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Agriculture Penny Stocks Have Been Strong Lately, Here’s My Take

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Sun 31st of May, 2009 09:55:47 AM

When you’ve got the big names like POT and MOS jumping 50% in a month, it was inevitable that the agri momentum plays like COIN, , GRO, FEED & SEED would be shooting higher too.

Guess what my take is!

So far, I’ve been dead on with SEED in particular:

My Take On The Hot Coffee Stocks Right Now

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Sat 23rd of May, 2009 09:45:32 AM

There aren’t my bread and butter pump and dumps, but there is penny stock hype involved so I know a little more than the average guru…
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Why I Bought The Hottest Coffee Stock Around

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Tue 21st of Apr, 2009 07:45:21 PM

UPDATE: You have until midnight tonight to take advantage of THIS special TIMalerts offer for a year for $197 instead of $297 and 2 FREE months of daily video watchlists, which normally cost $99/month alone!

This afternoon I bought Diedrich Coffee Inc. (DDRX) and told TIMalert subscribers why:
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Check Out This Stock In The Medicinal Marijuana Sector…Seriously

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Tue 7th of Apr, 2009 08:05:57 AM

Yup, CoffeyGrinds gave me the head’s up and then the little sketchball of a company actually began following me on twitter…See their Twitter Profile HERE, laugh, and then follow me on my Twitter profile (just give into Twitter already, resistance is futile) I made fun of it at first, as did my girlfriend (follow her!), so I can keep you guys up-to-date with cool links and deals on my instructional DVDs!
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How To Profit From The Latest Ban On Short Selling aka How To Legally Profit From Should-Be Illegal Market Manipulation

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Thu 18th of Sep, 2008 05:59:31 PM

The government has proven time and again that they’re going to scapegoat short sellers for the sins of others who used too much leverage/power for too long, THIS latest ridiculous investigation is no different.
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The Latest 20%+ TIMalert Winner, But As Usual I Wasn’t Greedy Enough, Must Go To Synagogue To Be Better Jew

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Tue 2nd of Sep, 2008 06:35:06 PM

From the TIMalert right near the market open, TAYD dropped 21%, here’s the story of how it was entirely predictable and lots of TIMalert subscribers banked:

In THIS morning’s watchlist, when I said about Taylor Devices, Inc. (TAYD) “this thing is gonna tank, it’s my #1 potential short”

I knew I had to reserve shares early…7:40am. Done.

After I shorted 1,000 shares right near the market open at $8.13ish, I sent out this alert to TIMalert subscribers:

one of the simplest plays in a while, earthquake absorption equipment maker always goes up on natural disasters–people get excited about possible deals–hurricane gustav wasnt that bad, sadly–this thing should go back down…read my book An American Hedge Fund–and see I once made over $200,000 shorting this same stock after the Asian tsunami, not much has changed since then except i’m more conservative…goal is to cover under 7.50 in the next 1-2 days, not a huge profit cuz it wasn’t up enough

Unfortunately, since it was a morning dump, it tanked rather quickly to my target area of $7.50 and very few subscribers actually got in—luckily there a little bounce to the $7.70-$7.80 area, but that’s it.

Considering the stock was only up from the low $6s—and yes, even though it’s an earthquake, not hurricane play, its got a proven track record of spiking during natural disasters—as I detail in my book An American Hedge Fund. So, I took my profit and sent out this alert to TIMalert subscribers:
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I’m Rooting For Hurricane Gustav, I’ll Tell You Why…

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Sun 31st of Aug, 2008 11:27:03 AM

This weekend, I’m glued to the computer checking and rechecking THIS link to live track of Hurricane Gustav and you know what, I hope it’s massive…
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Those Hypesters Are At It Again: AgFeed Industries Inc. (FEED)

Posted by timothysykes on Mon 11th of Aug, 2008 11:39:30 AM

You gotta love how blatantly the pig farmers over at FEED hype their business and spit in the faces of the incompetent SEC with ridiculously-forward-looking statements. Understand I’m not short, know nobody who is short and have nothing against hype and manipulation–I just love teaching people to profit from it and writing about it!

You might recall I’ve written a few posts about these master artists (can you guess what kind of artists I think they are?) before, HERE and HERE when they suckered some naive institutional investors at the top and got funding for their pig plundering.

