My 2nd Consecutive TIMalert To Make 30% In 1 Day: Short Selling U.S. Shipping Partners L.P. (USS)

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Tue 29th of Jul, 2008 04:01:40 PM

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My latest TIMalert to short 1,500 shares of USS at $4.61 today, comes just one week after a similarly perfect 30% call on MKTY and is a perfect example of the themes I’ve been blogging about for several months:

-these piece of crap companies can spike based on pathetic speculation and collapse just as quickly due to all the bitter longterm shareholders being scared/abused for so long

-gotta reserve shares to short early–TIMalert subscribers get my daily watchlist, filled with all my potential shorts, at 8am by email and on the subscribers-only website (click HERE to see my perfect TIMalerts track record) so it’s no surprise your poor/cheap folk reading this free website couldn’t find shares…welcome to my biz model bitches!

-the reversals are extremely predictable–as I’ve telegraphed a potential short the past 2 days in my premarket watchlists and as you see in this TIMalert that I sent out, I pretty much nailed the price action an hour before it happened–this was sent out at 1:20PM EST to TIMalert subscribers:

Shorted 1500 USS at $4.61…as i wrote in my premarket watchlists the past 2 days, USS was on my watchlist for a potential short, given the stock has a solid longterm downtrend, recent sideways action and fading volume, i think bitter shareholders take this spike to reduce their positions and i know lots of other short sellers are watching this for a quick breakdown too…key breakodwn level today appears to be the 4.60 area as its held several times and considering its still solidly up on the day, i’m taking a chance here, especially since this company benefits from lower oil prices…but i’m willing to add on the way up if need be as this is only a 2/3rd position…not sure if its real but somebody posted on the message boards, the NYSe asked the company for info and they said no comment so there is risk of news coming out too….given this company’s failings, chances are news is negative…so thats the good and bad, lets see how this pattern plays out, risk is it surges past previous high of $5, but if it takes out $4, it’s got no support until the low $3s…i basically just wanna cover in the low $4s in the next 1-2 days

-the key is waiting for fading action after sideways action–stock held $4.60 all morning, perfect afternoon fade/collapse after it broke

-I suck at trading–I covered this at $4.05 for a solid, if not spectacular, 12% gain inside of an hour, now it’s at $3.25, which coulda woulda shoulda been a 30% gain–the latest reason why my 87% return in the past 9 months now on TIM truly is worst case scenario

-Screw 90% of traders losing money, these patterns are so easy, even the dumbest people in the world can make money (yours truly!). Learn the friggin patterns yourself in my PennyStocking DVD package

-You want testimonials, You want testimonials? You can’t handle all my testimonials! Every day/week brings in dozens of new ones, I’m now 18 for 18 on my TIMalerts, average gain of 20% inside of 1-2 days, how you like these apples you ignorant haters…and yes, this is all from TIMalerts, a $30/month service where more and more people keep signing up for the annual subscription (save 20% off the monthly, buy it HERE) cuz they’re making it many times over in 1 trade!

I’mm up about $4.5k on USS so far (still in it with 4k shares)
-Reaper (Michael Goode, my one time hater, who’s now made over $10,000 (by my estimation) off a little $500 combo package, see his prior testimonial HERE)

…picked up a cool $1490!! Thank you Tim!!
-Aaron

Nice job Tim. Profit today of $961 after commissions.
-kusumo

a quick $640@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-lakhanin

Got in late to USS but took 1000 shares from 3.80 to 3.30 for a quick $500 ride. Thanks Tim!
-adair

I am sure I left money on the table, but I am good with making $721.92 for the day. Thank you. YOu are a Great American.
-gburleson1

Short 2100 @ 4.61 covered at 4.42…400ish profit…TIMalerts strikes again! 
-Davey

Banked it at 3.68. for a nice profit of $290 in about 45mins.
-YG

Oh yeah, here’s the pretty chart pattern, let’s see if it looks familiar to you guys yet:

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Reaper

Tim's estimation of my profit is wrong. About $8k, because I lost $2k yesterday on an accidental short of USS.

