TIMalerts 2 Month Review, Let’s See How Everyone’s Fared
Posted by Pallian (Moderator) on Tue 12th of Aug, 2008 12:55:11 PM
It’s been exactly 2 months since TIMalerts, real-time stock alerts by me, started and I gotta say it’s been a resounding success. Now 400 subscribers strong, each post on the subscribers-only website TIMalerts.com now gets 80-150 comments (that’s why this site has been so quiet lately) and everybody seems to be enjoying my track record below:
CNEH… bought at 4.98 and sold at 5.40. Made about $630! Thanks TIM!
- Mitil
Bought 1000 CNEH this morning at 4.80 and sold 7 min later at 5. Thanks for the quick $200 Tim! Gotta go to work now!
- Dave Roberts
Now at 5.11. Impressive. I’ve mostly just been watching and getting a feel for your trading, but I am now 2 for 2 in “coattailing” you with this long and HYHY short. Moving some money around to get a bigger stack in TOS, so then i will start taking larger positions soon. Good call on this one Tim.
- PCola
Boy whatta great day for buying….. with my sucess of HYHY that put me up $300 because of the wonderful TIMalerts! During the afternoon i’d become lazy, watchin a few stocks, mainly giving up until i checked my mail and saw Tims email about TGC, im not big on oil and gas play but ahhh wat the hell. I got in TGC at $1.75 buying 1000 shares.. im holding till the morning, hopefully this gets pumped some more…. THANKS TO TIM ALERTS I’M UP $400! THANKS TIM!!!
- Andy (who later sold TGC above $2 for another $300 profit)
Just one day into TIMalerts, my $350 gains from shorting and covering STXX today paid for an entire year of TIMalerts and like Tim I even screwed up my trade! I started with about 4300 and that is now 9K and that really has happened in about 3 months. Not Tony Ellis or Jeff Moates money, but for a 21 y/o its not bad. I’m even getting a job on top of school to help me get to 25K quicker so we can really profit freely.
- Davey
I am currently deployed to Baghdad, Iraq so I don’t have the time nor the experience to screen for these stocks like I would like to, I am truly grateful for your PICKS already covered STXX for 1.30 a share! and I subscribed for your service yesterday Thank you. You are an outstanding trading coach! Keep the great picks coming!
- gburleson1
I just pulled a Sykes–HYGS started to move while I was on the phone with a reporter (for the Indianapolis Business Journal, of all places), so my entry and exit were horrible, but I shorted 5k HYGS @ $2.25 and then bought back at $2.08. Total profit after commission of $810.
- Reaper
“I wanted to share my HYHY trade with you. First off THANK YOU for you post and heads up!! Brief summary: put in ask right at opening for 2800 shares @ 2.38 went to a meeting (work full time), checked back at lunch saw the stock loosing momentum got out @ 2.64!!!!!!! $671.95 profit (10.04% before taxes of course)!!!!! Obviously I will be ordering PennyStocking.”
- Steve
“I’m up 1200 so far on ERII. Great pick!”
- bestdeception
“Made 200 dollar on ERII :)”
- marketgirl
“$500 profit on ERII…thx tim alert. I’m up $1400 in my first 2 days of tim alerts”
- Jonescade
“Tim, thanks for the ERII….made about $800, easily could have been $1200″
- Aaron
“Hurrrrraaayyyyy, I bought TIMalerts yesterday for $29.95. I made $326 this morning on ERII”
- Ron
“Made 250$ on ERII. Thanks to TIMalerts… was tentative and opened 200 shares… still it worked!”
- Seattle Guy
“I had only 500 shares, banked total $1035 from ERII (after comm. & fees).”
- Ryan
“Thanks TIM for the quick $600 on IDAE!”
- Kevin
“Tim, you are the best! I bought IDAE in the worst time yesterday… sold in a bad timing today but still made $540 from 6,000 shares. Bben in peterleeds.com, been in portfolio crafter, made a little money from their picks but not close to what i make from tim alerts! Thank you”
- Gill
“$210 gain on IDAE long in my IRA account”
- Barrett
“Thanks to Tim & TIMalerts, I made $500+ on IDAE this week alone not to mention some smaller gains on other TIMalerts.”