But when I read aggressively hyped PRs like THIS, I feel compelled to blog about it. Because if I can prevent one sucker from getting in bed with these scumbags, maybe convince them not to be so trusting of anybody at these BS companies, instead going the route of my PennyStocking DVD, then I’ll have done my job–profiting from teaching about how incredibly manipulated the smallcap game really is.

Let’s just take a few points straight from the piggie’s mouth:
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What Legendary Trader Paul Tudor Jones Thinks About Oil…

Posted by timothysykes on Wed 16th of Jul, 2008 11:34:38 AM

You know how I’m always saying don’t listen to anybody in the financial media cuz none of them have any major trading gains/wealth, all just claim to have “experience”. (And no, Cramer’s $50mil does not count as “major” trading gains.) Well, there are a few good men out there that have more than experience, they have fortunes, so when they talk, you should listen.

Before I featured what billionaire George Soros had to say about the economy (see interview HERE), now it’s time for you to hear what fellow legendary/billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones (see bio HERE), a guy who banked during the 1987 crash, now oversees $18 billion, and hasn’t had a down year since he began in 1980, says about oil coming at you thanks to an article in Alpha by way of a great post on 1440:

Is the price of oil high for fundamental reasons, or are hedge fund managers and Wall Street driving it up?

It’s a very bullish supply-and-demand situation, and the peak oil theory is probably correct. But the run-up in prices is now bringing in an enormous amount of speculative, nontraditional capital such as pension funds and university endowments — principally through index products.

Commodities have been the worst-performing asset class behind stocks, bonds and real estate for the past 200 years, but Wall Street doesn’t highlight that long history when selling commodity index instruments today. Instead, it shows a chart of the bull market of the past 12 years to rationalize why some pensioner should be long cattle futures in the derivatives markets as part of a basket.

I am sure they were using similar logic about tulips three centuries ago. Oil is a huge mania, and it’s going to end badly. We’ve seen it play out hundreds of times over the centuries, and this is no different. It’s just the nature of a rip-roaring bull market. Fundamentals might be good for the first third or first 50 or 60 percent of a move, but the last third of a great bull market is typically a blow-off, whereas the mania runs wild and prices go parabolic.

Click the links above to the original article, but yes, you heard it from the billionaire himself–he thinks the oil bubble goes pop. Interesting, to say the least, especially for longterm shareholders of Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM), Chevron Corporation (CVX), ConocoPhillips (COP), Schlumberger Limited (SLB) who have all become fat and cocky with too many profits. Now, there are several billionaires who would disagree, but they mostly got that way through investing in the industry whereas PTJ is one of the greatest traders of all time.

On a slow pump and dump day like today, this is something to think about…a fun little guessing game. A few months back, I was fortunate enough to have an hour or so chat with PTJ’s right hand man, Peter Borish, and came away thoroughly impressed so based on that convo and PTJ’s track record, I’d go with them, just as people thinking about trading Penny Stocks should learn from someone with a superior track record like me (see the ultimate guide to Penny Stock trading aka PennyStocking HERE!)

Why I Bought The Only Stock That Aims To Monetize Social Networking

Posted by timothysykes on Sat 12th of Jul, 2008 02:32:00 PM

TIMalert subscribers know I bought 3,000 shares of IdeaEdge, Inc. (IDAE) at $2.25 and $2.28 Friday mid-day because as I said in the alert:

“this is a perfect breakout, chart is strong, social networking gift cards for launch this fall, whatever the hell that means, myspace parent company founder joined board..i’ve been telling promoters who call me to create a social networking pump, maybe this is it…unfortunately somewhat illiquid”

(seriously stock promoters have been calling me, pitching their ideas as longs…it’s funny as hell…keep ‘em comin’ guys!)

Well, now I’ve done a whole bunch of research—technical and fundamental—and I’m more confident that we’ll see a continued rise next week—odds were good in the first place as the stock has only had 3 down days in the past 2 months—ideally, following the same trend where stock price and volume gains are larger each day of the breakout.

