Every new trader dreams about that one life changing trade. Most people assume that kind of trade is like winning the lottery.
But it wasn’t luck when I turned $30,000 of defined risk into $3.5 million.
I started with about $30,000 at risk, and that was the whole downside I was willing to take.
I took a $100,000 position (risking only 30% of that) and turned a 3400% profit in 24 hours.
The best day of my career.
I built that epic day of profits one trade at a time. Each trade had a plan and a risk established before hand. On this day, everything worked exactly as I hoped.
I’m not saying that I wasn’t fortunate, but you don’t make these kinds of gains by luck.
And the process that produced them is repeatable and it applies to all account sizes.
The trade was on Beyond Meat (NASDAQ: BYND) in October 2025 (one of the biggest runs ever for the stock).
I’d been watching the stock run and had a plan for that first red day.
Here’s how the day actually stacked up..
- Shorted the morning spike: 1,073,020 shares from $6.38, covered at $5.11, for +$1,366,504.
- Shorted the next pop: 845,000 shares from $5.00 down to $4.00, for +$878,096.
- Bought the wash-out: 2,525,000 shares at $3.00, out at $3.30, for +$679,305.
- Grabbed puts for extra downside: in at $1.60, out at $2.40, for +$267,692.
- Held one long overnight: 1,977,505 shares from $5.39, out the next morning at $5.57, for +$355,734.
Five trades on one stock, about $3.5 million.*
How This Works For Small Accounts
The same math works on a small account. Say you’ve got a $10,000 account.
Say you risk about $500 to start, which works out to a 5% stop. If the trade works, you add to it using the profit you’ve already locked in. Your original $10,000 stays where it is.
Play it right, and the upside can run into the tens of thousands on that same account.
You risk small, then you add with your winnings.
There’s one honest catch. The small downside only stays small if you actually take your stop and know when to quit.
I didn’t quit soon enough myself. I kept trading BYND after that day and gave a chunk of the win back. In the end I still walked away with about $2.7 million on a $100,000 position.*
But you don’t need a huge account to go after a day like that. You need a small risk you cap on purpose, and the patience to let your winnings buy the size for you.
My good friend Matt Monaco built a plan around that same idea. He calls the setups “Super Stocks”: stocks that trade like any other name but, he says, carry three times the profit potential.
He says that’s how he turned $100,000 into $1.2 million in six months last year.
He’s going live TODAY 10 to 11am PDT to walk through the Super Stocks approach and name his top pick for it.
Stay sharp,
Jack Kellogg
*Past performance does not indicate future results