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The Merritt Graves & Caelum Capital Story: This Is What America Is All About

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Sat 4th of Jul, 2009 09:30:12 AM

After noticing an article entitled “Is This Kid The Next Tim Sykes“, I read THIS article about a college kid starting a hedge fund out of his dorm room (as I did, read all about my hedge fund’s creation, ups and downs HERE)…
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How I Beat Briefing.com To The Punch On La-Z-Boy Incorporated (NYSE: LZB) & Made My Subscribers Thousands

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Tue 23rd of Jun, 2009 06:02:26 PM

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…

Nothing like beating Briefing.com to a prefer breakout…less than ten minutes after I sent the following alert to TIMalert subscribers:
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How My Blog Made $150,000+ In May 2009…& This Ain’t The Four Hour Workweek

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Sun 14th of Jun, 2009 04:35:33 PM

UPDATE: I tweeted THIS the other day (follow me on twitter already HERE!), but let me preface this post by answering the question I’ve already gotten emails about: yes, this is 100% true, it does me no good to exaggerate. My business is based on brutal honesty so if I do happen to have a bad month trading or publishing business-wise, you’re gonna know about it.

Thanks again to my valued customers, many of whom are absolute wannabes/degenerates…I’ll help you learn not to be such wannabes/degenerates anymore (seriously, 90%+ of traders lose…again, brutal honesty, I’m not gonna be some fake ass polite trading guru) and to wait for the right trading opportunities (and my instructional DVDs obviously do teach what those ideal trading setups look like too!) and forget this $150k headline figure, I’m far more proud that when I add up all the daily testimonials from TIMalert subscribers, trading profits for the month of May 2009 exceeded $250,000!

After brushing up against the monthly-six-figure-income-barrier not once but twice in the last few months (In April, my blog brought in $88,000+…see details HERE and last December the figure was $83,358…see breakdown HERE), I wasn’t sure if my miniscule visitor traffic to my website TimoySykes.com (3,000 daily visitors, approximately 1,000 of them unique, mailing list of 13,000) would be enough to support anything larger, and despite my stock-market-crushing performance (I’m up 370%+ in the last 18 months, making me the #1 ranked trader/investor out of 25,000+ on Covestor, the only financial site that actually verifies results) my sole marketing strategy for TIMalerts (real-time trade alerts newsletter) and PennyStocking instructional trading DVDs (teach my trading strategy) was to mention them incessantly, along with my customer testimonials like HERE and HERE, which I know are hugely annoying, but boy do they work.
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Why I Just Bought The Perfect Technical Breakout In Caribou Coffee Company (CBOU)

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Thu 28th of May, 2009 06:06:25 PM

I know, I know, you ALLLLL saw my video from the other week with my take on all the hot coffee plays
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How TIMalert Subscribers Made Over $25,000 On MAP Pharmaceuticals (MAPP) Today

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Wed 27th of May, 2009 09:41:36 PM

Daaaaaaamn!

When I emailed TIMalert subscribers yesterday afternoon:

Bought 2000 MAPP at 8.76…I know it sounds crazy to buy a stock up 180% on the day, but the positive drug news is huuuuge and the stock has held its gains nicely and just held a key technical level at 8.60…shorts are getting scared and methinks double digits is possible, especially if the stock follows similar patterns of other biotech high fliers DNDN and VNDA, both of which have risen over the next few days after their initial surges….obviously this is risky so I’ll cut losses if it starts fading into the market close, but my goal is to sell into a morning spike tomorrow, ideally in the $10 range, if shorts get squeezed…I’ll uct my losses if it drops below $8.50

…and I was so proud that it did indeed breakout past the day high, I even did a special post congratulating all the TIMalert subscribers who made a few thousand in just a few hours in THIS post.

…but I had little idea, it’d then do this:

I mean, obviously…because I sold the same day (trading like the castrated choir boy that I am–and proudly encourage others to do in my TIMfunndamentals DVD) at $9.17 for an $800 gain (decent, but not great).

