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If Citigroup Inc. (C) Has $1.1 Trillion In Off-Balance Sheet Assets, JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) $400 Billion…
…and if these are the “most respectable” companies out there, I’m talking the most invested in/covered/analyzed by the SEC, ANALysts, the financial media circus, investors, fund managers–basically this entire joke of an industry, made infinitely truer considering it’s these meatheads jobs to do thorough due diligence (Fail!)–then can you imagine what all these other, lesser companies are hiding?
That’s right, I’m suggesting there’s a lot more bad stuff on the horizon (uh oh SEC, am I spreading false rumors? LOL…witch hunting pricks…yeah, what, come at me dawg)–not necessarily off-balance sheet crap, but who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? I don’t even wanna know what other sh%^ others are into…
Why They Should String Samuel Israel Up On Wall Street With A Note Saying “Fraud Isn’t Painless”
Call it tough love. Leave him there long enough so the stench of his rotting corpse (still won’t be as bad as the stench of most living finance peeps—yeahhh can you say $330 billion auction rate securities catastrophe? Fraud lawsuits should be fun/illuminating) will pound home the point that if you cheat people—giving this once great industry a bad name—you will suffer the consequences. And it won’t be painless…Benito Mussolini-and-mistress-together-style:
Yes, 99% Of OTCBB, Pink Sheet Stocks & Stocks Under $5 Are Scams, Schemes & Frauds
It’s quite funny to see/hear/read some people’s reactions when I say this, which is rather obvious to most. Most big-time Wall Streeters know this—that’s why they don’t voyage down here, most veteran traders know this—that’s why they avoid this sector like the plague, but amateurs, suckers and newbie traders have a hard time believing it.
Because they believe in the goodness of people. Especially polished-presentation-talking businesspeople. They believe people are honest. And fair. And just. Because they are drinking the Kool-Aid these companies so willingly spout day and night.
No.
Down here in the gutter of Wall Street—well, really everywhere too, but especially down here—people are dishonest. They craft lies, exaggerations and misinformation for their own purposes. They hide the skeletons in the closet, stuffing them down, until there’s so many they simply bust through the door. They are not your friends. They are not your family. They are not to be trusted. Even if they are your friends and family. Especially, if they’re your friends and family.
Yes, Spamming Penny Stocks Deal With Mobsters & Politicians aka Perf Go Green Holdings Inc (PGOG)
Is this really news? Those razor sharp wits over at the NY Post have come to that conclusion–I think we should upgrade that journalist’ paygrade up from $30k to $60k, razor sharp I tell ya! In THIS landmark article, reporter Zachery Kouwe (definitely email him: zachery.kouwe@nypost.com) unleashes a firestorm of how PGOG used former Governor Pataki’s association–he
As if any of this was something new! Change around the famous figure, crime family, company, stock price and dollar amount paid and you can understand the penny stock market for the past few decades!
Why I Bought Probable Fraud Hydrogen Hybrid Tech Inc (HYHY) & Think Its Headed Higher
Out of all the low priced stocks breaking out in all the world—and there were several BMB Munai Inc. (KAZ), Fieldpoint Petroleum Corporation (FPP), Capstone Turbine Corporation (CPST) and Beacon Power Corp. (BCON)—why oh why would I ignore all those real companies and buy 2,500 shares at $2.26 of this now $275 million probable fraud HYHY right before the market close? And then decide to write truthfully about it even as I hold shares overnight! (Suck on that people who say I pump or bash for my own interests)
Especially when we know this “company” had $68,000 in revenue last quarter—okay, okay, I’ll give it to them, they were profitable, but only because their expenses amounted to $9,000!!!!! Especially when they put out utter fantasies like THIS press release touting their technology which is “an add-on to diesel and gasoline engines where it significantly reduces a wide variety of emissions (CO, PM, HC, CO2 and NOx) while simultaneously reducing fuel consumption”
Especially when their magic box looks like a high school science project:
The Latest Round Of Paid Spam Mailers
Hmmm, somehow I thought my detailing these sketchy paid mailers a few weeks ago might put a stop to the whole revolting process. Not. You can’t stop stock promoters, you can’t stop corruption, hype or manipulation….all you can do is profit from its existence.
Behold the latest round of the worst publicly companies traded in the world (courtesy of THIS great lil message board)–buy carefully, don’t short randomly, as spam stocks as a sector have been on fire lately…can’t even mention the company tickers as you gotta see these flyers for yourselves.
Why The Pattern Day Trader Rule Proves The SEC Rivals Osama Bin Laden In Terrorism
Yup I said it. While making a nice quick 5+% American profit, or $350ish, in an hour on my LGDI trade a few weeks ago, my blood boiled over due to the missed opportunities caused by the SEC’s pattern day trading rule. And while I’ve attacked it in the past, there was no formal summary post that explained all my key points. Considering how many stocks are in play today and the fact that I am forced to ignore 99% of them, it’s time I unleash this fury.
