My Action Plan for Max Profits on Short-Term Runners

Now more than ever, we as traders must keep our heads straight. 

And I know it can be tough to do with the daily headlines preaching doom and gloom and the market reversing on itself faster than you can say, “tariff.”

But remember, you can always rely on day trades with high-quality, consistent setups. 

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With all the opportunities waiting for us in the day trading game, you don’t have to sit it out until the smoke clears…unless you want to.

If you ignore the media, ignore the broad market, and ignore the noise, you can still trade and make money! Yes, it is possible!

Yesterday, I showed you the IPO that ran up almost 200% on its second trading day. And that’s not the only example. 

Day Trading Is All About Reaction

I brought up this topic last Sunday evening during my Sunday Market Brief because it’s something every trader needs to be reminded of, especially in the current environment.

By the way, if you haven’t already, be sure to tune in to my brand new free live stream every Sunday evening at 7 pm ET. 

I’m keeping it real, taking your questions, and getting you ready for the trading week ahead. 

As I said to my audience on Sunday, if you think you’ve got a crystal ball and you’re gonna predict what a stock is going to do next, you might want to hit pause on trading and rethink your approach.

Because real traders who make it over the long term don’t trade on guesses. They don’t hope. They react.

I realize that might not sound all that exciting.

Patience? Reacting? Yeah, kind of boring.

But what do I always say?

Chasers always get wrecked while the smart traders wait for the setup and the confirmation to appear. Patience ups their odds of success. 

If you’re a short-term trader—especially in small caps and penny stocks, you don’t want to anticipate what might happen…

You want to react to what is happening.

I’ve been trading for a long time, and as much as I’d love to say I always know what a stock will do, I don’t. Nobody does. 

What I do have is a set of reliable, repeatable patterns I’ve studied and used for years.

Why Reaction Beats Out Anticipation and Prediction

Too many new traders think success is about predicting the next big move. It’s not. It’s about staying disciplined, being patient, and reacting when the right setup shows itself.

Every day I scan for those setups—multi-day breakouts, red-to-green moves, VWAP holds, dip and rips, premarket fades, you name it. 

I use Oracle, our proprietary algorithm, to identify the best candidates.

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And when you react to those setups instead of chasing what you think might happen, your results will speak for themselves.

That’s the difference between long-term investing and short-term trading…

Investors buy and hold based on what they think will happen a year or two from now. 

As traders, we wait for confirmation, volume, technical breakouts, and other events. We watch price action, not predictions.

What It Looks Like When the Reactors Win

Let’s look at an example from last Friday. I used this in my Sunday live stream too.

Bullfrog AI Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: BFRG) dropped news around 8:30 in the morning. 

The stock didn’t do anything for hours….just paint-drying kind of price action.

Now, the chasers who anticipated the move bought right after the news hit. Then they sat around for four hours watching a dead stock.

Meanwhile, the ones who reacted, the traders who for the breakout to actually form, got in later in the day and were instantly in the green. 

Why? Because they didn’t sit there hoping volume would come. They waited until the market confirmed the move.

This is a textbook example of how reaction beats out anticipation in trading. 

Here’s the action we saw in BFRG last Friday…

Shift From Anticipating to Reacting

 

Here’s your game plan:

• Have a plan. Know what patterns you’re looking for and what your risk tolerance is.
  
  
• Wait for the signal. No setup? No trade. Period.
  
  
• Stick to your stop. Risk management is everything.
  
  
• Stay present. Focus on what’s happening now, not what you hope will happen.
  
  
• Write down your trades and review them. Learn from the wins and the losses.

My Final Thoughts…

In over 15 years of trading, one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned is this:

Success doesn’t come from guessing. It comes from reacting.

Here’s the Golden Rule: We trade the price action, not the rumors. Not even the real headlines.

The market doesn’t care what you think. It doesn’t care what you hope will happen. It doesn’t

Just like everything else in life, you can’t control the market. But you can control how you respond to it. 

Build your process. Stick to your setups. Manage your risk. And above all, keep learning.

That’s how you stay alive in this game.

 

Have a great day, everyone. See you back here tomorrow. 

 

Tim Bohen

Lead Trainer, StocksToTrade