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From $700 To $100k – How My Students Succeed Right Now

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 8/27/2025 5 min read

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  • SATS+5.18%
    SATS - NYSEEchoStar Corporation
    $67.00+3.31 (+5.18%)
    Volume:  4.54M
    Float:  126.88M
    $63.39Day Low/High$67.36

A lot of people think they need a ton of money in the stock market to make any meaningful profit.

This is false.

It’s a lie that benefits Wall Street.

If there’s no chance for small-account traders to profit, they’re only other option is to give their money to investment banks, to try and leach off the smart money.

But the smart money leaches back. They take a cut of measly profits every year.

As an example, investors are lucky to make 20% gains on the year.

At that rate, after one year, a $700 investment would reach a value of only $840.

That’s not exactly moving the needle.

There is another way!

My student, Terry Fahmey made his first trade with my process on August 26, 2024.

His notes are below, notice the starting stake and the date:

Source: Profit.ly

On August 26, 2025, one year later, he crossed $100k in trading profits (including losses).

Look at his post below:

Source

There is a process for gains in the market.

And I can teach you.

How My Students And I Find Success Right Now

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The most volatile stocks in the market like to follow popular patterns.

These patterns develop because people are predictable during times of high stress. Essentially, we’re trading human emotions as they manifest on a stock chart.

Specifically, fear and greed.

Traders who recognize these patterns in real time are free to take gains.

And the trade that pushed Terry over $100k in profits is a perfect example.

Let’s analyze Terry’s $100k trade:

On August 26 during premarket hours, the market learned of a $23 billion deal between EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS) and AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) for two of EchoStar’s spectrum licenses.

While already immensely profitable, the deal also helps EchoStar move toward a resolution of ongoing Federal Communications Commission’s inquiries.

Double whammy.

The SATS share price is larger than the stocks I usually trade. Expensive stocks don’t spike as high as cheap stocks …

But the SATS price action is a perfect example of these patterns throughout the market.

Fear and greed are the same everywhere.

Look at Terry’s trade notes below:

Source: Profit.ly

His position is overlaid on this chart.

Every candle represents one trading minute:

SATS chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade
SATS chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

Repeating Patterns In The Market

This is a classic dip buy pattern that yielded an 8% profit.

In a single morning.

Contrary to popular belief …

  • We don’t need to catch the stock’s entire move.
  • We don’t need to be first to the move.
  • We don’t even need the stock to hit new highs.

SATS has already spiked 90% since the news was announced.

When stocks spike this high, all we need is the meat of the move.

And we see new +100% runners every week …

Here are some examples from the last few days:

  • Inno Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: INHD) spiked 440%*.
  • NovaBay Pharmaceuticals Inc. (AMEX: NBY) spiked 110%*.
  • Offerpad Solutions Inc. (NYSE: OPAD) spiked 220%*.
  • Nukkleus Inc (NASDAQ: NUKK) spiked 160%*.

My students and I use the same patterns over-and-over again on the hottest stocks in the market.

Join our success with a small account!

Watch the video below for my full trade process:

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 .

Millionaire Media 66 W Flagler St. Ste. 900 Miami, FL 33130 United States (888) 878-3621 This is for information purposes only as Millionaire Media LLC nor Timothy Sykes is registered as a securities broker-dealer or an investment adviser. No information herein is intended as securities brokerage, investment, tax, accounting or legal advice, as an offer or solicitation of an offer to sell or buy, or as an endorsement, recommendation or sponsorship of any company, security or fund. Millionaire Media LLC and Timothy Sykes cannot and does not assess, verify or guarantee the adequacy, accuracy or completeness of any information, the suitability or profitability of any particular investment, or the potential value of any investment or informational source. The reader bears responsibility for his/her own investment research and decisions, should seek the advice of a qualified securities professional before making any investment, and investigate and fully understand any and all risks before investing. Millionaire Media LLC and Timothy Sykes in no way warrants the solvency, financial condition, or investment advisability of any of the securities mentioned in communications or websites. In addition, Millionaire Media LLC and Timothy Sykes accepts no liability whatsoever for any direct or consequential loss arising from any use of this information. This information is not intended to be used as the sole basis of any investment decision, nor should it be construed as advice designed to meet the investment needs of any particular investor. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future returns.

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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