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The Perfect Place For Your Small Account Right Now

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 10/23/2025 4 min read

In this article Last trade Oct, 23 7:44 PM

  • BYND-20.67%
    BYND - NYSEBeyond Meat Inc.
    $2.97-0.74 (-20.67%)
    Volume:  802.21M
    Float:  75.42M
    $2.77Day Low/High$3.73
  • SPY+0.59%
    SPY - NYSESPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust
    $672.25+3.96 (+0.59%)
    Volume:  65.60M
    Float:  1.02B
    $667.80Day Low/High$672.71

Make a mental note:

How much money do you have in your trading account right now?

It’s OK if it’s not that much.

All of my millionaire students started with small accounts of a few thousand dollars.

And with this strategy, you could even start with a few hundred dollars …

Here’s the traditional issue with a small account in the stock market: It takes too long to grow in value.

Let’s look at the numbers.

From the start of 2025, the S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) has grown 15%.

For those with millions of dollars in the market, 15% gives them a yearly payout that rivals most salaries. Even a few hundred thousand in the market could beat someone’s yearly income.

But for those with a few thousand dollars to spare, that’s only a few extra hundred bucks a year. That doesn’t really move the needle for lower-income families who want to grow wealth in the market.

What if I told you there is a way to grow your small account into millions …

It won’t happen overnight. But it’s faster than taking 15% on the year.

For example, last weekend, from Friday to Monday, I used a specific trade pattern to pull 66% from the market.

My notes are below. Excuse any misspelling:

Source: Profit.ly

For the sake of comparison, 15% on the year of my $4k position size would yield $600 …

Instead I turned it into $2,600 in a single weekend!

Get ready for the next weekend trade. This setup comes around every Friday afternoon.

Last Weekend’s Example

I mentioned that you could start with a few hundred dollars …

The stocks that we trade are cheap.

And the cheap shares help the price spike higher from a percent perspective. That’s more advantageous for us than trading pricier stocks that only move a couple percentage points a day.

More Breaking News

For example, Beyond Meat Inc. (NASDAQ: BYND) closed for regular-hours trading on Friday around $0.65 per share. A spike to $1.20 on Monday made for an 80% move.

It’s only a difference of $0.55 per share. But think about the scalability if you buy 100 shares, 1,000 shares, even 10,000 shares ….

You could buy one share in the beginning and focus on the percent gain while you grow more comfortable with this process.

It all starts again on Friday afternoon with a very specific pattern.

From last Friday, October 17, BYND was perking up after a big drop on October 13.

The company also teased a new product on social media to be unveiled on Monday.

I theorized the stock could surge as the news traveled over the weekend. So I bought shares on Friday afternoon and held them until Monday morning.

Look at the post on the company’s Instagram below:

Instagram

Here’s a chart of the price action from Friday to Monday.

Every candle represents one trading minute:

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

The goal is to find stocks that:

  • Spike on Friday.
  • Have a news catalyst.
  • Consolidate into the close.

This is a perfect strategy for side hustle traders because it only shows up once a week.

It’s one trade. Every week. At the same time.

For an entire tutorial of this weekend setup, watch my video below:

Don’t miss the next trade this Friday afternoon!

Cheers

 

*Past performance does not indicate future results


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BerehaneOct. 25, 2025 at 5:21 am

Love it. Tim Thanks.


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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 .

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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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