Sykes’ Saturday Sevenish: May 9th, 2008 Educacion

Now that prices have come down a bit, think it’s time to buy real estate in the US? Hello no! Check out what your hard earned money can buy in other countries…

Can’t wait to read badass short selling hedge fund manager’s David Einhorn’s new book…he was just on CNBC today talking about that oh so evil, unpatriotic act, impressing the hell out of just about everyone. I’m particularly pleased with him lashing out at the bastards over at the SEC. Guess you just need a few billion under management to get people to listen.

It’s time to play check out Tim’s excellent sponsors game again because they allow for such a transparent business model! Your choice of click throughs are:

a. SpeedTrader!
b. GFT Forex!
c. Optimus Futures!
d. Your Ad Here!  

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Sykes’ Saturday Seven: Watch Some Crazy Indians & Warren Buffett Screw Up

Berkshire Hathaway is gonna get taken apart next week as they missed on revenue estimates by $3 billion and took a $1.6 billion loss on derivatives—I like and respect Warren Buffett, but I do look forward to the pain this will cause his sissy value investor cult

This video is tailor made for the narrow-minded value investors out there—while this looks pretty crazy to us, it’s a multi-century tradition older than our entire egotistical culture:

Perruna’s got a cool stock screen  

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TIM 6 Month Review: Earn 47% While The Markets Drop 10%

Yup, that’s right, tiny, loud mouthed, mistake-celebrating TIM just busted a cap in the ass of the joke that is the financial industry by implementing my own brand of PennyStocking, or short selling penny stocks, a niche that’s supposedly random/akin to gambling and according to Forbes’ oh so popular Investopedia, in their definition of short selling, impossible to short sell! Screw them, the graph below says it all:

Maybe in the future more attention will be paid to this accurate definition of short selling —written by somebody who’s made millions from this strategy instead of some wannabe who’s just the latest journalist joker…you guys remember Sri, the theater major over at CNBC (fired yet?) and TheStreet.com guy who wrote about a product the company had already sold (fired yet?)! How could we forget—after all, their jokes have been very profitable for me and my readers.

Sorry, I digress—my blood is boiling from the amount of misinformation out there—this is a time for celebration and review. After all, while I made plenty of mistakes, a 47% return in 6 months is something to be proud of. So, take a look at all the most important posts during this journey, I promise, no matter what Investopedia says, this strategy is alive and well, legal and learnable (and to you haters, just wait until you see what I can do when I no longer have to deal with the pattern day trader rules, I plan my speaking schedule better and I’m not building a revolutionary new website…when TIM reaches $100k, it’s gonna be damn fun shutting you up as I make $50k+ in 6 months):

Successes:

Shorting Into A Factually Inaccurate Article

How I Made An 8% Return Before Lunch

How I Made 25% Just By Holding A Distinct Pattern Overnight

Why My Strategy Works Even For Stupid People

God, I Love Short Selling Penny Stocks!

Redemption Trade

Failures:

A Truly Amateur Trade  

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Sykes’ Saturday Sevenish: April 26th, 2008 Edition

I met rockstar ANALyst Meredith Whitney’s husband backstage at FOX last year…interesting guy. Now he’s trying to hawk a liquid viagra product…check out this absurd video:

So industry bitch Patrick Byrne likes making life tough for short sellers, now it turns out his crappy company is being investigated—is it wrong for me not to feel bad? Nahhhhhhhhh Byrne Baby Byrne!

Marquee has been one of the hottest NYC clubs for years, learn from founder NT

You know what, screw nightclubs, check out this interview with kingpin hotelier IS

Screw physical properties altogether, learn from blogger/internet property kingpin MA

THIS is a really cool boat!

You guys better be signing up demo accounts at Speedtrader, I wanna hear what you think…and don’t forget that for forex trading, there’s ONLY GFT!  

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Sykes’ Saturday Seven: April 19th, 2008 Edition

I’m never gonna be able to find exactly seven so here’s 7-ish articles from the week that was…

THIS blog compares me to a Duke basketball player—I like the piece on the whole—especially the point he makes, but c’mon Duke basketball is just evil—I’m not—UConn forever!

