Is My Blog An Infomercial?

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Sat 20th of Jun, 2009 03:30:30 PM

Tags:

Analogies

You have until June 30th to SIGN UP HERE for my TIMalerts real-time trade alerts (not just alerts emailed within seconds of my actual trades, subscribers also receive detailed nightly watchlists of the hottest stocks to watch the upcoming day and access to the chatroom on subscribers-only TIMalerts.com) to lock in current prices of $1/day (or 81 cents/day if you SIGN UP HERE for an annual membership)…afterwards, prices are going up…learn why HERE…

Some people think I mention my instructional trading DVDs and TIMalerts real-time alerts newsletter too much.

They think that by posting testimonials like THIS, THIS and THIS, I’m appearing too desperate to sell my decade-long-time-hardened market knowledge.

They think I also mention now 400%+ account performance over the past 18 months, making me the top ranked trader on Covestor out of 25,000+ wannabe investors/traders by faaaaaaar, way too much.

But the truth is, I can’t mention this stuff enough–financial professionals, let alone penny stock traders, are not the brightest people in the world so they need about seven reminders before anything I say actually sinks in.

And considering the products and information I’m selling are not just a great deal, but also the real deal (in an industry where NOBODY selling stuff is real (why am I still #1 on Covestor, a website that verifies all trades…every single financial commentator/”guru” should be on there, but since they’re not we’re left to conclude that they are frauds and/or cowards), I will continuing promoting my stuff because it’s good….it’s right…and it’s useful.

Name an infomercial that can honestly say that. I dare you!

Spread This Post:

TIMstore Monthly DVD Specials:

See all TIM DVD specials HERE

Related Reading

Do You Go Into A Restaurant & Ask The Chef To Cook You A Free Meal? March 19, 2009
Say Hello To The Most Popular Member On Covestor: Timmay! June 20, 2008
The Difference Between Me And A Used Car Salesman November 10, 2008

Tammy Sacks

Tim I signed up for your alerts at $30. i dont really think they're worth it. your lists get kind of stale fast...75% of the stocks are the same from list to list not to mention you post it for free a few hours later.

and again, your over the top self promotion is shameless and hugely annoying. even if i thought your alerts were fantastic i would still unsubscribe because of your personality.

anyway no offense meant...i tried your product and i dont think its worth it for $30 a month and definitely not worth more.

Timothy Sykes

Tammy, you're not a timalert subscriber, u dont even realize the watchlists have a 12+ hour headstart and my picks have been doing great, daily testimonials galore...go attack someone who isnt up 400% in the last 20 months, stop wasting my time troll

Durdharsha

I second Tammy's post. I did not say anything till now, as it did not bother me much as I got the yearly deal on a discount, but still I feel that $197 is a complete waste of money.

Tim's alerts list is junk. There are no precise entry or exit guidance. Not even a hint. It is all same old crappy "fading price action". It is like even if you but timalerts, you ave to but all other DVDs ! What is the point of sending out timalerts ?!

I am truly amazed how this business is flourishing. Tim obviously a huge failure as far as trading is concerned - otherwise he would not try to sell his "so called" crappy "technique" and make money from others, instead of just trading and make money himself - if it was so "proven" !

Barnie Madoff - Stanford - Tim Sykes coming up.

Timothy Sykes

Durdharsha, again, u fail to realize i actually send out trade alerts, the watchlists are just to teach people what i'm looking at...degenerates are so boring

Durdharsha

Well, suit yourself. Everyone tries to confront you are degenerate. No problem. I was replying to Tammy. I do not even like to talk to people like you who are arrogant and so full of themselves. I visit your site just because I committed the mistake of signing up for a year - I wish I would have taken a monthly.

Timothy Sykes

LOL, talking to yourself? I can see your IP address you moron!

Cameron Fous

hahahha i love the battles you always have here tim... Its like reality tv... People(me) come here just too see what kind of trash talking is going on for entertainment... As for Tammy... shes a girl... Im almost considering banning female subscribers from my site... 99% dont get what the fuck is going on and all they do is wine and complain and ask dumb questions... Don't get your panties all up in a bunch girls... Just hope that your in that slim 1%

Sammy Tacks

(i actually am a timalert subscriber) How many trades did you send out last week? Two? One? And how much did you swing? How much did you make?

You're just not a trader. You're a DVD salesman. If your methods ACTUALLY worked you would actually be trading to make money for a living. But you make a trade here and a trade there and the results are honestly just lackluster and I refuse to believe anything otherwise.

Meanwhile you try to play it off like you are mother theresa exposing the masses of "degenerates" out there to the corruption and fraud in pump and dump penny stocks. believe me you're not mother theresa.

