What's the biggest misconception about the stock market being closed on weekends?
That nothing happens.
That assumption is exactly why a small group of traders has been quietly profiting from it for years.
Here's the mechanism.
Big stocks like Apple, Tesla, and Amazon are watched constantly.
When news breaks on one of them, the price adjusts almost instantly, because thousands of institutions and algorithms are reacting in real time.
Small, overlooked stocks don't get that treatment.
When news breaks on a $2 or $3 stock Friday afternoon, after the closing bell, there's often nobody left watching to react to it until Monday morning.
That two day window is what trader Tim Sykes calls the weekend windfall.
Sykes buys a position Friday afternoon, before the news has been fully priced in, then does nothing until Monday.
No charts to watch all weekend.
No screens to babysit.
Just a two day gap between when the news breaks and when the rest of the market catches up.
Sykes walks through his full process, including exactly what he looks for before placing a Friday trade and how he decides when to sell Monday, in a short video he just released.
He's also been direct about why the timing matters right now.
Nasdaq has been moving toward expanded, closer to round the clock trading, which would shrink or eliminate this exact weekend gap.
If that happens, this window closes for good.
The video is available here, while the setup still exists.
[WATCH THE FULL BREAKDOWN >>]
