Upcoming Interview With Timothy Sykes, Share Your Question Ideas
I will be interviewing stock guru Timothy Sykes later this week, and figured I would open up the interview to any questions you the readers may have for Tim. His new book, An American Hedge Fund officially launches October 1st and offers a glimpse into the real world of hedge funds.
A quick two paragraphs about the book and Tim,
“$2 trillion is invested in the hedge fund industry, and yet, due to industry regulations, the general public knows little about them. Forget about billion dollar blow ups and stories written by managers who were already wealthy. This is the story of a hedge fund created from scratch.
Timothy turned $12,000 of Bar Mitzvah gift money into $2 million trading thousands of stocks from 1999-2002, managed the #1 Short Bias Hedge Fund from 2003-2006, starred in the television documentary Wall Street Warriors, and appeared regularly on CNBC all before the age of 26. This is no BS “How To” book– it’s the first realistic look at the world of microcap stock trading and startup hedge funds. It’s been a wild ride. Timothy’s ‘Rocky’-like story will educate and inspire everyone.” (find out more about Tim at his website)
I will be covering the basic questions about the book, so leave any specific questions you may have as a comment. They can be as simple as “what is your favorite sandwich?” or as opinionated as “what do you think about the Fed cutting rates half a point last week?”
The best ones will be included (with a link to your site) in the interview. So hit me, what do you want to know about Tim?
Simple question for Tim. Cramer, pro or con?
I would be curious about this too. Does Tim really like the one and only Jim Cramer?
Hi Blain, just interested in hearing his story actually.
I would be interested to know his trading returns since the writing of his book. The book seemed to end on a low note in regard to his trading performance, and I was wondering if he was able to get back any of the phenomenal earlier success.
Are you planning an “interview series” it would fit nicely in with the training series.
Read an advanced copy and thought he was just lucky .. and at some point, you use up all your luck. He played micro-caps as the game was “Las Vegas”. It gets harder and harder the larger your bets and at some point the market turns and you’re on the wrong side.
Sykes said: “..It’ll be a lot easier for me to teach 1,000 people to make $10,000 …”
Uh oh….Here is a warning about Sykes/BS Express:
1) He closes the failed Cilantro Fund because it had an audited track record which documented his failures, then
2) Now, with the Fund closed he can BS his “trades” to newbies and suckers.
For example, Sykes will name a bunch of possible trades and then take credit for anything that works.
3) Sykes will not have any audited track record; so all aboard the BS Sykes express!
4) Then, Cheesy DVD to “teach” how to trade penny stocks (even though Sykes made less than 1% trading since 2003)….
Beware People, whole lot of snake oil gonna be brewing from the Sykes Shack!!……