- Brickhouse
“Tim . . got out of IDAE. . . made $247 profit. .. thanks for the pick!”
- Deuce
“I made about $220 on IDAE after fees and commissions… I’ll take it any day.”
- Oracle of NYC
“I just sold my 5K shares at 2.44 and 2.45…Tim, for your records I pulled in $777 before commission.”
- PCola
“I just sold at 6.90 for a net gain of $180 which more than covered the cost of this first month of alerts. The trade can also be verified on Covestor (AdamN)”
- Adam
“New to the TIMalerts but similar success! Got in MNLU at 6.70 yesterday and got out during today’s final rush at 7.10. Subscription is paid off with a little gravy on the side! Profit of $298. Thanks Tim!”
- Steven
“$337 profit after commissions”
- Reaper
“Mistimed ZYXI also. Still made profit of $210 after commissions”
- Kusumo
“I got scared and got out. +$53 woohoo lunch money!”
- Reaper
“I am out of MKTY, $100 profit”
- BTB
“Made $652 on MKTY after commissions. Sold my 700 shares at $4.15, a 0.96 or 18% profit. Perfect call Tim!”
- AdamN
“Out of MKTY for a total profit of $720.”
- getshorty
“Sold short @ $5.10. Bought em back @ $4.49 = Profit of $599 after fees/commish…TIMalerts is hot this week my friends…”
- PD
“Made $300ish on MKTY on 900 shares Short @5ish covered at 4.67ish.”
- Davey
“Shorted 200 shares of MKTY at 4.97, covered at 4.70. Even with a slow trigger finger I made an easy $55 on this perfect morning TimAlert watchlist setup…TimAlert subscription paid for on my second trade.”
- YoungGunz
“Out of the position now and profited $295 after commissions. Thanks Tim.”
- Kusumo
“Total profit from USS today and yesterday: $9543.74. Total net profit from USS (after netting out Monday’s accidental trade): $7367.49″
- Reaper
“Tim, my entry was $3.89 not ideal - @2k shares - money wise $2,560 after commission”
- lmsmith
“ut of USS as well… holy crap that was amazing, thank you Tim!! Total gain of $637 after commissions on a $1500 account!!!!!”
- Mike
“…picked up a cool $1490!! Thank you Tim!!”
- Aaron
“Nice job Tim. Profit today of $961 after commissions.”
- kusumo
“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
“Banked it at 3.68. for a nice profit of $290 in about 45mins.”
- YG
“TOut of NOBL at $5.65. Made $1,140.19 after commission”
- PCola
“An easy $382 gain after commissions.”
- Jeff
“Hell I only bought 200 shares but this trade alone paid for my TIMalerts subscription for 3 months!”
- notesguy88
“The timing of the buy and sell alert was perfect. I bought and sold as per the alert and cashed in a nice $645. Thanks a lot Tim.”
- bharani
“$.29 gain on 1500 shares… $435 in the bank! thank you thank you”
- sweeney
“With my first trade I bought 125 shares at 5.05 and sold at 5.61 Profit of $64
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- evanmost
“Got out of NOBL with $280 profit . . . another nice one Tim. thanks!”
- DeuceDavis
“Banked it at 3.68. for a nice profit of $290 in about 45mins.”
- YG
So I’m curious how much everyone’s actually made or lost using this FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY SERVICE–please post your profits/losses below, and don’t BS–be better than EliteTraders who give this industry such a bad name–if you lost $, say it.
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Made 3k last month…. thanks tim
up $12.3k since I signed up for TimAlerts.
I started trading with ZYXI so far this is how I turned out.
ZYXI- broke even…chickened out and covered fast. could have made over $100 on 200 shares
MKTY made around $60 I think. Again I left money on the table covering quickly.
USS made ~$300 Nice profit for 400 shares.
NOBL made $15. Breakout ended by the time I bought still atleast I didn’t lose money.
I made one trade on my own in that time and lost $50.
Still up a lot higher then I would have been if I left my money in my mutual fund.
Up $3448 since I signed up. Took me a sec to add it up. Thanks Timmy!
nice guys, keep em comin!
Tim, I made $2,655.11 after commission on the 4 TimAlerts that I played over the 2 months. Unfortunately, that’s the end for me, as I got the official word from my company that as of the end of this week I am subject to compliance requirements, which require pre-clearance of all trades and a minimum holding period of 2 months.
thanks for your picks, and maybe if something changes I’ll be back, but I doubt it.
