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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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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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How My Blog Income Was $43,683 In January While My Trading Gains Amounted To $6, Yes $6

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Mon 23rd of Feb, 2009 03:20:00 PM

A big drop from my record $83k month in December and $70,000 in August 2008 and below I’ll tell you why…
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TIM December Review: Just Another 10.22% Month To Bring My Final 2008 Return to 197%

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Tue 27th of Jan, 2009 03:35:34 PM

Yup, it was a very good year for me–$12,415 to $42,564 in fully detailed trading for the year 2008, a year in which almost all the frauds/marketers got their asses handed to them with the overall market down 40%ish.
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How My Blog Earned $83,358 In December 2008: Why Don’t Others Detail Their Income, Economy’s Got Their Tongue?

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Wed 14th of Jan, 2009 03:20:44 PM

Oh yes, this is an all-time high for me, blowing away my previous record of $70,000 in August 2008.
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How My Blog Earned $114,371 In October & November

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Thu 11th of Dec, 2008 04:30:31 PM

Easy guys, that’s a 2-month total, not one…I’m just behind on all my monthly reviews, too many trades, research, blog posts and emails, as I posted my 2-month trading performance earlier today HERE.
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TIM Monthly Review How I Made 14% & 17% In October & November, Respectively, & More Than Quadrupled The S&P 500 Over The Past 11 Months

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Thu 11th of Dec, 2008 06:58:23 AM

First: for anyone down 30, 40, 50% this year because you listened to somebody who claimed to know what they’re doing, shame on you, not them. These snakeoil salesmen come in a variety of forms and titles (like “Senior Vice President”), but it’s not their fault, it’s yours–because you weren’t cynical /cautious/distrusting enough…in short, you haven’t read my blog enough.
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How My Blog Earned $53,788 As Wall Street Burned In September

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Thu 9th of Oct, 2008 04:18:14 PM

God, I love putting up posts like this right on big down days in the market as millions of dumb investors are crying, confused as to why their blue-chip/value investments are getting crushed…welcome to the new world you friggin dinosaurs!
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TIM September Review: Up 14%, PennyStocking Annihilates All Indexes, Strategies & Hedge Funds; Their Worst Month Is Our Best!

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Wed 8th of Oct, 2008 02:45:04 PM

For the month, my account rose from $25,380 to $28,870, for a gain of 13.75%.
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TIM August Review: 8% Month Brings 2008 Return To 85%, Yup PennyStocking Rocks!

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Wed 10th of Sep, 2008 04:47:09 PM

August was a decent, if unexciting month for me trading-wise…you should already know how exciting it was for me blog-wise (see article HERE)…my tiny TIM trading account rose from $23,485 to $25,379 (see all trades in detail HERE), putting me over the key $25k mark (see why it’s huuuuge in THIS article) for an 8.06% return, basically off 3 successful trades.

See the graphics below as to how PennyStocking is dominating the major indexes on the month/year/eternity, and understand that the domination would still be thorough even if the indexes were each up 15%+ on the year instead of down that much…(and my #s would be up waaay more cuz there are more pump and dumps to short in bull markets!)

And here are my fav posts from the month that was:
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How My Blog Made $70,000 Even While I Went Away For 10 Days In August

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Mon 8th of Sep, 2008 03:47:29 PM

Well, $69,972 for the month to be exact…pisses me off I was so close to breaking the $70,000 barrier, but came up a lousy $28 short! What can I say, it’s a tough life.

This getting-ridiculous-rather-quickly figure is up from $45,000 in July (see July details HERE), up from $25k in June, $15k in May (those are estimated cuz they weren’t high enough for me to spend hours dissecting everything in order to brag about it)

…and of course the icing on the cake is that I had a nice trip to Japan for 10 days (see itinerary HERE, pics/videos will be up shortly) even while my blog was more than paying for the trip as I was taking it!

Here’s the breakdown:
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TIMalerts 2 Month Review, Let’s See How Everyone’s Fared

Posted by Pallian (Moderator) on Tue 12th of Aug, 2008 12:55:11 PM

It’s been exactly 2 months since TIMalerts, real-time stock alerts by me, started and I gotta say it’s been a resounding success. Now 400 subscribers strong, each post on the subscribers-only website TIMalerts.com now gets 80-150 comments (that’s why this site has been so quiet lately) and everybody seems to be enjoying my track record below:
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Suck On This John Chow, My Blog Made $45,000 Last Month!

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Wed 6th of Aug, 2008 04:31:03 PM

UPDATE: Less than 4 months later, my blog income is up to $83,000/month, I love this business!
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July Review: Up 16% For The Month, Now 89% Since TIM Inception 9 Months Ago

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Mon 4th of Aug, 2008 04:05:54 PM

July was a damn good month in which I finished up 15.9%, or just under $3,500, to $23,485, just a bit under the critical $25,000 asset barrier. What’s more, website traffic (especially thanks to the new subscribers-only TIMalerts.com website), PennyStocking DVD sales, testimonials and most importantly, reader learning and earning all surged waaaay more than my pesky little 16%.

Comparisons to the major indexes–why bother? You all know these major indexes are getting crushed, that PennyStocking, even with my flawed timing, is crushing every single index/strategy known to man (seriously it’s fair to call this industry pathetic if I’m really gonna stay #1 on Covestor)(see rankings HERE) and that my already-healthy ego is larger for it. No point in detailing all that…at least not without devoting an entire post later this week!

