10 Reasons Why I’m Not Pissed That I Wasn’t Included In The 25 Best Financial Blogs

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Mon 26th of Jan, 2009 03:15:36 PM

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Some good blogs as well ones that get read less than Geocities websites these days, see the whole TIME article HERE…

1. It was written by Douglas McIntyre, co-editor of 247WallSt, a blog that serves up dozens of daily blog posts, all of which are “professional” yet lack any meaningful take/are utterly useless, linking just about any stock that actively trades so as to increase hits and get Google ad $…aka laughable business model/is lucky to get links from AOL/Yahoo!…oh yeah, and he used to be CEO of ONT, one of the best examples of a penny stock pump and dump…if I had the urge, I’m sure I could dig up soooooo much dirt on his time there, but I’ve got better things to do, I’ll leave that stuff to Leftie of CitronResearch.

2. It’s based on Technorati links, that’s soooo 2006, how about creating a new blog ranking based on # of comments, screw links, it’s about community! StockTwits-style.

3. Footnoted is #3? LOLOLOLOL Given it’s an old blog and Leder has knowledge, but c’mon, it’s not a bigtime finance blog, Dougie’s helping his buddies here…typical penny stock CEO behavior, screw the shareholders/readers, favors makes life better…aka why Dougie will never be a bigtime company CEO, it’s about producing quality stuff you dumbass! And if you’re gonna network, at least network with Andrew Horowtiz of The Disciplined Investor, he’ll teach you to help your buddies AND produce quality stuff, learn Dougie, learn!!!!

4. Uhhhh, most of these bloggers don’t share their investments/trades/track records…BECAUSE THEY SUCK!!!! Who cares what they write if they don’t know how to profit, it’s just more noise from financial frauds/marketers. Those who hide behind financial industry regulations should be ashamed, not rewarded….imagine a baseball player too afraid of the MLB to show his batting average…just replace batting average with track record and MLB with SEC…you guys are not American, you’re too afraid to share your worth openly.

5. SeekingAlpha is 247 WallSt x 1,000…lots of noise from amateurs, failures and underperformers…enjoy that link-baiting you with little to no future since you’re wrong about 50-60% of the time/are less entertaining than similarly underperforming Cramer.

6. No swearing/offending allowed Dougie? If you have a forum on which you can express yourself openly and freely and if you’re not offended enough by all the Bullship out there and how it’s crippling our stock market/economy/society to make you swear sometimes, then you’re not a financial blogger, you’re a financial coward. If you can’t appreciate how swearing can help make a point, then you must like this swearless paragraph…because I don’t :)

7. No Dealbreaker, Lindzon–oh wait, swearing–Muddy, I dunno a few others, Dougie, stop favoriting your friends with only a few readers…useful blogs get read/popular…at least you featured Alphatrends, otherwise, I’d come up to your Harlem office–yes, that’s where Dougie boy works–and smack you in your big fat narrow-minded face.

8. Peridot Capitalist, Carl Futia and Maoxian…R U serious? They’re nice guys, but again, there’s gotta be some limit regarding readership…If a blogger blogs in the blogosphere and no one is around to read it, should it make any top blog lists? Nope.

9. Like 247’s “most valuable” blogs, NONE of these blogs make any/much $…the better ones like Big Picture & Mish at least have financial management businesses that benefit, but my $80k monthly blog income blows all these “financial experts” away…maybe this list should be called the “25 best financial blogs run by those financially incompetent”…sorry some of you quality bloggers, but your lack of monetization is PATHETIC…somebody needs to give you a good kick in the butts! Welcome to my purpose in life, I don’t need anymore friends and my ability to cut through the BS will serve you well.

