Two Interviews: One Video, One Written, Both Edu-tainment To The Max!

While we’re waiting for the next CNEX-like worthy trading opportunity to emerge, check out these two interviews of mine that just came out today.

First StockTickr asks me some really great questions and allows me to set the record straight on a lot of the BS that’s out there. Thanks Dave! PS The guy’s also got a pretty cool product for keeping track of your trading journals…

A few dozen of you participated in the live interview I did on ChuckTV the other day, HERE is the edited version. Clocking in at just over 1 hour, we talk about everything from trading pump and dumps, Saturday Night Live castmembers and drug use on Wall Street to web 2.0, online video and the future of the internet…really interesting convo—thanks again Chuck!

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Join TimTV On ChuckTV Live Here Tomorrow, Monday May 12th, 2008, 2PM EST

Check this post tomorrow, Monday, May 12th at 2pm EST cuz the coolest Chuck I know, Chuck Boyce of ChuckTV, will be interviewing me and thanks to this snazzy video player you see above, you’ll be able to watch, chat and interact with us all in real-time. We’ll be talking about everything from digital media to why there are so many financial scumbags and most importantly, taking a few questions from you guys. This thing is gonna last anywhere from 30 min to 1 hour, but I have a feeling it’s gonna get wild. Definitely comment away if you have any questions you’d like answered tomorrow!

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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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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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ANALysts & Venture Capitalists Know S#@! About How SmallCap Stocks Trade

While I respect Andy Kessler for making a ton of $ back during the bubble and writing two superb books–Wall Street Meat and Running Money, this piece of s$#@ interview he gave on smallcaps really makes me mad. Not only does he believe it a foregone conclusion that investors should look for companies with emerging technologies, but he also refuses to name any names or give any kind of timeframe whatsoever for his theory.

To Andy and all other venture capitalists, do your thing with big companies, but don’t talk about smallcaps and microcaps—these companies ALL have cool technologies, but this isn’t 1999, most of these companies are gonna fail and their grim reality is reflected in their stock prices. While you have good intentions, interviews like this are what gets people investing / believing in these POS companies, inevitably losing $ and thinking this niche is random, which, if you focus on the proper variables—chart, volume, manipulation, message board hype etc—is clearly not the case. Dangerous dangerous dangerous, welcome to why media outlets are sooooo bad with smallcaps and microcaps–it’s a different world down here in the gutter, ain’t no place for WASPs!

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Lie Detector For Talking Heads: Grave Consequences For TV Interviews

You guys know I’ve been on my “nearly everyone in this industry is full of BS / the financial media is an unfunny joke” crusade for a while now, but with regards to a product that actually does something about it–or claims to–unsuprisingly, I’ve been outscooped by the world’s top financial blogger Barry Ritholtz.

RealScoop uses their special voice analysis technology to measure the believeability of what people say in videos–yeah that’s right, useless talking heads, corporate scumbags execs: get scared. Cute, right? A lie detector and a big scary guy patting a baseball bat standing beside them would def. work better, but baby steps…

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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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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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