See a table of my July trades, chart of website traffic and all my favorite posts from the month that was:
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TIM June Monthly Review: It’s Satisfying To Earn 14% When Most Others Lose

Posted by Pallian (Moderator) on Mon 7th of Jul, 2008 11:42:33 AM

June was a tremendous month for me, my site and my strategy all took off just as others collapsed. Of course, just as all the longs look like geniuses in bull markets so do short sellers in bear markets and my trading/teaching was far from perfect, but the key is we’re all earning and learning…

To the numbers…

My Thinkorswim account increased from $17,807 to $20,272, a gain of $2,465, or 13.84%. Plenty of mistakes (click blog posts on the table below to see), but nice domination of Covestor (see rankings HERE) and the major indexes:

Site traffic continued its strong growth, especially monthly visitors which increased from May’s 104,000 to 150,000!

And get excited cuz now I’ve figured out a way to
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May 2008 Review: The Only Real Mistake Is The One From Which We Learn Nothing

Posted by timothysykes on Sat 7th of Jun, 2008 01:26:18 PM

May was an interesting month and no matter the multitude of mistakes, I gotta say it was an outright success. Sure, thanks to me focusing too much on building this new site, not being disciplined enough in avoiding commodity plays or more importantly, waiting until they showed some–any–weakness to short, not being able to take enough pain before the damn busted (CNEX!!!!) or getting a short trade executed accidentally when I told everyone else to stay away (VRML!!!!)—yes made just about every mistake in the book, wasting away precious opportunities as if I was Britney Spears—TIM finished down just over 2% at $17,807…. Boo freaken hoo—now with less projects, albeit slightly, less sleep, sucks, I’m up already up 5% after 3 good trades this month!

Definitely more importantly PennyStocking students like Jeff Moates and Tony Ellis, are really banking, think $10,000+/month, no joke, aka doing much better than me—as I predicted throughout my instructional DVD…“you can do better than me”—and that’s certainly the reason why my website traffic is breaking out gradually…not a pattern to short like it was back HERE

In summary, yes, I screwed up a lot, so what, I masterfully controlled my losses, you guys learned from it, I learned from it, now we’re all better at trading, we can l augh at the 90% of traders who don’t know what the F#$! they’re doing, falling prey to “gurus” who cost thousands of dollars but fail miserably at enriching anybody but themselves and thus who should be taunted/ripped apart regularly and sternly, we understand the risks better, our profits are getting bigger the world is a better place. Welcome to my mission, enjoy!

Good Trades

Finally shorting into panic, gooooood Timmayyyy
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April Review: A Solid 5% Month Defines The Life Of A PennyStocker

Posted by timothysykes on Thu 1st of May, 2008 07:23:21 PM

April was an interesting month—finished up just over 5% to finish at $18,284. Many great trading lessons, in the first 10 days, I got off to a booming start—as there were PennyStocking plays galore—but I didn’t earn a dime during the second half of the month. Not because there weren’t plays, more due to not being able to properly research/watch the markets every second like I like as I was speaking, traveling and working on this new website. Life usually does get in the way of the trading, but that’s fine—I’ve learned you need balance. Take it one pump at a time, profit as much as you can, enjoy the rest.

And, in case you cared, website traffic, while down slightly from March, grew steadily over previous months, and if you take out that huge one-time gain thanks to my Facebook convo with Ashley Dupre, hit a new all-time high…people are tired of all the finance BS, brutal honesty is the clear solution.

Here are posts you need to memorize for a quiz on Monday:

Successes

PennyStocking is all about predicting 10% price moves

It’s easy, but you gotta find shares to short cuz everybody wants in!

It’s fun when the media helps manipulate prices

It’s even more fun to trade in the airport (not)
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TIM 6 Month Review: Earn 47% While The Markets Drop 10%

Posted by timothysykes on Thu 1st of May, 2008 02:57:15 AM

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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TIM Monthly Review: Beware The Ides Of March Or Learn To Short Sell!

Posted by timothysykes on Tue 1st of Apr, 2008 01:33:32 PM

March was damn good to me, earned 8.63% , helping extend my lead as the top ranked guy on Covestor. These kinds of returns warm my belly, especially when so many mainstream allegedly “safe strategies” are getting absolutely crushed. TIM’s return since inception in November 2007 now stands at 40%, compared to a -14% return for the “safe and diversified” S&P 500. Total annihilation. Sweeeet!

Yes, I’m just playing with a tiny chunk of change and taking on some risk–welcome to the lives of most investors/traders! For all my continued success, those of you frequent readers or who’ve seen my instructional dvd PennyStocking know my trading has been highly flawed…as it has been for the past decade…meaning I made millions even while making tons of mistakes…meaning you can take my theories and do better…you should do better.

So let people knock Penny Stocks, assuming they’re “akin to gambling” and let them knock me, assuming I “got lucky during the bubble”. Assumptions are the mother of all F%#^ ups. Numbers don’t lie, people do. And that’ll never change. Because human nature never changes. And that’s what my strategy is based in. And that’s why my strategy will always succeed—no matter if you’re a good or bad trader, whether there are few or many plays, just as long as the stock market exists, small companies need to raise cash and human beings—especially financial human beings (aka scum of the earth)—remain true to themselves. Judging by recent events, financial scumbags are more prevalent than ever.
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