I bet one day the SEC is gonna have a few questions for you if you frontrun your subscribers at all. should be interesting. maybe write another book? how i made 1 million dollars as a dvd salesman and went to prison. just a thought.

Matt

Haha. Funny convo.

I don't know man. 400% since 2007? I sat on cash all 2008 until summer when i jumped on ultrashort oil ETFs then ultrashort financial ETFs. I paid my first year of law school off with about $6k. It didn't cost me any money on informational DVDs or alerts. But i did spend a lot of time and money (work/school/CFA studies) learning to analyze and trade the markets.

That said, I think you are right in your general idea. The lack of information on penny stocks makes a strategy like yours viable. If these tards can't see that a 12 hour advance notice on a good trade is worth the money, that's their loss. I don't understand the penny stock short sale strategy since I don't really have much need for it, but if I felt it was a strategy I should implement I'd want to learn about it first and probably buy your stuff.

The way your present your stuff does come off as sort of a Billy Mays trading informercial.

tmcnasty

I wish more than 1% of girls were slim myself Cameron!

Matt

Ah, saw Cameron Fous commented. I think the presentation of fees on his sight is a lot better. Just seems less like a sales pitch. Just my opinion.

Timothy Sykes

zzzz useless convo, especially after GWSC was picture perfect outlined in my DVDs...its PATHETIC more people didnt profit with me, Thinkorswim had lots of shares...gotta push my DVDs harder:

http://www.timothysykes.com/store

tmcnasty

I love the people that post here. They just don't get it. Yeah Tim isn't trading like he used to maybe, but think of it from his point of view. Trading big money involves big risk...he's already been there done that. Trading small as a teaching tool to sell DVD's expands his business model while decreasing the risk exposure of his cash to the market. Idiots.
And if Tim is so crappy why is it that when you look into Covestors "since inception" list he's at/near the top? If all of you clowns are so good why aren't you beating Tim long-term?
I'm not even saying he's great or not, BUT if you can't prove you are better you really must shut the f up. Seriously. Beat him...then speak.

Matt

"I’m not even saying he’s great or not"

Haha. Yeah you are.

jeff

The point of the DVD's and TimAlerts is to learn to trade! In order to do that you need to understand the variables involved, the technicals, etc. TimAlerts are great because there are many good plays to study and possibly trade, whether Timmay himself actually trades them or not. It's about constantly learning and being meticulous, not just being handed a list of stock picks. If you wanted to be a nurse or a doctor, you would go to school for it and put in long hours of study. If you want to try and become a successful trader in the penny stock niche, then put in the time and hard work it requires to have a chance of success. If you really are interested in becoming a trader and can't afford to buy a 3-400 dollar DVD, you're probably not successful enough in life/too lazy to do much of anything. Also, Covestor is a good idea but they really need to change they way they calculate the percentage gains. I think Tim mentioned this at some point, but they really need to base the % gains on dollar amounts, not the Sharpe ratio or their flawed annual return numbers. It would give the site much more credibility.

ub7

Why do you entertain these fools Tim? Results speak louder than words. I've been a timalerts subscriber for 2 weeks now and have doubled my sogo account using your strategy exclusively.

jeff

As a follow up to the Covestor thing, my account (member: Jefro), says I'm up 50.05% since inception (June 5th), when in real dollars I'm only up 20% or so. Glad to be up - they just need to change the logic.

wallie123

I don't feel it is a rip off. I have made a lot of money here on Timalerts since joining in May. I could of made more but I have made my fair shares of dumb mistakes. So far i have 2 bad trades and 10 trades i have made money. So I have a 80% success rate since joining here and the 2 bad ones could of been avoided altogether. I remember the last trade before i joined Timalerts was Citigroup which i lost 800 dollars on. So i got that in my mind as to why I stay here in the gutter with Tim. So for what it is worth I think it is great here.

Big T

Getting sick of these lazy whining "give me stock picks with precise entries and exits" etc. In reality, the actual ACTION of a stock is not pin-downable until it actualizes, so to speak, so bitching about Tim is not entirely fair here. All the given play selections are impending possible long or shorts, keyword here is POSSIBLE, because until some key thing occurs in a targeted security, like morning panic, huge dump of Lebed shares like in SPNG, or key support or resistance is punctured, the play is potential, and nothing else.

What many of you folks do not get is proven by Livestock comments on SPNG, regards BUYING into the recent small boost AFTER that tanking short Sykes sold into recently-he noted HE might buy long after .30 or so, as it would be making new highs and the downside potential on subsequent days after he had covered had faded so he also did not care to short. Yet the viewer was confused.

