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Focus On The Process This Week!

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 7/19/2024 4 min read
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Welcome to a brand new week full of profit opportunities …

Perhaps you already heard, Serve Robotics Inc. (NASDAQ: SERV) launched 240%* on Friday with news of a $3.7 million stake bought by NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA).

I snagged a decent profit from this runner but I missed the earlier part of the move. See my post on X below:

Here are my trade notes from Friday:

Source: Profit.ly

I’m ready for a follow-up move today …

But I’m NOT going to force any of my trades.

Instead, I’ll wait until the price action matches my trading pattern. That’s how I play the hottest stocks without giving myself a heart attack from stress, LOL.

Here’s the idea:

SERV spiked 240%* on Friday. The price could dip substantially on Monday. Even if prices rally to make new highs … I don’t want to hold through a bunch of scary price action.

Like I said, I don’t want to have a heart attack.

This is how I’m approaching a trade on SERV …

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My bread and butter strategy right now is to profit off of intraday price bounces.

For example: On Friday I snagged a 3% profit from the 240%* available …

It might not seem like much. But these small gains add up!

Let’s say I magically caught 200% of the SERV move. I’m playing devil’s advocate …

With a starting stake of $21,270, that’s somewhere around $40,000 in profits …

That sounds great! But I can’t live off of $40,000 for the rest of my life … I’m going to trade again. And the chances that I catch another 200% run are slim to none.

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That’s why I focus on small (less-stressful) gains.

Everyday I wake up and follow a tested process for profits. This process helps me be successful without raising my blood pressure.

I know a lot of traders who look older than they are because they play stressful positions. Friends, focus on sustainability!

Take a look at the intraday chart below of SERV from Friday. I traded one of the afternoon bounces.

Every candle represents one trading minute:

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

You don’t have to swing for the fences.

And you don’t need to be an expert right away.

My newest students are using AI to track this price action in real time! The AI follows my process for profits and offers solid trade setups based on support and resistance.

Use AI this week to build smart positions on the hottest runners!

Get ready for follow-up moves from SERV.

It’s a question of when, not if …

This is a low-priced stock with a red-hot NVDA catalyst. Our next opportunity isn’t far away!

Pay attention!

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. Read More

* 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”