The formal definition of this inane rule is HERE, and once you read it, you’ll begin to understand why I call it the Reign Of Terror Rule. In fact, I’ve got an entire category devoted to it as I’ve documented each and every time it’s interfered with my trading since I began TIM in November 2007.
Basically, if your trading account is below $25,000—as are the accounts of so many poor people out there—you can only day trade (meaning in and out the same day) 4 times per week. If you trade more than that, you get flagged as a pattern day trader and your account gets restricted because you’re considered evil, as most day traders are believed to be. (Yes sometimes you can trade a few more times than that—since its all rather gray area and the brokerage firms themselves despise this rule—but my point is there should be no limits whatsoever!)
Even though I’ve still got over $500,000 in liquid cash to trade with, I went back to my $12,415 roots specifically to draw attention to this injustice because most people, including industry big wigs, don’t even know about it. After all, the last time I had this little money, it hadn’t been instituted and I’m forever thankful since trading freedom allowed me to get rich.
Why Getting Hacked, Like Losing Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars, Is A Good Thing
Yes it’s true, I’ll explain. While I’m a cynical old (in terms of market experience) short seller whose seen frauds, hype and pumping galore and think 99% of Wall Street is full of truly soulless scumbags, I’m also a big believer in learning through mistakes. Just like that time when I lost a few hundred thousand dollars, our Sunday night hack attack by some shady Russian hacker probly hired by a stock promoter I’ve pissed off (I don’t know how considering I have nothing against stock promoters and if they thought about what I’m trying to accomplish, they’d see that making penny stocks more transparent and hence more actively traded will benefit us all) is definitely a set back—all FORUM posts, new subscribers, recent TIMbucks, basically anything that happened on this site from Friday-Sunday has been lost forever.
Trust No Financial Blogger, Message Board Poster, Website Or Service Provider
Lately I’ve been seeing a ton of talking heads, bloggers and message board posters touting their winners and playing down their losers. It seems as though just about everyone is an amazing traders/investor as their skill/ talent is downright amazing!
I call BS.
Very few people in this industry are talented at anything other than lying, manipulating, promoting and cheating. Everything you read—and I do mean everything—is guesswork. Nobody other than Buffett knows for certain that their strategies and theories are correct, but in this game, you gotta appear confident at all times. Every day you have people picking random stocks and making wild economic predictions, always careful to position themselves as experts so as to ensure demand for their services and the income they can must from that delusion.
This is no different than the hardly-human-anymore-scumbags over at EliteTrader who lie, each minute, about their trades and lives as they are the kinds of soulless bastards that represent this joke of an industry. It’s downright detestable for we know 90% of traders lose money and that 70% of professional fund managers fail to beat the indexes each year, so people who spend their time writing and commenting about the market—just about always using some corny alias or afraid to link their Facebook profile—aren’t any better. In fact, since they waste so much research/trading time writing and commenting everywhere, their actual results are probly far worse!
Don’t believe me—good. Learn to distrust everyone and you’ll be better off.
(Of course, I do use my real name, am one of the top ranked on Covestor and detail my losses openly cuz they’re great teaching tools, but I have a different prospective than most. I also am profiting for my openness through my book An American Hedge Fund and instructional DVD PennyStocking)
Behold The Incredible Shrinking Stock: Converted Organics Inc (COIN)
As you probably know by now, me no likie COIN. Not only is it a pumped up penny stock–in the truest sense–they’ve got less revenue than my publishing company BullShip Press (seriously!), sketchy promoters/PR people galore and a whole host of other problems I don’t feel like digging through because I value my kneecaps, but now, as PennyStocking DVD student Jeff “The Man” Rogers pointed out, their stock is the perfect example of a multi-month head and shoulders breakdown chart pattern, the most reliably bearish pattern there is.
Now, the pumpers/amateurs who are drunk on the company’s rather refined PR machine-induced Kool-Aid, are adding shares here, desperately trying to hold support in the mid $7s–the only problems are a.) given their naivety they don’t have much capital b.) the absolute joke of an earnings release the other day makes Dennis Gartman look like the fool/classy pump and dumper that he is and c.) as THESE charts show, this turd of a company is in the grips of the flip side of the Supernova chart pattern (can ya guess what product you can buy to hear me explain them all!?!?!), kinda like death/the SEC itself.
Barrons Is The Latest Old Media Company To Be Proven Obsolete
Remember about a month ago when I wrote those 2 posts (HERE and HERE) about the sketchy pig farmers over at Agfeed Industries (FEED)?
Their two financing deals, after a flurry of too-good-to-be-wholly-accurate press releases, set off my probable pump alert and even though I wasn’t playing the stock, I felt the need to warn investors about how the smallcap capital raising game works—basically you spend thousands on PR, giveaway a few percentage points to encourage scummy peddlers (better knowns as brokerage firms) do financings, schedule a bunch of PRs to paint the rosiest picture possible and then raise capital for your crappy biz at inflated prices, preying on investors’ greed as your stock is manipulated to surge higher, making these investors believe they are getting in on the ground floor of some amazing story.
