Owner: Timothy Sykes - Stock Trader, Author, Entrepreneur URL:http://timothysykes.com/ Join Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:12:58 -0600 Rating:0 Site Description: Cutting through all the industry BullShip to bring stock trading to the masses.
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Sykes’ Saturday Seventeen: March 8th, 2008 Edition 2008-03-08 13:06:30 Why some bloggers, especially those who are billionaires, hold back
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Even though I despise market guessing games, since I nailed this market back on January 4th, I gotta show it off
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Trial By Economic Jury: Are You Innocent Or Guilty? 2008-03-07 13:57:22 I sincerely hope you’re like me. Innocent
. And that you’ve been waiting for this for a long time. For all these shortsighted, un-learned, debt-loving, over-leveraged individuals and companies to fall flat on their ignorant faces. Because now is the time to celebrate. The party is in full swing. It’s on. You have done your homework [...] Read more:Trial
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A TIMer’s Dozen: Recent And Current PennyStocking Plays 2008-03-06 19:20:54 TIM $16,075 Down $105, Dumb trade wastes $40 monthly gift from Thinkorswim
I’ve written about these stocks before, but every day brings new data (of course, the data rules most plays out, aka ideal trades happen rarely). Remember, you’re not trading based on business performance, you’re trading based on stock performance (two very diff. things, the [...] Read more:Dozen
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No Trades But A Fun Financial Video Montage! 2008-03-06 11:13:13 No trades the past two days—all my potential PennyStocking plays—COIN, SWC, CPST and STEN—have let me down in some way. COIN, I want a bigtime breakout, but it’s just messy breakout after messy little breakout, up a hardfought $2 over several days (although its continued strength on decreasing volume signals a potential Supernova pattern), SWC [...] Read more:Financial
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Young Or Old, Rich Or Poor, You Will Give In To TIM 2008-03-05 12:49:51 It’s interesting to see how different people react to me. My TV appearances, trading strategy, big mouth, book, DVD, blog, etc all seem to stir up a wide range of emotions. Young people love my story—it’s inspirational, trading seems fun and easy, no bosses, wear a bathrobe, don’t wear a bathrobe, whatever. They also appreciate [...]
Where The Volatility Is, aka 5 Potential PennyStocking Plays 2008-03-04 20:33:45 Sten Corp. (STEN) is the latest microcrapper to go exponential. It’s a thinly traded, low float debt laden ($9mil) $10-$15mil company (depending on whether the last price was at the bid or the ask!) up on “strong earnings”. Who really knows what’s going on with the company’s business—with companies this small, one little sketchy deal [...] Read more:Plays
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Why Fictional Memoirs Exemplify The BullShip World All Around Us And Must Be Taught A Lesson 2008-03-04 13:48:08 If you’ve been reading this blog, you know how much BS there is in finance—and how detrimental it can be—but now it turns out there’s even more BS in publishing. Publishing memoirs that is. (Since my entire life has been based on discovering and profiting from BS—and now profiting by cutting through that BS—is it [...] Read more:Memoirs
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A Solid Trade Executed During A Live Radio Interview 2008-03-03 19:37:24 TIM $16,140, Up $134
I didn’t expect any trades today, but when COIN appeared in Barrons recommended by some “guru”, PennyStocking was on (crap company + fluff news + predictable chart pattern = my kind of play)!
If you’ve read this blog over the past few weeks, you know this stock and I don’t get along at [...] Read more:Solid
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TIM And TimothySykes.com Traffic Surge 15% In February And Why I’m Living The Good Life 2008-03-03 15:44:27 To be exact, TIM finished the month up $2,098, or 15.09%, to $16,006. A new record high. Wooo hooo! I’m finally getting the hang of trading like a poor person again. Feels good to be the underdog. Makes me work harder. More importantly, website traffic also surged 15% on the month—every day now there are [...] Read more:Surge
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To Trust The Charts Or Not To Trust The Charts, That Is The Question 2008-03-03 09:58:32 “You can never step into the same river; for new waters are always flowing on to you.”
