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My Latest 2 AOL Finance Articles: Tips For Traders & What You Can Learn From Obama’s Inauguration

Posted by Timothy Sykes on Sun 8th of Feb, 2009 09:35:49 AM

It was a long time coming, but I wrote 2 new article for AOL Finance

One just has some basic tips for traders…and basic—as positive reviews and booming sales of my original PennyStocking DVD have confirmed–is definitely what many of you need when it comes to trading.

The fact is too many snakeoil salesmen—people who don’t even trade or refuse to share their trades/track-records/don’t blog/don’t allow comments on their blog for fear of what people will say, yeah you scumbags, I’m gonna take all of you down!!!—have come up with preposterously complicated trading rules that are just total BS. The writing in this post is fit for a 6-year-old and that’s why AOL featured this one on their homepage and the thing got 50,000 page views.

My other article was full of cynicism—another trait lacking in most wannabe traders—in regards to Obama’s FAKE AS PAMELA ANDERSON inaugural speech (like Pamela, if you don’t think too much about it and go with what you see/hear, you like/love it, but if you think about what goes on behind the scenes to come up with such superficiality, you’re disgusted)

Not surprisingly, it wasn’t featured on AOL homepage. Below are some highlights, but click HERE to read the whole thing:

1. When I Twittered that Obama’s speech was just propaganda and that my readers would be better served by focusing on bettering themselves, it inspired a 40+ comment chain on my Facebook profile. The lesson here is that people become very attached to their beliefs, like their stocks, no matter what any naysayer thinks, and many still believe in “quality investments” like Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG), General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) and Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS), each now down more than 50% in just a few months.

2. Propaganda works only for so long before it backfires — Obama better come through on what he says or it’ll be just another case of the “Steve Jobs is fine” rhetoric that has proven false and now taken down Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), which has just broken through the key $80 support I talked about recently. That may make it a great technical short for aggressive traders, but not for me; I’m a conservative short selling penny stock day trader.

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  • thanks archipelago!
  • and u dumbasses forget my stuff costs only a few hundred/year, its a friggin steal compared to the profits
  • mike + jim, if u'd been around the first 9 months of 2008, u'd realize i was prohibited by the pattern day trader rule...if u understood my business is teaching others, u'd realize this account is just a demo to show i know what i'm talking about/not some BSer...u'd realize the only reason i teeach people my strategy is that its good for a few thousand/tens of thousands/year, even hundreds of thousands if ure good...but u dont do any research and u waste my time with your stupidity
  • TimboM
    That's awesome that you got your articles on AOL Finance, Tim.

    Hey Tim, are you aware of the AOL demographic? Why do 70-year old retirees in Boca Raton need to be learning about your success, or lack therof, in day trading? Hasn't enough of their wealth been destroyed?

    Why would you be happy to provide this information to a reader population that should absolutely avoid losing more retirement money?

    Maybe soon you'll graduate to Maxim or Men's Health Online. That's your target audience; men who wear Axe Body Spray, who like sports bars, and who have at least DVD of 'Girls Gone Wild'.

    Good luck getting to your Nirvana.
  • Jim
    Correct mIke! a short seller should have made a hell of alot more than $28,000 over a year and a half. I also agree with "truth", tim is being dishonest when he does not break down his performance by years.

    Basically, he can sit out all of 2009, and still say he is up 200%, and in microscopic lettering tell you the inception date is 2007. Maybe people can now see why he failed in the hedge fund world.

    Guaranteed anyone who is paying for this crap is not paying the rent with the profits. Sad.
  • Mike
    Someone please explain the logic in making $28,000 over a year and a half day trading. And in being able to accomplish this you need to devote a majority of your available working time to do this.

    You can make $28,000 over a year and a half flipping burgers. How is this so great?

    I imagine most of Tim subscribers are Long Island punks in the mid 20's who still live at home with Mom in the basement drive a bmw and are unemployed delaying the inevitable of being a roofer for the rest of their lives.
  • Tim! Excellent blog, Sir! I first ran across you on Wall St. Warriors, and I figured you'd have a net presence of some kind... glad I found it. I'm on a hiatus from trading stocks, although I'm quite active in Forex. That takes up more than all of my time... but I'm definitely watching your stock market operations with interest. I'm sure I'll be back into it someday-- when I have a lot more capital. Thank heavens the Bin Ladens of the SEC and/or CFTC haven't been able to impose a pattern-day-trading rule on the FX markets.
    Anyway, I simply wanted to tip my hat to an obviously successful trader and a guy who tells it like it is. We both know that telling people what they want to hear is by far the easier path, at least as far as relations with our neighbors. I often wonder what it is that drives some of us to believe things for no other reason besides their demonstrable truth... rejecting comfort, popularity, authority, desire, etc. Perhaps it's a form of masochism... just like consistently profitable trading. Keep up the great work... Take care and Happy Trading!
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