10. I write about Penny Stocks and Short Selling, 2 of the most misunderstood topics in all this joke of an industry, some think I actually influence prices, little do they know my instructional DVDs teach the very patterns from which I profit…only DVD students truly understand how useful my blog/writing is…no wonder that after a year, I’m still dominating the Covestor performance rankings–Dougie, what happened to your 25 best financial blogs here, Covestor offers bloggers a badge where they can show off their verified performance…PATHETIC NOT ONE OF YOUR “BEST FINANCIAL BLOGGERS” IS ON THE LEADERBOARD–, along with two to three dozen of my students in the top 100 (meaning that if some of my students had blogs, they’d catapult past the best/joke of financial bloggers)…meaning the currently popular pundits are complete jokes….FINANCIAL KNOWLEDGE IS STILL IN THE DARK AGES, TODAY’S LEADERS ARE TOMORROW’S CORPSES ONCE WE HAVE MORE TRANSPARENCY. Kinda like Dougie since this list only supports the oldest blogs, Dougie’s friends and a few other non-growing/non-transparent/non-revolutionary bloggers.

We need a financial blog that isn’t so sugarcoated, narrow-minded to focus on simplistic earnings/growth, blehhhh go back to 1999/2003, boring like a sissy value investor who keeps adding to losing positions, afraid to offend “colleagues”, scared to cut through the industry BS that makes most investors/traders lose and instead actually teach people to profit from all the BS because we know it’ll never disappear and it’s actually easier than just about all other variables to spot/predict…oh wait, there is one :)

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hal johnson

One thing you forgot - your picture and comments annoy. You seem to be an arrogant ass.

Timothy Sykes

ah yes i call it experience not arrogance, but i guess those without self confidence can see it however they want...my point is that i cant back up my attitude with facts/numbers, its sad most others cannot

Fail Blog

You don't want to be on that list. 99.99999% of all blogs are fraudulent, and this one is NOT one of them. Meaning, all other blogs you know are likely scam artists trying to sell you crap because they suck at trading. When will you SUPER SHEEP get this!!! Are you all the same morons that bought shovels looking for gold and are simply re-incarnated?

Timothy Sykes

except most of those blogs dont sell anything...which is what i dont understand, why hide results when u have nothing to gain by partially writing about your stuff, finance people are weirddddd

Janie

I looked at that list, and most sites have maybe ONE comment. They all look pretty amateurish and most add zero value. This is a fraud list in itself. I bet 9/10 on the list doesn't even trade. It's just one more really stupid list, since we all like to rank crap.

be the ball

"finance people are weirddddd"

truer words have never been spoken.....

Shane

You ever thought they didn't put you on there just because your an ass? That would be my reasoning. Everything you do and accomplish will always be overshadowed by your horrible personality

Timothy Sykes

LOL shane, i know i'm sooo horrible, suck it up u little bitch and make some $ off my not-so-horrible strategy

Timothy Sykes

gotta love how highlighting testimonial upon testimonial, good numbers after good numbers, dumb emails after dumb emails, calling others out on no testimonials and no good numbers aka REALITY makes me an ass...maybe ignorance is bliss, but i see the finance world as full of dummies and frauds...all i gotta do is prove i'm not as dumb or fraudulent as the rest and i'm king, right shane? :)

Michelle Leder

I don't remember being quite so nasty to you, Tim, when you wanted my help a to get some much-needed media attention for your book in your local paper. Instead, I went out of my way to help. Wonder what your PR folks would have charged for that?

Oh Michelle

Tim makes 80k A MONTH and you didn't charge him?? Rule #1 in business, make money. It seems like you guys are journalists, not traders. I can't make money off the info on your site, but i can with TIM. One is replaceable, and one is not. TIM is now prime time, so now get in line and worship the master!! lol.

jose

are you gonna post about $CAKE and your lawsuit?

Mike

Jose, can you elaborate?

Jose

from his twitter:
timothysykes
timothysykes Good news, finally won my multi-year lawsuit against $CAFE, now $ENLU for their fraudulent PR that cost my fund $120k loss, we get back $17k about 4 hours ago from web

Timothy Sykes

yah full lawsuit details coming soon...leder dont be pissed, i run my mouth, this is what i do, you have a good solid blog, keep up the good work

Timothy Sykes

and michelle i think u do deserve to be on this list, but #3 is a stretch, i'd probly put u around 10-20

johnnyvento

Michelle: Tim is an asshole, always was, always will be. You should not be surprised by that. Assholes take favors from people but then don't repay them, then make lame excuses like "I run my mouth, this is what I do"

BillyD

Tim you are in my top 25 FWIW - Billy

Moise Levi

Tim, people will follow YOUR top 25 financial blogs ; please publish it :)

PS : include mine too :)

douglas mcintyre

Footnoted.org is not No.3 on the list. If you bothered to read the article you would see that there is no ranking, just the 25 best.

