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5 Things I Need To Say To My 3,200 Covestor Followers & Everyone Else Too

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1. Covestor only tracks my trades (follow me HERE!), not my cash levels, since I only take 1-2 trades at a time, Covestor counts me as using 50-100% of my assets when in reality I use 15, 25, 35% of assets. This makes my returns more volatile than they really are, to the upside and downside. Covestor is as of yet still not real-time so the only way to enjoy real-time trade updates–I mean within minutes of my actual trades–is to signup for TIMalerts. And, if you can’t afford $1/day on useful information you shouldn’t be trading.

2. My return in 2008 was 197%, see all the trades here (much better than any audit considering I blogged about each one in detail) and understand the first 9 months I limited by the absurd pattern day trader rule….I’m not a great trader nor do I spend most of my time trading…my tiny account is just to show you I know what I’m doing and what you can do if you have the slightest bit of intelligence and/or my instructional trading DVDs. Yes, all those other strategies marketed to you that have simply collapsed are false prophets. They didn’t study the market as much as I do. That’s why they’re destroyed and I’m more than just surviving…I’m thriving.

3. I am not a master trader, just a guy who’s been profiting rather consistently over the past decade (except when I ignore the rules I outline in my instructional DVDs!)…follow my trades at your own risk because once you see how it’s possible to be up 200% in a year while making soooo many mistakes, you won’t be able to contain your excitement as you realize the potential gains if you can learn form my mistakes and minimize them.

4. Covestor is great for bringing transparency to this joke of an industry, but if you want to know about my trades in real-time and get the daily pre-market watchlists so you can actually reserve shares to short of my ideal plays, you must join TIMalerts. Oh yes, watchlists that prepare you ahead of time are probly even more valuable than real-time trade alerts.

5. Let me repeat: I’m not that great a trader, but considering how dumb most penny stock traders/investors are, trading against these halfwits is like building a court case against Michael Vick aka eassssy. If you have any intelligence whatsoever, you have a clear “edge”

Posted in Q&A

  • dome

    tim,

    keep your good free job up,
    if all these people hate you menas they are gelous and envy you
    this is the world.

  • timsykes

    haha thanks, i really don’t mind the haters, in fact i encourage them…id love to see them actually try to take me down on any of the facts cuz my life is an open book, literally

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  • Jason R.

    TIM, I can see you making that kind of cash blogging(30k a month)…Someone on here compared you a while back to Howard Stern, because of your brutal honesty…Finance people are so dam uptight and you tend to make it fun with your witty ways, sarcasm, and honesty.

    Any idea what the Wall Street Warrior boys were buying that SNDK stock at?

    VVTV is heading lower again…I want to short HALO as well been watching it.

  • Joesph

    SNDK they bought at 62+ because he was expecting it to go over 70 haha

  • Jason R.

    Geeez they are losing their ass on that stock…Last episode were courting this guy to purchase more shares I believe at around $27.

  • M

    FRPT seems like it’s on a run. What do you think will happen in the conference call? I’m up a little now and am debating rolling the dice for the call at the end of the day.

    Thoughts?

  • timsykes

    oh i’m def aiming to be stern, not tough with all these serious/uptight finance freaks…even the rich people are weird!

    SNDK, really glad they showed those cold callers losing…classic classic classic case of somebody pawning a product they don’t understand

    FRPT VVTV neither have great odds of success here, HALO better odds, but still scared of potential morning spike tomorrow

  • timsykes

    Shorted 600 HALO $6.60, looks to be clear path to $6.10, ideally goes negative on the day today and we get a morning panic tomorrow

  • timsykes

    that was a quick 9 cent loss, stock did go negative but now is spiking, very strange…playing it safe as usual now, covering for $75ish loss

  • Jason R.

    TIM the only reason I didn’t short HALO was news of insider purchases…Just kinda spooked me out a bit…Ahhh might of been a rookie decision on my part…Hope it pans out for ya.

  • HopeSolo

    Tim, you need to watch this, McCain ripping the BS spending $410 billion of earmarks, you might want to post it on your site:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6g6u3zqTtQ

  • HopeSolo

    “Covestor is as of yet still not real-time”

    Do you want it to be real-time? If it’d made real-time, won’t that be the end of your TimAlerts business? Everyone can just follow along on Covestor now?

  • jackofall

    Covestor won’t be free for much longer.

  • http://test.timothysykes.com Timothy Sykes

    covesotr doesnt pick up my IB trades, doubtful they ever will since IB sucks so much and doesnt know how to work with anybody

  • Nathan

    Hey Tim, is the only thing wrong with IB the order execution? They say they are the best.

  • http://rantaboutit.blogspot.com sj

    Their commission model is bit confusion…they dont have a fixed commission, varies based on shares…

  • Rookie

    Hi Tim,
    I was wondering (I know the strategy is not scalable) but at how much AUM would it be not suitable ?

    thank you so much

  • http://test.timothysykes.com timothysykes

    no exact top, right now u probly cant trade with more than a few million, in good times, limit is probly $10-20mil, but thats all short term stuff, if u want to go longterm on some of these stocks, then its higher

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