Stock Market History Lessons

Updated 1/14/2025 5 min read

A lot of people who first hear about me and my trading … They don’t know that I’ve been at this for over two decades.

I traded during the dot com boom back in 2000!

Take a look at my profit chart below:

They also don’t know …

I use the same patterns to profit over-and-over again.

The same trade patterns for over 20 years.

These patterns repeat because people behave predictably when they’re stressed. Like when they have shares of a stock that’s spiking +100%* intraday.

I taught all of my millionaire students how to follow these patterns. And I can teach you too.

I’m sure that you have a lot of questions … Make sure to watch my newest podcast appearance for Lead-Lag Publishing.

Michael asked a lot of the same questions that I get from my newest students.

Watch our whole interview below:

Timothy Sykes: Time For A History Lesson On Stock Market Risk https://t.co/xAGNu1xMdB

— Lead-Lag Publishing (@leadlaglive) January 13, 2025

I made sure to jot down the biggest lessons from my talk with Michael …

Lesson 1: How I Trade Right Now

I trade with a small account.

My position sizes are usually a few thousand dollars. There’s an example below:

For a lot of my students, that sounds like a lot of money.

But in my interview with Michael, I mentioned a conference that I went to with hedge fund managers who scoffed at my trade positions.

Wall Street has portfolios worth billions of dollars. To them, I’m a small fish. A minnow.

But I don’t want to trade like Wall Street …

Most people who start trading will start with a small account. That makes it difficult to use Wall Street’s strategy to make money.

Those guys trade expensive stocks that only move a couple of percentage points every day …

Instead, my students and I stick to low-priced stocks that can spike +100% intraday.

Interested in my exact process??

This is everything you need to know!

Lesson 2: It’s The Same Stock Movements

The hottest stock sectors change from month-to-month and year-to-year.

But the framework and the momentum are the same …

For example, when I first started trading during the dot com boom, my strategy was to buy companies that added ‘.com’ to their names.

All these years later, when AI burst on the scene, I was trading stocks that added ‘.io’ to their names.

History rhymes in the market.

The more time that you spend watching the hottest stocks, the quicker you’ll notice these trends.

When it comes to actually trading these runners, I follow the 7-Step Framework.

Stocks can follow this framework because, once again, people are predictable during times of high stress.

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I’m essentially trading human psychology as it’s mapped on a stock chart.

Lesson 3: This 2025 Market

I’m waiting for a crash …

But I’ve waited for a crash for at least a year now 😆

The momentum in the market is crazy! Ever since the AI boom started in early 2023, the S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) gained 20% two years in a row …

Take a look at the chart below, every candle represents one trading day:

SPY chart multi-month, 1-day candles Source: StocksToTrade

And all the while, we saw massive runners in our low priced niche.

For example, Between November and December 2024, Quantum Computing Inc. (NASDAQ: QUBT) spiked from less than $2 per share to over $20.

A total move of 1,800%*!

And on Monday of this week, January 13, Phio Pharmaceuticals Corp. (NASDAQ: PHIO) spiked 470%*.

I could go on and on about the biggest spikes in the market right now.

Put the pedal to the metal while we’ve got huge runners like this. Because the market will cool off eventually …

Start following the biggest stock spikes NOW: Join my trading live stream.

Cheers.

*Past performance does not indicate future results

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