TIMalerts: 10 Of Your Questions Answered Here!
Posted by timothysykes on Wed 9th of Jul, 2008 12:53:25 PM
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What is TIMalerts ?
All the info can be found at TIMalerts.com, a subscribers-only website–basically for $1/day, monthly ($30) or annual ($297) subscription, you get a daily pre-market watchlist emailed to you/posted on the TIMalerts website, real-time trading alerts throughout the day and access to the discussion threads at TIMalerts.com
Will you be closing down TimothySykes.com in favor of TIMalerts .com?
Hello no! I still want to teach this game to everyone, so I’ll respond and post on both sites. I have a feeling all the hardcore traders will post on the TIMalerts site because the $30/month is near-meaningless to them, but it helps to weed out total newbies/poor people.
Is the morning watchlist the same on both sites?
YES! The difference is TIMalert subscribers get it emailed and see it posted on the TIMalerts .com website at 8am, instead of 9:30am, which is hugely important for shorting because TIMalert subscribers can reserve shares of hard-to-borrow stocks early in the morning and by the time non-paying people try to find shares, often times there won’t be any more shares available to short aka advantage TIMalert subscribers!
What is “reserving shares to short”, how do you do it?
See THIS blog post
How often will trading alerts be emailed/posted?
I have no idea, this isn’t a “one stock pick per day/week” BS scam–whenever I send out an alert, there is a worthy setup that has interested me enough to trade that stock, either long or short and those of you who have my PennyStocking instructional DVD package know it’s best to wait for those ideal setups. Sometimes, like yesterday, I’ll send out 4 alerts, sometimes none. The pre-market watchlist will be sent/posted each morning, but trades and worthy setups are unpredictable. One month in, I’ve sent out 12 trade alerts.
What’s the average trade duration & how many of the alerts will be shorts vs. longs?
Again, you guys really need to check out my PennyStocking instructional DVD package beforehand (that’s why I offer a combo deal for $495) so you can understand that my own personal trading is pretty irrelevant to you as I suck at timing, all I bring to the table is my ability to weed out the BS–and there’s a lot of it–to show you the ideal trade setups which I think have the highest probability of success.
One month into TIMalerts , there have been 8 shorts and 4 longs, that’s probly about the ratio it’ll usually be…and ALL trades have been with a 1-2 day time horizon…average gain has been 20%…no joke, check out the table on the homepage of TIMalerts.com
How do I find all my stocks to trade?
Check out THIS blog post to understand that I spend 2-5 hours each night screening and researching potential plays–you could literally do it all yourself, but I understand you’d also like to have a life, so that’s what TIMalerts helps solve–you’re paying me $1/day to put in these 2-5 hours of daily work (depending on how many plays there are). I dare you to find somebody willing to work so cheaply!
Why don’t I “get over myself”, why should you pay somebody who’s only up $8,500 in the last 7 months?
It’s funny that many seem to think that my biz is based in arrogance when in fact it’s experience-based. Thanks to my decade-long journey, detailed in my book An American Hedge Fund, I’ve seen ALL the risks, rewards, good/bad guys, good/bad companies in this niche and I’ve gotten tens of thousands of emails from traders and investors who are looking for advice/have questions so I feel uniquely qualified to teach people to profit from PennyStocking . (It’s not a “get-rich-quick” scheme, it’s all about getting the odds in your favor when you trade by taking advantage of hype, greed and marketplace corruption/manipulation.
Yes, my tiny TIM account is up only $8,500, or 70%, in 7 months (see all trades HERE), as the markets have tanked 20%. The reason my account is so small is to show investors with similarly sized accounts EXACTLY how it’s possible to use small account size to their advantage. It’s funny that many people in this joke of an industry are such snobs–just wait when TIM has assets of $100,000, I’ll be up $70,000 within a few months–probly even more considering I won’t be limited by the absurd Pattern Day Trader Rule!
Still none of my actual trading really matters as much as my ability to spot potential plays–if you’ve been reading my blog, you know I like to say “I’ll pick ‘em, you trade ‘em”.