Good luck to you and the rest of the posters here.
you must be working in the industry.
stocklemon out negative on AMED
Quick question about TIMalerts. I also work in the industry and due to compliance requirements have to get pre-clearance of all trades. My question is how quick after a TIMalert goes out do you have to act on it. Sometimes it can take up to half a day before I have clearance to make a trade from our compliance department. Would that be too late to make TIMalerts work for me?
who’s stocklemon? is that a dumb question?
Think about it this way DMAC, if you can only make 1 trade in a month, you should profit at least $100, triple what timalerts costs. Some of the trades are in and out quick, but some are slow faders that take a couple days to complete. So even if you are a little late to the party, you can still join us for dessert.
Tim, I totally admire everything you do here, and I’ve learned a lot from you. But I do have to say that the TIMalerts create some artificial price action that really can screw things up. APII was a perfect example today. I had shares of this reserved, but didn’t get filled until the low 3.20’s because of all the subscribers shorting at the same time. It created an artifical tankage of the stock, and when it climbed back to the high 3.20’s, I jumped back out with a loss, out of fear that all of the subscribers would start covering and cause a big squeeze. I may re-short it into the close today, but I’m unsure as now I don’t know if the price action is real or artificial.
Then there’s the problem with all of the subscribers covering at the same time, which can also cause a massive squeeze on such an illiquid stock.
TIMalerts work great with highly liquid stocks, but with illiquid stocks like APII, it messes things up.
DMAC, do you have a mandatory holding period? As I mentioned above, I can’t sell for 60 days from buying, so for me, timAlerts is no longer a viable strategy. If you have no holding limit (and honestly, I’ll be surprised if you can buy and sell in the same day), I just don’t see it being worth it. It’s too much of a crapshoot to get in one of his picks after he is already up a bunch.
But really, other than $30, what do you have to lose. Try it out and decide for yourself. I just know that I’m not planning to trade his picks anymore.
When APII hit 3.40 Tim wasn’t the only one shorting. the alerts usually take 1-2 minutes to hit everyone else and by that time the price was already in the low 3.30s to upper 3.20s
Also when Tim has ever cover the stock barely missed a beat and kept going the same direction.
AMED wow
The action today is nearly the same was it was yesterday. it was creeping up then started fading in the afternoon then suddenly tanked. it recovered some then faded again into the close.
Younggunz, there’s a big difference between yesterday and today. Yes, it did tank yesterday at 11:15 PM PST, but that was on low volume.
Today, it tanked on well over 50,000 shares traded within minutes, right after Tim sent out his alert. This was obviously due to the all of the subscribers getting in at the same time. NOBL was no different; right after Tim sent out his alerts, there was a huge flurry in trading volume and the price went up. This is not coincidence.
In fact, some of the guys over on GOS said they like to buy stocks when Tim covers, because they know the subscribers may start covering too which will force the price up.
I think there are only about 2 stocks that you could buy into after tim cover that you could make a profit on. Most have continued going the same direction he played them.
i pooped myself, thanks tim!
no seriosuly, gj tim
and that’s why I don’t need to do a blog or sell crap or sucker in fools. I run 8 billion dollars and make more in a day then you fools together make in your lifetime.
for 1,900 a day i can guarantee you will go to heaven. money back guarantee!!!
sucker born every minute (read: TIM alert subscribers). you will all get crushed very soon and blame everyone else, while i make bank!! signed, true internet guru.
If you run 8 billion, then what the hell are you doing here?
that guy is so full of shit, i tracked down his ip address to some place in south dakota, no one runs a 8 billion fund out of sd, nice try tool bag
lol
I want to see some of you TimAlerts peoples Covestor pages!
http://www.covestor.com/mbr/johnca
PCola - why are you limited in this way? Your employer?
APII crap all of tims newbies run for cover. Tims approach wont work anymore with all the subscribers. All you have to do is wait 20 mins before close and start just start bidding it up and watch the newbies run, you can bet your ass that Tim makes his 20c, lol. HES A PLAYA
TIMalerts doesnt mess anything up, the plays i pick have the potential to move 20-40% in 1-2 days so a little 5-10% slippage shouldnt scare anyone…people are just lil bitches cuz they’ve been spoiled….theres tons of alert services out there, most just suck so nobody listens to em!
