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One Reader’s Mom Doesn’t Want Him Following Me Because…

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Fri 13th of Mar, 2009 03:05:09 PM

Got this great email from Glen Bradford (he wanted me to use his name, so there ya Glen, hope this doesn’t get you a spanking from mommy) a few weeks ago and thought I’d share:
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A Few Thoughts Concerning My Haters…

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Sat 31st of Jan, 2009 03:00:44 PM

Good comment I got the other week, just haven’t had time to write a post on it:
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Douglas McIntyre & Some Other Idiot Help Me Prove What Financial Blogging Is All About

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Fri 30th of Jan, 2009 08:25:55 AM

When I ripped Doug McIntyre’s joke of a list of the “25 best financial blogs”, I fully expected/wanted comments to open up debate…check out the one below, it’s perfect (FYI Doug, this is what financial blogging is about–really chatting out all angles of a topic, not just boring news-based posts about actively traded stocks which are good for link baiting, c’mon, you can be better…I think):
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What PennyStocking Has In Common With Napa Valley

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Tue 13th of Jan, 2009 08:35:38 AM

On my New Year’s Eve flight to Paris , I saw a rather inspiring movie “Bottle Shock” (worst title ever?) about the emergence of Napa Valley on the worldwide wine scene and couldn’t help thinking about PennyStocking…
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To All Those Who Complain I Make More From My Educational Products Than I Do My Trading

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Sun 28th of Dec, 2008 06:25:33 PM

Somebody commented:
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There’s A New Neanderthal Born Every Minute!

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Fri 26th of Dec, 2008 07:45:25 AM

I like seeing the comments I get from assumption-making haters:
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Is My 250% Return This Year Due To My Manipulating Stock Prices?

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Wed 24th of Dec, 2008 11:25:55 AM

Some guy Danny–no doubt one of the many trading retards that (I can’t use the word ‘who’ because these posters haven’t proven themselves unworthy of being labeled people…as it is, their brain size is eerily similar to that of a cockatoo) hang out at EliteTrader:
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EliteTrader Debating Me: Step Right Up & See How Ignorant My Haters Really Are, They Must Be Investment Bankers!

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Tue 25th of Nov, 2008 03:25:45 PM

A few people sent me this link saying that the fine folks over at Elitetrader were debating whether my 195% return, now 209% after today’s 15% gain, or $1,700 on SRI (detailed post, TIMalert testimonials galore coming soon), $12,415 to $38,367 since November 1, 2007, was real.

And whether my subscribers/DVD students were actually making any money.

A few comments I see from the mental midgets–no wonder why 90% of traders lose $–like:

The biggest thing is that Sykes is notorious for fantasy shorting impossible to borrow stocks.
I’m sure Covestor doesn’t impose a “locate” on those stupid fantasy trades.
The whole site is a joke.
No locate = no trade = NOT REAL RETURNS.

So that makes his 195% return mean nothing.
A meaningless stat like that is exactly what snake oilers like Sykes use to lure in the newbies.
P.S.- His lemmings are just piggybacking his trades, hence the same returns.

Sharpe ratio of 957.24 and return of 3,612%. That’s realistic, I can’t imagine why he isn’t managing a couple of billion, just sayin.
By the way I have no ill will towards him, but come on surf you mean to tell me he isn’t gambling?

Sykes is just a used car salesman. Go to his site. The guy is selling anything he can. His trading style is fine for guys who want to trade 100 shares of some illiquid stock and make 30 dollars a day. Who knows (or cares) if his trades are real. Who knows if those stocks are shortable. The guy blabs about having a huge return…..well….if you dont want to make real money then go follow his lead. His strategy is ok for the retail guy with 5k in his account who wants to supplement his real income with some extra cash.

Not for nothing….but we are in a bear mkt……when things turn and the mkt goes into an uptrend his startegy will be rather useless.

You made the point better than me. He is selling a product that is basically a gambling system. And the odds are stacked against you because of the nature of Penny Stocks - low volume, big swings.
I would venture a guess that the vast majority of his subscribers lose money…and many b

Wow, where to begin…I guess I’ll take one ill-researched assumption at a time:

1. For the 83874738483rd time, Covestor taps into real trading accounts, it’s not fantasy trades. Get that through you microscopic brains. If I can’t find the borrow on a stock, I can’t trade it and Covestor can’t verify it. Go back to your shanties!

2. 195%, now 209% means nothing? Maybe not to anybody who loses money consistently, considering they can’t even fathom such an annual return, but to everyone who wants to earn money in the stock market, it’s incredibly important. And when it’s verified like Covestor does, that means I dominate all other gurus/this joke of an industry. Bring it bitches, you got nothin!

