Speaking Of People Who Were Passed Up For The Merrill Job

Posted by newb, Nov 15, 2007 2:54PM

douche

Posted by , Nov 15, 2007 3:16PM

Why is there no mention of Goldman Sachs brokering the A-Rod back to the Yanks deal?

That's deserving of a post.

Posted by HAM'05, Nov 15, 2007 3:23PM

speaking of ml - you guys seen their ads plastered all over the place with "we're not the only ones bullish on ml" as their tagline. priceless.

Posted by Nominate me, Nov 15, 2007 3:25PM

If it means no more TIMMAAAY stories, I will devote 5 hours a day to the development of a really clever way to off that douche.

more sykes? I'll admit to reading your comment and heading straight to urbandictionary.com...no thank you very much.

Posted by girl, Nov 15, 2007 3:31PM

Performing rib removal surgery?

Posted by , Nov 15, 2007 3:59PM

raising a small family of gerbils in his ass?

Posted by WDE, Nov 15, 2007 4:18PM

I would love to run into this joker in public and pour a beer on him

Posted by Adam, Nov 15, 2007 4:57PM

Timmayyy's doing pretty well0--he's got some pretty funny links in his posts!

http://timothysykes.com/index.php/myblog/iaapa-expo-stock-picks-and-an-american-hedge-fund-book-review.html

Posted by anonymous, Nov 15, 2007 5:08PM

is this kid serious? managing $14,000 and calling it a hedge fund?!?!?!?!?

Posted by JAK, Nov 15, 2007 5:26PM

begging for spare change

Posted by Anal_yst, Nov 15, 2007 5:51PM

I would not waste any respectable beer on Sykes. Maybe some vladdy or popov though

Posted by Akabajajaja, Nov 15, 2007 6:04PM

dealing crack to kids

Posted by anon, Nov 15, 2007 7:02PM

man, he's gotta get paid!

Posted by Tim, Nov 15, 2007 7:30PM

hey thats just the way it is

Posted by jackass, Nov 16, 2007 4:34AM

Timmayyyyyyyy

Posted by Anonymous, Nov 16, 2007 6:35AM

Tim Sykes is the devil

Posted by , Nov 16, 2007 9:59AM

Hey Loser Sykes...whatever happened to:

1) Tim being on Oprah radio?
2) The msnbc website with his videos?
3) His chance at a spot with Cavuto regularly on Fox ?
4) His book being a huge seller?
5) The existence of Big Foot?
6) Santa Claus being real.
7) Sykes book being a "classic"...ha ha ha

Posted by Tim, Nov 16, 2007 10:41AM

1. was on Oprah Radio the other day--not sure if its aired yet.

2. Stay tuned with MSN and FOX, cookin' up some special stuff...

3. My book "An American Hedge Fund" is selling particularly well, when I hit a milestone, you can be damn sure I'll have a nice PR

4. I don't know about Big Foot or Santa Claus

5. Too early to tell if my book will be considered a classic, but the DJ Newswire compared it to 2 classics - "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" and "Catcher in the Rye" so there's a chance.

Posted by Sykes Update, Nov 16, 2007 11:55AM

Tim Sykes: low life parasite scumbag failed hedge fund manager, now snake oil book salesman.

Posted by Fred R., Nov 16, 2007 12:22PM

Sykes book is NOT a classic, but rather a way for Sykes to make excuses and money from his failures.

Sykes horrible book is not worth $20.

Posted by Sykes Update, Nov 16, 2007 5:06PM

Screw you and your little friend too!

Posted by SykesFamilyWantsTheir$$BackFromTim, Nov 18, 2007 7:44PM

We like Tim Sykes as a funny joke and self-parody.....(we all know he is a useless human being)...

..Main Problem for Sykes is NOBODY trusts him to manage their money anymore because he is a total complete "fuck-up"!

...even his family will not let him manage their money, so why should he be SPAMMING us with his shitty book/dvd......

Posted by , Nov 23, 2007 9:10PM

I read TIM Sykes mediocre hedge fund book since I knew him at Tulane, and like him as a person. However, the book is an empty and uninspiring story about how Sykes became a self-absorbed irresponsible stock trader. This book is NOT a “classic” and story is NOT “Rocky-like”(as author Sykes claims). This book is basically like a blog of an average person who got lucky trading stocks and then his luck ran out (which it really should be - blog and nothing more).

Beware of all the phony glowing reviews for Sykes Book. Its the good ole boy network in high gear where authors/investment advisers use the buddy system to give fake good reviews to each other.

Sykes put the term “stock operator” in title in order to confuse all future book searches for Jesse Livermore’s excellent story (Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, by Edwin Lefèvre (1923)). This cheesy trick might help book sales, but needless to say, Sykes has nothing in common with the great trader Livermore.

Sykes comes across like a hyper/immature/video game player-type Trader, which worked for him for a few years; then the law of averages caught up with him. His “return to the mean” continues during the past two years; and his very poor investment strategies are DOWN -37% since Jan 2006. His continuous bad performance throughout 2007 shows that he does not learn from his mistakes; and readers can only cringe while watching Sykes slow motion demise into a worthless snake oil salesman.

Posted by Ben Storey, Dec 01, 2007 11:05AM

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.