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Quote from Kaempferrand:

Shouldn't kick a man when he is "down".....


http://www.traderdaily.com/magazine/article/9611.html

From Trader Monthy's website and its new roster of 30 Under 30......

"For the most part, though, we’ve wiped the slate clean. You won’t see Cilantro’s humility-challenged Tim Sykes, who in the past year has gone from wunderkind to Ryan Leaf–like laughingstock."

Wow. I remember not so long ago Greaves & Co. were pimping the guy. Well everyone can have their "dark" moments, it would be interesting to see how Tim will evolve from all this so-called negativity. Just another bad trade I guess.


Below is descrition of the Timmay we all know:

"For the most part, though, we’ve wiped the slate clean. You won’t see Cilantro’s humility-challenged Tim Sykes, who in the past year has gone from wunderkind to Ryan Leaf–like laughingstock."
 
Quote from WoodyAllen:

Below is descrition of the Timmay we all know:

"For the most part, though, we’ve wiped the slate clean. You won’t see Cilantro’s humility-challenged Tim Sykes, who in the past year has gone from wunderkind to Ryan Leaf–like laughingstock."

ha ha this just keeps getting better
 
Cilantro/Sykes Fund Audited Performance SUCKS BIG TIME!! (3/2003-6/2007):

Compounded Annual Return: 1.52% (underperformed money market rates, with much higher risk)

Cilantro/Sykes Fund Sharpe Ratio (Annualized): -0.06
(may as well bet on coin flips; or do as Tim Sykes and sell out and go on TV/self-publish etc)

STAY AWAY from Tim if you want to keep your money!!
 
Quote from cryptmagic:

This is to funny to pass up and this post is on 180 pages, Tim go back to college get a desk job where u cant manage anyones money.

Quote from atticus:

Top 10 Equity Short-Bias Hedge Funds - Past 36 Months
From Jul-2004 to Jun-2007
Ranked by Compound Annual Return
Program Name or Manager 36-Mo. Comp Ann.
Return
1. Waterloo Partners -1.20%
2. Manchester Alpha Fund LP -2.41%
3. Cilantro Fund Partners LP -2.54%
4. Reynard International Partners Ltd -5.22%
5. Reynard American Partners LP -5.98%
6. Arcas Fund II LP (Covered Int) -6.96%
7. Arcas Intl Fund Ltd (Cov Int.) -6.96%
8. AdvantHedge Composite -7.98%
9. AdvantHedge Fund LP -8.76%
10.AdvantHedge Fund Ltd -8.78%


Ranked by Sharpe Ratio
Program Name or Manager Sharpe Ratio
1. Cilantro Fund Partners LP -0.40
2. Waterloo Partners -0.56
3. Reynard International Partners Ltd -0.65
4. Arcas Fund II LP (Covered Int) -0.69
5. Arcas Intl Fund Ltd (Cov Int.) -0.69
6. Reynard American Partners LP -0.75
7. Polar Bear Fund LP -0.76
8. Arcas Fund II LP(Arcas Interests) -0.85
9. Arcas Intl Fund Ltd (Arcas Int) -0.85
10.AdvantHedge Composite -1.10

Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
 
Quote from TimothySykes:

Put that in your pipe and smoke it!

Must be awfully good stuff you are smoking Timmay if you are happy to underperform T-bills at higher risk over a four-year period (regardless of your underperforming "fund category")

Quote from Longhorns:

Are you being serious?

Losing 2.54% over a three year period is hardly something to be happy about.

Just like all snake oil salesman, Timmy tries to turn it into something good.

PATHETIC.
 
Quote from TimothySykes:

Put that in your pipe and smoke it!

You are a dishonest shyster. You have lost 2.54% per year over the last 3 full years. In all honesty, how can you possible try to spin that into something good?

Anyone thinking of buying Tim's book should take notice of his snake oil tactics.

You have no shame and clearly no morals.
 
Quote from Longhorns:

You are a dishonest shyster. You have lost 2.54% per year over the last 3 full years. In all honesty, how can you possible try to spin that into something good?

Anyone thinking of buying Tim's book should take notice of his snake oil tactics.

You have no shame.

You gotta be kidding me, I'm not happy with the results, I merely point them out to show that FOR MY STRATEGY, I'm not doing as poorly as you would like others to believe.

I've repeatedly stated I lay this all out in my book. You should be ashamed of yourself. The good news is that petty/negative traders like you go nowhere in life as it's only those who are open to learning without bias who will succeed.
 
Quote from TimothySykes:

I merely point them out to show that FOR MY STRATEGY, I'm not doing as poorly as you would like others to believe.

Losing money for 3 years is beyond "poor".

Was your "strategy" to lose even more money every year?

Timmy "Snakeoil" Sykes....dishonest to the bitter end.
 
Quote from michaelscott:

At the end of the day, Tim's name is on the cover of the book and his mug is on the CNBC where as Eprado is some random guy behind the monitor of a home computer in some place of America we have little heard of.

So? Most of the guys in the Market Wizards books were "some random guy" behind the monitor of a home computer. Most of the big informercial/seminar/vendor stars of the trading industry during the 1980s to present day are now bankrupt, in jail, or pumping gas for a living.

If Tim is good then it will show in his trading results, and he won't need guys like you to shill for him. If he sucks then the numbers will show that too, and maybe he'll become a TV "celeb" of the trading industry. The question is what can we learn from him that might help make us money? So far I haven't read anything from him that I reckon will give me better results, although I am open to being corrected.
 
Quote from Cutten:

So? Most of the guys in the Market Wizards books were "some random guy" behind the monitor of a home computer. Most of the big informercial/seminar/vendor stars of the trading industry during the 1980s to present day are now bankrupt, in jail, or pumping gas for a living.

If Tim is good then it will show in his trading results, and he won't need guys like you to shill for him. If he sucks then the numbers will show that too, and maybe he'll become a TV "celeb" of the trading industry. The question is what can we learn from him that might help make us money? So far I haven't read anything from him that I reckon will give me better results, although I am open to being corrected.


exactly. people seem to think that notoriety= trading skill.

sad sad world indeed.....that is exactly the reason people like Tim are able to stay in business.....ignorant lost sheep flock to shysters like him for guidance because they are desperate and will believe anyone with enough brazenness to sell them snake oil.
 
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