After all, last time it showed this same kind of breakout pattern (late June), it went from $1.40 to $2.15 in 3 days, or a 50% rise…3 big white candlesticks in a row—Friday is only the first big white candle (plenty of room to grow volume too) and this time the breakout began at $2.15 so $3…maybe even $4 is not out of the question (last breakout it didn’t even correct much off its highs…meaning nobody’s worried/is selling aka everybody expects/is manipulating the stock to have a bigger rise)

My last perfect breakout buy was China North East Petroleum Hldng Ltd. (CNEH) (see article HERE) (same strong Friday afternoon action…up 20% on Monday and Tuesday…same 3 white candles before retracing) and now this company has a surprisingly many number of things going for it, albeit not fundamental related, more hype-related, which I prefer anyway:

-Their social networking card debuting this fall could really be huge—this is a $100 billion market (see the graph on their executive summary page) that hasn’t tapped social networking at all and their proprietary technology is all protected by intellectual property (they claim based on filings to have no competitors aka big media company will have to gobble them up if they want in) and considering they now have the equity funding to launch this potentially revolutionary product

a.) the time is ripe to monetize massive social networks like Myspace, Facebook as ads ain’t workin (Youtube only has $200mil in revenue…revenue, not profit!) (and think about getting offered to chip in for a gift right alongside every Evite…microfinancing/microblogging are all the rage these days so why not microgifting?)

b.) even if it flops, its easy-to-understand/eye-popping product and the anticipation of its launch should inspire plenty of investors to create a big/continued stock climb

c.) Their strong management/connections and PRs tease that they’re already talking to many big chains like Starbucks and Barnes & Noble (imagine being able to gift your friend the bookworm a B&N gift card or your cousin the coffee drinker a Starbucks card when you see their birthday pop up on your Facebook list of upcoming birthdays!)

-Strong management—CEO worked his way up at
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Why I Bought A Stock With The Most Perfect Setup—Technical & Fundamental—I’ve Seen So Far In 2008

Posted by timothysykes on Sat 28th of Jun, 2008 12:06:46 PM

As I alerted TIMalert subscribers with 30 minutes to go before the market close on Friday, I bought 1,500 shares of China North East Petroleum Hldng Ltd. (CNEH) at $4.60—mainly because it’s the single most perfect breakout chart pattern I’ve seen in a very long-time (was considering buying ShengdaTech, Inc. (SDTH) on its own meaningful breakout above $10, but that move was too quick for me.)

And that’s just the beginning of the story (I always do research ahead of time as this popped up on my watchlist two weeks ago)

I bought so early (usually wait til 5-10 minutes before the close if I’m buying for a next day move) because a.) it was breaking out to a new daily high (solid close, but wish it’d taken out $4.70) b.) since its an OTCBB play, executions are slower and c.) no matter what time frame you look at, it’s breaking out on all of them—10 day & 1 month (break above $4.50), 3 month (break above $4.69…close enough aka I’ll risk Monday buyers making this into a truly perfect breakout) and most importantly, 1 year/all-time, above its late 2007 highs of $4.55 (uhhhh can you say massive massive massive massive cup and handle pattern?)

I mean this chart is just gorgeous—it’s the kind
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Why These 6 Alternative Energy Stocks Are Like Strung-Out Junkies

Posted by timothysykes on Mon 23rd of Jun, 2008 02:08:39 PM

Whenever a sector has big winners, cheap, poor and greedy people are gonna look to get in on the action by buying and hyping bottom-of-the-barrel-companies that trade for less than $5/share. It’s science.

Take alternative energy—the rise of superstars like First Solar, Inc. (FSLR) and Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (ENER) have paved the way for runups in industry laughingstocks Capstone Turbine Corporation (CPST) and SatCon Technology Corporation (SATC), Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies (QTWW) and Hydrogenics Corporation (USA) (HYGS). Worse yet, no matter the rising tide theory, the sector’s true embarrassments, Plug Power Inc. (PLUG) and Beacon Power Corp. (BCON), still can’t even rise much! (laughing at them truly does make you feel better about yourself, try it!)

This kind of gutter trash is my specialty—I’m not even gonna get into the fundamentals—or lack thereof—cuz no matter how bright a future these companies say they have, fancy accounting they use to prop up their numbers, etc. you really gotta think of them as junkies shooting up heroin (or alternative energy) in an alleyway. Message board posters, longs, naïve fund managers (themselves drug addicts…seriously, you have no idea how bad it is, pathetic that nobody talks about it openly) and ANALysts propping up their near-carcasses, feeding them one good meal and dressing them up to go to a big charity event to make themselves look good, only to ditch them later after they’ve gotten credit for doing a good deed (profiting form hyped up prices).