The good news is that I’m not paid to be the best trader possible, I’m a newsletter writer/trading coach paid to uncover solid trading opportunities & teach through my successes and failures what to and not to do.

On MAPP, I nailed the positive momentum going forward, but failed to recognize its true potential…good and bad…

…the good news is that my TIMalert subscribers know I’m not that great a timer/trader, so many of them have learned to be more patient than me! (as I preach in my instructional dvds, I’ll show you the ropes as I’ve learned them over a decade in this biz, but you can do better than me!)

Check it out, all TIMalert subscriber testimonials posted on subscribers-only TIMalerts.com…it feels grrrrreat when this happens, congrats to all those involved!

$1350 profit on MAPP. First trade since finishing DVDs!
-J.D.

Just locking in a $330 gain on MAPP!
-Thomas

Out of MAPP @ 9.64 Pre-Market for $700 profit. It may run more, but no crying from me when the paint is green. Thanks.
-Sola

Sold 3100 MAPP @ 9.93 premarket from avg. 9.204 from yesterday for a net profit of $2220. Now MAPP is around 10.20 premarket. This one cost me some nerves with that 40 cent drop in the last 30 seconds of trading yesterday.
-Nifri

hanks for the lead on MAPP!!! I’m selling some into the morning spike for a quick $500++
-C. P.

MAPP IN @8,93 (550 shares), average OUT @10,10. Profit ~ $630. Thanks Tim :)
-duzas

Took some heat, but held onto 2500 MAPP overnight ( in @ $8.95 )..sold 1/2 @ 9.50 and the other half @ 10.30..about a $2300 gain…
-Gilly Smalls

Holy shit MAPPP- Tim thanks for the overnight dough! in MAPP at 8.90 out @ 10.45 and this thing is still climbing
-sonid

timmy thanks for SMRT, and Mapp looking at over 1000$ profit b4 10
-Dave

I got out of MAPP at 10.80. Nice!
-NibRock

Out of MAPP at 10.82 with one account and 10.64 with the other!
With both, I bought at about 9.03.
-T Burg

quick $120 on MAPP. Thanks TIM!!
-Jaata

Tim,
Thanks for the MAPP alert yesterday. I was feeling kinda crappy after a few losses but made up for it with MAPP. I got in kinda late at $9.00 and I had the balls the hold overnight, going against your selloff warning. However, I sold on the morning spike at $10.40 for a cool $1600 profit. Gotta learn the way of the jew !
-Zack

Got in Mapp at 9.98, for 500 shares. Shorted 1000 SEED at 4.82, covered 5 minutes later at 4.66.Total gain after commissions on both trades = 226.76.
KA-CHING! I’ve made over a Grand in 2 weeks starting with $4,300 since joining TIMalerts - thanks to both Tim and the guys in the chatroom!
-asher

fuck i hate MAPP and myself for chickening out its now 11.00 made just +300 yesterday tsk tsk
-traderjoe

Held MAPP overnight… in @ 9 out $10.75 easy $281 thanks Tim!
-Bill

In MAPP @ 9.16 out @ 9.90 - $740 overnight…THANKS!
-Ryck

Out of MAPP pre market for cost average of $10.10. i guess i left some money on the table….oh well. $575 profit. thanks Tim!
-Jay-Z

Brand new Timalerts member here - bought MAPP @8.92, held overnight and out @ $10.50. $590 profit on very first trade - thanks Tim!
-Marc

Did get around to do it yesterday. Got out of MAPP @10.6 this morning, for a nice +18%.
-Monte

600 $ profit. Thanks fundamentals DVD :-)
-Gary T.

Sold MAPP. $1013 in gains. Thanks Tim
-echo1025

Tim, I bought 1000 shares of MAPP at 8.90 yesterday held it overnight and sold it this morning at 10.10 for $1100 plus profit.
-MC.