–Heraclitis
But back then, StockCharts
.com wasn’t around so he couldn’t compare these 100-day charts of equally sketchy alternative energy plays Solarfun (SOLF) and Pacific Ethanol (PEIX).
… [visit site to read more] Read more:Question
Spitzer’s Girl “Kristen” Is Really Ashley Alexandra Dupre 2008-03-12 21:17:18 Newsflash***** Spitzer
’s girl “Kristen
” is apparently named AshleyAlexandra
Dupre, according to a bunch of websites. THIS is her MySpace profile. Currently getting 5,000 hits/minute, I want in! Before she takes her profile down, see a few of her pics below:
UPDATE: Here’s her Facebook Profile, too, LOL
UPDATE 2: I am now having a conversation with [...]
Oops, I Did It Again, I Got Scared Out Of My Trade Too Quickly 2008-03-12 18:29:58 Oops!.. I Did It Again
!
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
I think I did it again
I got scared out of my trade too quickly
Oh baby
It might seem like I’m a fool
But it doesn’t mean that I don’t know what I’m doing
‘Cause to get out too soon
That is just so typically me
Oh [...] Read more:Scared
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Zecco and FOX Biz Interviews And Some More Glowing Book Reviews 2008-03-12 12:44:22 Andrew Horowitz, wealth manager, the godfather of financial podcasting, aka “El Podrino” and author of beginners-must-read-or-else-you’ll-stay-stupid-forever book The Disciplined Investor and I will be talking about our different strategies for this bear market in a Zecco/BlogTalkRadio sponsored podcast fiesta next Thursday, March 20th, 5PM EST. It’s free to listeners—you can even ask us questions live—but [...] Read more:Interviews
, Glowing
Market Manipulation Vs. Real Stocks, Guess Which Offers More Predictable Profits! 2008-03-11 17:30:23 Gotta start the fun off by featuring the chart of the manipulation scheme du jour, CVSC (no need to detail the company; whoever’s promoting it doesn’t care, so neither should you!)
Notice how each day now the daily gain is getting larger right alongside the trading volume—methinks a blow out is coming sooner rather than later, [...] Read more:Market
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5 Exciting TIM Projects Meant To Make Finance Fun! 2008-03-10 19:33:00 As you can probably see, this website has gone from a sketchy strangely sub-par stock blog to something rather innovative, feature-rich and well, unique. This is just the beginning—check out these new and upcoming projects—get excited!
You might’ve noticed the addition to Read more:Projects
4 New Plays…Definitely No COINs…Not Yet Anyway 2008-03-10 10:21:14 Now that COIN and COINW have tanked a remarkable 26% and 40%, respectively, in 2 days, making me sick to my stomach for taking my wimpy little 8% profit, it’s time to move on to new microcrap winners (COIN is donezo for me right now, I don’t try to guess big rebounds, once the bottom [...] Read more:Plays
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A Scary Perfect Short Into A Slumping Supernova 2008-03-09 10:38:44 Since its stock has quadrupled since the beginning of the year, readers of this blog know I’ve been stalking microcrap momentum play Converted Organics (COIN) and its warrants (COINW). Focusing solely on buying breakouts and shorting breakdowns, I’ve had some success and failure, my biggest gain stemming from shorting into its cracking of sideways price [...] Read more:Scary
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TimothySykes.com Just The Latest POS Hype Play, aka Why PennyStocking Works 2008-03-14 14:50:06 Publicly and privately, I’ve been getting asked by lots of people why I devoted so much blog/time to featuring Spitzer’s call girl when I’m really supposed to be teaching stock trading…more specifically, PennyStocking. The end result being a deluge of emails, visitors, etc. all of which have sapped my time to blog/research/trade. (Good thing there [...] Read more:Works
Why Spitzer’s Call Girl Has Inspired Me To Giveaway 1 FREE Copy Of My $300 Instructional DVD 2008-03-13 13:40:09 The popularity of my AA Dupre article—30,000 views and counting—has inspired me to create a TimothySykes.com giveaway, aka “TIMaway”. You see that blog post is the latest example of why my trading strategy works so well—hype builds, the key is getting in early and then betting against it when it begins to fade.So, I am [...] Read more:Spitzer
, Inspired
37 Key Points Of My Successful Trading Philosophy 2008-03-17 10:59:24 Since the vast majority of emails I’ve gotten recently have come from people who are unwilling to read through all my blog posts, too poor/cheap to afford my DVD or too lazy to pick up my book to better understand my strategies, this is the post that’s gonna make everything real simple-like. Learning and profiting [...] Read more:Points
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JPMorgan (JPM) Buying Bear Stearns (BSC) For $2 Per Share! 2008-03-16 18:17:49 Forget $15 or $20. They’re only willing to pay $2 per share! Bear Stearns
is now a penny stock. From this AP story
All I can say is wow, if the situation is really this bad, Lehman is done for, along with many other peddlers, too. This could get uglyyyyyyyyy
UPDATE: The Fed just cut 25 basis [...] Read more:JPMorgan
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7 Low Priced Microcraps Creeping Their Way Higher 2008-03-16 17:55:32 Now, I’m not playing any of these just yet, I like my microcraps to have risen 100-300% within a few days so these plays have their work cut out to truly interest me. Buuuuuuuut you still gotta put ‘em on your watchlist, just in case.
