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This Short Week Could Change Your Trading Forever

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 8/29/2025 4 min read

In this article Last trade Sep, 08 2:22 PM

  • NVDA+1.73%
    NVDA - NYSENVIDIA Corporation
    $169.90+2.88 (+1.73%)
    Volume:  105.51M
    Float:  23.29B
    $166.20Day Low/High$170.96

Attention traders …

There’s something big brewing this week. And those paying attention have a chance to catch it.

After Monday’s Labor Day break, Tuesday’s price action opened the floodgates.

Volatility is already ticking up, and after last week’s earnings from NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA), the market has fresh data to work with.

We’ve seen this setup before: A short week, increased volatility, thin floats — Then BOOM, stocks start to rip +100% seemingly out of nowhere.

But truthfully, these moves aren’t random.

There’s a repeating rhythm to the madness — And traders who recognize the clues early have the best chance at gains.

Like my students and me. Look at the post below:

There’s a lot of momentum in the market this week.

Make sure to position your account correctly.

Every Week: +100% Stock Spikes

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Last week alone we saw multiple monster runners:

  • Offerpad Solutions Inc. (NYSE: OPAD): A low-float real estate play that spiked 310%* last week after Powell’s comments about potential lower interest rates.
  • CaliberCos Inc. (NASDAQ: CWD): A low-float stock that announced a LINK token digital asset treasury. It exploded 170%* on Thursday with huge volume.
  • Professional Diversity Network Inc. (NASDAQ: IPDN): A tiny ed-tech name that announced an investment and partnership to develop a digital investment banking platform. The stock spiked 290%* last Friday.

These stock spikes are not random.

Every day I scan the market for specific factors that create these massive moves:

  • A low float: Fewer shares mean that the supply is constricted. And the price will spike higher as demand increases.
  • High volume: The volume shows how many shares are traded. That indicates popularity and liquidity for traders.
  • A catalyst: News, social buzz, or filings — It doesn’t matter what triggers it, but there needs to be a reason for it to push higher.

I don’t chase these stocks, I prepare for the strongest parts of the move.

Every one of these runners followed patterns that I’ve been teaching for 20+ years.

The key is to know when to strike.

Keep watching, because in this shortened week, things will move fast.

While the crowd is late. You can be early.

The #1 Setup This Week

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Here’s where it gets really good …

As we move into Friday, one of my favorite patterns starts to take shape.

It’s what I call the Weekend Pattern — And it’s already responsible for some textbook profits this year.

Here’s how it works:

As traders rush to leave the office early on Friday, there’s a group who miss the best entry of the day …

Over the weekend, they find Friday’s strongest runners and they pile in.

Then, their buy orders fill on Monday morning, and the stock spikes higher.

My strategy is to lay in wait every Friday afternoon for the perfect Monday gap ups.

This happens over and over in the market — And holiday weeks make it even more explosive.

This Friday could be HUGE.

I’m running a special Labor Day Sale for traders who want to finally learn this pattern in depth.

Reuse it every week!

Turn confusion into clarity … And randomness into repeatable trades, grab this opportunity while it lasts:

>> Get My Weekend Pattern For Just $1 <<

The market rewards the prepared. Don’t let another +100% runner pass you by.

Cheers

 

*Past performance does not indicate future results


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BerehaneSep. 07, 2025 at 7:40 am

“The key is to know when to strike.”- 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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