Make no mistake: Stock promoter lies are a part of the penny stock world. They have to lie to pump their stocks.
I’m not trying to make enemies with the promoters because I’m grateful for the volatility they create. I’m grateful for the predictable setups. But at the same time, I have to educate newbies.
Before I get to the lies stock promoters tell, I want to clear up one common misconception. I don’t personally profit from my trades. I donate all my trading profits to charity. Yes, I want to donate as much as possible to charity, but I trade to teach.
Why is that important? Because it means I’m not conflicted. It means I can give honest, accurate, and useful commentary. I prioritize my students. No trade is make or break for me. That’s who I am and what I do.
But I have to apologize because sometimes I get too negative. I get negative with newbies because I’m trying to wake them up. And I get negative with promoters because they tell lies. Those lies have the potential to destroy.
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Stock Promoters Dine On Lies
One way or another, stock promoters profit from their pumps. Some get paid in cash or shares. Others load up before they tweet so they can sell into the spikes they create. That is, if they’re competent enough to spike the stock.
As we saw in September, they got a little lazy or inept. Or both. It got a little better in October. Come on, promoters, work harder!
Lol same old promoters and their brainwashed victims, sad
— Timothy Sykes (@timothysykes) October 15, 2020
I’ve divided the stock promoter lies into three parts: lies about me, lies about companies, and lies for suckers.
Why do they lie about me? Promoters hate it when I tweet that a stock is getting pumped. So they lie to their followers as part of the pump. Ingenious, really.
Watch this video and learn…
How I Made $3K in a Day Spotting Penny Stock Promoters
As you can tell, I want the promoters to do their job. But I also have to expose the lies promoters tell.
Let’s do this…
9 Stock Promoter Lies
Again, the promoters love to tell lies about me. So I need to correct a few misconceptions. When I work hard to educate people about how promoters work, it riles them up. It comes with the territory. But I do it for a reason: it makes them do a better job.
That said, here are three stock promoter lies about yours truly…
Stock Promoter Lie #1: “Sykes Is Shorting It”
A lot of these promoters say that I talk crap about their companies because I’m shorting them. They say I’m deceiving my followers. Most of the time I’m not even trading the stock, let alone short selling. This is an actual quoted tweet…
“Sykes and his crew are 100% shorting this stock out of pure anger.”
It’s sad, right? I don’t short these pumps. I wouldn’t short them unless the promoters spiked them a LOT more, which seems unlikely.
Jimmy, get in my https://t.co/EcfUM6l2S3 chat/webinars for QA, the problem is the promoters just suck and can’t spike this like they should….then they make up BS that people are shorting their junk when it’s not even high priced enough to consider as a short whatsoever LOL
— Timothy Sykes (@timothysykes) October 15, 2020
But I do want them to spike as much as possible. Why? Because I like buying breakouts and morning panics. So I want clean breakouts that can run for multiple days/weeks. Then when the stock gets overextended enough, there’s a better chance for a bigger panic.
The crazy thing is that I’ve only shorted twice in the past year. You can see all my trades here.
Why don’t I short? Because it’s a very overcrowded strategy right now. When I was a short seller, there was too much frustration and drama. Students got frustrated and I got frustrated. I’m trying to do less frustration, less drama.
Plus, as I was saying last year and the first part of 2020, short sellers were the new promoters. They were being so overaggressive that it was causing short-squeeze supernovas. It’s still happening, just not quite as much since we have real promoters again.
Stock Promoter Lie #2: “Sykes Is Pumping It”
Wrong.
Do I want these stocks to go as high as possible? Yes. But check my alerts. I give entry commentary, including my goal. Then I give exit commentary explaining what happened with my trade. Compare that to the promoters who tweet 50, 75, 100 times a day to pump the stock.
If you want to be transparent like me and these top students, tweet something like…
“Long 100 shares of [insert ticker].”
That’s a clear indication that you want the price to go up. And it’s all you need to do.
Promoters tweet things like…
“$IDEX This one’s going to the moon…”
Or…
“170K shares of $NWBO at .60. I will make a million dollars off this stock. Just watch.”
Then they continue to tweet about the stock for days trying to lure in newbies. It’s crazy.
Stock Promoter Lie #3: “Sykes Wants It To Crash So He Can Dip Buy”
Wrong again.
First, I don’t just dip buy anything. For example, I would never dip buy a first green day OTC former runner. That said, I want these stocks to run as many days as possible, as high as possible. That way there’s a better chance of a solid panic dip-buy opportunity.
So, yes, I love to dip buy just like I love to buy breakouts. But they tell their followers to hold and hope because “Sykes is purposely trying to get the stock down…” That’s an outright lie that will hurt their followers.
Enough about me, because those lies are reactionary. They’re defensive lies. But the crux of the stock promoter argument is that the company is a winner.
With that in mind…
Stock Promoter Lies About the Company
One of the most powerful ways the promoters lie is to use what should be strong evidence that the stock will go up.
Unfortunately, too many newbies have no financial education and even less experience. Maybe they watch CNBC and think “If I can find the next big thing, I’m gonna get rich.”
When they start trading they see the promoters’ comments on Twitter and think: “This is it. This is the one.”
That brings up a common question people ask…
“Tim, how do you know it’s blatant a pump?”
Every day, I use the StocksToTrade Breaking News Chat tool. The Breaking News guys alert the most effective pumps and pumpers.
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— Timothy Sykes (@timothysykes) October 15, 2020
It doesn’t matter who the pumpers are … and it doesn’t matter what they are. It’s the same kind of strategy. The pumpers get paid to promote the stocks and then the companies do financings.
The management sells at inflated prices or they do a financing at a discount. Then they have millions of dollars to pay inflated salaries as they “work on the vision.” Even though the vision never works.
