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My Simple Process For Success

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 3/28/2025 6 min read

Fear is the sentiment coming from Wall Street and from the major media.

Trump’s tariff day of reckoning, April 2, is almost upon us. And last Friday the President announced 25% import tariffs on foreign cars.

The S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) is flashing warning signals. See the post from StocksToTrade below:

It’s not looking good for Wall Street …

Good thing we’re not Wall Street …

  • It’s a good thing we don’t care about the SPY.
  • We don’t have to hold expensive stocks that are in freefall.
  • We don’t have to open massive short positions to scrape some profits to boost the bottom line of our investment bank.

Realize: Your small account is a huge advantage right now.

We can sit in cash until we see a setup that matches our patterns.

There IS a simple process for success in this market. It’s the same process that I’ve used to profit $7.9 million (including losses). The same process that my millionaire students use to trade.

Too many traders get caught up in the dramatic stories from the larger market.

You’re not Wall Street. Stop acting like it.

Where Small-Account Traders Profit Right Now

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There are so many opportunities to profit amidst this larger-market selloff!

Last week, every single day, there was at least one HUGE move:

  • MLGO spiked 720%* last week.
  • TNON spiked 500%*.
  • DATS spiked 170%*.
  • OSRH spiked 170%*.
  • VVPR spiked 410%*.
  • IMTE spiked 490%*.
  • ME spiked 150%*.
  • NKTX spiked 70%.

Some of those spikes were multi-day moves, some of them happened in a single day.

The biggest runners right now are short squeezes. It’s when too many short sellers try to ride the stock lower and instead start to squeeze each other out as it spikes higher.

Look at my post below for more details:

We can trade this momentum.

But slow down! I know how you’re looking at that 720%* gain from MLGO last week 🤑 😆

My trading process is simple because I’m NOT trying to catch 100% of the move.

For example, I traded MLGO twice last week. Once for a 3% profit and once for an 8% profit.

Look at my trade notes below:

Source: Profit.ly

You don’t have to swing for the fences. That’s how most traders strike out.

Instead, aim for a base hit!

There will always be another stock to trade down the road. You don’t need to make $1 million on your first few trades 😆

Stop putting so much pressure on your positions. Just follow my process!

My Process For Success

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The most volatile stocks in the market can follow the same trade patterns over and over again.

I’ve been trading with the same patterns for more than two decades.

This happens because the people trading these stocks are predictable during times of high stress. Like when they have a few thousand dollars in a stock that’s spiking +100%.

The process is simple. But it can take traders time to recognize these patterns in real time.

That’s why my newest students lean on artificial intelligence.

Wall Street has used trading algorithms for more than a decade. The AI boom in 2023 was our first chance to level the playing field!

The patterns are always the same … It was only a matter of time until the AI caught on.

For example, last week my AI called a perfect entry on MLGO at $11 per share. The price spiked to $20 less than 3 days later.

Look at the alert overlaid on the MLGO chart below from March 24. Every candle represents two trading minutes:

MLGO chart intraday, 2-minute candles Source: StocksToTrade

The AI: XGPT, follows my exact process in the market.

Watch my video below to see how traders use XGPT to build smart positions.

And pay attention to the stock that I share! There’s still time to get in on this play:

Lean on XGPT until you become more self-sufficient in the market.

And remember, we’re not swinging for the fences. We want base hits!

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 .

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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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