Yeah, well, I may have just gotten screwed again by TIMalerts. Decided to play APII again. 1st red candle day of a big runup. Should be a good short into the close, right? I re-shorted it a few minutes into the close…only to see covers in the last 60 seconds and see it finish green. Then I heard in GOS that Tim had put out a cover alert, and some of them didn’t get it until the last few minutes.
Tim, I admire everything you do. I’ve learned so much from you. But TIMalerts can screw up the very patterns that you teach here and on your DVD.
I should’ve avoided APII all together knowing it was a Timalert. Too much artificial price action going on.
Tim, you teach people to take losses quickly, right? Now you’re saying it’s OK to risk a 5-10% loss?
I guess you’ve been spoiled YngvaiMalmsteve!
My TOS account started with 15,750 now sitting at 19,905 that includes all broker fees. NO BS here you can view all my trades at covestor username GaryBurleson. NOT bad money considering that most of my time is spent over here in BAGHDAD winning a WAR! And at the same time I am winning the war against all the liers on WALL STREET who take advantage of those of us from MAIN STEET. The stategy needs no timetables, This SURGE of TIM SYKES and his TROOPS will win this war against Wall Steet. All of us learning together follwing the orders from our Commander CPT SYKES Lead the way Lead us to Victory!
Vo, yes. I work for an investment company.
Tim is seeing life through 40,000/month goggles
I’ve followed this blog and been posting since before most on here…all the way back to Tim’s ESLR scalp out of the long term “cup and handle” last December 2007. I’m a big follower and appreciate all of what Tim does in terms of teaching, but the alerts do create artificial price action–no doubt about it.
I want to focus on good trades and good trades only. Trying to beat other subscribers to the punch to reserve shares and get fills on a low float stock is a distraction. I just memorize Tim’s patterns and find non-Tim Alert stocks to tackle. Less competition and easier fills.
If you had shorted APII at 3.20, you’re hurting right now and hoping there is no morning squeeze on u tomorrow morning…unless you got out of course.
I subscribe to TimAlerts. But I have to admit, it does seem a little like it goes against the whole “teaching” message Tim started out with.
At the end of the day, the testimonials are like everyone letting Tim know what grade they got on the assignment he did for them.
actually yngvai APII would’ve been a horrible short into the close, whether or not i covered–cuz it’d stopped fading and u should only shorts stock thats fade/close red. u just need to learn the pattern better or at least subscribe if you’re gonna touch stocks i play. and yes i take losses quickly when there’s news coming up that i cant predict, namely their earnings.
PS to everyone playing APII, u shouldnt need my alerts, u should see the fades coming a mile away, wasnt tough to see when i’d short at 3.40, big block sells were coming in and taking out the bids….too easy
TIMalerts goes against my teaching? you are just plain nuts dude, all it is is me talking about my trades, nobody has to follow, maybe these patterns are all just in my head and i’m no better than 50/50 cramer :)
Tim, you say people don’t have to follow you, but the fact is, they are going to. And on an illiquid stock, that’s going to affect the price action. If you have 300 subscribers, and they all short 500 shares, that’s 150,000 shares in trading volume right there. That’s going to affect the price action dramatically on an illiquid stock. And people are going to be competing for fills, and some aren’t going to be so lucky.
There’s no doubt that TIMAlerts artificially changes the price action. These stocks are too illiquid for the alerts not to have an effect.
FIRST, you pay for the alerts (TIM gets your money, sucker)
then tim buys/sells, and then you get the email (double suckers). then he gets out after the last email.
haha
learn how to trade on your own and take responsibility. but at least buy his CD (triple sucker)
Pretty sure buy/shoring 150,000 shares would effect a liquid stock too=(
IMO, Tim’s subscribers can easily account for 25%+ of the daily volume. It is going to get even more worrisome the larger the Tim Alert subscriber base grows.
There are currently 300+ subscribers after only a couple of months. Just imagine a stock that trades 500,000 shares per day, and the Tim Alert subscriber base is up to let’s say 900-each of whom shorts a measly 500 shares of a stock after receiving the TimAlert e-mail. That is 450,000 shares. You better believe that is going influence the price action artificially.