My point: Use StocksToTrade and get the Breaking News Chat add-on. It’s been a game-changer for me in 2020.
(Quick disclaimer: I helped design and develop StocksToTrade.)
Next lie…
Stock Promoter Lie #4: “This Company Is a Long-Term Investment”
Let me be VERY clear: 99% of penny stock companies fail. Those that don’t fail change names, change tickers, or continuously dilute shareholders. It happens over and over.
So before you think “This is the next Microsoft…” Let me be blunt. It’s not. Does that mean none of these companies will ever make it? No. But the chances of YOU picking the stock that will make it are slim to none.
None of these companies are good long-term investments. I will never apologize for telling the truth. Go back and look through the thousands of blatantly promoted pumps. They all have charts where the stock spikes and then dies as soon as the promoters stop.
That’s why I trade instead of invest. Use these stocks as a trading vehicle. Take profits along the way. Build your small account. But NEVER believe it when promoters say, “This company is a long-term investment.”
Stock Promoter Lie #5: “The Fundamentals Are Solid”
SO MANY newbies fall for this. So, are the fundamentals solid? To be honest, I don’t care. But if you believe they are, do some real research. Don’t take the promoters’ word for it. If a company is not profitable, is bleeding cash, and is getting promoted or pumped…
The fundamentals don’t matter…
problem is newbies never get off the promoted stocks’ ships even after they start crashing since the promoters always say the fundamentals are intact when in fact the fundamentals never mattered to begin with
— Timothy Sykes (@timothysykes) June 24, 2020
Stock Promoter Lie #6: “It’s World-Changing Tech!”
I’m not saying that the technology is bad or the products are bad. Look, back in the summer I was buying AgEagle Aerial Systems (NASDAQ: UAVS) at under $1 a share. CVS said it was gonna do drone delivery for senior citizens. The stock barely popped.
Then it popped more when the company was supposedly about to announce a deal with Amazon. Instead, a member of management retired. It was a big crash. Could it be world-changing? Possibly. But the odds are bad if you expect these companies to become legit.
The crazy thing is, I love to take trades when there’s breaking news about a new or upcoming product. If it’s spiking the stock. Sometimes I even get a little speculative. But you’ll notice I don’t try to predict what a stock is gonna do. I react.
More importantly (and this is big, so pay attention)…
Do me & yourself a favor & NEVER believe any penny stock's story or the promoters who advertise them. Expect the absolute worst from every stock, from every "trader" on $TWTR giving tips, never follow ANY alerts from anyone else & instead learn to refine your own trading process!
— Timothy Sykes (@timothysykes) October 15, 2020
I NEVER believe the hype. I ride the hype train and get off when the trade either hits my goals or stops doing what I want.
Here’s another funny thing … I often wish the product was a world changer. I’m rooting for innovative new products to help change the world in a positive way.
But I’ve learned over two-plus decades of trading and twelve years of teaching to expect the worst. That way I’m never disappointed.
Stock Promoter Lies for Suckers
Stock Promoter Lie #7: “Only the Weak Sell”
This is complete madness! Only morons don’t sell when they’ve met their goals. That kind of greediness is what blows up accounts. So if your trade plan works, take the profit and move on to the next.
The other time to get out should be obvious. Rule #1 is to cut losses quickly. Never hold and hope. And NEVER let a promoter shame you into holding a stock.
Your job is to stay in the game. Do NOT go down with the ship! All this talk of “We’re in it together. Hold on and this will eventually go back up…” is BS! What the promoters don’t tell you is that they’ve already sold. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. This is EXACTLY why I teach.
Stock Promoter Lie #8: “This Time Is Different”
And if you believe that, I have a broken Rolex watch I’d like to sell you.
Be cynical. Be very cynical. Read this Men’s Journal article: “Buying High: How to Get Rich On Pot Stocks.” That was in 2014. Stock pumps and promoters weren’t anything new then. Pumps have been happening for YEARS. Stock promoters have been telling their lies for decades.
Sometimes I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Study history, PLEASE! Stop believing these unethical slimeball promoters.
That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t trade the stocks…
Just NEVER believe the BS. EVER. NEVER EVER!
Ever wonder why penny stock pumps like $NSPX $SFOR $PASO spike & fall at the same time? Wake the fuck up newbies, they all have the same promoter, it's not due diligence/fundamentals that drive these stocks LOL. Just lower priced versions of $GNUS $IDEX $MARK $BOXL summer pumps!
— Timothy Sykes (@timothysykes) October 14, 2020
Stock Promoter Lie #9: “Trading Is Easy and Fun and We’re Here to Help”
Trading isn’t easy. Especially at first. And while you’re learning it can be frustrating. The promoters who say it’s easy are the same ones who won’t share every trade with you. They might share their end-of-month profit/loss or a screenshot of a big win.
But they never share the details…
What was their position size? And what was their entry and exit price? What was their thesis and why did they exit their position? They don’t share anything about their trading plans.
They’ll also try to tell you that they teach people for free. They say, “Join my free chat room.”
It’s one of the worst lies used to lure newbies in, which is why…
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People who invest in their trading education take it more seriously. I want you to have the best chance to succeed.
I get it. Some of you reading this might not have much money to invest in your education yet. That’s why I post so many free videos on my YouTube channel. It’s why I write so many blog posts and have a free weekly watchlist. It’s why I created the no-cost “Volatility Survival Guide” earlier this year.
In other words, for those of you not yet ready to invest more in your education, you have options. YOU get to choose your level of commitment.
But DON’T believe the lies promoters tell. They need to lure in more newbies to make their pumps work. They tell you an education doesn’t matter. Then they ask you to pay the steepest possible price for a market education.
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What do you think of stock promoters and the lies they tell? Comment below, I love to hear from all my readers!
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