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The Beginnings Of The Best Damn Stock Market Glossary…Ever

Posted by timothysykes on Sat 17th of May, 2008 03:30:48 PM
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No matter how much I try to simplify penny stock trading and relate it to the real world, many of you still don’t even understand the basic terminology. So, for you guys, I’ve created TIMterms, a glossary of commonly used concepts and terms. Be warned, unlike the rest of the stuffy narrow-minded finance world, it ain’t boring and you’re damn right it’s opinionated. After all, it’s far better to have the opinion of somebody with a proven track record than the financial journalist wannabes over at Investopedia who often get their facts wrong!

Here are the first 15 TIMterms, eventually there’ll be hundreds, maybe even thousands of them, all inter-connected with plenty of examples Wikipedia-style, and links to alternate definitions and examples (anybody with a blog or website, def. comment on this post as I’ll link to anything worthy) but gimme some time, I’m not rich enough to clone myself to get all my projects done right away…yet. If I’ve done this correctly, you just need to click on the orange folder above each term to be taken to its definition:

1. ANALysts
2. Buying To Cover
3. Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR)
4. EBITDA
5. EPS
6. Max Pain
7. PE Ratio
8. Penny Stock
9. PennyStocking
10. Risk-Reward Ratio
11. Short Selling
12. Short Squeeze
13. Unworthy Trade
14. Volatility
15. Worthy Trade

Whatcha think? I need suggestions for more terms, c’mon, don’t be shy!

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  • davidmoliv
    Nice, good work Tim, always trying to improve something.
    My "penny" contribution for another term :) "Naked Short".
  • davidmoliv
    By the way, I'm waiting to receive your book I bought last week from amazon.fr (I'm from Portugal) but from their support's response at this moment I'm waiting for a delivery from US (probably you already broke the stocks for your book here in Europe :))
  • KEVIN
    How about a trade that was "TIMalicious", which is a trade that set up perfect and was played perfect by no one other then TIMOTHY SYKES!!

    TIMALICIOUS BABY, YEAH!!
  • jj
    Nice addition! I think a few visual aids will help to solidify the TIMterms section...remember you were the first to bring hot models to help describe your stock charts...so don't stop there!
  • jj
    Other words that could be defined:

    Level II
    SuperNova
    MicroCrap
  • jj
    oh ya...you should also add this to the navigations bar on the top right.
  • Tim,

    I think it would be helpful for you to define these terms:

    1.) Liquid
    2.) Illiquid (the liquid versus illiquid distinction)
    3.) Float
    4.) Average Volume
    5.) Pump and Dump

    From having read your site for the past three months, I think you reference these terms and concepts most often.
  • Max
    one suggestion: enable comments on the TIMterms
  • thanks for the terms..and yes comments will be opened soon along with content from other blogs/websites that deal with that term..indian designer's day off
  • Oliver
    maybe you should call it TIMpedia? ;)
  • I second the notion of calling it TIMpedia, but I think TIMterms is fine too because it is more direct. These ARE the terms of the game, the terminology! Oh yeah, I have an idea for you, Tim: TIMtheories? TIMtheories would be just a paragraph or two of your theories, because I remember you said you're not even that great of a trader but you've got the theories down. I have personally benefited A LOT from reading and conceptualizing many of the theories you speak of, such as your distrust of the financial media CIRCUS, or your lack of care for macroeconomic trends, but I think many of your theories are scattered across your articles. Again, I thank you for your contribution and your work. I visit your site every day, I am dead serious. And guess what, I've made about $680 in one week since shorting with my thinkorswim account.
  • I love you man, in a non-gay and brotherly way.
  • trder22
    Tim -

    What was the confirmation on PDO/MXC being supernovas now? It seems before this major runup you were still bullish on these. Does this mean that you think the upside is pretty much over for these stocks?
  • 1. Yeild
    2. ETF
    3. Regulation T
    4. Mutual fund nahhh who really cares about those.
  • avis
    this isn't a relevant comment but...

