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Attn. Side Hustlers: This Is Your Trade!

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 7/10/2025 5 min read

We saw more insane stock spikes this week.

I’m talking about multiple +100% runners …

These stocks announced news and shot upwards like rockets out of a cannon!

For example, read about any of the names below:

There are new spikes like this every day in the market.

But I know a lot of my newest students work day jobs, or have daily responsibilities. They can’t watch the market every day for these spikes.

Don’t worry, there are opportunities to trade that fit your schedule.

In fact, day trading is the perfect side hustle because there’s ALWAYS an angle to play in the market. You just have to know where to look.

For example, today, Friday, July 11, there’s a specific setup that I’m watching in the market.

And this is a perfect strategy for side-hustle traders because the play materializes in the afternoon, right before the market closes.

Get done with your work ASAP today and look for this pattern.

My students and I buy shares on Friday afternoon. Then we sell on Monday after the hype builds over the weekend.

Here’s an example from last weekend:

Source: Profit.ly

I sold my position on SONN before the market closed for the weekend because the stock followed my pattern and pushed higher. It’s good to take profits.

But it spiked even higher on Monday!

My entry price on SONN was $3.78 per share. And I sold at $4.30 per share.

The stock spiked to $6 on Monday. Which means I left $6,700 on the table.

I use the same trading pattern every Friday afternoon. And after last weekend’s momentum, I’m looking to do even better this time around.

The #1 Trade To Make This Afternoon

The catalyst behind these weekend trades is very simple …

Lazy traders close their laptops early on Friday.

Then, over the weekend, these lazy traders look for the hottest stocks in the market.

Ultimately, they find Friday’s hottest runners.

After they buy shares, the buy orders fill on Monday morning.

And viola! My students and I have a Monday morning spike to sell into.

This pattern is especially strong during long weekends, when traders are eager to start their long break from work.

For example, last weekend, the market was closed on Friday, July 4, in observance of America’s Independence.

Sure enough, on Thursday afternoon, the volume trickled out of the market as traders left their offices early to get a head start on the long weekend.

But my students and I were still scanning the market …

Last Weekend’s Profitable Price Action

I found Sonnet BioTherapeutics Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: SONN) trading sideways on Thursday afternoon after Wednesday’s 260%* spike.

The company announced that a private investor purchased $2 million worth of convertible notes and warrants.

The bullish momentum lasted through Thursday, so I built a position into the afternoon.

Ultimately, the stock broke to new highs before the market closed for the weekend, so I sold my shares.

But I underestimated the amount of lazy traders who were ready to push the price higher on Monday.

Look at the SONN chart below. Every candle represents one trading minute:

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

The trade pattern that I used to trade SONN, it’s the same pattern every Friday afternoon.

But realize, every stock spike is a little unique.

And a quick glance at SONN’s chart from last weekend is NOT enough to comprehensively trade this setup week after week.

It definitely helps, but you need a complete understanding of this pattern to truly capitalize.

Watch my video below for the full weekend-pattern tutorial:

One good trade a week can make all the difference for your account.

And as a side-hustle trader, my weekend pattern is one of the most accessible setups.

Find plays that work for your schedule!

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”

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