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9/19 Is The New 9/11: The Day The SEC Terrorists Tried To Bring Down America
Posted by Timothy Sykes on Fri 19th of Sep, 2008 12:57:18 PM
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UPDATE: Suck on this you SEC bastards, I just began pre-selling my brand new 6-hour ShortStocking Instructional DVD (learn more HERE) and it’s gonna teach everyone how to profit from short selling…legally.
Now that joke of an industry “bigtimers” like Cramer, Mish and Ritholtz are calling the SEC financial terrorists, see HERE, HERE and HERE, remember somebody beat them to it by several months…
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See The List of Financial Stocks You Cannot Short & Understand What This All Means…
Posted by Timothy Sykes on Fri 19th of Sep, 2008 10:54:26 AM Sponsor Offer:
This was sent out earlier today to TIMalert subscribers (I’ve updated it a bit since the SEC terrorism news came out):
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How To Profit From The Latest Ban On Short Selling aka How To Legally Profit From Should-Be Illegal Market Manipulation
Posted by Timothy Sykes on Thu 18th of Sep, 2008 05:59:31 PM Sponsor Offer:
The government has proven time and again that they’re going to scapegoat short sellers for the sins of others who used too much leverage/power for too long, THIS latest ridiculous investigation is no different.
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Black Monday, Zzzzzzzz
Posted by Timothy Sykes on Mon 15th of Sep, 2008 01:54:35 PM Sponsor Offer:
So with all these “blue chip” (in reality irrationally arrogant) financial companies like Merrill Lynched, Lehman Bankrupters, AIG (Anonymous Incompetents Group), Shittygroup and Washington Massacred all in trouble in one way or another, the Dow hugging down 300 points on the day, financial website traffic booming and financial corporate drones of all low IQ numbers carrying boxes and walking around Wall St. aimlessly, you might think it’d be a rather exciting day for me.
Exciting because my PennyStocking strategy is immune to all this crap–which considering the lack of pump and dumps and spam plays means ALL PennyStocking DVD students should be ALL cash or short COIN, BBND and FNET (all of which are winning positions)–proving just how much safer penny stock speculation can be compared to the previously imagined safety strategy of diversification.
Exciting cuz my TIMalert subscribers are thanking me/understanding more and more each day for helping them understand
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Who Do You Believe Is Right on Amedisys, Inc. (AMED)?
Posted by timothysykes on Wed 13th of Aug, 2008 04:19:55 PM Sponsor Offer:
Andrew Left of Citron Research is one of the few good guys in this joke of an industry–while I just like profiting from the boom/bust on frauds–Left actually does the nasty digging (he’s got waaay more enemies than I do!) to get to the bottom of all the corruption/manipulation/overvaluation. And, judging by his track record/following, he’s often dead on (he said short PDO in the $40s).
Yesterday, he wrote THIS crazy post about Amedisys filled with juicy enemy-creating tidbits like this:
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These Are The 19 Stocks The SEC Says You Cannot Short…This Is A Sad, Sad Day
Posted by timothysykes on Thu 17th of Jul, 2008 08:12:08 AM Sponsor Offer:
Wow, if the f$#!% SEC wasn’t staffed by illiterate halflings, they’d see lots of countries have tried to stop short selling and it didn’t matter, their stocks still tanked cuz the companies sucked so bad. No different this time around…
From a great post by Mish, who notes China is the latest country to have tried this market-manipulating tactic and their shitty index fell another 50%, here are the restricted nineteen, I promise you with problems unforeseen:
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Entertainment Today: No LiveStock, Just A Riveting Account Of Bear Stearns Collapse!
