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Stock Shock: Unintentionally, The Funniest Financial Movie Of All-Time [VIDEO]

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Fri 11th of Sep, 2009 07:40:05 AM

REMEMBER: This special offer ends today, take advantage of it now because it really will make you a more profitable and knowledgeable trader…and you might have a little fun there too :)

On this day of national mourning, all I can do is embed the video below to exemplify what our once great nation has become…
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Does The Media Influence Stock Prices? Finally A FOX News Talking Head Admits It

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Tue 1st of Sep, 2009 08:15:02 AM

You have until Friday, September 11th to register for the 2-day Las Vegas PennyStocking conference October 18 and 19th, 2009 to receive a FREE instructional DVD package of your choice ($400+ value) & a DVD recording of the whole conference within a few weeks afterwards (that means you get 2 days of live instruction & 2 DVD packages to study afterwards…see details HERE. Most importantly, we’ve decided to webcast the conference live, so if you can’t make it to Vegas, you can get it all: access to the live conference, the conference instruction manual/outline and the 2 FREE DVD packages (the one of your choice and the recording of the conference itself) when you register for the 2-day conference pass

I’ve done a ton of ripping on the media for influencing stock prices, namely on Dennis Gartman on pumping & dumping one of his stocks for nice profits, and where has it gotten me? No More media appearances! Small price to pay for greater awareness among penny stock degenerates worldwide!

So are media people really blind to pumping & dumping or are they just playing dumb?

One useless talking head, Charles Payne, (and I say useless because Charles Payne’s track record does not list overall performance #s, just a bunch of random winning and losing trades…anyone with no life wanna figure out his winning percentage?), has finally admitted that his media appearance do influence stock prices…in fact, not just admit it, but he seems proud of it too!

The following is from Paynes’ new subscriber kit, which surely has to be revised so as not to admit to influencing stock prices!

Profit from Charles’ media appearances

Wall Street Strategies CEO and Principal Analyst, Charles Payne, makes a number of media appearances every day. He has developed a stellar reputation that has made him a regular guest on the Fox Business Network and several well-respected finance-oriented radio and television programs. Charles is widely recognized in the media as a leader in the analyst community and recently authored his first book Be Smart, Act Fast, Get Rich. Check out the media schedule and make sure to watch him. Not only will you be informed and entertained, but Charles stock picks typically get quite a boost.

Quite the boost indeed…Pane, here’s a tip, you supposedly have 30,000 subscribers somehow paying $4,000/year (LOL until the end of time…makes you realize what a tremendous value $50/month TIMalerts is)…next time hire better intern copywriters so you don’t admit to market manipulation.

The Latest Funny Email I Received:

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Sat 25th of Jul, 2009 01:15:37 PM

LiveStock is today from the NYC studio 1-2PM EST, tune in HERE

Got this email the other day:
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Mark Cuban Manhandles The SEC:

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Mon 20th of Jul, 2009 08:15:05 AM

Too funny, glad to see the SEC is on top of what really matters, ya know trying to bust celebs in Martha Stewart-esque setups instead of worrying about pesky little matters like our nation’s future:
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Dennis Kneale & CNBC Comment On Blogging: Three Reactions

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Mon 13th of Jul, 2009 08:15:46 AM

For those of you who don’t know, Dennis Kneale:
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Naked Short Selling Conspiracy Theories: Part One Of Fifteen

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Wed 1st of Jul, 2009 08:05:09 AM

When I saw THIS post, I just laughed.
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This Guy Really Hates Me:

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Sat 16th of May, 2009 09:00:53 AM

It would be selfish of me not to share such wit and intelligence with you my readers:
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Answering This Critic’s Questions:

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Mon 11th of May, 2009 03:00:52 PM

I love getting incredibly imbecilic arguments from people who draw conclusions without doing any research whatsoever (exemplifying the entire joke of an industry that is Wall Street as a whole):
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7 Reasons You Gotta Laugh At My Latest Hater

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Sat 9th of May, 2009 01:00:39 PM

Gotta respond to this sheer ignorance:
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Dumb Bloggers Debate Whether You Can Make Money Blogging, Failed Blogger Dan Lyons Debate Part Deux

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Sat 2nd of May, 2009 01:30:10 PM

Thanks to this WSJ article that says:

The best studies we can find say we are a nation of over 20 million bloggers, with 1.7 million profiting from the work, and 452,000 of those using blogging as their primary source of income. That’s almost 2 million Americans getting paid by the word, the post, or the click — whether on their site or someone else’s. And that’s nearly half a million of whom it can be said, as Bob Dylan did of Hurricane Carter: “It’s my work he’d say, I do it for pay.”

