My Best Advice For Trading Right Now

Written by Timothy Sykes Reviewed by Jack Kellogg Fact-checked by Ellis Hobbs

Updated 10/7/2025 4 min read

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ZNB-8.50%
ZNB - NASDAQZeta Network Group
$1.42-0.13 (-8.50%)
Volume: 691868
Float: 1.13M
$1.40Day Low/High$1.52

The market is as strong as ever.

And stocks in our small-cap sector continue to spike higher.

Despite the government shutdown.
Despite the global tariffs.
Despite the already 40% market rally this year.

Jack Kellogg said it best during his trading livestream on October 3: We’re in a giant bubble right now.

There’s a ton of money flowing into the market due to AI.

And nobody knows how big the bubble will get before it bursts.

But we do know that in the meantime there are HUGE opportunities to make gains from stocks that spike alongside this momentum.

Like the 450%* spike from yesterday, October 7 …

I was up early to find this stock at the beginning of its run. And I used a simple pattern to profit.

Stock Spikes In 2025

tim sykes in sedona arizona with laptop of stock chart — © 2025 Millionaire Media, LLC

There are multiple +100% runners every week.

And this volatility likes to follow specific patterns.

We can surf the strongest stocks in the market over and over again as the price keeps following my patterns.

But a single question remains …

“How long do these stocks spike for until they stop following patterns?”

There’s no way of knowing how long these stocks will run. To protect my account against the downside, I use trade patterns and focus on the hottest price action.

For example, most of the stocks that spike in this market start during pre-market hours.

Traders need to wake up for pre-market right now.

Look at the chart below of Zeta Network Group (NASDAQ: ZNB) from yesterday’s pre-market run, October 7.

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Every candle represents one trading minute:

ZNB chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

ZNB spiked 450%* in less than an hour as a result of the Bitcoin news from that morning.

And traders who paid attention during pre market had a perfect opportunity to profit.

Get the next Breaking News alert.

These stocks can continue to spike into regular hours. But some of them fall lower after the pre-market run.

Look what happened to ZNB later in the day:

ZNB chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

To protect against the sell off after the open, just focus on the pre-market spikes.

It might even be better for your time zone.

Wake up.
Open the StocksToTrade software.
And wait for the next Breaking News alert.

To ensure that you’re prepared for the next alert, watch the instructional video below from fellow trader Tim Bohen:

There are new opportunities every morning in the stock market.

Show up. Take the meat of the move. And then go about your day.

Cheers

*Past performance does not indicate future results

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Berehane●Oct. 10, 2025 at 7:30 pm

Great lesson.Thanks Tim!!

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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.

* 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”