Posted by timothysykes on Fri 4th of Jul, 2008 03:51:04 PM Sponsor Offer:
Due to the holiday, you might’ve guessed there’s no LiveStock today (although I was ready to do it!), but since you’ve become used to being entertained each and every Friday–Family Matters-style–I dug something up that you might just like…
See the whole article HERE and be prepared to spend some time reading it–it ain’t short, but it is worthwhile. Of course it had to come from a non-finance media outlet: Vanity Fair. Because as you know, just as corrupt as penny stocks are, the financial media is boring times infinity (besides even being a little corrupt themselves)
OK, no more ripping, this account of the Bear collapse really is educational and entertaining, good job Vanity Fair! And for those of you who need more convincing to read a long article, just check out the kind of cool pics they use:
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Why They Should String Samuel Israel Up On Wall Street With A Note Saying “Fraud Isn’t Painless”
Posted by timothysykes on Thu 3rd of Jul, 2008 11:58:38 AM Sponsor Offer:
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:
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Forbes The Latest Victim In Randall Lane’s Web Of Deceit Or Why Trader Monthly aka Doubledown Media Is Failing
Posted by timothysykes on Tue 17th of Jun, 2008 11:20:25 AM Sponsor Offer:
Based on nothing more than widespread rumors, circumstantial evidence and a few sources—not coincidentally the same reasoning they once used to find me guilty of a crime I didn’t commit—Trader Monthly aka Traitor Monthly aka Doubledown Media—they use several aliases because, like any common criminal, their flawed ideology and dirty deeds are finally catching up with them—is failing fast.
Like any good wannabe journalist, not that I really wannabe, I should mention my history with these cockroaches, specifically their twisted son of a bitch editor-in-thief chief, Randall “The ideal reader is 29 years old, making $400,000 a year, and spending all of it.” Lane. And thankfully, that reprehensible quote (yes he really said it, seemingly proudly, see article HERE) is one of the foremost reasons why rumors are swirling that Doubledown Media, devastated by several legal battles—everybody from Lenny Dykstra to Private Air—and the loss of their CFO (hey, they really are a typically corrupt financial firm!) is down to just one magazine, from five, and is close to shutting their doors. After all, given the economy, difficult industry times and unemployment/bankruptcy of those who espouse such blatantly flawed thinking, who’s really gonna read or advertise their junk? And of course, there are the sordid details…
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Who Is Following Me? Is It The SEC Or A Stock Promoter?
Posted by timothysykes on Sun 8th of Jun, 2008 05:43:29 PM Sponsor Offer:
Those of you tuned in for LiveStock yesterday got to see our first professionally produced (Chuckieeeeeee) video clip entitled “Who Is Following Me?”
You can now view it:
HERE on youtube
HERE on TIMtv
HERE on blip.tv
By speaking my mind, I haven’t made many friends in this biz–booo hooo, I already know enough superficial soulless bastards–so who do you guys think this stalker is? Is it the SEC Bin Laden, scummy stock promoters or theater majors upset that I called them out on being fake journalists? Dealbreaker seems to think it’s the SEC.
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Nobody Told Kentucky USA Energy Inc (KYUS) That They Were A Scam…LOL
Posted by timothysykes on Tue 3rd of Jun, 2008 06:11:57 PM Sponsor Offer:
Seriously, check this absurd SEC filing out and try not to laugh…sounds like somebody’s getting investigated…
Form 8-K for KENTUCKY USA ENERGY, INC.
30-May-2008
Other Events
Item 8.01 OTHER EVENTS
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Why Getting Hacked, Like Losing Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars, Is A Good Thing
Posted by timothysykes on Mon 2nd of Jun, 2008 03:07:53 PM Sponsor Offer:
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.
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When Timmayyy Is Dead Right: Manipulated Stocks Go Boom!
Posted by timothysykes on Mon 21st of Apr, 2008 07:20:34 PM Sponsor Offer:
For the 3 most recently manipulated microcraps—CNOA (pumped by a CNBC “reporter” who mistook paid-for stock promotion for credible research, probly the result of majoring in theatre studies in college (seriously)), EDEN (agriculture product pumped by a TheStreet.com “journalist” who forgot to read the quarterly report mentioning they sold off that division!) and TIGR (I don’t wanna know the evil lurking behind that pump, possibly some SEC counter-intelligence subdivision trying to draw out fellow manipulators) I have been dead on. These are opportunities from which you can profit because I’m not talking about variables that indirectly affect stock prices (ie earnings, the economy)—no, these catalysts have a direct impact on the supply/demand of shares and consequently the stock price.
Since my expose when it was at $1.80ish, CNOA has dropped 30% in a few days—longs, don’t blame me or say “I don’t get it, it had all the trends going in its favor, I guess penny stocks really are just like gambling?!?!” Hello no, this kind of price action is the precise opposite of random, it’s motherf$#@en PennyStocking—learn to play the game or suffer the consequences!