    newbie question: how do you keep track of your individual gains and losses for tax reporting purposes? do you have any recommendations?
  • eb
    How about instead of TIMpedia, can I suggest TIMIpedia? Kinda like a Wikipedia by Tim for us? What you think Tim? Sounds pretty cool?
  • eb
    How about the term..."priced in"? Ive heard that term a million times but I dont know what it is.
  • Evan
    Tim,

    I always have business ideas multiplying in my head 24/7. My entrepreneurial spirit always gets the best of me at some point and I have to vent some out or my brain might combust. It would be really cool for you to document this whole year (ie. blogsite, certain comments, charts from these stocks we're currently playing, etc.) You may have already thought of this, but the title could definitely be: Penny Stalking

    From your last book, I know you're good with the tagline text, but this one could read: How the Outcast Youngsters of Wall Street Fought Back

    ps- I've been forgetting to login before posting the last few days- can I use my Timbucks to short a supernova in order to make up some ground?
  • ShootSteel
    Kappa
    Gamma
    Gap
  • ShootSteel
    Acid Test

    SEC---sure to be a funny one

    House Call
  • enorck
    TIM don't forget the old "Gap and Trap"

    For those poor momentum players that sometimes get into a bad situation!
  • enorck
    Also a few more, if this is going to be the best damn glossary ever!!

    Patterned cycles
    Pattern recognition
    Parallel price channels
    risk/reward ratio
    power spike
    ROC (price rate of change)
    RSI (relative strength indicator)
    Range bound
    Formation set-up
    Trend induce momentum
    VMA (Volume moving avg)
    DMA (Daily moving avg)
    PPC (parallel price channels)
    MOC (Market on close)
    Candlesticking (we won't even get into all of those patterns)
    Momentum
    Pattern Failure
    Support
    Resistance
    Pivot Point
    Accumilation
    Distribution
    Channel breaks
    Fakeouts/Breakouts
    Directional price change
    Exhaustion Gaps
    Execution Target
    EMA (Exponential Moving Avg)
    MACD (Moving avg convergence-divergence)
    Time bias
    Risk management
    Volatility/Whipsaws

    Sorry Tim just thinking and listing here before I go catch a flight. Maybe you could use some of these. Happy flipping gents.
  • nice enorck! i'm def. gonna go to town on that list, but 2 things--1.) oh yes i'm gonna go into each candlestick pattern and 2.)already got risk-reward ratio :)
  • cash
    Tim you have got to get into the merchandising your brand cause you are becoming a brand. You do know this right? My two ideas are a camo penny stalking shirt and a FATHEAD like the athletes have out so you can over look us making our trades.
  • enorck
    Tim I actually meant I wasn't going to list all of those (TA patterns), you simply could do multiple blogs based on all of that alone easy. Appreciate you insight and straight-forwardness, and look forward to reading here in the future.

    Sorry about the duplicate there too.
  • Money$hot
    MoneyShot has no game when it comes to short selling, in fact the ballsack has yet to drop. Here's how amateurish MoneyShot is on investing in general:

    Thursday afternoon MoneyShot's bone worthy wife gets a brochure from Kentucky USA Energy Corp. At first glance, Money was all, "that's junkmail- throw it away." BUTT, since Money just opened up a Scottrade account and started dabbling in some novice elementary Swing Trading he figured he'd inspect the brochure. It looked legit and as of May 17th MoneyShot had no clue there were fraud companies scamming the masses and unsuspecting newbs, UNTIL, he went to their website and started clicking on their news links, like the one titled...

    "These 15 Hot Stocks Are Good Short Candidates."

    The link took me to the iStockAnalyst site and MoneyShot read every word of Timmay's article. Upon realizing that Money would have been punked by the darkside of the investment world of fraud he decided to Google Timothy Sykes and as a result spent all day Saturday fattin around on the couch watching reruns of WallStreet Warrior season 1 and navigating throughout Club TIM. By the way, MoneyShot was wondering how far Tim got with the hottie from FIU. Timay Too Smooth should bang her like a screen door in a hurricane. Money's 94.3% certain that most everyone else who watched that episode punched their midget. But whatevs...