What email address will the alerts be sent to?
Since TIMalert subscriptions are paid through Paypal, we’ll use your Paypal email address, just contact me if you’d like to use a different one.
Do we only accept Paypal payments?
Yes, but we’re working on getting credit cards accepted, will be done in the next few weeks…( not exactly high priority considering you can input your credit card info into Paypal)
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| Nov 6 | CVI | $4.42 | $4.70 | $530 |
| Nov 5 | MECA | $3.68 | $3.95 | $490 |
| Nov 4 | CVI | $5.18 | $4.94 | $472 |
| Nov 4 | CVI | $4.83 | $5.01 | $333 |
| Nov 3 | NAK | $3.30 | $3.37 | $157 |
| Oct 31 | IDAE | $2.18 | $2.18 | $20 |
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Hey Tim…any thoughts on PEIX?
Got in on ABAT on the pull back after open at 5.48. Endured,resisted the temptation to sell at a losss, the run back up to 5.59 or so and sold into the down draft at 5.28 for .20 gain, 84 bucks after commission. Pretty pathetic. Of course the bottom drops to new LOD at 5.15. Still learning and need to continue to be patient through the ups and downs of the price. Could have put a mental stop at 5.28. Even with that I would have been out at 5.28. Maybe a late day fade to hold O/N. Any thoughts?
In the future will we be able to get alerts by mobile?
tradertomcat…get a blackberry
QMNM looks to break out again
Hey Tim, for TIMAlerts, can we provide more than one email address to be alerted? I trade both at work and at home. It would be nice to receive alerts to both email accounts.
sure, just let me know your other email
I’m new to trading, so Timalerts is not for me?
on the contrary totobernal, it’ll open your eyes to exactly how i trade and give u access to the subscription site where a bunch of profitable traders discuss potential trades
Tim Thanks. Does anyone else use thinkorswim? It seems to be on the pricey side. Are there any other options?
Thanks in advance for your time.
how soon would i be activated on sub site if i enrolled now?
u get activation within 24 hours
Marc, I have 2 account, Interactive Brokers and Think or Swim, much more availability of shares to short on TOS, plus they let you reserve. IB is cheaper, I use both depending whether IB has the share i need available or not.
Fricking boring day, may as well close my terminal and call it a day.
WM falling
Getshorty, I do like the idea of being able to reserve the shares. My thinking is TOS not having enough shares especially if most of everyone on this site uses them. Do you have to call them for every trade or could it be done over the internet? I also have 2 accounts 1 with scottrade and im found out they dont alow me to short a whole lot so I went with tradeking for my second. I found out about tradeking from this site and now im finding out the same so I guess im on my way to a 3rd account with TOS and my money is spread thin at this point.
Thanks
TIm please send alerts to gburleson1@msn.com which is the email you already have on file and gary.burleson1@us.army.mil, Thank you for being a great coach.
Guys, no more 2 email addresses, its just too much of a mess for me, that’ll only be limited to annual members, this is what the timalerts website is for…sorry
I have one more question after refering to your reserving shares on ToS blog.
After you reserve shares with the live chat do you have to send them a chat message again to tell them that you want to use the shares you reserved or will they get used automatically when you enter your short offer?
Marc and Young GUnz, glad to help, but it will be less clutter here if you just call TOS and ask this questions directly.
You reserve shares through chat at TOS
Getshorty, lol you are right its not like you work for them sorry. Thanks for your input.
had a couple shots at GIGM above 13. Missed opp. Tim you waiting for another up move on this one? Or, are you in?
Hey shorty, did you take CFA Level 2 a month ago, or 13 months ago? I took it a month ago.
wow…called another QMNM breakkout!
A moth ago PCola, on June 2008, waiting for results, I nailed everything BUT accounting and accounting came big on this one, too much time studying quant was not worth it, how did yours went? Pretty primitive taking 2 months to grade a multiple choice test, guess it is just a brutal display of monopolistic power.