Overly cynical? Nope. 900 out 1,000 of these manure-esque companies will fail within a few years, 950 will fall back waaay below these spiked up prices and 990 of them will trade lower than what they’re at right now. These are just estimates based on industry fact and my decade-long experience and if you think you have the talent to profit from that 0.10% of successful companies, go right ahead.

On the other hand, all you odds-loving, drug-despising people, my bros, my students, my comrades in profit, join me in stalking their charts, patiently waiting to profit from their near-inevitable fall from grace, back to junkie stock prices, that being under $1 and $2.

In order of least disease-ridden junkie to Amy Winehouse:
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7 Gas Stocks Breaking Out: To Buy Or Not To Buy, That Is the Question

Posted by timothysykes on Wed 18th of Jun, 2008 02:42:50 PM

On my ridiculous watchlist today there are too many crappy low priced companies breaking out…all will soon be good shorts, my specialty, but for now, I’m tempted to buy one or more before the close…never in the middle of the day (no protection!)

Let’s compare and see which, if any, should be bought. The contenders are:

Tengasco, Inc. Tengasco, Inc. (TGC)
Northern Oil & Gas, Inc. Northern Oil & Gas, Inc. (NOG)
Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp. Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp. (KOG)
Blue Dolphin Energy Company (BDCO)
Royale Energy, Inc. (ROYL)
Samson Oil & Gas Limited (SSN)
Pinnacle Gas Resources, Inc. (PINN)

And their charts:
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In PennyStocking & TIM You Must Trust: Receive 6% Overnight Interest At The Bare Minimum, 15-25% If You’re Not Jewish

Posted by timothysykes on Wed 18th of Jun, 2008 12:19:29 PM

As I emailed TIMalert subscribers in near real-time, I sold my HYHY position near the market open at $2.37 for a solid, if not extraordinary, 6% overnight gain of about $265, putting TIM up 8% on the month and right back to my old highs, up 55% since November 2007.

You see for all my crazy—some say—theories, but this time proven right…yet again…suckas, I stink at timing my trades. (As I think I proved beyond a shadow of doubt with my woeful but carefully controlled losses in May) Scared by my own openness (probly best not to call a company you’re long a fraud) in last night’s post and another scathing overnight article on The Fool (the hypocrites wouldn’t publish a nice review of my book An American Hedge Fund by one of their writers cuz it deals too much with Penny Stocks—man, I’m telling you Back of the Bus-type discrimination makes me sick) entitled “Potential Scam Alert”, I wasn’t sure how much longer this rally would last.
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Why I Bought Probable Fraud Hydrogen Hybrid Tech Inc (HYHY) & Think Its Headed Higher

Posted by timothysykes on Tue 17th of Jun, 2008 08:30:21 PM

Out of all the low priced stocks breaking out in all the world—and there were several BMB Munai Inc. (KAZ), Fieldpoint Petroleum Corporation (FPP), Capstone Turbine Corporation (CPST) and Beacon Power Corp. (BCON)—why oh why would I ignore all those real companies and buy 2,500 shares at $2.26 of this now $275 million probable fraud HYHY right before the market close? And then decide to write truthfully about it even as I hold shares overnight! (Suck on that people who say I pump or bash for my own interests)

Especially when we know this “company” had $68,000 in revenue last quarter—okay, okay, I’ll give it to them, they were profitable, but only because their expenses amounted to $9,000!!!!! Especially when they put out utter fantasies like THIS press release touting their technology which is “an add-on to diesel and gasoline engines where it significantly reduces a wide variety of emissions (CO, PM, HC, CO2 and NOx) while simultaneously reducing fuel consumption”
Especially when their magic box looks like a high school science project:
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Penny Stock King Guest Post: A Few Stocks I’m Watching and The World’s Oldest Pump and Dump

Posted by timothysykes on Mon 9th of Jun, 2008 09:41:07 AM

Forget about my watchlists, there’s a new PennyStocker in town and his name is Tony Ellis…He’s a PennyStocking DVD student / grad student who never really traded much before this year, but is now up a sweet $55,000 in 2008 even while attending school! He’ll soon have his own column here, but today I’m reposting his watchlist…look at the guy go, charts and price points included, no frivolous commentary whatsoever, watch out Sykes!

