would you want to…

But you’d want to make sure you focus on the best possible plays.

Find out more about how you can spot the best possible trades

Over my years of teaching, I’ve missed plenty of Supernova’s…

And it can be quite frustrating knowing you just missed the move of the century.

But if you let that play with your emotions, you’ll start forcing trades that you shouldn’t be in and thinking, “only what if…”

The best thing any disciplined trader can do is make sure they add it to their watchlist.

I know, many of you may think say…

“Tim, what good is that, the stock already went to the moon!”

Well, there is plenty of good with that, and it’s all part of my framework…

That’s how I’ve learned to capitalize on plenty of these trades, despite missing a huge run-up early on.

Every time a stock goes Supernova, I write it down, study it…

I remember that it has the ability to spike based on any type of catalyst…

And those are the most volatile play.

If they have done it once, they have a chance to do it again down the road.

So on Tuesday, I noticed a stock that was a previous Supernova, and I knew with this type of news, it could offer a great opportunity….

Trading A Previous Supernova

Lately, we have noticed a lot of mixed plays from the market…

And that’s why it’s important to remain patient, don’t overtrade, and take small position sizes on speculative trades to help us see what’s really working…

There’s nothing wrong with that, it’s all part of the learning process.

Over the last few weeks, I’ve mentioned that there are a lot of one-day OTC spikers that are failing the next day, so it’s important not to hold onto them for too long…

Here are some examples

  • Full Alliance Group, Inc. (OTC: FAGI)
  • Clean Vision Corporation (OTC: CLNV)
  • Psykey, Inc. (OTC: CEOS)

Go back and take a look at the chart…

What do you see?

These are only a few over the last few weeks that I’ve traded and noticed…

But on Tuesday, I traded American Battery Technology Company (OTC: ABML) thanks to this news. 

I was traveling, and when I got this alert, I went to go analyze the chart…

And saw it was a previous Supernova, had the ability to spike quickly, and previous news catalysts had helped fuel its previous runs.

So even though I rarely trade when traveling, I wanted to give this a shot given the latest news.

Here’s the chart…

When the initial alert came out, I didn’t want to chase…

The stock has already moved nearly 25%, and for a move like that, I just had to wait…

So when the stock came off of its highs, and with news like this…

I knew this was my chance to give it a whirl.

Be sure to see how you can trade a Supernova if you missed it 

 

Here’s my trade…

ABML chart 1-minute candles | *Risked $6,000 to profit $675

I tend to take quick profits on plays like this, I don’t like to hold as they can come crashing back down to earth…

But just because you exit a trade doesn’t mean you can’t re-enter it…

In fact, I do this quite often because I noticed where traders were buying and selling on Level 2, helping me make a better-informed decision.

You can learn all about Level 2 trading here

Here was my second trade on the day on AMBL…

ABML chart 1-minute candles | *Risked $8,350 and lost $128

I noticed a lot of support at $.80ish and was hoping for it to retest the highs of the day.

But unfortunately, I noticed there were big sellers everywhere on the ask, and I decided to lock in my earlier gains.

As the stock progressed, I started to see the stock drop further, and the news was still meaningful to this stock…

So as I saw the stock drop to near its price at the open, I wanted to give it another shot.

I simply couldn’t resist, so here’s my third trade on ABML.

ABML chart 1-minute candles | *Risked $11,550 to profit $825

It’s good to remember that you can dip-buy stocks that have a solid news catalyst intraday…

The stock had a nice bounce, so I decided to take my profits again before I jumped on my plane back home.

If you were in this trade and were able to last and take profits along the way until it broke $0.90, kudos to you!

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But remember if it doesn’t work the way you planned, cut your losses quickly!

One Last Thing

Time and Time again StocksToTrade Breaking News keeps coming through for me…

Helping me lock in some of my biggest gains this year! 

As the weekend approaches, we are still seeing OTCs spike, but there is more than one way to profit from these types of plays…

And here is why I will be keeping a close eye on these OTC plays tomorrow!

Until next time…

-Tim

 



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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”