It's Friday afternoon, and for most traders, that means the week is basically over.

For Tim Sykes, the week is just getting to the good part.

Somewhere around 3pm today, he'll be looking at a handful of small, overlooked stocks, deciding which ones show the signs of what he calls a weekend windfall.

The signs aren't complicated.

A stock nobody's watching.

News that hasn't been priced in yet.

A closing bell that buys him two full days before the rest of the market catches up.

That two day gap is where he's pulled profits of $9,177 on a single trade, and where his student Jack Kellogg once turned a Friday afternoon buy into a $37,212 Monday morning payout.
Of course these are some of their best trades.

All trading is risky, past performance doesn’t indicate future success, and his results are exceptional.

But right now, this morning, is the last quiet window before that happens again.

Sykes recorded a short video that walks through exactly how he finds these setups and decides which ones are worth the trade.

A few hours from now, he'll be doing it live.

This morning is the time to see how, before the bell rings.

[SEE HOW HE FINDS IT >>]

Market Signal Report
BONUS: DIA is leading the bounce. PDD reports Monday morning. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 2026   S&P ▲0.47%   Nasdaq ▲0.21%   Dow ▲0.79%   Bounce / yields

The indexes are trying to bounce. DIA is 531.25, up 0.79%. SPY is 766.19, up 0.47%. IWM is 298.97, up 0.44%. QQQ is 712.45, up 0.21%. Yields are still firmer: IEF is down 0.16%, TLT is down 0.30%. Walmart is still a drag this morning, off 1.10% after Thursday's 9.15% drop to 103.59. Bitcoin is past $77,000. That is crypto tape, not why the Dow is green. These are Friday morning prints around 10:00 a.m. CT, not the close.

BJ already printed. It beat and raised, last 94.49, up 3.49%. That is a single name, not the session. Underneath, the percent board is a merger leftover plus four empty tapes. 👇

📈 TODAY'S TOP 5 GAINERS

 
1 · RFAI  +235.3%
$42.68 on 1.9 million shares versus a 12.73 Thursday close. Shareholders approved the Nanyang Biologics combo at the Aug 19 EGM. The SEC filing hit Thursday. After-hours ripped. That is the dated story, and it already moved overnight.
2 · SDOT  +77.7%
$15.00 on 8.5 million shares. Thursday 8-K: settled a $272k debenture for 33,968 shares. No fresh bullish PR this morning. Opened 8.24, high 17.95. Low-float chase.
3 · USDE  +74.5%
$6.98 on 29.6 million shares. Bitcoin past $77,000 (MT Newswire 9:15 a.m. ET). Ethena/stablecoin vehicle. No company PR this morning. Hitchhiker.
4 · JUNS  +61.9%
$8.37 on 44.7 million shares versus ~68k 10-day average. No company PR this morning. A Form 3 new major-holder stake. Reverse split was Aug 7. Empty tape.
5 · EMAT  +33.6%
$4.45 on 1.6 million shares. No bullish PR. Aug 19 Clear Street cut the PT from $30 to $18 and kept Buy. Thursday it was +16.8%. Continuation, not a new print.
🎯 THE SIGNAL
RFAI is the dated name and it already moved after-hours. SDOT, USDE, and JUNS have no morning PR. EMAT is riding a PT cut from Wednesday. The session is a bounce with yields still up and Walmart still leaking. BJ is done. Do not treat a 235% leftover as the open.
Tim Sykes set a 10 to 20 percent target last month. The trade paid 121 percent. Six times what he called. He says the setup he's been using doesn't need a screen all day, quitting a job, or special software. It needs knowing where to look, and when. Click here to see how.

📊 THE HEADLINE THAT MATTERED

 

"Markets Try To Bounce Back As Yields Head Higher"

SeekingAlpha via QuoteMedia, 10:40 a.m. ET, August 21, 2026 (9:40 a.m. CT).

MT Newswire at 9:15 a.m. ET had futures higher as Bitcoin moved past $77,000. That is the overlay. DIA leading QQQ is the bounce. RFAI is not.