The point is having the discipline to wait until conditions and triggers are met, and THEN acting. You cannot make a precise "pick" UNLESS those are actualized, so NO WATCHLIST can contain that, exactly. Get it?

Now he could approach some version of that on live picks or the quick real time play e-mails or whatever he was talking about on SOME plays, but not on the normal e-mailed Alerts posted daily and late each day on this web site.

If you want entries and exits, subscribe to Gorilla Picks and grab a guitar like Davey Jones!

Good to see Cameron Fous, his site is kinda interesting... :^)

Seth

Tim,

Just signed up, caught you on TV. I recently won a lil cash (75k) in a state lotto scratch off game. I decided to take 25k and speculate/invest. Through sheer luck im up to 39k'ish in a little under 90 days. Are all of your picks otc or do you do regular stocks to? For some reasons otc scare me and i dont know the first thing about shorts. I see you have had alot of success and alot of testimonials. Do you know where a guy might be able to find some incredibly valuable educational dvds at a great price?

I see alot of you subscribers with modest or small gains , is this because they are not buying enough shares or do you recomend being conservative?

Chris

Seth go to www.timothysykes.com/store and get the Tim complete package for $2000, has everything you need to know and if you learn it you'll make it back in no time with an account your size.

Anyway like i said a few posts ago, people should get off Tim's back, totally agree with tmcnasty that when people beat Tim and prove they can then they can speak. Big T also speaks a lot of sense! It's starting to get repetitive and boring now listening to all these idiots!

Timothy Sykes

Seth, i teach to trade conservatively and aim for 10-20% gains on a trade...my stuff is good, it just doesnt work for multi-millionaires...its all about earnings a few hundred, a few thousand through high probability trades

Travis

I am NOT a time alert subscriber, not because I believe he's a fake, but because I have already found my own niche.

I read his blog because he's entertaining, has several haters, and he pushes me to be a better trader, because unlike most he has actually made money over the last year.

For those who have lost money, I'd say grow up and stop whining. If you've lost money it's not because Tim's methods don't work it's because you have not worked them. If you think he's annoying stop coming to his blog.

There's is money to be made; you've just got to work for it. There are no welfare babies in the stock market. No one's going to hand you trades and make them for you. They may provide the leads, but you've got to use your own intelligence to implement the flawless trade.

Take responsibility for your own life and stop blaming others for your lack of success!

Patrick

Sammy is wining cry baby loser. Whatever she said is retarded and femalish. She just has issues with people with confidence. She probably had people pass her up all her life by people that had more confidence than her, no wonder she is jealous and expressing a little envy. If you reply back to me Sammy, you are still a WHORE!

Ian

Tim I notice you say in countless videos (infomercials) that Wall Street is full of BS... but yet you have never worked for an institution, profiting from the information, knowledge and expereince to which the experience affords. Are you basing your knowledge of Wall Street on what you see on CNBC?

And my guess is also that you would like to (even a small amount of experience from those with years of experience is invaluable), yet now have far less of a chance because you run your mouth in apparent displays of lost control. Good traders have control of their emotions. You have a complete lack of control on these forums, and that is a giveaway of your maturity. Learn how to handle yourself better and you might actually be able to graduate from the $200 profits you cream yourself over, start working in bigger stocks and attract bigger money. But alas... you are a one trick pony, and, whilst you recognise that your strategies are for the "little guy" you continually insist on comparing your % returns to those of hedge funds. You simply can't do this. You are no where near the size of these guys & have far less to worry about on the liquidity side of things. You can't differentiate and compare when it suits you. STOP doing it.

Furthermore, you might think you're street smart... but a lot of street smarts involves knowing when to shut the f*ck up. Which incidentally, is about 99% of the time you open your mouth.

MTeMedia

hey there dude

very good post i love it... check my url you might like it ;)

blog comments powered by Disqus

Start Here

Who Is Timothy Sykes And Why Should I Care?

See Tim's full bio HERE. Tim turned a few thousand dollars into a few million by taking small gains time after time on hundreds of volatile penny stocks, discovering that his trading strategy, while consistently successful, works best for those with smaller accounts.

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.

Where Do You Find Stocks To Trade?

This is the #1 FAQ (see more HERE) and it is answered in THIS instructional DVD.

Of course, that's just a brief introduction - to receive a full education, there is Tim's book An American Hedge Fund which is the story of his remarkable rise and lessons learned.

To truly increase your odds at profit, Tim has designed an entire set of detailed instructional DVDs, covering all the variables that amount to over 24 hours of instruction (see them all HERE)!

Join TIM

TIM Trades

View All

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%)