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Re: Does TIMalerts Influence Stock Prices?

Bo$$aholic — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:45:42 -0000

Why are you guys so dumb? Tim Sykes is a bo$$!!!

Re: Does TIMalerts Influence Stock Prices?

deadjim — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:37:05 -0000

...the ignorance continues. I think the only people who argue with you about influencing the stock price have been trading less than 6 months. Breakouts were traded before by tape readers WAY before electronic platforms were invented. These charts have been the same for 100 years

Re: Does TIMalerts Influence Stock Prices?

timothysykes — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:06:26 -0000

1.) u probly had all the shares from thinkorswim, i point out sogotrade is the only one with tons of shares aka thats the only that matters in this argument

2.) email opens are relevant, very few people will trade a stock without reasoning, text/IM is nice but that accounts ofr only a small percentage of my alert subscribers

3.) i said probly a dozen or so people might have sogo, maybe 2 dozen, doenst matter, the damn stock traded $16 million worth the other day, only morons think i can influence a $16 million traded stock

4.) ok call it 2 dozen, who cares....this is a liquid stock and not everyone is trading exactly with my alerts...u prove that yourself by still holding your shares short

Re: Does TIMalerts Influence Stock Prices?

timothysykes — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:02:57 -0000

1.) when i first started blogging there were NO real time alerts...i would detail trades after the fact...i did realtime alerts to help educate based on what the readers demanded

2.) u think i want to influence prices? unlike stock promoters, i dont get paid by companies or anyone other than subscribers...all i want to do is teach people how I trade

3.) screw my ego that was so 2003

4.) i was lucky to stumble upon a reliable pattern during the bubble, the pattern itself was not luck, that pattern exists today too...get it straight

Re: Does TIMalerts Influence Stock Prices?

curtly — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:53:03 -0000

For a start, point 1 is extremely misleading...

1/ TOS had shares, I have 3k of them still short.
2/ Email openings not relevant, I never open your emails but get your alerts via text/IM
3/ What do your referrals to Sogo have to do with it? If I am not mistaken, you were referred to Sogo a few months back by one of your subs because of good share availability. You think the only people who use Sogo are those who you referred?
4/I can name more than 12 of your subs in chat alone (out of 100 odd that are there) that traded ZANE, let alone many many others who do not visit your chat room.

I will not go on, discrediting just one of your points is enough.

Re: Does TIMalerts Influence Stock Prices?

WhateverTimmy — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:26:56 -0000

Tim, if you were really all about "educating" people, there would be absolutely no reason to send out real time alerts... you could delay these alerts, send them out with level 2 video capture etc, and people could relive the realtime price action of a stock at the time you traded... Just like every other bafoon who posts their trades via twitter etc, your real time alerts serves only 3 purposes;
1/ to generate revenues from alerts
2/ to get as many people as possible to follow your trade.
3/ to boost your ego to make up for something lacking in your manhood

p.s. I highly doubt your subs trade against intentionally, rather they find themselves in the wrong stock, the wrong way and at the wrong time.

p.p.s. with regards to your earlier post, why do you imply you were the only person who made money during the tech bubble? And by your own self admission, it was largely all based on luck - throwing money at a moving stock and hoping for the best.

Re: Does TIMalerts Influence Stock Prices?

timothysykes — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:09:39 -0000

PS several subscribers like to trade against me which i dont encourage but they act as a balancing force...

PPS the vast majority of my subscribers have accounts under $10,000--thats what penny stocks are for--poor people!

Re: Does TIMalerts Influence Stock Prices?

timothysykes — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:07:40 -0000

tired of bashing people using these big #s...u just need to watch the price action...i shorted and bought to cover SINO today and the stock didnt budge...especially when i bought to cover...u have to understand that marketcap doesnt matter, volume matters some but remember I TURNED $12K INTO $2 MILLION ONCE BEFORE WHEN NOBODY WAS WATCHING... but here's some questions

1.) my picks have obviously been successful, why arent more subscribers trading now that they can see what i do day in day out?

2.) why haven't i been getting more successful on buying breakouts when my subscribers should all be able to buy no matter their broker?

3.) why are there still shares to short of these companies when all my subscribers should be trading them?

truth is hardly any of my subscribers trade, let alone open their emails...timanswers has a staggering 150 people asking questions, 130 people average in the timalerts chatroom.

i agree if i get too big, this would be troublesome, but the good news is too many dont get it, they refuse to get my dvds and learn and the patterns are exact same as the past decade

oh thats right, the patterns havent changed at all! if my subscribers were trading these stocks, wouldn't the patterns evolve? NOPE. case closed

Re: Does TIMalerts Influence Stock Prices?

Salami — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:00:51 -0000

Tim I like your site, and I like ever thing you have done and I am not attacking you in any way. I have most of your DVD's and have used your alerts and have followed you since the beginning of your site. I am not bashing you in anyway but imo you need to be a little more transparent with yourself and your followers on this issue. Frankly I am a bit insulted that you would not be open about this because it's completely and utterly obvious. If a person starts an alert subscription for say real stocks in the $20 to $50 range with market caps of 1 billion to 20 billion and they have say 500 subs each with $10-25k, these people will influence the price of a stock by $.10-.20 easily each time they trade. I know because I have used such services. Now if you take your scenario where you have 1600 subs, and say half, or even a third trade the same stock that you trade on any given day (which wouldn't make sense in and of itself because these people are paying $50 to $100 for your service a month which isn't a lot, but is something) these people will influence the price of the stock. For instance in the case of ZANE or a SINO like the last few days these stocks have less than $10-30 million market caps. If you have 400 subs trading a stock, which is very conservative, and each sub has only $3500 in their accounts which is also very conservative and most likely not realistic because some have $25k or even several hundred thousand, they will bring $1.4 million of volume into the stock on the same side as you. 1.4 million/25million is = 5.6% of the total volume that trades through a stock and as I said this is very conservative, you probably have more like half your subs trading each stock depending on if they can find shares to short (since a lot have thinkorswim and thinkorswim has been lame lately) or if they actually are at there computer when you send and alert. You can not deny that if your subs trade 5.6% of the total volume on a stock, they will increase the price. For instance yesterday on ZANE a 300 share short decreased the price by on average .03 cents. That means your buy alone decreased the price by much more than that that amount and your subs definitely caused a drop because this is a low float stock. Even if you just took the handful of people that claimed they made money and posted on your site, and added up there shares, you still would move the stock at least .10 but probably much more. When your subs got in and shorted for instance $14000000 I guarantee you influenced the price. I could take any chart of any stock that you traded and know exactly when you sent and alert because the pop or drop starts at the exact second you send your alert and these aren't normal breakouts or break downs. A normal breakout might be $.20 when a stock breaks our or breaks down and you are in 90% of the time the stock moves double that. External traders (non tim alerts subs) definitely influence the price of these stocks but not until your subs push the price up or down first in most cases. Yes stocks pop or drop when they break key inflection points but the whole world doesn't know when you send you alerts out. The whole world does know when their screener's light up with unusual volume or a dramatic price increase/decrease and then they jump in your pick and push the stock further.

You will probably bash me or flame me, or tell me I am a retard and thats fine, but this has been bugging me and I had to get it out there just for the sure principal. It's not bad that you influence the stock. You are a trader and you make people money which is great but you should be honest.
If you want to prove your subscribers don't influence the price then start a website which will allow your subs to choose which stock they traded and how many shares they traded.

Re: Does TIMalerts Influence Stock Prices?

jay — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:10:12 -0000

"That's why I've gained so much weight." Haha great comment.