The market is full of opportunities. At Trades of the Day, we help you find them. In short, we highlight breakout setups, smart money flow, analyst sentiment shifts, and other signals you can use to spot potential moves.
What You’ll Find in Trades of the Day
Each issue highlights a mix of trading setups, market signals, and investment ideas that may help readers spot potential opportunities before they become widely recognized.
📈 Breakout Stocks
Stocks showing strong technical momentum and approaching key breakout levels. These setups focus on chart patterns, support and resistance levels, and other signals that suggest a stock may be ready for a significant move higher.
🧠 Smart Money
Signals from experienced investors and institutions including insider buying, unusual options activity, and hedge fund positioning that may reveal where sophisticated investors are placing their bets.
🏦 Analyst Ratings
Daily updates on upgrades and downgrades from Wall Street analysts. Changes in ratings and price targets can often signal shifts in sentiment toward a company or sector.
💰 Income Strategies
Options strategies designed to generate income, including selling covered calls and cash-secured puts to potentially produce steady returns while maintaining a disciplined approach to risk.
🚀 High-Risk / High-Reward Ideas
Higher-risk opportunities for traders seeking outsized potential gains. These ideas may include small-cap stocks, penny stocks, crypto setups, and other volatile trades.
Who This Newsletter Is For
Trades of the Day is built for active investors and traders who want more than just headlines — they want signals, setups, and actionable ideas.
This newsletter is for readers who want to:
- Find breakout stocks before they make their next major move
- Follow insider buying, unusual options activity, and other smart money signals
- Stay on top of key analyst upgrades and downgrades
- Generate income using covered calls and cash-secured puts
- Explore selective high-risk, high-reward opportunities with defined upside potential
If that sounds like you, Trades of the Day was built with you in mind.
Inside a Typical Trades of the Day Issue
Each issue of Trades of the Day highlights several different signals traders use to identify opportunities.
A typical issue may include:
📈 Breakout Stock Setup
A technical trade idea based on chart patterns, momentum, and clearly defined risk levels.
🧠 Smart Money Signal
An analysis of insider buying, institutional accumulation, hedge fund activity, or unusual options activity.
🏦 Analyst Ratings Update
Daily upgrades and downgrades from Wall Street analysts.
💰 Income Strategy
An options trade such as a covered call or cash-secured put designed to generate relatively safe, high income.
🚀 High-Risk / High-Reward Idea
A speculative opportunity such as a small-cap stock, penny stock, or crypto trade setup.
Meet the Research Team
Trades of the Day is powered by a focused editorial team with complementary strengths in technical analysis, smart money signals, and options income strategies.
Greg Patrick
Publisher | Smart Money & Income Strategies
Greg Patrick is the publisher of Trades of the Day and specializes in analyzing smart money activity and options income strategies to identify high-conviction trading opportunities.
His research focuses on insider buying, institutional accumulation, hedge fund activity, and unusual options flow to uncover stocks attracting attention from sophisticated investors. Greg also generates income using disciplined options strategies such as selling cash-secured puts and covered calls.
Tara Young
Technical Analyst | Breakout Stocks & Trade Setups
Tara Young is a professional technical analyst who specializes in identifying high-probability trade setups through detailed chart analysis.
She excels at spotting emerging price patterns, momentum shifts, and breakout opportunities with clearly defined risk and strong upside potential. Tara also authors Trades of the Day’s trading education materials, helping readers understand the technical concepts behind the setups featured in the newsletter.
Our Goal
Markets move quickly, and new opportunities emerge every day.
The goal of Trades of the Day is to cut through the noise and highlight signals that may point to interesting opportunities — whether they come from technical setups, institutional activity, analyst sentiment, income strategies, or higher-risk speculative trades.
If you’re looking for ideas to explore, Trades of the Day is designed to help you stay one step ahead of the market.