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Where To Look For Trade Setups

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Written by Timothy Sykes Reviewed by Jack Kellogg Fact-checked by Ellis Hobbs
Updated 7/18/2025 4 min read
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Every week there are new opportunities to make gains from highly accessible stock spikes in the market.

  • You don’t need to be an insider to find these setups.
  • You don’t need to pay for special information.

There are new trade opportunities every week. Free for the taking.

I can’t push the buttons for you … But I CAN teach you how to do this on your own.

I’ve already taught dozens of traders to pass the $1 million milestone. And there are more on the way.

For example, look at the posts below:

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I had to redact certain values because X doesn’t verify trades.

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Follow my lead this week …

There are a few places that I’m looking for trade profits.

The Best Setups Right Now

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The two biggest market catalysts right now are AI and cryptocurrency.

We’re seeing huge stock spikes in both of these sectors.

From last week …

AI related runners:

  • Blaize Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: BZAI) spiked 120%* into premarket hours on Friday.
  • ZenaTech Inc. (NASDAQ: ZENA) spiked 40% higher, extending the multi-day run to 110%*.
  • BloomZ Inc. (NASDAQ: BLMZ) spiked 100%*.

Crypto related runners:

  • Bit Origin Limited (NASDAQ: BTOG) spiked 100%*.
  • Windtree Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: WINT) spiked 150%*.
  • BTCS Inc. (NASDAQ: BTCS) spiked 100%*.
  • Above Food Ingredients Inc. (NASDAQ: ABVE) spiked 120%*.

I’m looking for more stocks to spike this week with crypto or AI related news.

And it helps if the stock has a low float.

Anything below 10 million shares is considered a low float. And the low supply of shares helps the stock spike higher when demand increases.

For example, BTCS from last week only had 12 million shares in the float (that’s close enough to 10 million).

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The low float helped it break past the highs from the spike the week earlier.

This was a huge breakout opportunity last week.

Look at the chart below of BTCS’s price action. Every candle represents 10 trading minutes:

BTCS chart multi-day, 10-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade
BTCS chart multi-day, 10-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

I traded this stock on Friday last week for a profit.

It wasn’t random …

The most volatile stocks in the market, like BTCS, like to follow a specific framework.

Our job as traders is to identify the hottest runners in the market and wait for the price action to match our patterns.

Watch my video below to see how my students and I trade these stocks:

Stay disciplined this week!

Don’t make a trade until you see one of my patterns in the price action.

And pay attention to low float runners with AI or crypto news. That’s key.

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.
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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”