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Weirdest Trade EVER & How We Accidentally Made $22,000 In An Hour

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Over the weekend, you might’ve read my post about NXT Nutritionals Holdings Inc (NXTH): Shaquille O’Neal’s penny pump & dump, the $300,000+ promo mailer going around and how he can start selling 20,000 shares/day starting right now, February 2010.

(In that post I said: “I’ll just link back to this post time and again when NXTH crashes 50%+ for a 2nd time when this round of manipulation ends and TIMalert subscribers report even greater profits than those below)

…and if you are a TIMalert subscriber, you’d have read my premarket watchlist which said (notice the prediction of a potential 50%+ intraday collapse):

(NXTH) see my weekend research blog post and understand that while it’s easy to ride the momentum higher, it’s also very risky as the blatant manipulation ups the odds the SEC halts this or you get a 50%+ intraday collapse the last time this happened…if I ever bought, it’d be small like my AENY buy whose gains didn’t prove to be worth my time…this will be an excellent short, ALFSS!

PennyStocking Silver Subscribers also received their nightly video watchlist last night in which I stated “I’m not gonna buy this, it’ll be an upcoming short”

So early this morning I reserved shares to short (ALFSS) at Thinkorswim & Sogotrade (IB had none when I checked time and again) and placed my limit to short at $3.19 waaay above the current price (to reserve shares to short if and when I wanted them so they wouldn’t execute right away)…with NXTH strong over $3 around 12:50PM EST, I changed both limit orders to $3.49 to make sure neither would execute as I expected NXTH to test its previous high of $3.30. (usually good to put an order just below some big resistance) and went to Whole Foods Market, Inc. (WFMI) with my girlfriend…obviously bringing my laptop just in case the stock cracked while we were there (been at this game too long to know the reversals can happen at ANY time…I am always connected to my laptop and probly soon my iPad)

When I signed online to the Whole Foods internet, I got an IM from InvestorsLive saying “there goes NXTH at 3.12″…I quickly logged in to try to change my order back to $3 to get short before the collapse, but I sadly knew there was litle chance I’d get executed since collapses happen so quickly…as I was about to change my order, I froze as I looked more carefully at my computer screen which I hadn’t updated since I put in my new order at $3.49:

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At Sogotrade, my $3.19 order had NOT been canceled and now I had 2 open orders with the stock right at $3.20ish….so I clicked refresh….and guess what I had been executed for 10,000 shares short at $3.19 with InvestorsLive excitedly IMing me, “2.75!!!!” and Gregg, co-creator of Investimonials who has had the benefit of learning my strategy next to me as we build out Investimonials, saying he got short at $3.10 and was loving the drop so far.

I quickly sent out an alert to TIMalert subscribers by email and PennyStocking Silver subscribers by IM, but many were disappointed since the stock I had been saying all morning long that it was risky to short today (true I didn’t think today would be the collapse day and my $3.19 execution was TOTAL luck….making the trade reminiscent of EMGE on which I was down $2,000+ before it also collapsed 50%+…yes, wake up suckers, this pattern happens time and again, EMGE was a six figure emailer too)

Only Reaper and a few others seemed to be short (the TIMalerts subscribers-only chat was hopping all day, nearly 100 people) and within 30 minutes, the stock had cracked to $1.80ish, a 44% decline, leaving those who were long totally helpless as their stop losses did them no good whatsoever (the fatal flaw of ever following stock promoters)

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I covered at $1.94 just to protect my accidental $12,500ish gains:

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…but when I tried to send out an email alert to TIMalert subscribers I got this message:

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(hence why alerts via Instant Message for PennyStocking Silver subscribers is a useful upgrade)

Gregg made $700 covering below $2, which is a massive gain for his previous small $2,700ish account…

Reaper made +$2771.58 and he screwed it al up too (you know a strategy is good when we rarely are perfect in our timing and yet still bank respectably)

Arkan made +$6k, shorted at about 2.9

Goes to show you:

1.) these massive intraday collapses are NOT random they are the beautiful result of pump & dumps

2.) the timing and share availability is tough to master, but the gains are extraordinary if you’re anywhere close to when the final bell tolls for these pumps.

