My First Yahoo! Finance / TradingMarkets.com Article: How To Short Sell Pumped Up Penny Stocks

Check it out right HERE. You’ll discover that when you write a brutally honest piece like that—without pay or motives considering I’m not short any of the stocks mentioned nor do I know anybody who’s short—you’re not gonna make too many friends in this joke of an industry. Especially down here in the gutter of the stock market.

Big whoop, I have too many friends already—it’s more fun to write for honesty’s sake, helping the unfortunate suckers who aren’t as experienced as me. That’s my business model and it’s gonna piss off a lot of the people who earn their livings by preying on those amateurs. Deal with it. If I do my job right, penny stocks and microcaps will become infinitely more popular because people will understand how to play the game.

Think of it as cleaning up SoHo so we can build all these nice shops and attract tourists in our neighborhood for once. I’m not trying to get rid of the manipulation—that’ll never happen—just trying to explain it so people can profit from it.  

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The Timothy Sykes / A Sponsor To Be Named Later College Tour 2008/2009

After testing out my out my public speaking skills at University of Arizona, Rutgers University, University of Minnesota, Baruch College and Options University’s Online Trading Expo and receiving loud rounds of applause, more than one standing ovation and some great feedback (which you can see below), I’m ready to plan a national speaking tour! Students from the University of Maryland and University of Florida have already contacted me, but I wanna make one massive list right here so I can show sponsors and be all organized…somewhat.

So, if you’re a college student, frat brother, president of college/high school organization, basically whoever is part of some big community whose minds I can warp, leave a comment below so we can put this thing together, either gonna be in Fall 208 or Spring 2009!

Here’s just a sampling of the many testimonials:

“Attracting a diverse crowd of students from the University of Minnesota with varying levels of interest in Finance, Tim’s story kept everyone on the edge of their seats and asking for more. His casual demeanor, hysterical life experiences, and avant-garde trading style were both eye opening and entertaining. Overall, students left feeling inspired and motivated to learn more about finance as a hobby and potentially a career. Definitely a breath of fresh in the world of investing.”
-Dan Rice, President, University of Minnesota Investing Club  

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Welcome To The New TimothySykes.com, Kinda Like Super Shredder

Welcome to my new website! Check out the official PR…this is three months of hard work baby and its really brought me back to my pyramid-building days…tons of cool features—por ejemplo, click and drag on any of the sections like TIM101 and you can rearrange their position to suit your preferences, vertically—for now

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Understand this is just the ground floor because as you can see, there’s a dozen+ projects goin’ on here, all in an effort to make this stuff more fun, understandable and ultimately help you become more profitable. Over the next few days and weeks, I’ll be going over each new section in detail, but for now, here’s a little breakdown of everything:

Bucks
Rewards for your thoughts—now every time you post or comment you get a TIMbuck, talkin’ with sponsors of all sorts right now, we’ll have a whole list of goodies shortly, wouldn’t it be cool if you post a good pick, and everybody profited and gave you so many TIMbucks that you could cash in your chips to get 50 free trades from GFT? That’s the plan anyway…

101
Where Real Traders Begin—you know all those beginner-type questions? Yah, they all get answered here, got plenty of articles in the works, everything from reading level 2 and my fav. books for beginners to…well, stuff like that…also you can see ALL the details of my trades, good and bad, I wish everybody in this industry would do

Reads
Reading is FUNdamental—bringin’ my whole library back to 1 page, only about a quarter of them on there now, good things take time

Reviews
The toughest critic around—no more 1-2 line answers, name any US stock and I’ll do a full analysis-technical, fundamental and everything else—for $20/ticker, for entertainment purposes only of course (happy you SEC bastards!?!?!), let’s see how this goes

Tv
Real. Fun. Really Funny—just the beginning, got soooo many ideas, just gotta clone myself to find the time to film them all, new clips—not necessarily just me—will be rolled out each day, stuff that’s gonna make you laugh, cry and most importantly, occupy you so you won’t be tempted to trade every damn pattern!

Terms
Nothing but the truth—an accurate financial/trading glossary, not like the one put out by those morons at Investopedia who say it’s impossible to short sell penny stocks and cannot account for my existence or my profits  

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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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It’s My Birthday And I’ll Send Out Beta Invites If I Want To!

Today is my 27th birthday , woooo hooooo! Seems like just the other day I was this crazy looking kid in the picture below:

Guess which one is me–yah, that pic alone is enough crazy celebration for one day, back to business. Unlike every other year, I’m not doing anything special—got a bunch of blog posts to write, ideas to research, radio interviews tonight and an early morning flight to beautiful Buffalo tomorrow (speaking at U of B’s business school tomorrow night if you’re in the area!) Yup, I’m one motivated SOB—this ain’t about the $, it’s about cutting through all the industry BS and teaching you guys to profit from it—never forget that.

Instead of getting cool presents—I don’t need much, all the expensive stuff I’ve ever got has broken, been lost or I’ve become bored with rather quickly—I thought I’d give you guys something—to the first 50 people who leave a comment on this post will get access to a special sneak preview of my new website, which, no more f%#$en excuses will debut on May 1, 2008, and will feature the first episode of the long-awaited / much-hyped TIMtv!

Yah, I know the website was supposed to be done today, but there’s just too much cool stuff out there and since I’m hoping this new site will outlast this current one (what’s it been 2 months?) and the last one (4 months) (ahhh my commitment issues are getting worse!), I just have to add everything, Super Shredder-style.

So, go on, leave a comment and open the present I’m gonna email you!

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