Demographically, bloggers are extremely well educated: three out of every four are college graduates. Most are white males reporting above-average incomes. One out of three young people reports blogging, but bloggers who do it for a living successfully are 2% of bloggers overall. It takes about 100,000 unique visitors a month to generate an income of $75,000 a year. Bloggers can get $75 to $200 for a good post, and some even serve as “spokesbloggers” — paid by advertisers to blog about products. As a job with zero commuting, blogging could be one of the most environmentally friendly jobs around — but it can also be quite profitable. For sites at the top, the returns can be substantial. At some point the value of the Huffington Post will no doubt pass the value of the Washington Post.

The barriers to entry couldn’t be lower. Most bloggers for hire pay $80 to get started, do it for about 35 months, and make a few hundred dollars. But a subgroup of these bloggers are the true professionals who work at corporations, serve as highly paid blogging consultants or write for sites with substantial traffic.

Sounds good, right?

Well, that started a backlash from the hardworking but narrow-minded, basically dumb bloggers who work their asses off, but don’t know how to make $ from it! Dumb people like Megan McArdle who says:

The estimates of professional bloggers seem wildly inflated–if you help update the company blog once a week as part of your marketing internship, you are not a paid professional blogger. And the numbers they themselves link to tell a much different tale from the article: most blogs bring in pitiful amounts of money for their owners.

This seems to follow the model of Mark Penn’s book: find some bizarre number and mindlessly extrapolate it to an absurd conclusion. Yet I still don’t understand why common sense did not keep him from publishing this article. Anecdotal evidence would suggest that almost all of us know many more computer programmers than professional bloggers–this is true of me even though I am a professional blogger, as are half my friends. Or he might have called some professional bloggers, who would have (sorrowfully) told him that no one is making $75K a year off of 100,000 pageviews a month, that being about how much traffic I pulled when I was starting up in 2002. Or, hell, he might have noticed that in the very BLS survey so nicely transformed into a table for his article, there is not entry for “blogger”–but that if you add up every writer, reporter, editor, PR person, technical writer, or “media and communications worker, other”, there are only 499,890. Since Penn says that there are 452,000 paid bloggers, this implies that 9 out of every 10 communications workers are professional bloggers.

There may be one guy with some incredible niche–or moronic employer–making a ton of money with a modestely well-trafficked blog. But the plural of “anecdote” is not data.

Believe me, I’d love to think that blogging is a surefire path to riches and job security–but I’m afraid all most people get out of their blogs is the satisfaction of a job well done.

This all reminds me of when the surprisingly narrow-minded Dan Lyons posted his tirade on how despite all his education and effort, he was still just a poor dumb blogger.

Again, I’ll speak on behalf of the 1% of bloggers who do make $–this is my best month ever as I’m closing in on $80,000+ for April–it all comes down to trying new tactics, products–not just ads dum dums–and most importantly, not taking anything too seriously because they’re always new news, readers and ways to profit.

I’m reminded of the few people who claim my trading strategy, making my 30 hours worth of content on my instructional DVDs totally worthless and full of lies (I’m not talented enough to lie for 30 hours), is a fraud because they think it’s impossible to short sell stocks under $5 or $3…no truer words than the following have ever been spoken:

JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE TOO IGNORANT/INCOMPETENT TO PROFIT FROM ANY STRATEGY, BE IT BLOGGING OR TRADING, DOESN’T MEAN OTHERS WHO ARE SMARTER & MORE DETERMINED THAN YOU AREN’T ABSOLUTELY CRUSHING IT!

….aka it sucks to be mediocre, but that’s the vast majority of the world…stop the pity party, stop whining and work your butts off until you make something of yourselves!

Did One Of My Students Take His Own Life?

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Wed 15th of Apr, 2009 05:54:09 PM

Nasty little message board post going around and instead of suing the bastard, I blog about it (as it’ll probly get taken down on the original site) to show you what sick degenerates traders are:
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4 Reasons Mike Huckman Of CNBC Is The A Little Bitch & How To Profit From His Naivety

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Sun 12th of Apr, 2009 02:40:34 PM

1. He actually feel for the fat pill’s story–read the story and see if you’re gullible enough to fall for it too!
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Is Lenny Dykstra Broke & TheStreet.com’s Latest Bad Pick?

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Wed 8th of Apr, 2009 09:22:33 AM

Probly, but who really knows…
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How Mike Huckman, Now Named Mike Huckster, Became The Latest CNBC Reporter Suckered By A Penny Stock

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Tue 31st of Mar, 2009 08:05:43 AM

Remember the CNBC Asia reporter Sri–who has little to no financial background, he was a theater major LOL–who naively recommended the pump and dump CNOA and used paid-for stock promotion as his research?