Why I Just Shorted Eden Bioscience Corp (EDEN): TheStreet.com’s Factually Inaccurate Pump And Dump!
Posted by timothysykes on Fri 18th of Apr, 2008 12:36:17 PM Sponsor Offer:
As I mentioned in this post, this near 100% runup is entirely due to THIS laughable Thestreet.com article mentioning this failure of a company as a “below-the-radar company that produces Messenger, a highly effective and revolutionary agricultural product.”
I could easily rip the company apart for its $23,000 in revenue in their latest quarter down from $189,000 just a few quarters ago—wow, their product must be really great! Even funnier is their yearly results—revenue of $350k vs. $4 million a few years back. Or before this miraculous article, EDEN was a $3 million company that was forced to do a 1-3 reverse split just two months ago in order to stay listed on the Nasdaq
But I shorted 1,000 shares at $2.55–that’s all I could find, trust me, I wish I could borrow 50k–because I prefer to go to the heart of the matter, the fact that EDEN SOLD OFF THIS “REVOLUTIONARY” TECHNOLOGY AS IS DETAILED IN THEIR ANNUAL REPORT!
From that beautiful annual report, filed on March 28, 2008:
“On February 28, 2007, under the terms of the Asset Purchase Agreement, we sold our Harpin Protein Technology to PHC for $1,396,824 in cash, net of transaction costs incurred after January 1, 2007 totaling $103,176, a promissory note in the principal amount of $700,751 payable on December 31, 2007 and the assumption by PHC of certain of the liabilities relating to or arising out of our Harpin Protein Technology…”
That’s right, EDEN isn’t even in the home and garden business anymore, they’re just a licensee! Gotta quote some more of this fine work of literature
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Did I Do That? Pump & Dump Exposes And Revolutionary Finance Websites
Posted by timothysykes on Tue 15th of Apr, 2008 02:41:01 PM Sponsor Offer:
With my CNOA pump and dump expose last night and it’s 25% tankage today, I gotta wonder:
Possibly, probly, who knows…too bad I wasn’t short the stock myself—gotta learn to short sell these suckers BEFORE I chop ‘em to pieces, a la business models of Citron Research and Mark Cuban’s ShareSleuth.com
Nahhhhhhhh a.) it didn’t fit my pattern and b.) it’s more fun to write brutally truthful articles about stocks in which you have no positions, you do it just cuz it’s the right thing to do
I’ll tell you one thing I definitely did do right, that’s hiring and tirelessly working with Pallian to design the new site, which is looking redonkulous! I mean the guy is an Indian Picasso, he should be called Ghandcasso or Picandhi. To you lucky 50, advertisers and bloggers, the beta invites are being emailed out, so def. let me know what you think—what you like and don’t like, the site is for you—and for everyone else, you gotta wait til May 1st and settle for clicking the little thumbnail below:
On CNOA, CNBC Aids And Abets Penny Stock Promoters
Posted by timothysykes on Mon 14th of Apr, 2008 08:14:28 PM Sponsor Offer:
Let me start by saying I have no problem whatsoever with penny stock promotion—these tiny / failing / fraudulent companies need all the exposure / hype they can get or else they’ll never raise any capital and fail / be exposed as the frauds that they are soon rather than later. But I do take offense when entertainment outlets like CNBC try to pass themselves off as credible researchers. As I’ve posted HERE and HERE, their bumbling has hurt too many investors and they’ve helped make people afraid of penny stocks—which I cannot permit.
Now, one of their wannabe journalists / entertainers, Sri Jegarajah, has written the single most naïve penny stock article I’ve ever read, “Wild About Rice” in which Sri mistakes paid-for stock promotion for credible research forcing me to explain the rules of the game to all the poor schmucks who mistakenly view CNBC as a credible source.
Besides quoting CNOA’s CEO (we all know how useless that is, what’s he gonna admit the company’s a pump and dump scheme?), and a Seeking Alpha article—whose writers are no more qualified than bums begging for change on the street, Sri proudly quotes Source Advisors, forgetting (not realizing?) to mention they’ve been paid $25,000 “by a third party” (pump and dumper, cough, cough) to publish their BS report. And, as if to repent for his sins, Sri closes out the article quoting Patrick Murphy of Murphy Analytics who was only paid $1,000 for his efforts (scroll down to the bottom and be better than Sri, aka read the disclaimer).
