About Timothy Sykes
Timothy Sykes, author of the book, An American Hedge Fund, was born in Orange, Connecticut in 1981. He studied Philosophy and Business at Tulane University while turning his $12,415 Bar Mitzvah Gift money into a fully audited pre-tax sum of $1.65 million from 1999 to 2002 before founding his hedge fund, Cilantro Fund Management, LLC in 2003. He is also the benefactor of a Tulane University Scholarship, The Timothy Sykes Day Trading Award for the Talented that is awarded annually to any deserving Tulane student, faculty, or alumni.
In 2006, his hedge fund was ranked the #1 Short-Bias Fund by Barclays for 2003-2006 and he was named to Trader Monthly’s 2006 ‘Top 30 under 30′, a list recognizing the top 30 investment professionals under the age of 30.
In late-2007, after suffering a roughly 35% loss over two years, he closed his hedge fund and created a publishing company, BullShip Press, LLC to promote Freedom of Finance, the concept of a hedge fund manager’s right to discuss their business freely without risk of penalty or censorship. Following this thinking, Timothy also introduced TIM, short for Transparent Investment Management, with the goal of repeating his original feat of turning $12,415 into $1.65 million, this time around detailing the step-by-step process on TimothySykes.com, becoming the first hedge fund manager to openly detail their investment strategies for all to see.
He starred in the TV show, Wall Street Warriors on MOJO, now writes for AOL Finance and has been featured on ABC, CNN, CBS, CNBC, FOX News, FOX Business Network, Reuters, Businessweek, Marketwatch, MSN Money, Yahoo! Finance, TheStreet.com, Realmoney.com, Consumer’s Digest, YOUNG MONEY Magazine (Nov. 2007 Cover Story), Jewish Living Magazine, Forbes.com, Hedgefund.net, Hedgeco.net, Institutional Investor, WallStrip, Salon.com, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Post, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Observer, The New York Daily News, Trader Monthly, Dealbook, Alternative Universe and Absolute Return Magazine.
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The Timothy Sykes Day Trading Award for the Talented
Open to all Tulane University students, faculty and alumni!
This is an annual award given to anybody in the Tulane community who is talented enough to deserve my hard earned cash. I never received much encouragement from anybody to continue in my passion, but I’d like to change that for other people.
The world is an incredibly diverse place so if you follow your heart and do what you love, you don’t need to give into the BullShip thinking that you need to be a doctor or lawyer to make money and enjoy financial security. You don’t even necessarily need to make money to be fulfilled! Some of the happiest people I know are the poorest people; they are content because they do what they love.
I don’t care if you want the money to build a massive fish tank, pay tuition for ballet school, pay for alcohol to help you paint better, or if your dream is to feed malnourished children in Africa. As long as you can demonstrate that you have an intense passion for something and that this money can help you or encourage you to continue down your chosen path, then the money is yours.
A candidate may self-nominate or be nominated by another member of the Tulane community. Applications for the award will be reviewed by a committee appointed by President Cowen.