(Not enough people know how incredibly superficial/dangerous/useless CNBC is…EXACTLY like defunct Trader Monthly, but their losses on CNOA tanking from $2 to pennies helped them better understand)…
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Arena Pharmaceuticals (ARNA), Azimuth Opportunity Ltd, Stansberry Research And The Magic Fat Pill

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Mon 30th of Mar, 2009 11:00:15 AM

Remember ARNA and their allegedly amazing fat pill?
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Here Are 22 Ways To Manipulate Penny Stocks As Told By Paul Gozzo

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Fri 27th of Mar, 2009 08:05:34 AM

UPDATE: Understand I’ve got an actual real life stock promoter on LiveStock today 1-2PM EST…you have to tune in and ask him any questions you want!

I don’t know how scam artists sleep at night, but I love that they exist because their actions allow for predictable chart patterns, which made me a millionaire, as outlined in my PennyStocking DVD package (it’s legal to profit from penny stock chart patterns)
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Another Peter DeFazio Clip Of Him Trying To Justify The Inevitable Harmful Effects Of His Proposed Trader Tax

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Tue 24th of Mar, 2009 08:05:55 AM

Remember when Congressnobody Peter DeFazio went on CNBC, claiming his 0.25% tax on each buy and sell made in the stock market wouldn’t hurt the overall market and backing it up by saying a similar tax in the 1930s didn’t hurt the market as expected (even though he somehow forgets the advent of online discount brokers only came about in the 1990s)
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7 Reasons Why Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars In Taxpayer-Funded Bonuses Going To AIG Executives Don’t Matter

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Sun 15th of Mar, 2009 01:40:58 PM

Gotta love how the WSJ tries to be all investigative-y & make AIG’s bonus paying some kind of bombshell, then the AP writes it out in a more consumer-y fashion to get normal people outraged:
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Say What You Want About Jim Cramer, He Made The Best Call Of The Past Decade & Why Henry Blodget Sucks

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Thu 12th of Mar, 2009 03:00:46 PM

That’s right, and all you anonymous internet posters/bloggers too afraid to share your real trades, let alone your miserable/under-performing track records know it!

It’s easy to pick on the world’s most popular stock guru–I even do it sometimes–and unfortunately Cramer makes it easy by his dartboard-like unending stream of picks, flip flops and some weird stuff that TheStreet.com does to keep from looking like the laughingstock of “the business”–that being Motley “we will spam you, talk useless crap til we’re blue in the face and then promote our newsletters that are only down 30-40% instead of 40-50%, oh yes, we want you to pay us because we outperform the market, no seriously, pay us” Fool, but deep down Cramer is not only an entertainment genius, he’s also got some true market skill/knowledge.

He knows easy trading profits can be had thanks to market manipulation–yes, I’m 99% sure the Jim Cramer who ordered my PennyStocking DVD a few months ago is indeed the real Jim Cramer–and no matter what happens on The Daily Show Tonight between him & on Stewart, he was DEAD ON with the call he made in the video below.

In fact, when he said to sell everything–which is the single riskiest call an investment guru can ever make–on October 6, 2008, he only thought the downside risk in the markets was 20%….that was when the Dow was over 10,000 and the S&P 500 was over 1,000 boys and girls–turns out we tanked 35%+ in the subsequent 6 months since.

Yup, Cramer’s overall track record might suck, but this call shows his true genius and no other market call in recent memory has been so risky and so right.

So, let everyone who gets less ratings and make less money from content rip on him all they want, people like Henry “I’m cocky as hell, but I haven’t done anything useful in years and I especially don’t know how to run a web business” whose ubiquitous BusinessInsider websites pull in a paltry $450k in annual revenue and due to the fact that they have an employee for every $10,000 or so in revenue, they have mammoth, yes mammoth losses, aka I get 1/37th of the traffic and yet somehow manage to pull in the same revenue and it’s yet its basically all profit because yes Henry, I do know how to manage a web business you narrow-minded incompetent Dan Lyons “blogs can’t make much money” buffoon Blodget who said the following about Cramer’s call:

We also couldn’t disagree more with Cramer’s recommended strategy of suddenly selling everything now, with the market down 30%+ from the peak. This is market-timing at its worst… After more than a decade of being overvalued, stocks are finally approaching fair value, and, time and again, emotional selling based on market conditions has been shown to be a terrible investment strategy.

(yes, approaching fair value 35% higher than we are now….buffooon!)

I could name a thousand other “gurus” and “experts” caught dead wrong on this very subject, but what’s the point–Blodget does a good of representing them all, especially the “I’m down 50-60-70%, but no, my stocks are good values so in time I’ll be proven right” who should read a trading book or two from my vast library, learn to cut losses short & buy back their value stocks near their lows, thus compounding their potential profits on any comeback value investors who have ruined, yes, ruined the world’s faith in stocks.

Watch the video and learn from a market master why selling EVERYTHING from time to time isn’t such a bad idea after all:

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My Take On The Uptick Rule For Shorting Stocks

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Wed 11th of Mar, 2009 08:20:22 AM

A congressman said yesterday on CNBC that the uptick rule for Short Selling stocks will be restore din a month, so will that impact my trading dozens of traders are asking me?
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