3. You’re right, I’ll never manage a couple of billion, its a limited scalability strategy, hence me giving it away…I tried telling these retards when I first was on ET, but gave up when I found out most posters were illiterate.

4. When the market turns, I’ll be in heaven with tons more potential plays since I SHORT INTO STRENGTH. Notice why my watchlists are 20-30 stocks long when the market goes higher? My god these posters must be investment bankers, their inability to research is astounding!

5. 100 shares of an illiquid stock? Uhhh, I trade on average 2-3k shares and I’m usually no more than 1-2% of the volume. Wait til my account grows, can’t wait to slam my everybody-crushing (%-wise people wake up) results down these pissants mouths.

6. Actually since I pick my setups extremely carefully, I believe the odds to be on my side each and every time. The moves aren’t random and as my instructional DVDs teach, they’re pretty easy to differentiate between all the patterns and variables. As for my students losing, well that’s tough considering I’m right about 80-90% of the time, but I’m sure some do lose.

I could pick apart dozens more comments, but it gets old, those were the main assumptions and I have better things to do, like celebrate my massive gains/income from my biz model.

My Haters Are Illiterate & Too Funny!

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Sun 23rd of Nov, 2008 06:21:49 PM

The latest hater comment:
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Educating My Latest Hater

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Mon 27th of Oct, 2008 07:41:19 PM

It’s just too much fun responding to these knuckleheads:
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Yes, I’m Invested In The Gold Mutual Fund PRPFX And No I’m Not Embarassed

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Sat 25th of Oct, 2008 10:32:07 AM

Got this comment here and felt I should respond:
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Thank You To This Hater Who Helps Me Prove My Worth!

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Wed 24th of Sep, 2008 02:05:40 PM

Gotta love that on my best day since I started TIM 11 months ago–I’m up $1,500 on 2 solid trades, 10% gains on each one–wait for a detailed post later, ask your local TIMalert subscriber to fill you in, they’ve got some great testimonials too, $5k profits all the way down to $200-$300 per subscriber–or find out by signing up HERE–I get comments like this:
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After 10 Months, Some People Think I’m Lying…

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Sun 21st of Sep, 2008 03:26:22 PM

…about my transparency, ability and the ability of others’ to profit legally and continuously from penny stock volatility.

See this comment from a dubious reader:
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Dear Leveraged Sellout, I’m You…Only Better…Bitch

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Fri 5th of Sep, 2008 03:55:31 PM

Remember I wrote THIS post about the horrific timing/outright failure of Leveraged Sellout’s book “Damn It Feels Dumb To Be A Published Author?”

Well, now he tries to fight back in THIS interview with WSF…saying “Who the fuck is Timothy Sykes?”

I’ll respond to that in a sec, but understand his publisher is so desperate for sales, they even sprung for a THIS bad ass video and while it’s actually pretty funny/well done, it still isn’t helping him sell many copies of his over-hyped book (Amazon sales rank of 500 means 150 books/week)

Okay here’s my response:
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Would You Rather Your Stock Guru Be Ruthless Or A Pu$$y?

Posted by timothysykes on Thu 4th of Sep, 2008 01:06:30 PM

When I wrote THIS post detailing why I was rooting for Hurricane Gustav to be big time, I knew some people bitches would get offended.

Did I care?

Fu%& no!

You see I am not some polite snake-oil salesman trading coach–aka the entire scumbag “expert trader guru” niche (obviously there’s a few good eggs, but I’ve no time to search them out, and like the world of fraudulent Penny Stocks, the numbers are like 99% fraudulent, so let’s just round up/play it safe and say 100%–I am a ruthless trader whose had his share of ups and downs and has come out a meaner/more cynical person and better trader/investor for it.

And you should thank your lucky stars that I am this way.

Cuz if I wasn’t, I couldn’t
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Scotty Doesn’t Know: Why My Latest Ignorant Hater Proves TIMalerts Value

Posted by timothysykes on Sun 17th of Aug, 2008 04:59:53 PM

In a comment posted HERE, “Scotty” says:

Timmay…baby…look’s like this site is dying a slow death. Better ratchet up the ol’ promo machinery. Perhaps this explains your surly mood that cut short this past Friday’s LIVESTOCK. Oh…and a little advice on LIVESTOCK - when you bring nothing to the table with absolutely no preparation and simply respond to inane questions, what do you expect?

Well, to quote a genius Matt Damon music video (see it HERE) from a disappointing movie–Scotty doesn’t know!

Namely:
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You Think I’m Gonna Make Up Aliases? Prepare To Stand Corrected!

