timothy sykes logo

Breaking News-Tim's Trading Challenge

Regarding Fake News On Penny Stocks

Timothy SykesAvatar
Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 7/20/2021 6 min read

 

Here’s my first little birthday gift for you in honor of my 36th birthday next weekend and I HIGHLY suggest you take advantage of them ASAP

The vast majority of the world ignores reliable patterns like THIS and THIS and generally, as a rule, hates penny stocks and all the scams that go along with them, while my top millionaire trading challenge students and I find that being meticulous and focusing on patterns that work far more often than they do not is the key to making successful trades.

This is how, despite being warned by family, friends and pretty much everyone in the financial community to never trade penny stocks due to the inherent risk associated with them, we continue to grow our accounts exponentially within a few years and the central theme of this must-watch video from my hottest trading challenge student of the moment is to have patience and wait for the best setups to help increase your odds of profit:

**

The highest odds of profit with these kinds of plays come when a penny stock is greatly mispriced due to hype/manipulation (short sell the misguided euphoria) or sheer panic and stop loss selling (this pattern works SO well, although not 100% as ZENO longs learned the hard way today (I still made roughly $2k** by playing it safe, as I always do and when your thesis doesn’t pan out on ANY pattern, simply cut losses or take gains quickly and move on, not sure why this is so difficult for so many people, but welcome to my life as a teacher)

Download the key points of this post as PDF.

In breaking news from yesterday “Scammers Used SeekingAlpha for Bogus Stock Promotions, SEC Says” we learned that:

On Monday, the Securities and Exchange Commission sued 27 individuals and companies for their involvement in hundreds of conflicted articles that appeared on SeekingAlpha and other sites. The authors checked a box that said they hadn’t been compensated, concealing the payments they’d received from stock promoters, the SEC said in a statement.

To hide their identities, writers used multiple pseudonyms, even creating separate personas who claimed to have 20 years of investing experience. At one promotion company, writers even signed a contract forbidding them from disclosing their compensation. SeekingAlpha wasn’t accused of any wrongdoing.

“These companies, promoters, and writers allegedly misled investors by disguising paid promotions as objective and independent analysis,” Stephanie Avakian, acting head of SEC enforcement said in the statement.

…something that I’ve been warning about THE ENTIRE DECADE I’VE BEEN TEACHING, as you can see in articles like “MSN Money, FOX News, Motley Fool & Seeking Alpha Implicated In Penny Stock Pump & Dump Cases” and “Are Penny Stock Promoters Using Seeking Alpha For Stock Promotion?“.

In that second blog post of mine from 2010, I linked to a Seeking Alpha article that was pumping up the terrible penny stock, APPY, and now that the case has been broken wide open, this is what Seeking Alpha has in place of that article:

As for “Takeover Speculation Swarms at AspenBio Pharma” instead of an article, we now get this legally mandated disclaimer:

This article has been removed; Seeking Alpha has dissolved its relationship with the ‘author.’

So, am I saying, look I told you so?

Sure, that I am, but more importantly, this is a classic example of how penny stock promoters simply aren’t very smart and with a little digging, you can figure out their schemes and profit from them, either short selling them, aiming for this kind of pattern, when you can find shares to short (not always easy, the main problem with one of the strategies that made me my 2nd million dollars), or by watching this guide, understanding the ins and outs of the #5 pattern that works most of the time, that being to wait for the intraday crash, ideally morning panic, on these pumps and then buy the dip as the penny stock promoter supports it enough to lessen the odds of an investigation into their manipulative dealings.

The promotion and manipulation in penny stocks is abhorrent, but it’s always going to be there so you better accept it and learn how to profit from it…legally, by learning how to spot it and trade the patterns it creates.

Don’t believe me?

Sure, I get that all the time, it’s no surprise, but now with 4,700+ video lessons in my library for newsletter subscribers and 8,000+ blog posts, nearly half of which have been on outlining the ins and outs of these penny stocks scams like such classics as:

How To Get Rich By Short Selling Mini-Enrons Faster Than Jim Chanos

10 Reasons Why Mesa Energy Holdings, Inc. (MSEH) Will Drop 50%+ (it did do just that within a few days and even some press was surprised by how I called it)

(I should also mention Mesa Energy went so far as to tell people not to listen to me in an SEC filing here LOL…whoops!)
The Seemingly Unchanging Million Dollar Profit Stock Market Pattern: [8 PRETTY CHARTS]

…and thousands and thousands more of video lessons and blog posts on this same phenomenon.

You can ignore me and my warnings if you want, stay far away from the big bad penny stock niche and it won’t matter to me one bit…I’ll keep trying to create more and more successful Trading Challenge students anyway.