👀 ONE TO WATCH TOMORROW

 
🛒 PDD Holdings  (PDD)

Q2 2026 unaudited results before the U.S. open Monday, August 24. Call at 7:30 a.m. ET. Company PR Aug 17 / GlobeNewswire.

Why it's the watch: BJ already printed. No FOMC or CPI on Monday. NVDA is Wednesday the 26th, same day as GDP 2nd / PCE / durables. PDD is the Monday print.

What matters: China commerce comps on the 7:30 a.m. ET call. Let the release land first.

See you at the next signal. 📡

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It's Friday afternoon, and for most traders, that means the week is basically over.

For Tim Sykes, the week is just getting to the good part.

Somewhere around 3pm today, he'll be looking at a handful of small, overlooked stocks, deciding which ones show the signs of what he calls a weekend windfall.

The signs aren't complicated.

A stock nobody's watching.

News that hasn't been priced in yet.

A closing bell that buys him two full days before the rest of the market catches up.

That two day gap is where he's pulled profits of $9,177 on a single trade, and where his student Jack Kellogg once turned a Friday afternoon buy into a $37,212 Monday morning payout.
Of course these are some of their best trades.

All trading is risky, past performance doesn’t indicate future success, and his results are exceptional.

But right now, this morning, is the last quiet window before that happens again.

Sykes recorded a short video that walks through exactly how he finds these setups and decides which ones are worth the trade.

A few hours from now, he'll be doing it live.

This morning is the time to see how, before the bell rings.

[SEE HOW HE FINDS IT >>]

It's Friday afternoon, and for most traders, that means the week is basically over.

For Tim Sykes, the week is just getting to the good part.

Somewhere around 3pm today, he'll be looking at a handful of small, overlooked stocks, deciding which ones show the signs of what he calls a weekend windfall.

The signs aren't complicated.

A stock nobody's watching.

News that hasn't been priced in yet.

A closing bell that buys him two full days before the rest of the market catches up.

That two day gap is where he's pulled profits of $9,177 on a single trade, and where his student Jack Kellogg once turned a Friday afternoon buy into a $37,212 Monday morning payout.
Of course these are some of their best trades.

All trading is risky, past performance doesn’t indicate future success, and his results are exceptional.

But right now, this morning, is the last quiet window before that happens again.

Sykes recorded a short video that walks through exactly how he finds these setups and decides which ones are worth the trade.

A few hours from now, he'll be doing it live.

This morning is the time to see how, before the bell rings.

[SEE HOW HE FINDS IT >>]

It's Friday afternoon, and for most traders, that means the week is basically over.

For Tim Sykes, the week is just getting to the good part.

Somewhere around 3pm today, he'll be looking at a handful of small, overlooked stocks, deciding which ones show the signs of what he calls a weekend windfall.

The signs aren't complicated.

A stock nobody's watching.

News that hasn't been priced in yet.

A closing bell that buys him two full days before the rest of the market catches up.

That two day gap is where he's pulled profits of $9,177 on a single trade, and where his student Jack Kellogg once turned a Friday afternoon buy into a $37,212 Monday morning payout.
Of course these are some of their best trades.

All trading is risky, past performance doesn’t indicate future success, and his results are exceptional.

But right now, this morning, is the last quiet window before that happens again.

Sykes recorded a short video that walks through exactly how he finds these setups and decides which ones are worth the trade.

A few hours from now, he'll be doing it live.

This morning is the time to see how, before the bell rings.

[SEE HOW HE FINDS IT >>]

It's Friday afternoon, and for most traders, that means the week is basically over.

For Tim Sykes, the week is just getting to the good part.

Somewhere around 3pm today, he'll be looking at a handful of small, overlooked stocks, deciding which ones show the signs of what he calls a weekend windfall.

The signs aren't complicated.

A stock nobody's watching.

News that hasn't been priced in yet.

A closing bell that buys him two full days before the rest of the market catches up.

That two day gap is where he's pulled profits of $9,177 on a single trade, and where his student Jack Kellogg once turned a Friday afternoon buy into a $37,212 Monday morning payout.
Of course these are some of their best trades.

All trading is risky, past performance doesn’t indicate future success, and his results are exceptional.

But right now, this morning, is the last quiet window before that happens again.

