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The Latest Reddit Supernova Stock: Beyond Meat (BYND) Up 490%*!

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Updated 10/21/2025, 2:58 pm ET 10/21/2025, 2:58 pm ET | 6 min 6 min read
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Beyond Meat (NASDAQ: BYND) just went supernova. I bought the Friday dip at $0.625 and sold into the Monday morning short squeeze at $1.04…

That’s a $2,632 profit (starting stakes $4,062) and my best over-the-weekend winner this year.

This a special pattern that I only trade on Fridays…

As usual, I left a lot on the table — some of my students made even more! This afternoon BYND hit $2.88, and is showing no signs of slowing down…

What Sparked This Thing

On Reddit and YouTube, a Dubai-based trader with the handle “Capybara Stocks” claimed a multi-million-share buy and pitched a squeeze thesis, drawing “new Roaring Kitty” comparisons. Roaring Kitty is the screen name of Kendall Gill, an early champion of the original meme stock, GameStop.

On r/pennystocks, one widely shared post called out BYND’s huge short interest, aggressive options activity, and a path toward $2+ if that level held. 

These are two things supernovas need: a story and liquidity.

BYND’s First Green Day Setup

BYND cratered on a debt-for-equity swap that exploded the float — then the lockup expired. Translation: fresh supply and fresh liquidity. 

Meme ETF inclusion + Walmart distribution headlines poured gasoline on a name already sitting on a powder keg of short interest. That’s a classic short squeeze recipe.

Here was my weekend trade:

  • Buy: 10/17 at $0.625 (6,500 shares)
  • Sell: 10/20 at $1.04
  • Result: +66.4% — $2,632 profit (starting stakes $4,062)

I bought a clean Friday dip into a Monday catalyst, and sold into strength once my goals were hit. No heroics — I just took the meat of the move. 

I think this trade is so helpful for traders that I made my subscriber-only weekend trade recap available — FOR FREE!

You can check out the program HERE.

The Friday Pattern I Used to Trade BYND

I look for this pattern every Friday afternoon. 

It’s a perfect setup for side-hustle traders who work a day job or have other weekly responsibilities. It’s one trade, every week, at the same time. 

My Meme Stock Watchlist

This supernova is drawing in mainstream attention, and lifting up the whole market with it.

Here’s what’s on my meme stock watchlist right now…

Beyond Meat Inc (NASDAQ: BYND)

Plant-based meat brand back in meme mode. 

Its debt-for-equity swap created huge liquidity, meme ETF inclusion, and expanded Walmart distribution. 

I won’t chase after a 3x from my entry — I’m only interested in clean, low-risk dips if volume stays elevated.

GSI Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: GSIT)

Small-cap chip/AI-adjacent name that just had a giant premarket squeeze from the $5s to the $17s… and is now chopping in between.

I’m watching for controlled pullbacks into support; if it’s mid-range chop with no edge, I avoid it.

More Breaking News

New Era Energy & Digital Inc (NASDAQ: NUAI)

AI momentum runner with a multi-day surge that looks late-stage and squeeze-driven. It gained more than 1,400%* in its six-week surge before pulling back.

I’m staying away unless we get a textbook panic move into clear support for a bounce.

* Past performance doesn’t indicate future results.

The Bottom Line

  • BYND was the perfect storm: fresh supply, massive short interest, real headlines, and a retail crowd hungry for a squeeze. 
  • I didn’t chase. I bought a clean Friday dip, sold into Monday strength, and moved on. 
  • Trade the chart, not the hype. Cut losses quickly. Take the meat of the move and leave the heroics to Reddit.

If you want to learn from my approach, focus on liquid supernovas with a story and a catalyst, then stalk low-risk entries and sell into strength. 

I look for this pattern every Friday afternoon — and it works especially well with meme stocks like BYND. Learn the Friday pattern here,

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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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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”

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