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Work All Week? This Strategy Was Built For You

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Written by Timothy Sykes Reviewed by Jack Kellogg Fact-checked by Ellis Hobbs
Updated 11/10/2025 4 min read
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It’s good to work toward the weekend.

But that doesn’t mean what you think it does …

See, most people trudge their way through the work week, waiting for their next two days off.

They clock in every morning and impatiently count down the hours until Friday afternoon.

  • They’re excited to take a break.
  • I’m excited to take profits.

Every Friday afternoon, there’s a specific pattern in the market that can lead to a Monday morning spike.

My goal is to buy shares on Friday afternoon and sell into the Monday run.

For example, last weekend, I pulled a calculated profit from Organogenesis Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORGO).

I bought shares on Friday afternoon, when everyone was checked out, and I sold my position on Monday morning.

In total, there was an 11% upside.

For reference, it would take months for a position in the S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) to reach an 11% gain.

With my trade process, my students and I can potentially find that much in a single weekend.

In mid-October I pulled a 66% profit from Beyond Meat Inc. (NASDAQ: BYND) with my weekend pattern.

Plus, this strategy is perfect for side-hustle traders: People who work a day job, parents, students …

  • It’s one trade a week.
  • At the same time.
  • With the same pattern.

Get ready for this coming Friday-afternoon entry.

Watch my video below for all the details:

Let’s review last weekend’s price action as an example.

News-Driven Spike

On Thursday, November 6, during after hours, ORGO announced a record third-quarter revenue of $150.5 million, up 31% year-over-year.

More Breaking News

There always needs to be a reason for the move. Otherwise we’re just buying random bullish momentum.

The best traders only focus on the best setups to help mitigate risk.

ORGO started to spike on Friday morning. And in the afternoon, the price action followed my weekend setup perfectly.

My trade notes are below:

Source: Profit.ly

Here’s a chart of the move from Friday to Monday. Every candle represents one trading minute:

ORGO chart multi-day, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade
ORGO chart multi-day, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

The price spiked 11% higher on Monday morning after my Friday entry. And the price spiked higher again that afternoon.

I took a 4% profit from this move.

It doesn’t sound like much. But small gains add up.

Plus, a 4% profit is on the small end of my weekend gains … As proven by my BYND trade earlier in October:

Source: Profit.ly

There is so much opportunity in this market for small account traders.

And you don’t need a big account to capitalize. I bought ORGO below $6 per share.

Focus on this one trade every week. And size up once you dial in your consistency.

Get Ready For This Coming Friday’s Entry.

Cheers

 

*Past performance does not indicate future results

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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”