Gotta love that 5 hedge fund managers raked in over $1 billion each in personal earnings last year…America, f%#@ yeah!

Welcome to my site’s newest sponsor, Speedtrader, a broker that charges as low as $3/trade, has access to 30+ market makers and ECNs and is OTCBB and Pink Sheet friendly. Holy hell, I might just have to open an account and see what all the hype is about.

Guess what I’m saying at the end of this video:

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First Quarter 2008 Review: Earn 21% Every 3 Months And You’ll Live A Happy Life

Coming off my best week since I started TIM 5+ months ago ($900-ish profits), it’s good to review past successes and mistakes. Without further ado, I give you the first quarter of 2008 in a nutshell, where TIM used small account size–finishing at $17,388–combined with PennyStocking to thoroughly dominate the performance of ALL major indexes, even while making tons of mistakes. Follow along and learn to do the same…already 5% higher in April and I’m just getting warmed up…

Successes:

How I Made An 8% Return Before Lunch

How I Made 25% Just By Holding A Distinct Pattern Overnight

How I Made 8% In One Morning, Leaving 40%+ On The Table One Day Later

Why My Strategy Works Even For Stupid People

God, I Love Short Selling Penny Stocks!  

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Sykes’ Saturday Seven: April 12th, 2008 Edition

Stupid stupid teenage girls film assault on another teenage girl specifically to post video on Youtube, video’s gone viral, but they’re in jail…no joke…disgusting…

10 movie gadgets that have become reality

Forget website analytics, time to start analyzing your email, but only if you have Gmail (Gratzie PK)

Another successful—if not legendary—trader gives his rules for success (awww c’mon Todd, no banjos?)

Learn your history, venture capital history that is

Get the WSJ for free!

Inside the panic at E*Trade…you stupid stupid longs don’t even know how close to disaster many of these financial firms are coming

TIM Lesson: Never buy or short sell falling knives, much is happening behinds the scenes, none of it is predictable  

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Sykes’ Saturday Seven: April 5th, 2008 Edition

Gotta love how the press frames news—in this case the Clintons making $100mil+…over 8 years…c’mon it’s not so much, they’ve done a better job than many corporate CEOs who are much richer!

Speaking of failed CEOs, I ripped on former OSTK-CEO-now-turned-madman-to-the-delight-of-many Patrick Byrne in this post, but now he’s out to prove everyone wrong in submitting THIS essay about Jim Cramer. Forget Cramer, is Byrne sane or insane? You be the judge…my vote hasn’t changed.

Say hello to my sponsors, GFT Forex and HotOTC.com… trade currencies or penny stocks, your choice, gotta love the freedom…goddamn I love this country!

Funny site that claims to cure boredom

This video cures boredom visually:

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Sykes’ Saturday Seven: March 29th, 2008 Edition

Gotta start this linkfest off with one of the best quotes I received all week:

“I’m 150 pages into An American Hedge Fund already. Best trading book I’ve read since Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, something Tim’s book reminds me of.”

Comments like that just keep streaming in; I’m extremely honored—after all, Reminscences is my all-time fav book

THIS article says my now 2,800 Facebook friends aren’t really my friends. Noooooo!

Another blog comment (you guys are givin’ me some good stuff, thanks!) showed that TIM is not the first totally transparent trader, not by a long shot. I’m about 8 years off. Unfortunately, those other guys lasted just over a year, probly cuz they were also trying to raise capital…that won’t be a problem here!

This blogger tries to pick a fight with me in order to get some press for his crappy little blog…that’s fine, I’ll oblige. See my comments under his post correcting his assumptions with facts. Only one thing worse than a value investor—a value investor who jumps to conclusions without doing the proper research beforehand!

Now these are some real blogs, the TOP 25 BLOGS, all seriously banking (I might get up there one day, but rest assured no value investor will EVER get close, they’re all sooooooo boring!)

Former Countrywide guy creates a new loan company, just like the LTCM guys founding other hedge funds—we really need some kind of law to ban these bastards from business if they lose x billion dollars, would prison sentences be too much to ask for?

Classic clip from one of my all-time fav movies, There Will Be Blood

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