FNAT—waaaaay too low for me to play/care about but the chart [...] Read more:Creeping
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Why Bear Stearns And Every Other Brokerage Are Nothing More Than Scummy Peddlers 2008-03-15 20:48:05 Normally I shy away from writing about all the “established” stocks out there, companies like Bear Stearns
(NYSE: BSC), especially when they’re covered by the WWF of financial media—CNBC (c’mon guys have me back on, I’ve been working on my eyebrow trick!!!) but this Saturday article speculating BSC will get taken over at $15 or [...] Read more:Brokerage
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Sykes’ Saturday Seven: March 15th, 2008 Edition 2008-03-15 15:22:22 You know how I always say a CEO will smile and tell you everything’s fine, even the day before they go bankrupt? Well, this week Bear Sterns liar / scum CEO proved my point on CNBC rather nicely, just 2 days before his ponzi scheme company needed a big ass bailout with their kindle stock [...] Read more:Sykes
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Two Decent Trades Detailed aka Why Having A Quick Trigger Finger Can Be Good 2008-03-19 12:38:40 When I shorted 2,500 shares of (KBX) at $1.79 yesterday morning, I had little idea it’d drop 20% over the next 24 hours. No, I shorted it because its chart had gone vertical—meaning it was close to peaking—it was the third big up day in a row and the price/volume had already begun to [...] Read more:Decent
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Ashley Dupre Girls Gone Wild Pics, aka It Never Ends! 2008-03-18 23:58:39 Forget about at least one of her $1 million offers, now it turns out all around “classy” girl AA Dupre has already filmed weeks worth of “classy” videos for Girls
Gone Wild, owned by all around “classy” guy Joe Francis. Check out the pics below and try to guess which guy/guys paid nothing for what [...] Read more:Ashley
Damn All You People Who Contribute To Market Randomness! 2008-03-18 13:09:00 Do you every wonder why EVERYONE in the finance world has an opinion on stocks like Bear Stearns (BSC)? Sure, sure, BSC is big time and their collapse could lead to others, the whole domino effect, but why do people believe they can accurately judge the outcome? I think it’s just the latest example of [...] Read more:Market
A Solid Wussy Trade, aka Good To Do In This Kind Of Market 2008-03-17 20:12:49 Forget the overall markets, today the biggest news was I began Twittering. For those of you who don’t know, Twitter is a messaging system where you leave quick little notes that can be viewed by everyone in real-time. Just gotta follow people—click HERE to follow me. Other than that, it was a slow day. That’s [...] Read more:Market
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Yup, Even A $12 Loss Offers Important Trading Lessons 2008-03-21 14:04:04 Why bother detailing a $12 loss? Because every trade matters, the good, the bad and the scratches. Important lessons are everywhere…
Shorting 400 COIN at $8.78 right before the market close on Wednesday turned out to be a good idea. I shorted because the stock was breaking down over multiple time frames, intraday, multi-day and multi-week, [...] Read more:Offers
, Trading
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