Come on GIGM, quit flirting with 12.70 support and just dieeee!!!!!!!!
Oh man, I’m reporting you to the CFA for unethical use of “Level 3 CFA candidate” :D.
I studied for about 2 weeks, so I don’t expect to pass, but it didn’t go as badly as I had expected. I took the actuarial exams before I changed jobs this year, and they also take 2 months to grade a 60 question MC test… They say it’s to allow for challenges to questions and to decide the passing score, but I don’t buy it either…
PCola, cool down, I am a “virtual” level 3 candidate, if you report me they’ll go back to you for unproper use of the CFA council ….ahhhh…so ….. a “guy” called “get shorty” misused the CFA designation…..mhhmmmm…. looks like we have a case here……
don’t you dare to go over 12.85 GIGM….. DON’T YOU DARE !!!!!
Man QMNM sucks bad…such a fake out
Come on GIGM… I’ll take you by the hand… just a little bit closer to the 12.70 cliff…. nothing will happen ……. (buaaahahahahaha (evil laugh))
getshorty; you holding O/N
Shorty, I was just joking, thus the :D at the end.
Good luck to us both.
Yeah but I am lazy. I wasn’t asking about whether I can use live chat to reserve my question was do i have to tell them again right before i make my short request that i want to use my reserved shares. I will just ask in live chat now anyways to find out.
I should have mentioned earlier another reason why I ask. I saw what looked like Tim send a note in ToS live chat that he wanted to use his reserved shares to short then went to the trade screen and made his short offer.
That was when he made his first live trade on Livestock.
man, i’m on a role with writing incomplete comments.
was that a fakedown on gigm?
FRE looks like it will be a penny stock soon
Me too, put some rum on that cola :D
Still making up my mind brent, but at this point I don’t see why not
FRE won’t be a penny stock because the government has already said it WONT fail. Cramer’s a frickin’ idiot and tanked the market by saying Freddie and Fannie are going to fail, when his buddy ol’ pal Hanky has already said they WILL not, under any circumstances, fail.
300 shares short overnight gigm, trying to short additional 200 but tos is taking forever
Tim -
Today was my first day of TimAlerts and my first short ever!
Made $70 on 150 shares of GIGM….it wasn’t much but it did pay for my TimAlerts.
Thanks
awesome,
12:40 dingo907: Hi please short 200 shares of gigm with a STOP order at 12.65
12:41 dingo907: Help please !
12:42 dingo907: this is going down without me !
12:42 Bruce S.: Hello
12:42 dingo907: hi
12:42 Bruce S.: let me direct you to the canadian team
12:43 dingo907: don’t takle long please
12:45 dingo907: Joseph please execute 200 short of gigm at a limit of 12.55
12:47 dingo907: anybody?
12:48 Joseph: hello
12:48 Joseph: you left hte chat so i thought you were gone
12:49 Joseph: i reset you
12:49 Joseph: you have no restriction now
12:52 dingo907: thanks
12:52 dingo907: can you put the order throug?
12:53 dingo907: 200 shares of gigm at a limit 12.6
12:54 dingo907: PLease place the order, I can;t place the order directly, ita asks me to contact TOS since thi shares are hard to borrow
12:55 dingo907: Hi, please sell 200 shares of gigm short at a limit price of 12.6
12:57 dingo907: come on
12:58 dingo907: Joseph
20 minutes and I couldn’t short fricking 200 addtl shares!!!
shorty, why didn’t you put in the order earlier in the day at like $14 and then just change it yourself?
I did that for my 300 shares position, which I am holding overnight, however I liquidated other position later that gave me the fire power to short additional 200 shares.
I have most of my money on my IB account, but now that my TOS account doesn’t have the PDT restriction anymore I’ll transfer most of my money to TOS.
Tim, whats your take on gigm, you said earlier you were waiting for it to break the 12.70 support, looks like a little risk overnight short.
getshorty; i decided to stay out. If history is any indication you should be fine.
what’s the deal with the subscription website. Do I just wait for information to be emailed? Is this a completely different url?