These 15 Hot Stocks Are The Sketchiest Group Of Characters Ever Assembled!
Horrible day yesterday, didn’t make any trades, missed out on great fades/plummets on UQM SSBX and of course CNEX. Now I’m singing the pump and dump blues…and none of the following stocks compare 2 u (CNEX)
Gotta grab those easy profits cuz they don’t come about every day…there’s no room in this game for hesitation, you short just gotta short a fading fraud, somehow slip into a coma for a few days and wake up with 20-70% profits…daily blogging probly doesn’t help, you’re too close to the flame.
FORC is just your typical $90 million oil fraud sending out mailers and PRs to anyone who will listen, you wonder why it goes so gradually higher all the time? Think back to the chapters detailing 1999-2000 in my book…yup, it’s called manipulation and it’s beautiful if you have the balls ride it long, glorious if you have the patience to wait to short and scary as hell for all the amateurs in between who don’t know what’s going on.
NYNY has lots of rumors swirling who knows and who cares who to believe, the chart is a gradual wannabe cup and handle…don’t short until it gets too steep, even then be very very careful, somebody’s got momentum
UBET is the same kind of rumor-based runup and while its chart is steeper, it’s up a whopping 75 cents off its lows, let me know when it goes from $1 to $7, then I’ll get really interested.
Sykes’ Saturday Sevenish: May 9th, 2008 Educacion
Now that prices have come down a bit, think it’s time to buy real estate in the US? Hello no! Check out what your hard earned money can buy in other countries…
Can’t wait to read badass short selling hedge fund manager’s David Einhorn’s new book…he was just on CNBC today talking about that oh so evil, unpatriotic act, impressing the hell out of just about everyone. I’m particularly pleased with him lashing out at the bastards over at the SEC. Guess you just need a few billion under management to get people to listen.
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Stock Puppets: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Cutting Through Industry BS
When I created this book-blog-DVD publishing business model that is BullShip Press, LLC, I figured I’d repeat my feat, become the top ranked / most popular guy on Covestor, show everyone exactly how to turn thousands into millions trading fantastically predictable penny stocks without using any leverage whatsoever, cut through all the industry corruption and ego, teach a few people and many former suckers how to profit from it, and piss a few others off by promoting my book An American Hedge Fund and instructional DVD PennyStocking in EVERY blog post (cuz they’re that important / helpful / necessary and help cut down too many questions / emails I get).
Everything’s been going well—and then, a few weeks ago, I discovered some bastard using a variation of my name, “timsykus1” on the animalistic Yahoo! message boards. I did some research and discovered the term for this kind of deceit is a “sock puppet”. I thought, okay, that was bound to happen, ignore it.
Flash forward to last night when I’m doing my nightly screen for potential pump and dumps and I come upon VRML, a miserably failing biotech in the same vein as its Paulie-from-the-movie-Rocky-like relatives REED, PSTI and VION, all of which were great to short sell into. And lo and behold, who do I see promoting this thing that belongs in a toilet—yup, “timsykus1” again, using my good name—at least to those who are blind in one eye—to pump this stock!
I’m Travelling But Who Cares, Here Are Some Hot Penny Stocks
Gonna be traveling all day to my U of M speech so considering how good some of these plays are looking, I’m gonna miss out and inevitably get some emails sayin’ I’m a failed trader, but that’s a small price to pay to get the expected 150+ students to think cynically about the financial industry freakshow! Here’s the microcrap landscape…cheers:
PDO just keeps it goin, showing why THIS trade was actually pretty damn good, at least for a short seller—as I preach in PennyStocking, shorting, while ultimately correct considering how shady these companies are, is much tougher, I really want you guys to learn to play these from the long side (something which I could never really master)…as for when to short, don’t stand in it’s way, this is a full fledged Supernova! Just sit back and let all the early shorts kick, scream and ultimately panic cover—that’s when I’ll start looking’ to enter
HDY is another sketchy oil and gas play that puts out exaggerated PRs, spikes and then does nothing…last 7 spikes have all been good short opportunities, their PR firm is Investor Awareness Inc whose business—judging by their other clients—is to take a few thousand dollars/month and do little to nothing offering up excuses like “it’s tough to get any upside in a market like this” and “no microcraps are doing well right now”. Too bad HDY doesn’t hire somebody scummier/more unethical so this stock can actually pumped like it should be!
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| Date | Stock | Buy | Sell | Net |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 23 | MKTY | $4.73 | $5.40 | $187 |
| July 22 | MKTY | $4.10 | $4.28 | $240 |
| July 21 | ZYXI | $3.03 | $3.18 | $130 |
| July 15 | MNLU | $6.37 | $6.73 | $340 |
| July 11 | IDAE | $2.27 | $2.49 | $630 |
| July 8 | ERII | $11.29 | $11.00 | $162 |
| July 3 | TGC | $2.14 | $2.39 | $471 |
| July 2 | HYGS | $2.15 | $2.29 | $260 |
| July 2 | TGC | $3.44 | $3.49 | $80 |
Total: $22,457 (
81%)