Made $750 on MAPP today on the breakout buy. Thanks for the heads up
-Omaggio

Hi Tim, I just wanted to say THANK YOU THANK YOU for the buy recommendation on MAPP. I had 200 shares at 8.90 and just sold them all at $13.25 for a $870 profit!
-PolarCup

ust made a quick 14% on MAPP. Your picks are stellar.
-Bob L.

How My Trading Account Has Septuled (7x) The Performance Of The S&P 500 Over The Past 18 Months

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Thu 21st of May, 2009 03:31:18 PM

You guys all know my PennyStocking strategy is kicking ass…
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How My Blog Earned $88,031 From 100K Visitors In April, Kevin Rose Who Loses $300,000+/Month From 30 Million Visitors Washes My Underwear

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Wed 20th of May, 2009 03:00:22 PM

This income figure is a new all-time high for me (traffic is flat….for now), eclipsing December 2008’s seemingly unbeatable $83,358….and stay tuned because May is tracking even higher!
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10 Lessons Learned From Earning $50,000+ In One Week

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Mon 4th of May, 2009 03:00:41 PM

Remember me writing THIS, THIS and THIS about my special deal?
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How My TIMalert Subscribers & I Made $10,000 But Left $30,000+ In Profits On The Table

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Mon 27th of Apr, 2009 08:15:14 AM

If you read my post from yesterday about how TIMalert subscribers & I made over $10,000 on DDRX when it jumped the $4 to $5 range, you also probly know how DDRX performed after that call:

Am I pissed? Sure, it’s annoying to make $1,700 when if I had more patience or confidence in the same damn pattern I outline in my PennyStocking DVD packages, the same damn Supernova pattern I outline in this FREE ebook, the same damn pattern that made me a millionaire….and a pattern I have NEVER played it perfectly.

Even when I made $123,000 in one weekend on ISCO (as outlined in my book An American Hedge Fund), so no I’m not THAT pissed because while I have a good understanding of buying vs. shorting DDRX-like plays (the sellers blocks just get eaten away, which is why I dared short sellers to short in my original post…I hope they took my dare hahah I’ve learned just a thing or two over a decade, it’s time you learn from my knowledge already!), I’m not perfect, nor will I ever be.

If I was perfect, I’d be running a billion dollar hedge fund and you’d still be following 50/50 Cramer and all the liars, cheats and frauds too afraid to show their real trades and how much $ they do or don’t make. (you finance people are cowards, that’s why you’re so unhappy/unpopular, live a little already!)

After all, it doesn’t really matter how I do, it matters more how you guys do and the tons and tons of TIMalert subscriber testimonials on this one make me feel better about calling this but screwing it up too.

So learn from the premarket video watchlist (this just a fuzzy embed, subscribers get the full HD version) I did the night before DDRX surged from $5 to $7 on Friday (these video watchlists are free for all TIMalert subscribers until My 1st, free for annual TIMalert subscribers until July 1st & $99/month for everyone else..signup button coming soon, for now if you want in, register HERE):

…and understand I was filming this video interview for TheStreet.com, recommending the stock as a buy at $5.50, right when DDRX was hitting the buy point at $5.50 (so I missed getting a chance to buy in…too bad they didn’t post it until the late afternoon when DDRX was at $7+:

Welcome To The Future Of Charting & Technical Analysis, Introducing Chart.ly

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Fri 24th of Apr, 2009 01:00:27 PM

UPDATE: Both TechCrunch & Mashable have articles on chart.ly HERE and HERE

Tune into LiveStock 1-2PM EST today HERE and watch me unveil Chart.ly to the world!

Forget about good stock picks, forget about good market commentary–whatever the hell that means these days/ever–forget about branding, cutting through industry BS, testimonialed-to-death instructional DVDs, premium newsletters, forget it all…for a second…the reason I became infatuated with stock trading back in 1999 was thanks to my fascination with stock charts…
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Why I Bought The Hottest Coffee Stock Around

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Tue 21st of Apr, 2009 07:45:21 PM

UPDATE: You have until midnight tonight to take advantage of THIS special TIMalerts offer for a year for $197 instead of $297 and 2 FREE months of daily video watchlists, which normally cost $99/month alone!