But, if you do want to learn and see how to predict these stock moves and beat the SEC to uncovering these kinds of scams BY YEARS, then start watching my video lessons here and start studying my free penny stock guide here and apply here to be mentored by my top trading challenge students and I.


How much has this post helped you?



Leave a reply

Author card Timothy Sykes picture

Timothy Sykes

Tim Sykes is a penny stock trader and teacher who became a self-made millionaire by the age of 22 by trading $12,415 of bar mitzvah money. After becoming disenchanted with the hedge fund world, he established the Tim Sykes Trading Challenge to teach aspiring traders how to follow his trading strategies. He’s been featured in a variety of media outlets including CNN, Larry King, Steve Harvey, Forbes, Men’s Journal, and more. He’s also an active philanthropist and environmental activist, a co-founder of Karmagawa, and has donated millions of dollars to charity.
Read More

* Results are not typical and will vary from person to person. Making money trading stocks takes time, dedication, and hard work. There are inherent risks involved with investing in the stock market, including the loss of your investment. Past performance in the market is not indicative of future results. Any investment is at your own risk. See Terms of Service here

The available research on day trading suggests that most active traders lose money. Fees and overtrading are major contributors to these losses.

A 2000 study called “Trading is Hazardous to Your Wealth: The Common Stock Investment Performance of Individual Investors” evaluated 66,465 U.S. households that held stocks from 1991 to 1996. The households that traded most averaged an 11.4% annual return during a period where the overall market gained 17.9%. These lower returns were attributed to overconfidence.

A 2014 paper (revised 2019) titled “Learning Fast or Slow?” analyzed the complete transaction history of the Taiwan Stock Exchange between 1992 and 2006. It looked at the ongoing performance of day traders in this sample, and found that 97% of day traders can expect to lose money from trading, and more than 90% of all day trading volume can be traced to investors who predictably lose money. Additionally, it tied the behavior of gamblers and drivers who get more speeding tickets to overtrading, and cited studies showing that legalized gambling has an inverse effect on trading volume.

A 2019 research study (revised 2020) called “Day Trading for a Living?” observed 19,646 Brazilian futures contract traders who started day trading from 2013 to 2015, and recorded two years of their trading activity. The study authors found that 97% of traders with more than 300 days actively trading lost money, and only 1.1% earned more than the Brazilian minimum wage ($16 USD per day). They hypothesized that the greater returns shown in previous studies did not differentiate between frequent day traders and those who traded rarely, and that more frequent trading activity decreases the chance of profitability.

These studies show the wide variance of the available data on day trading profitability. One thing that seems clear from the research is that most day traders lose money .

Millionaire Media 66 W Flagler St. Ste. 900 Miami, FL 33130 United States (888) 878-3621 This is for information purposes only as Millionaire Media LLC nor Timothy Sykes is registered as a securities broker-dealer or an investment adviser. No information herein is intended as securities brokerage, investment, tax, accounting or legal advice, as an offer or solicitation of an offer to sell or buy, or as an endorsement, recommendation or sponsorship of any company, security or fund. Millionaire Media LLC and Timothy Sykes cannot and does not assess, verify or guarantee the adequacy, accuracy or completeness of any information, the suitability or profitability of any particular investment, or the potential value of any investment or informational source. The reader bears responsibility for his/her own investment research and decisions, should seek the advice of a qualified securities professional before making any investment, and investigate and fully understand any and all risks before investing. Millionaire Media LLC and Timothy Sykes in no way warrants the solvency, financial condition, or investment advisability of any of the securities mentioned in communications or websites. In addition, Millionaire Media LLC and Timothy Sykes accepts no liability whatsoever for any direct or consequential loss arising from any use of this information. This information is not intended to be used as the sole basis of any investment decision, nor should it be construed as advice designed to meet the investment needs of any particular investor. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future returns.

Citations for Disclaimer

Barber, Brad M. and Odean, Terrance, Trading is Hazardous to Your Wealth: The Common Stock Investment Performance of Individual Investors. Available at SSRN: “Day Trading for a Living?”

Barber, Brad M. and Lee, Yi-Tsung and Liu, Yu-Jane and Odean, Terrance and Zhang, Ke, Learning Fast or Slow? (May 28, 2019). Forthcoming: Review of Asset Pricing Studies, Available at SSRN: “https://ssrn.com/abstract=2535636”

Chague, Fernando and De-Losso, Rodrigo and Giovannetti, Bruno, Day Trading for a Living? (June 11, 2020). Available at SSRN: “https://ssrn.com/abstract=3423101”