It is always nice to see a sore loser Tim. I see that Compete shows you with
39,000 visitors a month. Not a very popular property

Timothy Sykes

nice dougie, welcome to my blog, whatcha think of it? i place mor eimportance on my % return than visitors, but i do believe there should be a minimum # of visitors on a blog to expand on the blog posts...kinda like these comments are doing perfectly...not sore at all, this is just my style of writing, i come from penny stock land, u know this territory well with ONT, right?

Timothy Sykes

and remember, i'm short selling penny stocks, a strategy even investopedia thought impossible just a few months ago, give me more time dougie and i'll show u the strategy's worth and why its possible for everyone, not just me, to post triple digit returns year in year out...thats why the 39k monthly visitors means little to nothing, its about people liking your blog and coming back, which is why we average 3k daily visitors, over and over and over...

Timothy Sykes

but dont let my attitude stop this debate, feel free to respond to ANY one of my points, is it not a financial blogger's duty to share their finances and how their investments perform? why are your "25 best" not on the covestor, or any other performance leaderboard...why are their premium services not bringing in the big $ like mine, not that we know because they dont share their business performance like i do...oh yes, i'm transparent there too...i guess u just dont respect transparency...prove me wrong and tell us what went wrong with ONT, its a penny stock every low priced stock trader knows stinks to high heavens!

totobernal

did someone notice the link to the 10 most overrated blogs? #2 was Jim Cramer...

Hedo_Turkoglu

Well, maybe it's because you're arrogant? You're also an awful writer who has more spelling/grammatical errors than any given blog dedicated to rap music, seriously do you even proof read? If you want to be treated like a professional in the industry act like it, it isn't hard. However, the biggest reason is probably because pennystocking and selling get rich quick schemes via DVDs aren't respected in the finance world?

0

Proofread is one word.

Hedo_Turkoglu

Anonymous: In all honestly, I didn't think it was a word at all, so thank you. English isn't my first language, however I can still put together more comprehensive sentences than Tim can.

Timothy Sykes

who the hell cares about spelling/grammer u uptight finance pieces of crap...its the ideas that matter, how about i pump out a perfectly wordeed blog post and finish the year down 10% like most of these other schmucks on the list who still "outperformed" LOL..not enough time int he day, take what u can get and love the fact that i'm the only one sharing EVERYTHING...never forget that

JOhn

I blame women for this crap. Everything is marketing and not the actual product or as in Tim's case- performance.

I hope the Greater Depression clears out the talentless hacks that run around thinking they know everything yet dont have anything to show for it.

Ian

Tim you top my list. My list of blogs without substance edited by immature, self-righteous petulant children who mistake small capital high-percentage returns and gambling for shrewd investment experience and knowledge. It is clear that not everyone can make money from your techniques at once (crowded trades), and it is also clear that you are not as humble in your approach to investing as you ought to be. Here's a list of my own:

1. It's clear you ARE p*ssed you didn't make the list.
2. It seems you ARE selling books in an attempt to cash in on your muddy-name and your psuedo-celebrity, clearly as a means to supplement any dwindling credible support you might have had.
3. It seems you aren't aware of the power of networking.
4. It seems you confuse rudeness with humour. You're neither funny, nor charming.
4. No self-respecting investor with any amount of common sense would invest in your fund. I saw Wall Street Warriors and your pledge to a new investor. It's amazing how easy it is to see through your crap despite your desperate attempts to get the guys money. Your disrespect for other people is written all over your growing forehead.
5. Have you ever thought about what it would be like to spend the rest of your life walking down the street whilst everyone talks about how much of a f*ckwit you are?

Thanks for the entertainment value though. Both on WSW and on this blog. It's perverse, but us humans like to see pathetic losers prove themselves in public. A star is born!