Here are a few I’m watching nothing ideal just a few I may daytrade this week.

Disclosure: I have no position in any of the following stocks.

NGAS-Oil stock not far from its 52 wk high of 9.35. I’m a buyer on a break of this level with volume spike to go along. Only a day trade for me, too much news political risk with Oil right now to be long overnight.

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Why The iPhone 3G Might Make Apple Inc. (AAPL) A Breakout Buy

Posted by timothysykes on Sun 25th of May, 2008 11:08:23 AM

Now as you know AAPL isn’t my typical play, but since I’m awake 20 hours/day thinking about all potential profit angles, this one’s popped up on my radar. THIS 3G iPhone news has whipped the no-stock-market-experience-geeks into a frenzy as if they were strippers on coke and the usual stock-market-talking-heads are now running around as if they were about to utter something meaningful for once (nahhhhhhhhh, that’ll ever happen!), so I gotta interject. And remember, my word actually means something cuz not only is my trading account up 40% in the past 6 months, I nailed how Visa would perform (initial VMW-type price rise, but slightly more conservative, before quick drop off, seriously…months before its happened, read my article HERE), but most importantly, a few months ago before its 40% drop, I smacked all those AAPL cheerleaders with $300 price targets across their big fat fee-earning, research-lacking faces by urging caution at $200…see glorious article HERE)

Now I return to this playground because, thanks to this news, the upcoming price action might just turn out to be pretty damn predictable. All because, as with any new potential blockbuster product, people love to speculate on bigtime success…momentum buyers enter, short sellers exit and the stock breaks out to new highs before the new product even hits the shelves.
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A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: 7 Lesser Oil Stocks That Are Gushing Higher

Posted by timothysykes on Thu 22nd of May, 2008 08:58:06 AM

Still watching all the energy stocks from yesterday too…this post will be comment-free as my recent performance/utter disregard for disciplined short sellers brings me down to typical industry scum/ makes me unworthy of your time

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9 Stocks On Fire: So Many Plays That Are Surprisingly Borrowable To Short!

Posted by timothysykes on Wed 14th of May, 2008 09:08:30 AM

Plenty of stocks in play and surprisingly plenty of borrows today too! Only thing stopping me from reserving shares in every stock I want is my damn limited buying power! So, after being very selective, I’ve reserved 500 shares of CNEX, 2000 of FPP. Also got UQM and SSBX shares but I can’t have my orders working cuz of my tiny account. Wow, I’m down here at $18k voluntarily, I can always unleash $500,000 or so amongst all these stocks, but you guys, damn, how do you live? I mean seriously, how do you live?

Basically I’m still watching everything from yesterday’s watchlist and a few more/some updated below:

QTWW could/should breakout hardcore, but given that we’re talking maybe 20-25 cents of upside here, I can’t waste any precious trades/buying power on it…sucks!

Those of you looking to short PDO and MXC so quickly are just idiots. These things have broken out nicely and are squeezing the shorts and since their connected to oil prices, there’s no telling how high they’ll go. Remember how I said I don’t like commodity plays, that they’re not your typical pump and dumps? Again, I haven’t been in the game for this long and not learned a thing or two.
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Trading The Latest Hot Beverage Stock: Skinny Nutritional (SKNY.OB)

Posted by timothysykes on Sun 4th of May, 2008 08:11:52 PM

Skinny Nutritional (SKNY.OB) (oxymoronic?) just launched the latest zero calorie water brand, Skinny Water, lured in some third-tier Coca Cola executive to serve on their board, basically entirely for his title (giving him 2mil shares–and many others many millions more–while unsuccessfully / humorously / amateurishly trying to ticker spam that announcement to get included in the Yahoo! news of Coca-Cola bottling (COKE), Pepsi (PEP) and of course Coca Cola (KO) (silly pumpers, for some strange reason, you guys haven’t read my book An American Hedge Fund, if you had, you’d know ticker spam is for kids…back in 1999-2000!), all the while trying to pitch themselves as the next Vitamin Water.

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