Which Would You Prefer: $1 Million Or 1 Million Page Views?
As detailed by Chapter 8 in my book An American Hedge Fund, I made my first million dollars in 4 years and before my 22nd birthday, hitting that mark—post-tax—after making $80,000+ on one crazy trade over a satellite internet connection while aboard a cruise ship in the South Pacific! (seriously)
Yesterday—just 6 months into my blogging adventure and two days before my 27th birthday, this website hit the coveted 1 million views mark.
Since that first $1 million, it’s been a wild 5 years filled with tremendous ups and downs but the learning has never stopped. Obviously if I had to choose between dollars vs. page views, I’d choose dollars, but this event is still significant because this website is my future and I’m forever grateful to all you readers out there for checking in regularly enough to make this business model—trading, writing, teaching all with brutal honesty—viable. Since this technology is all still pretty new, I really believe this is just the beginning.
So, thank you—truly—I think this is only gonna get better and while I still have yet to get to the $2 million mark—post-tax—at this site’s current pace, we should hit 2 million views inside of the next 100 days…sounds like a good excuse for a party, right?
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1Gustad
April 14th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Tim, how is thinkorswim when it comes to tax time? do they give you all details needed? does it leave you alot of work to calculate? and do you know if they send their data to turbo tax?
thanks!
2timsykes
April 14th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
no idea, i just ship off all my account records to my ridiculously good accountant
3Tracy Coenen
April 14th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Timmay - You just made my day. Pink Truth (my site about how Mary Kay sucks) totally kicks your ass… I love it!
4timsykes
April 14th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Tc u’re getting 10k views/day? Congrats!
5Scott
April 14th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Tim,
Will your new site will be up tomorrow, as promised?
6timsykes
April 14th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
tomorrow we’ll have beta invites…patience, good things take time
7Evans
April 14th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
I don’t have a webpage and therefore I am unaware What has to do with whatever number of hit to your or any website? Anyway, Happy Birthday Tim. Any thought about today’s PSTI action? Short again, wait, or forget about it?
8stevenjh
April 14th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Ha, how do we get one of those? :p
9timsykes
April 14th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
just sit back and wait on psti, ideally it breaks out to higher highs and we get a real squeeze
10ViciousChicken(TIMBUCKS: $104)
April 14th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Congrats on the million views! I’ve probably contributed to that stat more heavily than my current employer would approve of…
11RLP
April 14th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Do you think PSTI will keep going up tomorrow because of the stronger volume today?
12Tom J
April 14th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Tim, when you started your hedge fund company did you have to get Series 6 / Series 7 certified?
13timsykes
April 14th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
stop asking me about PSTI and read my comments about it int he last 2 posts now
i’ve never had any licenses
14Tracy Coenen
April 14th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
We average 13k views a day. :)
I had no idea we were doing so well until you forced me to go look!
Happy almost birthday Timmay!
<3
15Kevin
April 14th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Do you think FEED is still a PR pump up or is there some legitimacy to it?
16timsykes
April 14th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
who knows with FEED, it’s never acted this strong before, dont underestimate it
17BenBien
April 14th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Congratulations, Tim. You’re a role model for us 20-somethings who want to do things differently. Here’s to a 2008 filled with profitunity!
18Brewster(TIMBUCKS: $11)
April 14th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Tim, way to go on the million hits.
BTW, I got your DVD & book the other day — found the DVD very informative. The book is really interesting — thought you made some really good points in the final chapter.