3.) all those who attack me and PennyStocking are either suckers or manipulators because whether or not I or anybody else traded this thing well…we absolutely nailed how it would die and that makes me rather unique/useful in an industry full of frauds/cowards

Posted in Manipulation, Short Selling

  • Bill

    I was under the impression that SogoTrade doesn’t allow you to short stocks under $3 (only SogoElite alllows you to do so) so I didn’t even bother to check. I was wrong and I missed the opportunity to short @ $2.70.

    Well, lesson learned. SogoTrade is good and I’ll upgrade to SogoElite when I have time so I can enter order faster with their client software.

  • nash

    So you basically waisted 10.000 shares at Thinkorswim I could have used! Thanks!

  • http://www.timothysykes.com Anonymous

    be happy i’ve shared my strategy…u could’ve easily had those TOS shares had u woken up earlier and tried as much as i did throughout the day

  • http://www.timothysykes.com Anonymous

    Bill brokers just want commissions, ask and ask and ask again, never listen to any rep, just try

  • Anonymous

    Hi, Tim!
    Realy very nice trade.
    I have a question for you.
    Did HFT make changes in your strategy?
    Did you notice that quantity of squeezes has increased significantly?
    I’m curious to hear your comment.
    Thanks

  • genluna

    So, speaking as a subscriber to the Tim Sykes Agg account (and with an IB account), we just watched this one from the sidelines?

  • http://www.timothysykes.com Anonymous

    yup, no shares at IB to short…need sogo

  • http://www.timothysykes.com Anonymous

    whats hft? squeezes are the same as years past…no change, quite remarkable

  • Anonymous

    High frequency trading.

  • http://www.timothysykes.com Anonymous

    haha i highly doubt HFT in penny stock land

  • Anonymous

    I agree, though AIG was one of the most highly traded stocks in March of last year when it was effectively a penny stock.

    And for future reference, did you say that you were able to reserve shares with Sogotrade? When I opened my account, I couldn’t find anything about reserving on the website.

  • http://www.tbohen.com tbohen

    AAAARGH TOS HAD SHARES?!?!! I was up at 5AM but I’m embarrassed to admit after trying relentlessly last week I didn’t either bother to check with TOS this morning. Ridiculously stupid!!

  • The Reaper Made nothing

    Isn’t it amazing how such good things seem to happen to a prick like you.

    Always unverifiable. Always perfect timing or luck than no one else can muster.

    As for ‘predicting’ this turd would crash, that was about as impressive as predicting Sunday comes after Saturday.

    You take way too much credit for the obvious.

  • Anonymous

    shut up reaper. man, even if tim DID keep this his little secret, what’s the harm? he still makes money for everyone else. what are you insinuating here? that he did some sort of manipulation?

    besides, you should know that in the shorting game, there aren’t many shares out there to get. and it all depends on who your broker is. even if tim did get it out there in time, it may not have done much. i suppose if he got the alert out there, you would’ve bitched that it didn’t come out soon enough. right?

  • john

    Sogotrade is a junk broker and you are better off not trading them. I had options and stock trades that were suppose to canceled that executed, and trades that I THOUGHT were executed, and confirmed by their front-end, but somehow was missed on the back-end.

    You are better off paying a higher commission at other brokers than dealing with Sogotrade. Their service is absolutely horrendous as well. It took me over an hour to talk to someone half competent to tell me that an option trade I canceled in the morning couldn’t be busted because in their system it executed without my knowledge, JUST like it did to you.

    I advise you to take your money and run as fast as you can from sogo.

  • Rob

    Just call 212-668-8686 and ask a rep. You do not need to change to elite.

  • Gene

    Thanks John, we love you.

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