Is this more of that "irrational exuberance"?

Now that Sykes has closed his failed hedge fund, he will no longer have to deal with audited performance results, so he will be claiming lots of "perfects stock picks"! He will mentions lots of stocks and take credit for anything that actually makes money!

Then, Next wave of SPAM will be Timmay Sykes selling cheesy DVD on trading penny stocks (..maybe also an infomercial to "teach" and pimp DVD...),

More SPAM from Sykes: a failed american hedge fund manager!

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......

Timothy Sykes latest escapade adds more shame (if that is even conceivable) to his recent sprint to become the biggest buffoon in the financial media. Somehow he was given a podium with a column on The Street. He proceeded to recommend a short against a company and then went gaga all over the financial message boards like Raging Bull and Yahoo to actually bash his short pick.

I have never seen a financial columnist post a short in a mainstream publication and then immediately start bashing it on a public message board. It is really unprofessional if not completely unethical for Sykes to behave this way. Meanwhile the brash cad proudly promotes the firestorm of hatred he builds around himself in order to promote his dopey book. The solution is simple: Don't buy his awful book because that is how he is putting food on the table since he can't trade effectively for a living.

By the way, that stock that blew up his "hedge fund" ($1M+ ROTFLMAO) was a company called Cygnus, a Pink Sheet, yes an unregulated, totally illiquid pink sheet, called Cygnus. He bought it because his college roommate's daddy ran the company. That was evidently the extent of Timmy's due diligence. This guy is a serial loser. Tim Sykes should be banned from all media outlets and any party serving a higher grade of beverage than Schlitz beer. His DVD on trading penny stocks is total garbage!

Ok, I just recently learned of this guy,Tim Sykes, and have visited the web site he set up and watched a few of his idiotic appearances on various news outlets such as CNBC. This is HILARIOUS.

Tim, if you are reading this, listen up:

Much of what I'll say is redundant but you know NOTHING about what you claim to know about. You are a rank amateur who has learned enough surface information about an industry so as to come across as being knowledgeable enough about it to teach to others. The only people that take you seriously are complete newcomers to this game that know next to nothing, because to a complete amateur you sound like you know what you are talking about. You have learned enough about trading to pretend and claim to have traded and that's about it.

Trading your parents money via an online retail account is not a fund, but is laughable. Your story is just that, a story. "I turned my 12k bar mitzvah money into 2 million". It reads like bad spam I get in my inbox but the journalists eat it up like cake. Your web site is hilarious because you are an enormous idiot and I will continue to visit it for free laughs. I wonder if you know how stupid you are or if you have truly convinced yourself that you have learned something valuable enough to write about?

Re: Sykes amateurish hedge fund book:

Is it more sad or amusing when someone's young ego spurs them to write a book when they possess neither literary skill nor talent? Sykes has commented elsewhere that his goal to become "a great teacher, not a great investor" but in this sad excuse for a tutorial he proves to be neither as his amateurish errors practically drive him from the market, credibility (what little he had) completely shredded. Perhaps, however, it's not truly his fault: let's face it, when it comes to imparting wisdom from Wall Street it is simply not possible that a raw twenty-something simply has much to say.

Not that Sykes doesn't try however. In perusing the "comments" portion of Amazon book reviews, he's certainly not reluctant to chime in and offer a defense at nearly every turn. Find me ONE other author at Amazon that feels so compelled to argue his own incompetence.

Tim Sykes should end his determined quest to become a media personality as his grating manner and decidedly non-telegenic looks suit him far better to shine shoes.