Reaper

Still short 4200 shares USS at an average price of $3.85.

Here are my realized trades for the day:

USS Short 7000 $4.030
USS Cover 7000 $3.336

Profit: $4,852.77 20.78%

Loss from accidental short yesterday: -$2176.25

Net realized profit so far: $2676.52

TIM Sykes

exactly $10k without a bonehead mistake...i even blogged about making that mistake so there's no way u can pin that one on me :)

TIM Sykes

and even though i mistimed it, its still my biggest gain this month, and davey mistimed it much worse!!!! eheheheheh

Reaper

I should add that the above were weighted average fill prices. When trading 1% of a stock's daily volumes you gotta leg in and out and you get crappy fills. I shorted 350 on the Timalert $4.61, 2k or so when the stock went red on the day, and about 7k when USS broke $4.

Reaper

Tim -- your goal is to teach traders. Therefore, your students' performance including boneheaded mistakes is what matters. But still, $8k will pay the rent for a month or so. ;)

TIM Sykes

yes but i blogged about that specific bonehead mistake 2x so u shoulda been fully prepared...i'm sticking by the $10k i've made u

getshorty

$8k Rent, sounds like a damn good place !!!

Congrats. No way around it, will start to wake up 4:00 am so I can reserve shares on Tim alerts.

younggunz

haha, you guys are funny...Either way you can bank that coinage and move on to the next scummy stock.

Reaper

Getshorty - nah--my rent is much, much less. After taxes, this should pay for 4 month's rent.

Timmay - you blogged about it and did it a couple times yourself before you stopped making that mistake. Anyway, in 12 months when I'm up $100k, the whole point will be moot.

younggunz

Don't know if you have ToS but their trading desk opens at 5amest/6amcst.

I had a GTC short order working from yesterday and was told thats how i can keep the shares but the broker this morning said i can't do that with hard to borrow. so i don't know what would have happened if I didn't try to double my position this morning and tried to get the order filled.

younggunz

Yeah and we can make fun of you about it again then too. :)

lakhanin

tim did you buy before the market close and gap up on USS? I know a day traders life is filled with regret since as the unpredicatable past becomes the obvious future on a daily basis, but why didn't you wait for this one to tank?

TIM Sykes

i dont regret shit, i'll take 12% profits all day long....buy before gap up? whatcha smokin dude, this has gap down written all over it, read through 700 blog posts and see i suck at buying anyway...

brent

hahahahahahaha ! !! ! ! ! ! ! ya gotta love it.... congrats to all. even if it is a paltry 8 long.............

Ben

I was wrong. I pick up USS at 4.88. I don't know what should I do now.
Any suggestion?

TIM Sykes

i always cut my losses quickly so they cant turn into disasters

Julia

This is my results on today :)
NYX 45.40 45.55 +0.15
HIG 61.29 61.79 +0.50
MMM 70.15 70.25 +0.10
CHL 67.28 67.38 +0.10
SSD 21.98 21.30 +0.68
CGX 34.08 34.98 -0.10
MMM 70.55 70.45 -0.10
NYX 47.18 47.12 -0.06

Julia

I from Russia and bad know the english, explain for what timbucks?

mikeswords

I shortes RNN today.... nice little profit i got out today at 1.77

Fxeurvsusd

You are the man Tim!! You really inspire me to push it harder and harder. Even though i only trade forex, i like watching your livestock show and reading your blog!!

Keep it up mate!!

Btw now that you have that lovely Macbook Pro what software are you using to run all the windows applications?

thebabyfacedtrader

Great play Tim! I just ordered the DVD today. Cant wait to learn your system

getshorty

FXeur u making some money on FOrex?

What technicals u use?

Fxeurvsusd

Hey getshorty yes I am.
I use fibonacci retracement levels, RSI and follow the always present price patterns. I keep it simple and it works for me! :)

Joker

What stock in 5 years will you wish you have bought and sold and bought again?

Visa

Visa reports earnings tomorrow. Short it, I dare you!

Why so serious?

Mike_13th

Timmay,

HDY -13%
RNN -18%

Good enough for me!

