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Wake Up Early to Win Big In This Hot Market

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 4/16/2026 8 min read

The stock market is on absolute FIRE! If you really want to capitalize on this action…

Wake Up Early

I can hear it already…

“But Tim, I’m not a morning person…”

You might want to reconsider until this hot market cools down…

Because most of the best plays right now start as premarket runners.

The past two days, there have been SEVERAL chances where you had the potential to make up to 4x, 5x, even 7x your money.

I’m not suggesting you stay in any of these stocks long enough to do that.

When it’s like this, I only take a small part of the move…

The Setup: Premarket Runners Turn Into Short Squeezes

Check out these premarket runners from yesterday (April 16)…

It’s important to understand that right now, there are several premarket spikers (every day).

They don’t all turn into the day’s biggest winner.

But every day this week, one of the stocks I’ve called in premarket has turned into one of the biggest runners.

I can’t take all the credit for finding them. I use the built-in StocksToTrade Top % Gainers scan.

And I use STT Breaking News alerts.

Between those two tools, I’m set for premarket trading.

Every day this week, those tools identified big premarket spikers (but you had to get up EARLY).

And every day this week, at least one of those stocks turned into a massive short squeeze.

Yesterday, the big move came from WeShop Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: WSHP).

To be totally transparent…

Even though I tweeted about it at 4:32 a.m, I didn’t trade WSHP.

I didn’t think it was “the one” until THIS happened…

Source StocksToTrade WSHP 4/16/26 premarket runner, short squeeze, HOT market
Source StocksToTrade WSHP 4/16/26 premarket runner, short squeeze, HOT market

WSHP opened premarket trading at $10 per share. I alerted it in the $15s (I was already late).

Less than four hours later, shorts got squeezed all the way to the $40s. Crazy.

Now, a special thank you…

To Each and Every One of You Who Helped Rescue Boon Lom

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

We did it. We raised $55,000 in two days to rescue 35-year old Boon Lom on my birthday.

Boon Lom has been abused all her life, but now she’ll never be ridden or chained ever again!

Imagine, finally gaining your freedom after 35 years in chains.…

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To all of you who wished me a Happy Birthday, thank you!

I can’t reply to everyone individually, but I see your messages.

And my mom reads every single one!

One of the sweetest birthday wishes came from the kids at my first school in Bali.

Isn’t that cute?

I’m SO proud of the 30 schools and 33,000 kids we’ve helped in the 8 years since we opened the first one.

Get inspired by those kids. Most of them would not even learn to read if we didn’t build schools.

And some of them can’t get to school without walking for miles (we’ve helped out with buses where possible).

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Do you know what those kids do, every day, so they can learn to read?

Wake Up Early!

There is SO much opportunity in this market.

If a kid in Bali can wake up early to walk miles to school…

You can get up early and get a feel for the price action.

Even if you miss a great trade, you’ll learn from watching.

So, dedicate yourself to getting out of bed, checking your STT scans, and be prepared.

Who knows how long this market will last.

Cheers,

 

– Tim Sykes



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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”