Posted by timothysykes on Mon 21st of Jul, 2008 07:50:56 PM

I know, I know, I’m behind on several planned blog posts, but when I see comments like the one below, I just can’t help but respond:

jrobitaille23 says:

No offense to the “real” diehards here but you all do realize that all these people claiming to have purchased the DVD and books is just Tim pumping his wares right? No difference to me that this is happening as I think he has a good system but c’mon. Maybe I am just a cynic…it’s just so blatantly obvious.

I will say that I do like to come here and find some good names to keep on my watch list as many of these “real” companies that explode and can be shorted, are actually good longs that you can buy after the meteoric rise and fall. If it’s a good company, the stock will withstand the straight up and shorted down and rebound upwards i.e. HYGS, TGC and most probably JOEZ. Thanks for all the info, but no thanks on the DVD’s. LOL

After I saw that, I asked a few others if they thought I was making up people and testimonials to “sell my wares” and they said YES?!?!?!? Are you guys
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Let My Haters Entertain You aka They Feed Me The Fuel That I Need For The Fire

Posted by timothysykes on Thu 10th of Jul, 2008 04:00:40 PM

It’s been a slow summer—the economy, housing and the consumer are collapsing, along with Traitor Monthly Magazine—all paying for their many sins of the past (an economic Sodom & Gemorah!). Hard working, research-lacking, coke-snorting finance freaks everywhere are either getting paid less or losing their jobs, which is really hitting the drug trade hard, and yet I’m doing the same thing I always do, profiting (70% in 7 months) and teaching others to profit (grad student Tony Ellis up $50k, Mike the machinist up $300k!) from the most corrupt, manipulated and incompetent publicly traded companies in the world (promoted and managed by many cokeheads too…no joke)!

Maybe it’s my booming site traffic…which has led to steady growth in my monthly income of $10k, $15k, $20k and now $25k (yeah suck on that you cubicle monkeys!) or my #1 ranking on Covestor for both popularity (see HERE) and performance (see HERE)….or the fact that I’ve gotten over 200+ subscribers within just a few weeks for my premium TIMalerts real-time trade alert service (average gain 20% per pick..so far, whaaaaaat)…or cuz I like mentioning my no BS PennyStocking instructional DVD package (newbies get this before you email me basic questions) and critically acclaimed best selling book An American Hedge Fund in most of my blog posts (cuz they’re damn quality products!)…or perhaps it’s because I could care less about/enjoy ripping on all the BS traditions and BSers in this joke of an ego-based, coke-fueled leverage-loving industry (see my recent interview on this subject HERE) and most definitely it’s due to me not giving a flying f$#% about standard grammar/politeness nor selling out to use my pseudo-celebrity status to make more money than most by ripping thousands of people off—as is standard soulless bastard industry practice—but for whatever reason, my hater (s) have (has) come out in force.

To all you hardcore traders, this post is not a waste, it’s pure entertainment baby…and it keeps you and me both away from forcing trades on setups that aren’t there!

So, take a look at some ridiculous edits on Wikipedia page:
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God Bless My Haters, They Help Me Without Even Realizing It

Posted by timothysykes on Sun 22nd of Jun, 2008 02:45:07 PM

Got this hilarious email yesterday:

Tim,

I think you’re total slimebag. You make money off the worst stocks in the world and the dumbest people in the world. Those chart patterns you’re so proud of are the biggest no-brainers out there. The fact that you think you’ve invented something new shows how dumb you really are. Enjoy picking up pennies the rest of your life dirtbag, you can wash my car any day!

-Your #1 hater

Wow, where do I even begin?
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Forbes The Latest Victim In Randall Lane’s Web Of Deceit Or Why Trader Monthly aka Doubledown Media Is Failing

Posted by timothysykes on Tue 17th of Jun, 2008 11:20:25 AM

Based on nothing more than widespread rumors, circumstantial evidence and a few sources—not coincidentally the same reasoning they once used to find me guilty of a crime I didn’t commit—Trader Monthly aka Traitor Monthly aka Doubledown Media—they use several aliases because, like any common criminal, their flawed ideology and dirty deeds are finally catching up with them—is failing fast.

Like any good wannabe journalist, not that I really wannabe, I should mention my history with these cockroaches, specifically their twisted son of a bitch editor-in-thief chief, Randall “The ideal reader is 29 years old, making $400,000 a year, and spending all of it.” Lane. And thankfully, that reprehensible quote (yes he really said it, seemingly proudly, see article HERE) is one of the foremost reasons why rumors are swirling that Doubledown Media, devastated by several legal battles—everybody from Lenny Dykstra to Private Air—and the loss of their CFO (hey, they really are a typically corrupt financial firm!) is down to just one magazine, from five, and is close to shutting their doors. After all, given the economy, difficult industry times and unemployment/bankruptcy of those who espouse such blatantly flawed thinking, who’s really gonna read or advertise their junk? And of course, there are the sordid details…
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