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(SOLF)—up 50% in 5 days, solid resistance at $15, but solid earnings today means the short side is limited, although it’s tough to be bullish either…let’s see how the pattern plays out, I’ll update tomorrow

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(SOL)—another 50% gainer within a few days, solid earnings gainer today, nice sideways action between $11.50 and $12, that’ll either turn out to be nice support or resistance, tough to be short until that breaks

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(AKNS)—now up 75% off its lows, today the shorts got squeezed by a magazine article mention, now this is some news to short into—financial journalism is a total joke! Nice short into resistance at $8

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(ASTI)—up nearly 100% now, got a nice investment form blah blah blah today, squeezed the shorts…until the last hour. Ideally it bounces tomorrow, but either late tomorrow or Monday, it’ll be a great short when it goes negative under $14

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(CSUN)—put in a nice bottom just over $6, but the strongest solar rally and it only goes up $1, P A T H E T I C…not volatile enough for me

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(SPIR)—up 60% off panic selling—in actuality, up 30% off solid sideways price action at $12…much less liquid than these other guys, resistance at $18, not sure it’s worth touching either way here

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(JASO)—the realest of all these companies, up 4 days in a row, but only 20% (sucks to be real, seriously!) (volatility-wise) I’ll leave it alone, I prefer fake/fraudulent/hype-filled stocks, say hello to the social security-earning investors for me!

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Posted in Hot Stocks, Potential Plays, Solar Stocks

  • http://simpletrader.wordpress.com/ Steven

    Tim,

    A solar trading idea for tomorrow.

    Steven

    http://simpletrader.wordpress.com/

    EMKR: Insider buying reported today
    March 28, 2008

    EMKR was recently mentioned negatively by StockLemon aka http://www.citronresearch.com/. The stock has taken a beating in the past few days. Because of CitronResearch

  • timsykes

    emkr is not a buy, don’t try to catch falling knives

  • Noname

    ahaha

  • Noname

    How is your butler doing? Haha…karma is good…

  • Mike

    Didn’t AKNS release earnings today?

  • Noname

    i’m a jerkoff spammer!

  • MikeG

    Booo Tim-hater. Stop wasting your life tearing him down. First of all, he’s not hurting anyone. Second, ya he’s failed before, but Tim doesn’t give up. And third, he’s just out there trying to have fun. SO please, find something else to do with your time.

  • Mike

    The original TIM, http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.07/newmoney.html They had a webcam on the trading floor, message boards, commentary blogs, posted all trades realtime, etc.

  • timsykes

    thanks for the link mike, too bad it didnt last very long!

    http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2001/07/30/daily32.html

    problem is they wanted to raise $ and i’m sure the SEC wasn’t too happy, i’m just fine with my own $, taking my fees through product sales

  • http://simpletrader.wordpress.com/ Steven

    http://simpletrader.wordpress.com/

    CRUS: Gets an upgrade
    March 28, 2008

    1)Today, CRUS gets an upgrade to BUY from Thomas Weisel.
    Thomas Weisel upgraded shares as they believe Wolfson Microelectronics

  • http://simpletrader.wordpress.com/ Steven

    Hi Tim

    CRUS gets an upgrade. I have a writeup on CRUS on my blog site.

    Steven

    http://simpletrader.wordpress.com/

  • Tony Ellis

    REED squeeze potential!

  • timsykes

    REED up 40 cents premarket, gotta love the squeeze, gotta have more balls to buy into the close on such strength even if it is a micropumper

  • lmsmith

    I am on the same wave with you TIM… these stocks will eventually turn sideways and go down……. I use to be one of those solar longs wondering what the hell was going on, when I bought the damn stock when it was up- hoping the next day it will go up even more, Only to disappoint and go down……It is such a trend….just waiting for the perfect time to Short these stocks, especially AKNS

  • timsykes

    reserved shares of REED and ASTI, no AKNS…goood I’m sleepy I dont want to have to short all these plays same day….big lunch meeting also gonna be interesting to fit this all in!

