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My Watchlist For Today: 9/3

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Written by Timothy Sykes Reviewed by Jack Kellogg Fact-checked by Ben Sturgill
Updated 9/3/2024 3 min read
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The market was closed yesterday in observance of Labor Day.

Which means Friday’s hottest stocks had an extra day to build hype and momentum.

I’ve got a watchlist for you with the 4 hottest stocks that could surge higher today. And there’s a specific price level on each that I want to satisfy before I make a trade.

My students and I don’t trade at random. There’s a specific framework that we follow for success in the market.

Random positions will get you random results.

And when we’re trading volatile +100% runners, a random result could blow up your entire account.

Take your trading seriously today!

Here are the 4 hottest stocks that I’m watching:

My Tuesday Watchlist

You should have had eyes on these runners last week.

Especially because I posted them to my social media.

Take a look below:

 

These four stocks are …

  • Low-priced.
  • They have a history of volatility.
  • They have catalysts capable of pushing prices higher.
  • The charts show clear signs of support and resistance.

And notice my constraint that needs to be satisfied before I make a trade …

Each of these stocks needs to break Friday’s high-of-day to prove that it has enough bullish momentum to give us a solid trade opportunity.

Now, it’s possible that none of these stocks trade higher today.

Instead, we might see the best profit opportunity come from a stock with a new catalyst that was announced this morning.

To ensure that I’m prepared for both scenarios, I have StocksToTrade’s Breaking News scan open and in front of me.

Breaking News alerts me to the hottest trading catalysts before the stock turns vertical.

An example from last week is N2OFF Inc. (NASDAQ: NITO), take a look at the alert we got below:

Get the next Breaking News trade alert!

And get ready for more volatility this week. We’re in the holiday season now.

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”