Sykes recorded a short video that walks through exactly how he finds these setups and decides which ones are worth the trade.

A few hours from now, he'll be doing it live.

This morning is the time to see how, before the bell rings.

[SEE HOW HE FINDS IT >>]

It's Friday afternoon, and for most traders, that means the week is basically over.

For Tim Sykes, the week is just getting to the good part.

Somewhere around 3pm today, he'll be looking at a handful of small, overlooked stocks, deciding which ones show the signs of what he calls a weekend windfall.

The signs aren't complicated.

A stock nobody's watching.

News that hasn't been priced in yet.

A closing bell that buys him two full days before the rest of the market catches up.

That two day gap is where he's pulled profits of $9,177 on a single trade, and where his student Jack Kellogg once turned a Friday afternoon buy into a $37,212 Monday morning payout.
Of course these are some of their best trades.

All trading is risky, past performance doesn’t indicate future success, and his results are exceptional.

But right now, this morning, is the last quiet window before that happens again.

Sykes recorded a short video that walks through exactly how he finds these setups and decides which ones are worth the trade.

A few hours from now, he'll be doing it live.

This morning is the time to see how, before the bell rings.

[SEE HOW HE FINDS IT >>]

It's Friday afternoon, and for most traders, that means the week is basically over.

For Tim Sykes, the week is just getting to the good part.

Somewhere around 3pm today, he'll be looking at a handful of small, overlooked stocks, deciding which ones show the signs of what he calls a weekend windfall.

The signs aren't complicated.

A stock nobody's watching.

News that hasn't been priced in yet.

A closing bell that buys him two full days before the rest of the market catches up.

That two day gap is where he's pulled profits of $9,177 on a single trade, and where his student Jack Kellogg once turned a Friday afternoon buy into a $37,212 Monday morning payout.
Of course these are some of their best trades.

All trading is risky, past performance doesn’t indicate future success, and his results are exceptional.

But right now, this morning, is the last quiet window before that happens again.

Sykes recorded a short video that walks through exactly how he finds these setups and decides which ones are worth the trade.

A few hours from now, he'll be doing it live.

This morning is the time to see how, before the bell rings.

[SEE HOW HE FINDS IT >>]

It's Friday afternoon, and for most traders, that means the week is basically over.

For Tim Sykes, the week is just getting to the good part.

Somewhere around 3pm today, he'll be looking at a handful of small, overlooked stocks, deciding which ones show the signs of what he calls a weekend windfall.

The signs aren't complicated.

A stock nobody's watching.

News that hasn't been priced in yet.

A closing bell that buys him two full days before the rest of the market catches up.

That two day gap is where he's pulled profits of $9,177 on a single trade, and where his student Jack Kellogg once turned a Friday afternoon buy into a $37,212 Monday morning payout.
Of course these are some of their best trades.

All trading is risky, past performance doesn’t indicate future success, and his results are exceptional.

But right now, this morning, is the last quiet window before that happens again.

Sykes recorded a short video that walks through exactly how he finds these setups and decides which ones are worth the trade.

A few hours from now, he'll be doing it live.

This morning is the time to see how, before the bell rings.

[SEE HOW HE FINDS IT >>]

It's Friday afternoon, and for most traders, that means the week is basically over.

For Tim Sykes, the week is just getting to the good part.

Somewhere around 3pm today, he'll be looking at a handful of small, overlooked stocks, deciding which ones show the signs of what he calls a weekend windfall.

The signs aren't complicated.

A stock nobody's watching.

News that hasn't been priced in yet.

A closing bell that buys him two full days before the rest of the market catches up.

That two day gap is where he's pulled profits of $9,177 on a single trade, and where his student Jack Kellogg once turned a Friday afternoon buy into a $37,212 Monday morning payout.
Of course these are some of their best trades.

All trading is risky, past performance doesn’t indicate future success, and his results are exceptional.

But right now, this morning, is the last quiet window before that happens again.

Sykes recorded a short video that walks through exactly how he finds these setups and decides which ones are worth the trade.

A few hours from now, he'll be doing it live.

This morning is the time to see how, before the bell rings.

[SEE HOW HE FINDS IT >>]