This afternoon I bought Diedrich Coffee Inc. (DDRX) and told TIMalert subscribers why:
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4 Reasons Why Susan Boyle Is & Is Not Like A Penny Stock…

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Sun 19th of Apr, 2009 09:45:55 AM

As I outline in my PennyStocking DVDs and THIS FREE EBOOK, a Supernova chart pattern, the ones that’s made me millions of dollars over the past decade.

Like Ashley Dupre, aka Sptizer’s girl, Susan Boyle shares some qualities with Supernovas, but she also differs a bit too and that’s why when I make the comparison, I wouldn’t short her….just yet

1. SIMILAR: massive massive hype and press due to the novelty of the idea and a dominating coordinated PR effort by Simon Cowell’s companies (he would be the best damn penny stock promoter ever!)

2. DISSIMILAR: S.B. has the unique story and enough talent that will likely make her a star…question is for how long…remember that other opera dude Paul Potts who Cowell made believe was a cell phone salesman shot to fame and now has pretty much faded…like most singing contest winning stars (it’s all marketing!)

3. SIMILAR: Like Paul Potts, Susan Boyle isn’t some undiscovered sensation…she had a 1999 album…yup…this time she hit it big with marketingggggg! Most Penny Stocks rise due to hype and manipulation, don’t hate on it, love it!!!!

4. OK, here’s the viral video of her singing, she has a great voice, but the key is her look and people’s expectations…kinda like a homeless hedge fund manager

I’m 100% sure, some kind of news will break over the next few days and weeks that lessens her star–no, I’m not a cynic, I just know how hype and manipulation works–but for now Susan enjoy it, your reaping the rewards of partnering with Simon Cowell, the world’s #1 promoter.

Remember Who Was First To Pick Ashton Kutcher & How It Relates To Covestor

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Fri 17th of Apr, 2009 08:30:14 AM

LiveStock is today from 1-2PM EST and you gotta tune in here at http://www.mogulus.com/livestock and tell your friends…and retweet it…andtell your friends to retweet it because I need 200+ live viewers to be 1% of Ashton’s live broadcast last night!

OK, so Ashton Kutcher or the actor now known as @plusk on Twitter is the 1st person, place or thing with 1 million followers on twitter (see the dumb mocking post on TechCrunch) and you’re wondering why is this signifcant…
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You Gotta Check Out This Penny Stock’s Perfect Technical Breakout

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Mon 13th of Apr, 2009 06:22:46 PM

…so all you other momo penny stock forums like TheLion.com…
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An Interesting Stock Breaking Out…

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Mon 6th of Apr, 2009 03:05:25 PM

When I sent out the following alert to TIMalert subscribers the other day, I knew it wasn’t a perfect play:
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Does PennyStocking Work In International Markets?

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Wed 1st of Apr, 2009 03:15:10 PM

Got this comment posted on my site the other day so I thought it was worth a blog post:
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This Is The Best Stock Chart Of 2009

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Sat 7th of Mar, 2009 02:15:03 PM

By farrrrrrr:
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Check Out My Web Designer Pallian’s Latest Project: Tweetizen

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Tue 3rd of Mar, 2009 02:48:20 PM

As I said nearly a year ago, my boy Pallian is the Indian Picasso…Tweetizen is his lastest design project and it’s siiiiiiick (I’m a bit biased since I own 10%).
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How I Made $12 On Shutterfly, Inc. (SFLY) While My TIMalert Subscribers Made Thousands

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Mon 16th of Feb, 2009 03:30:54 PM

Hopefully you’ve read my post on why I bought SFLY on the breakout at $8.18…
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Why I Bought The Breakout On Zagg Inc. (ZAGG) & Think It’s Probly This Year’s Forward Industries, Inc. (FORD)

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Wed 11th of Feb, 2009 09:14:38 PM

Here’s the email/text message/private blog post on TIMalerts.com I sent out to TIMalert subscribers earlier today:
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