Mike_13th

Too funny,

Reaper is Michael Goode.
I could see Reaper in the chat was one of the one's who truly gets this short stuff but didn't know who he was.
Looks like another Tim success story!

Joker

Mike the 13th, you using TOS or IB?

Mike_13th

I use IB but you need $10k to start in case you didn't know.
I love the low commish and premarket scan there and availability to short any priced stock many times.
Caught a nice one in RAMR on the late hit today off it.

Now keep tabs on RAMR red for short in future.
A junker

Val

TIM, I just signed up for TIMALERTS, but my paypal account e-mail is different from the e-mail I need the alert sent to. How can this be fixed? Thanks alot

Pumacom

Got into MNKD today... liked the volume and the move past 3.08. Hoping to break 3.20 tomorrow on good volume, then we can start filling the gap. Worth checking out.

Reaper

Mike 13th -- yeah, you know my identity now. I switched to Reaper here so not everyone would no what I was up to. Tim ruined that. But I like the nick so I'll stick with it. If anything, I'd say I'm the opposite of you. I have been profitably short selling long before I knew about Tim, but he has taught me how to do short-term trading. I do try to show up in GOTS chat, but I try to be quiet.

Reaper

correct the above to say "would know" instead of "would no". Sheesh.

Jay

gots?

yaktipper

4 of us are in the top 50 on Covestor (maybe more?) -- Tim, YngvaiMalmsteve, Adam, and me, and none of us currently have any holdings. That struck me as hilarious.

Millionairemind

Tim,
Congratulations on winning big today! You mentioned cut your loss quick and let the winner run, but you covered all 1500 at once? You could have covered 1000 shares and let 500 stay to make more. That's what I did. I covered half at 4.06, let other half run to make bigger. Will short more tomorrow, upon favorable condition. Anyway, it was (will for more tomorrow:) a great return.

Reaper

GOTS = Green on the Screen

lighterfluid

"Relationship Status: In a Relationship

Mini-Feed
Today
Tim is listed as in a relationship. 9:57pm Comment"

aww....so cute

CABeachBum

Tim, you're in a relationship? How do you have time to date when you're supposed to be finding TimAlerts like USS for us every day??? Is it a relationship or are you into what you love about all your penny stocks...pumping and dumping? ha!

johnnyvento

haha his woman probably made him change it... next will come the Facebook pictures of the 2 of them together... when you see her on the front page here then you will know it has gotten dangerous... pretty soon she will make guest appearances on Livestock... first it will be cute... we want to check her out and coldly judge her from afar... then she will start coming on every week and it will get old real fast.. after that she will start giving us stock recommendations and demand that we take her seriously apart from Tim... she will yell at us and call us 'bitches'... "Short BKUNA you mother fuckers! I don't care what Tim thinks!"... then we will all have to take sides... some will stick with Tim, some will follow the hottie...

CABeachBum

HA! So true, Johnny! The sad thing is she probably made Timmay treat her to an $853 dinner date tonight after she saw what he made for the day. I hope Tim's reason for selling USS too early wasn't because she was yapping in his ear to change his Facebook relationship status instead of watching the chart. Sounds like we may need to get Timmay listening to Tom Leykis and following the dating 101 rules. Tim's a disciplined investor, but now needs to learn how to be a disciplined dater. It's not too different from pennystocking! Tim, please read this site and start listening to Leykis if he's on the air in NYC or read the tenetsofleykis dotcom.

Joker

VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV

Visa

u pumper!

Michael Importico

Tim, thanks for responding to my request for advice after my idiotic loss the other day. I am going to take your advice...take some time off from trading and then there are always opportunities out there. When I come back I am going to join your Tim Alerts. I respect you for the fact that you gave me advice without even pushing or mentioning your Tim Alerts. By the way that is a deal at $30, I spend more than that on a few drinks at happy hour.

traderhan

ok, dumb question from a newbie here. I just signed up for Timalerts. What is the URL for the subscriber's only website?

TIM Sykes

http://www.timalerts.com

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