One example does not an argument make. I have the full permission of every single person on my list and you're damn right, I'm gonna use it.
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A review of Timmay's hedge fund book
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One example does not an argument make. I have the full permission of every single person on my list and you're damn right, I'm gonna use it.
Quote from Reaver:
Okay, so explain this:
You see? He says it himself...he wrote it as a professional courtesy...and then magically realized he didn't like it anymore......
I'm just saying...you act like it some crazy story I am making up that people write each other reviews without really thinking...
Go ahead, respond and throw your boy Smurfer/Dave Goodboy under the bus again.
There's more out there if you need it.
Don't try to act like well known people (and I use the term loosely) aren't shills and publicity whores for each other).
Once again busted.
Say what you want, but it serves to shift the benefit of the doubt away from you....
I just wanted to pull a perfectly random, yet very relevant example of how the shill/review game works...and now you want to say I have to track down the other 149 people and see where they have also been discredited? My point was to show that people write reviews out of their ass as a professional courtesy...and I showed it.
Since the reviewer in question is also your biggest shill on the board, and also a reviewer you are touting.
I'm just sayin'....
Quote from Reaver:
Say what you want, but it serves to shift the benefit of the doubt away from you....
I just wanted to pull a perfectly random, yet very relevant example of how the shill/review game works...and now you want to say I have to track down the other 149 people and see where they have also been discredited? My point was to show that people write reviews out of their ass as a professional courtesy...and I showed it.
Since the reviewer in question is also your biggest shill on the board, and also a reviewer you are touting.
I'm just sayin'....
Hahaha perfectly random quote?!?!?! Please you've had it in for Goodboy for a while now. It doesn't matter, over the next 3 months, ALL my reviewers will be posting reviews on their blogs/websites and we'll see if they're real or not.
Quote from TimothySykes:
Hahaha perfectly random quote?!?!?! Please you've had it in for Goodboy for a while now. It doesn't matter, over the next 3 months, ALL my reviewers will be posting reviews on their blogs/websites and we'll see if they're real or not.
Well, they're obviously "real" as in they exist and were written by the authors...
Are they true representations of their opinion?
No, I don't think so....
It is random in that you acted like no one writes rave reviews just to get their name on books and hook their buddies up.....
And I randomly remembered a time that the exact opposite happened, and coincidentally, it happened to be your best friend!
Quote from EPrado:
My position is working great.....I am long Reaver Calls and Long Timmay Puts.......am killing it.
Great Work my friend.
LOL should I keep going?
It was actually fun til slacker calmed me down...all the noise was bound to wake up Seben...so maybe it was for the best....
Yet another positive review:
http://theflyonthewallblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/through-flys-eyes-book-review.html
http://theflyonthewallblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/through-flys-eyes-book-review.html
Quote from Sykes: "Once you read my book, you'll see stock picks don't matter, what matters is your ability to profit from patterns that repeat, time and time again."
REPLY FROM OTHERS:
Tim, Do you expect us to believe that you have found profitable patterns in financial data without any knowledge of quantitative analysis or equity analysis? Here we are (all of us at hedge fund other than Cilantro Fund Partners) spending zillions of dollars on financial data, quants, equity analysts, sell-side research and supercomputers, trying to find a pattern (any pattern) that can give us a slight edge on the market, while you have managed to discover such patterns all by yourself and without any education or resources. And, joy of joys, you will soon be giving away your secrets to the public in the form of a $20 book.
I think what really happened is that you've given up on trying to analyze individual companies, because that's just too much work and too boring (who wants to think about businesses when we can be making money instead?) But you still need to sell some kind of snake oil to your audience and your hedge fund investors. And that snake oil is ... chart reading. Couldn't you have been at least a little original, Tim? Of course not, you're too dumb for that sort of thing.
I would say that at least one person will lose his life's savings because of your book, and will probably kill himself. But let's face it, there are hundreds of thousands of phony books about investing, written by con men like yourself. I guess nothing can stop a sucker from parting with his money, but you are making it just that much easier for him.
REPLY FROM OTHERS:
Tim, Do you expect us to believe that you have found profitable patterns in financial data without any knowledge of quantitative analysis or equity analysis? Here we are (all of us at hedge fund other than Cilantro Fund Partners) spending zillions of dollars on financial data, quants, equity analysts, sell-side research and supercomputers, trying to find a pattern (any pattern) that can give us a slight edge on the market, while you have managed to discover such patterns all by yourself and without any education or resources. And, joy of joys, you will soon be giving away your secrets to the public in the form of a $20 book.
I think what really happened is that you've given up on trying to analyze individual companies, because that's just too much work and too boring (who wants to think about businesses when we can be making money instead?) But you still need to sell some kind of snake oil to your audience and your hedge fund investors. And that snake oil is ... chart reading. Couldn't you have been at least a little original, Tim? Of course not, you're too dumb for that sort of thing.
I would say that at least one person will lose his life's savings because of your book, and will probably kill himself. But let's face it, there are hundreds of thousands of phony books about investing, written by con men like yourself. I guess nothing can stop a sucker from parting with his money, but you are making it just that much easier for him.
Quote from TimothySykes:
Yet another true comment:
Tim's complete lack of financial acumen is making me question whether he really did turn his bar mitzvah money into a "fully audited pretax sum of $1.2 million" or $2 million, or whatever it is. What is the name of the accounting firm that audited Tim's returns? I think this should be investigated. In the past, far wealthier hedge fund managers than Tim Sykes have falsified audited returns, so it is not unreasonable to be suspicious.