I think I disagree with many things that are said here but I keep my mouth shut on that. If I’m not happy I just have to go somewhere else.
I was watching that APII stock and tried to sell at 3.35 without the Timalerts. I knew he would trade it so I tried to get in before. Just missed the print and got it at 3.22. Got out by myself, with no babysitter, at 3.19 because of what I saw on the tape. Timalerts have an impact on the price and this is totally fair. Who cares. Just adapt yourself to it. Some people scalped 20 cents and it’s good for them. There is still plenty of meat in this stock. To me this close is a doji star and it should mean a reversal. (I’m not in by the way). I do find it funny that Tim say he is not a scalper and he is looking for a dollar per trade and we see him taking 20-40 cents within an hour but it’s not important. And what should we expect, it’s in his book; always close too soon. What matter is the stock pick and the cash you can make out of it. Many people here would like to clic on a button and see instant money cashing in. That’s not the way it works, you have to be a good trader. And that, dosen’t comme free with the DVD. You have to practice and work on it. It’s that thing called experience.
Anyways, my point is reality is reality and we have to adapt ourselves to it. We are responsible of our trading, nobody else is, we pull the trigger.
yngvai, they’ll only follow me if they can make $…in order to make $, my alerts have to be quality. any alert service can affect the price of a stock, most just suck. learn to deal with one that doesnt.
my alerts “artificially change price action”??!?!? no, i only trade when i see a change in trend, if others trade that trend too its just exacerbated, not artificially changed….
with APII, it was clearly fading this morning as it couldnt do much after a 3.45 breakout…i thought it was over…its holding green on the day proved me wrong so i got out. simple.
as for illiquid stocks, TIMalerts will continue to grow so it’ll probly be similar to the cramer effect, which is funny cuz he’s covered the same “illiquid” (500k trade/day i not illiquid) and he doesnt move the price much…guess people realize he’s 50/50 where when i make a trade, the odds are slightly different
>Pretty sure buy/shoring 150,000 shares would effect a liquid stock too=(
Trade some real companies and you will that that 150 on the bid is no big deal, a couple cents slippage at worst.
TK, i’m not a scalper, i dont aim for 2-40 cents, i aim for $1, but since i’m such a bad timer, my gains make me look like a scalper…understand?
and no u dont have to be a good trader to make $, as i think i’ve proven…u just need to understand the variables and risks
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I would call an afternoon fade turning into a tank within minutes of the alert as artificial, not an exacerbation.
I doubt this stock would’ve tanked from 3.45ish to 3.11ish within minutes without tons of subscribers all shorting the stock at the same time. That IS artificial price action. If it wouldn’t have happened without the alerts, it’s artificial.
The same thing happened to NOBL. Within minutes of the alert, it rapidly went from $5 to almost $5.50. As soon as TimAlert buyers were done buying, the stock stopped increasing as well. That’s not a coincidence. I seriously wonder if the price ever had gone much over $5 in the first place had it not been for the alerts.
I’m not saying alerts won’t help people. But I am saying that they do change things, like it or not. It adds another variable into the equation, which is why I’m probably going to follow A’s lead and avoid alert plays in the future. Then that would be one less variable that I have to worry about.
Some of you have an over inflated imagination of how many subscribers are actually trading Tim’s alerts. APII was going strong into the close. Tim covered way before the close anyways.
The only difference between Tim posting about when he is trading a stock and anyone else on this blog commenting or people on GOTS is that there are people willing to pay to know when Tim makes a trade. There are plenty of people that follow other respected traders on GOTS and theLion.
I sure as hell wouldn’t want to be going into the close short APII TimAlert or not.
Tim stated in his warning before he shorted the negatives and that this was going to be a riskier play then most. This was one of the few plays that weren’t easy to follow if you weren’t already planning to short it yourself and had a enter and exit planned.
Everyone was warned of the risks on this one with plenty of time to analyze it for themselves. There was a fast intraday dip and anyone that didn’t get into it quickly didn’t make any money off of it.
if the stock went the other way into the close we’d all be making fun of how much a scared little jew Tim is including himself just like the majority of his previous trades.