  • Tony Ellis

    you read my mind…I’ve reserved all three also.

  • tsa

    I am short in premarket on REED at $4.80

  • Jay

    How could you leave ESLR off this list…This one is easy.

    Take a look at an apparal stock…JOEZ. It seems like something you would have a comment or two on.

  • Tony Ellis

    damn…should went long REED at 4.6

  • timsykes

    short 1,000 REED at 4.75

  • tsa

    Covered on REED, wait for another spike to short again

  • timsykes

    out at 4.45, gotta take advantage of the morning dump, especially with a lunch meeting, nice and easy $300 profit

  • Al

    BPAX – how about shorting this?

  • timsykes

    yeahhhh tsa, how great is this game, also watch BPAX, if i wasn’t gutless, i’d be long that pumper!

  • tsa

    BPAX increased yesterday, today again, I won’t short it today, wait for another day

  • timsykes

    haha yeah Al, i’m doing something right u guys know where the plays r at!

  • Tony Ellis

    ASTI, may have to raise my sell short limit order @ 20.

  • tsa

    Hard to be filled on REED now, very few lots exchanged, I am obliged to hide mines and to play few at each time.

  • Gary

    Hey guys SYBD taken the DUMP!

  • Gary

    OH…maybe NONAME should learn how to cut and paste!!!!

  • timsykes

    reshort REED at $4.50-ish, too tough to stay green/go up big on the 3rd day of a big runup, fading volume, big sellers all above…Friday squeeze still possible, but I like my chances here for a 1-2 day hold

  • Al

    WH – three day double top

  • timsykes

    no WH is still up on the day, a double top when a stock goes down! thats like somebody calling a doubletop on BPAX yesterday and look what happened there…gotta short into weakness on strong stocks, not strength on strong stocks cuz they go further than u think

  • Al

    Tim,

    That was me yesterday. Thanks again for the lesson

  • Davey

    How many shares did you reserve this morning, I’ve been trying all day to get shares of REED but TOS says they have none today.

  • lmsmith

    Any one still holding their REED Short? Looks like it’s tanking

  • NeilTheRealDeal

    tim, around where are you looking for an exit point with reed?

  • timsykes

    gotta get up early and reserve your hard-to-borrows, i got mine around 8am…

    just covered half at $4.29, lunch meeting, cant risk it

  • Gary

    Timmy’s got the in on shorts. Good call on REED…wish I could find shares to short! This rate your on your way to 25k :)

  • timsykes

    Covered other half of REED at $3.88!!! AWESOME AND PREDICTABLE

    $17,360

    suck on that haters!

  • lmsmith

    Covered Reed as well……… Tim… I am waiting for you to hit 25k, patiently…..

  • http://www.sequoiatradingclub.com Sequoia

    Sorry if my question is stupid but what is all that fuss about the 25K barrier ?

    Thnks

  • Gary

    This is cut and paste off my fav site (execpt your timmy, your the best): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daytrading

    “Pattern day trader is a term defined by the SEC to describe any trader who buys and sells a particular security in the same trading day (day trades), and does this four or more times in any five consecutive business day period. A pattern day trader is subject to special rules. The main rule being that in order to engage in pattern day trading the trader must maintain an equity balance of at least $25,000 in a margin account”

    Really what this means is, until you have 25K you can not buy and sell stocks the same day as many times as you want…or your account will be freezed!

  • tyler

    would you re-short REED again if it spikes a little more or would you not touch this stock again.

  • http://www.sequoiatradingclub.com Sequoia

    Thanks Gary !!!
    That rule is amazing. Here in France we can do whatever we want. And I read Tim saying that he was borrowing titles to short them later in the day. In France we have a list of about 170 stocks which are authorized to shorting. Yes, that’s a “short” list to short :-)
    Very instructive here about trading the US market.

    PS : ordered my Tim Sykes Hedge Fund book this morning on Amazon.