    The irony is that KYUS inadvertantly exposed themselves on their own website with Tim's article as a link, or was that their intent all along? Dunno. Money would like to ask Sir Trade-A-Lot what the indicators are for detecting a fraud company. Also, since CHK, CVA, and CLHB were all stock picks on the KYUS brochure it is assumed that these companies are frauds as well. WTF??? How can they be allowed to sell stock of a bogus company? Timmay, you need a word and definition for companies like these.

    Anyfart, sorry about the winded post, but congrats on a well designed interactive site and the nuances of investing. Money will continue to swing trade for the time being and learn the hard way.
  • sick idea is this going to be linked on the nav
  • James
    Hey, could you add "scalping" to this list? I've seen it used a lot lately.
  • 'Paid Pumpers' of course must be a TIMterm. Hey Timmaaah get in touch with me a la http://www.CollegeStock.com and I can furnish lots of sorted data for your TIMpedia :)
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Determined to teach others this PennyStocking trading strategy (learn more HERE), he went back to his original $12,415 roots (already $58,000+ even though the stock market has crashed) to show everyone how to turn thousands into millions, even while having a life (somewhat) and making plenty of mistakes. Currently he is the #1 ranked trader out of 25,000+ on Covestor)

How Can I Consistently Make Money In The Stock Market?

Hard work, Determination and Know How.

Hard work to learn how the greatly misunderstood niche of penny stocks provides opportunities every now and then on which you should pounce.

Determination to seek those probable profits out and know how in order to actually profit from them.

Long story short, wait for stocks that are extremely volatile - for whatever reason - and then aim to take small profits (between 10 and 50% within a few hours, days or weeks) here and there, either from betting on higher or lower prices (yes, you can make $ betting on lower prices, it's called Shortstocking (learn more HERE).

Why Penny Stocks?

As Tim explains in several ALL-NEW instructional DVDs (see them HERE) and in over 2000+ blog posts, penny stocks are the most hyped and corrupt niche in the entire investment world. These two qualities make them the easiest to profit from (legally) because the vast majority of people who play penny stocks are suckers and all-around ignorant people. If you have any intelligence whatsoever, you have a clear advantage and it's like playing basketball against mental midgets.

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Date Stock Buy Sell Net
Nov 19 AENY $2.80 $3.02 $1148
Nov 18 NLST $4.16 $4.40 $947
Nov 18 IMGG $1.42 $1.64 $2094
Nov 17 NLST $5.04 $5.59 $2195
Nov 13 VRMLQ $21.50 $22.97 $2901
Nov 11 EONC $2.61 $2.80 $687
Nov 10 EONC $2.74 $3.36 $9784
Nov 6 QXM $4.31 $4.80 $1936
Nov 4 COT $8.66 $8.88 $642
Nov 4 QXM $4.61 $4.89 $822
Oct 30 DDRX $25.70 $26.53 $812
Oct 29 CTDC $4.00 $4.42 $781
Oct 26 AWSL $3.24 $4.10 $2516
Oct 23 RODM $5.27 $5.23 $301
Oct 22 AMLM $2.69 $2.97 $820
Oct 22 USEG $6.12 $6.09 $85
Oct 20 CBOU $8.93 $9.06 $243
Oct 16 VRMLQ $16.79 $18.65 $2773
Oct 13 YONG $11.05 $11.66 $1202
Oct 13 NPHC $0.59 $0.71 $583
Oct 12 IMGG $0.60 $0.70 $682
Oct 9 ZAGG $5.50 $6.10 $2380
Oct 7 GVBP $0.03 $0.27 $702
Oct 1 NPHC $0.70 $0.85 $1482

Total: $98,094 (681%)