Which Would You Prefer: $1 Million Or 1 Million Page Views?
Posted by timothysykes on Mon 14th of Apr, 2008 01:13:41 PM
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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?
Now you can Twitter any questions/comments to TIMhelp and obviously you can follow TIM on twitter too!
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View All| Date | Stock | Position | Ideal Exit | % Gain |
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| Nov 24 | KVHI | Short | $3.70 | 18% |
| Nov 20 | STSX | Short | $3.10 | 11% |
| Nov 18 | PERY | Short | $3.75 | 25% |
| Nov 11 | IIJI | Short | $2.80 | 5% |
| Nov 6 | CVI | Short | $4 | 15% |
| Nov 5 | MECA | Short | $1.95 | 51% |
| Nov 4 | CVI | Short | $4.81 | 4% |
| Nov 3 | NAK | Short | $3.20 | 5% |
| Oct 29 | EVC | Short | $2 | 26% |
| Oct 28 | HSNI | Short | $6.80 | 7% |
| Oct 28 | HSNI | Short | $5.75 | 4% |
November: 9 alerts, 15% avg gain
October: 11 alerts, 14% avg gain
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!
no idea, i just ship off all my account records to my ridiculously good accountant
Timmay - You just made my day. Pink Truth (my site about how Mary Kay sucks) totally kicks your ass… I love it!
Tc u’re getting 10k views/day? Congrats!
Tim,
Will your new site will be up tomorrow, as promised?
tomorrow we’ll have beta invites…patience, good things take time
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?
Ha, how do we get one of those? :p
just sit back and wait on psti, ideally it breaks out to higher highs and we get a real squeeze
Congrats on the million views! I’ve probably contributed to that stat more heavily than my current employer would approve of…
Do you think PSTI will keep going up tomorrow because of the stronger volume today?
Tim, when you started your hedge fund company did you have to get Series 6 / Series 7 certified?
stop asking me about PSTI and read my comments about it int he last 2 posts now
i’ve never had any licenses
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
Do you think FEED is still a PR pump up or is there some legitimacy to it?
who knows with FEED, it’s never acted this strong before, dont underestimate it
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!
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.