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Sykes’ Saturday Seven: April 12th, 2008 Edition
Posted by timothysykes on Sat 12th of Apr, 2008 11:29:29 AM Sponsor Offer:
Stupid stupid teenage girls film assault on another teenage girl specifically to post video on Youtube, video’s gone viral, but they’re in jail…no joke…disgusting…
10 movie gadgets that have become reality
Forget website analytics, time to start analyzing your email, but only if you have Gmail (Gratzie PK)
Another successful—if not legendary—trader gives his rules for success (awww c’mon Todd, no banjos?)
Learn your history, venture capital history that is
Get the WSJ for free!
Inside the panic at E*Trade…you stupid stupid longs don’t even know how close to disaster many of these financial firms are coming
TIM Lesson: Never buy or short sell falling knives, much is happening behinds the scenes, none of it is predictable
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Ashley Dupre Girls Gone Wild Pics, aka It Never Ends!
Posted by timothysykes on Tue 18th of Mar, 2008 11:58:39 PM Sponsor Offer:
Forget about at least one of her $1 million offers, now it turns out all around “classy” girl AA Dupre has already filmed weeks worth of “classy” videos for Girls Gone Wild, owned by all around “classy” guy Joe Francis. Check out the pics below and try to guess which guy/guys paid nothing for what Spitzer paid with his career!
UPDATE: Now, we’re hearing Dupre was 17 when she filmed GGW so a blockbuster video looks to be out…for now. You know Dupre’s lawyers are gonna try and turn this around on Joe Francis–the twists and turns never end!
TIM Lesson: Ashley Dupre Proves Hype Lasts Longer Than Expected
Posted by timothysykes on Mon 17th of Mar, 2008 12:45:47 PM Sponsor Offer:
Now we can throw another celebrity into the Ashley Dupre mix: Charlie Sheen. THIS article inspired my good friend Fattie Mattie to craft this pic.
UPDATE: Apparently, Dupre also was close with legendary short seller Jim Chanos!! (says the trashy New York Post) Article is from yesterday, gotta do better gossip research, maybe I just don’t care anymore since there’s no stock with which to play!
I liked it so much, I gave it my website seal of approval—so all you starving artists out there, send me your work and I might also feature it, giving due credit of course.
PS Considering she’s a “high-class” call girl, my Spidey sense tells me the list of celebrity hook ups is just beginning. If you’re a celebrity, raise your hand if you have NOT had sex with Dupre, that line is probly shorter than those who have/will have…
PPS I notice less than 300 people have signed up for my FREE GIVEAWAY of my NO BS $300 Instructional DVD PennyStocking to be awarded to some luck soul at noon on Thursday, March 20. If that’s really all the interest out there, I’ve severely overestimated my market size! It’s 100% free, sign-up damnit!
JPMorgan (JPM) Buying Bear Stearns (BSC) For $2 Per Share!
Posted by timothysykes on Sun 16th of Mar, 2008 06:17:49 PM Sponsor Offer:
Forget $15 or $20. They’re only willing to pay $2 per share! Bear Stearns is now a penny stock. From this AP story
All I can say is wow, if the situation is really this bad, Lehman is done for, along with many other peddlers, too. This could get uglyyyyyyyyy
UPDATE: The Fed just cut 25 basis points, on a Sunday night!
UPDATE 2: Enough already, I’m posting what a dozen people emailed: THIS ARTICLE with Cramer saying “No! No! No! Bear Stearns is not in trouble. If anything, they’re more likely to be taken over. Don’t move your money from Bear.” The guy was wrong. He’s wrong more often than not. He’s in the entertainment business…like the WWE…he’s The Rock, his eyebrow trick is to act crazy. Welcome to reality. Those of you who trade/invest based on his pick, you deserve to lose. Think about it, would you listen to a stock pickgiven by The Rock? No, of course not!
UPDATE 3: Seen the video, Cramer’s talkin’ about Bear’s clients being safe, which he was right about, not the stock itself. Still, lots of envy out there, his haters will continue to have a field day with this…