  • lmsmith

    SOLF Down trending….so like itself

  • tsa

    I did a good move, short on HALO 4,000 sh at $6.51 but covered to early because it decreases again….

  • Joseph

    Tim,

    How come you don’t get in trouble for breaking the rule? I don’t know how many times you’ve been breaking that rule, man. I’m not hating but I just don’t understand how the rule doesn’t apply to you

  • manhack

    short from 6.69 yesterday. May cover on any big dips since I have to leave the house.

  • lmsmith

    anyone followed suit and shorted SOLF??? It’s going down lovely… at least another .50

  • Dan

    Nice work today, Tim.

  • NeilTheRealDeal

    no I think you can trade all you want if it is a cash only account. to trade borrowed funds (margin account) you need to maintain atleast 25k. am I right?

  • Adrian

    Was long solf took a little hit was going to short but its a risky play right now instead went short akns

  • NeilTheRealDeal

    nevermind I was wrong. you need 25k in your own equity to make more than 3 round trip trades in a 1 week period. now I’m confused as well. I’m wondering how Tim gets by this. Seperate accounts?

  • Tony Ellis

    Nice sideways action on ASTI

  • S Adams

    Watching SCON. Long now short later?

  • timsykes

    only have 1 account, now worth $17360. yah i’d reshort REED today if i could–probly into a weak close, looking for it to go under $4 next week–but afraid of doing too many trades so i won’t do any more today.

    as i’ve said, TOS has told me i’ve been flagged as a pattern day trader but they won’t restrict me unless i abuse margin…its so gray area, i’m just thankful for the few trades i can do, will look to reshort REED on monday, hopefully it can get a little spike here, but its not looking to good

  • S Adams

    Fargan Schwab wouldn’t let me short AKNS at 8.05. No shares.

  • lmsmith

    I shorted 1k shares of pos AKNS at 7.62….. holding… I believe it will drop back around 5 ish….
    sill holding my solf short.

  • BearNine

    Like the chat… a bit long though, you constantly have to scroll up and down to see what people are typing.

    Also, LLFH , i actuallly bought this one on that doji/breakout day, but sold scared, missed a 50% perfect breakout, more potential? I’m not sure..

  • BearNine

    Nevermind, chat is working better now.

  • BearNine

    Also NAVI closed GREEN, looks like a perfect breakout, closed at exactly 2 dollars.

  • BearNine

    Low VOL though.

  • parabol64

    CLNH looks like a good short potential soon. Cant borrow shares on ToS.

  • scrillawill

    http://timalerts.com/chatroom/ come on in chat seems to work great

  • BearNine

    TOS has shares of HOOK.

  • http://www.test.timothysykes.com timothysykes

    yeah i’m in the chatroom now too! http://timalerts.com/chatroom/

  • scrillawill

    wallie we r in the new tim chat when ever you get online

  • andrew

    Tim, FYI I did not get the e-mail this morning.

  • parabol64

    Covered CBOU @7.01 like a castrated choir boy. +$105.

  • http://www.test.timothysykes.com timothysykes

    missed buying RINO or CGA on the big morning panics, stupid, easy scalp $

  • jspmedia

    look at zagg..missed at $5…damn my internet is way too slow this morning..

  • http://www.test.timothysykes.com timothysykes

    jspmedia, i caught zagg at the bottom…missed RINO/CGA, nailed this one, u guys gotta learn to buy panic selling

  • James_Ramey

    Finally closed my CHINA position out today…Trade went like this, Sold Short 400 CHINA @ 2.760, Sold Short 50 CHINA @ 2.88,Sold Short 500 CHINA @ 2.6403, Sold Short 50 CHINA @ 2.78
    BOUGHT TO COVER 1000 CHINA @ 2.4797 for a profit of about $240 after commish.

  • jchahboune

    hey tim,

    if you were watching rino and and cga how come they were not included in your morning watchlist? move too quickly for alerts or something?

  • spur

    yes

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