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Look For This Pattern From The Next +100% Spike

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

Updated 5/9/2025 4 min read

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NVVE-8.00%
NVVE - NASDAQNuvve Holding Corp.
$0.86-0.07 (-8.00%)
Volume: 903880
Float: 3.48M
$0.86Day Low/High$0.95
NVDA+1.64%
NVDA - NYSENVIDIA Corporation
$157.56+2.54 (+1.64%)
Volume: 262.73M
Float: 23.38B
$155.26Day Low/High$158.71

There are +100% stock spikes every week.

But you won’t hear about these plays from the larger media because there’s not as much money involved.

For example, on Friday, May 9, Nuvve Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: NVVE) spiked 210%* and traded 257 million shares.

But this is usually a boring stock. The average 60-day trading volume is only 1 million shares. And if it weren’t for the 257 million shares traded on Friday, the 60-day average would be even lower.

By comparison, Wall Street’s favorite stocks are always rotating millions of dollars. NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) has an average 60-day trading volume of 285 million shares, and at a much higher share price too.

Here’s my point: Stop listening to the larger media for trade opportunities.

By the time you hear about NVVE from Yahoo Finance, it’s already too late.

To find the hottest stock spikes every day, I use StocksToTrade Breaking News for alerts. The Breaking News system alerted the run on NVVE.

Look at the alert overlaid on the NVVE chart below. Every candle represents one trading minute:

Get the next Breaking News alert.

There will be more runners this week that exceed 100% moves …

And Breaking News ensures that I have eyes on these stocks in time.

After that, I look for my specific patterns in the price action.

How I Trade +100% Stock Spikes

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I pulled a 4% profit from the NVVE spike.

We don’t have to be perfect when we’re trading these runners. We just want to take the meat of the move.

A 4% profit here …

A 10% profit there …

It all adds up over time.

Here are my trade notes from the NVVE spike:

More Breaking News

Source: Profitly

This is the breakout pattern that I traded on the NVVE chart. Every candle represents one trading minute:

NVVE chart intraday, 1-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

In my trade notes you can see that I wasn’t sure how much higher the stock would spike … As it turns out, it never spiked higher that day.

But it could have.

This is an essential idea that traders need to come to terms with.

Nobody knows what these stocks will do. All we can do as traders is set ourselves up for success by focusing on the hottest setups.

When we find the stock early, it definitely helps. That’s why Breaking News is so important. And that’s why we wake up early for premarket trading.

But it’s most important that traders understand how to play this price action once they find the stock.

We try to keep it simple.

My millionaire students and I use the same patterns over-and-over again to trade these insane runners.

Look for this setup on the next +100% runner:

Don’t miss out on the next stock spike!

There are up-and-coming traders just like you who are putting in work right now.

You’ve gotta work for the future that you want!

Look at some examples below:

Cheers.

*Past performance does not indicate future results

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Berehane●May. 13, 2025 at 9:25 am

Love it.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”

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