Timothy Sykes

oh u got that i was pissed? congrats, i located a person who doesnt get sarcasm, what a surprise....i'll respond to the rest in a blog post, thanks for the content dumbass hater, u didnt even see my big ass trap did ya, this is too much fun, like playing with baby monkeys

Hedo_Turkoglu

"Not enough time ine he day." Not even time in the day to spell "the" properly? Somehow I doubt that. It's called laziness. You're the only one sharing "everything" if everything consists of pump and dumps and short sells then yeahhhhhhhhh.

Timothy Sykes

hedo, laziness? r u serious? i'm the hardest working financial blogger there is, 16-18 hour days...ALL questions are answered in DVDS..which no other finance blogger has...and ALL trades detailed for your review....shut the fuck up and pick on someone non-transparent or down last year, aka 99.9% of the industry...u fucken ingrates make me sick, u dont deserve transparency, go walk int he desert for 40 years

Ian

Tim... if you spent more time researching and less time running your filthy dimwitted mouth off, you might actually have a strategy with depth, and MAYBE a strategy WORTH paying for. If I was a subscriber and saw the time you take to spurt tripe at those who have valid criticisms, I would be sorely disappointed. It's like paying a kid to wash your car only to see him taking a shit on your lawn 5 minutes later. "Oh... that's just our Tim".

Timothy Sykes

Ian, i already spent enough time--more than a decade now--perfecting this strategy...the numbers speak for themselves, he rest of my job is just marketing which u ignorants help me nicely...seriously keep hating on a strategy up a fully transparent, fully verified 200% in the last year, with hundreds of customer testimonials...real smart frankie, real smart...if u only took a second to leanr anything about my DVDs, u'd see just about all these hype/manipulation patterns have been categorized and detailed for u ingrates

Timothy Sykes

and unlike most degernate traders, i have plenty of extra time to focus on growing my blog/publishing biz since there arent plays every second/day...which is why its so ideal

Ian

If your posts on this site are any introduction to the quality of your DVDs, I think I'll pass... and sorry to say for you little guy, I won't be recommending them to "help you out nicely".

Nice way to frame the amount of time you waste on here by the way. Doubting subscribers might actually think you have a point. But are you so arrogant/naive to think that what you have is PERFECT and that you can't possibly learn anything new? Are you saying that you have won't have anything new to offer? A sad indictment for your subscribers.

If it's all just marketing to you, then all you are is a DVD salesman. Not really the type of person I'd take financial advice from, particularly one who has little respect for anything but his own hubris.

Timothy Sykes

of course i can and do learn new stuff all the time, but it doesnt matter for products that have already been made...marketing is just getting more people, especially poor people, to understand why my strategy is soo good...and to do that, i gotta try lots of different stuff, anything to show i'm not the fraud most people are...and of course a fully verified 250% return over the past year or so is a distinct selling point...funny thing is i'm not even that good, just gotta get people started and they'll soon dominat even my returns...once u get started, u wont be able to stop, then its just about getting advice from someone who's been in this game for a decade

Timothy Sykes

doug, sitll no response on ANY of my 10 points? gotta love how u rip on my 39k compete.com, even though i run 2 blogs and TIMalerts.com is getitng more traffic when blogs like maoxian.com got 5k and carlfutia isn't even on compete! LOL r u really that ignorant not to research this stuff ahead of time?

Hedo_Turkoglu

If you're not a fraud answer me this. On you're affiliates or advertising page you claim to get 300,000+ hits a day, or is it 350k? On compete.com they list your site as averaging 30,000. Did you add another 0 by accident or just another one of your shady marketing strategies?

Timothy Sykes

hedo u dumb as shit poster, hits and viewers are different...and we say 350k hits/month, not /day..actually up to about 500k hits/month now between the 2 sites....holy hell some of u people are so dumb it blows my mind, u should def. be trading penny stocks!

jessed

Damn. Contrats on the success, Tim.

I'm working on turning 6k into a half mill a few years, and I seriously doubt that any of the other blogs listed in the "25 best" will help me do that.

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