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Will you buy timmay's hedge fund book?
- Thread starter ghostzapper
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Dare you mock this book????Craig L Howe, Faulkner and me, Amazon Top 500 Reviewer
"The most realistic portrayal of the risks, rewards, joys, frustrations, exhilarations and the depths of a trader's life since Reminiscences of a Stock Operator."
Aaron C. Brown, Executive Director at Morgan Stanley, Author of The Poker Face of Wall Street
"A clearly-written account of a natural trader coming of age, a Catcher in the Rye for traders. Highly recommended if you want to be or understand a trader."
Name this idiot.
T: They have some really good drinks here.
S: Like?
T: I donât know, I donât drink that crap, I drink my Goose and soda--
S: You used to drink whiskey--
T: I know, I donât do that anymore, Iâm in it for the long-term now, I canât do Whiskey all night
S: I could eat sushi every day.
T: Welcome to my life, I do eat sushi every day, I have a $500 a week sushi habit.
S: Are there a lot of young people now [in hedge funds]?
T: No. Most young people are bitches in firms. Thatâs why I started my own firmâIâm never the bitch [knowing glance].
T: How did you do in the tennis tournament [Shilla plays for FIU]
S: We lost--
T: Sluts!
S: No we played pretty good butâ
T: Fucking sluts! You lost to a bunch of sluts!
S: I get emotional when I get drunk
T: I do too
S: I cry sometimes
T: I wouldnât go that far
S: I cry
T: Thatâs awesome, bring it on tonight
T: That right there, is my frequent karaoke card. Look at that, look how many stamps Iâve gotten. This is my late night place. Most guys bring girls back to their houses, I bring them to karaoke.
T: They have some really good drinks here.
S: Like?
T: I donât know, I donât drink that crap, I drink my Goose and soda--
S: You used to drink whiskey--
T: I know, I donât do that anymore, Iâm in it for the long-term now, I canât do Whiskey all night
S: I could eat sushi every day.
T: Welcome to my life, I do eat sushi every day, I have a $500 a week sushi habit.
S: Are there a lot of young people now [in hedge funds]?
T: No. Most young people are bitches in firms. Thatâs why I started my own firmâIâm never the bitch [knowing glance].
T: How did you do in the tennis tournament [Shilla plays for FIU]
S: We lost--
T: Sluts!
S: No we played pretty good butâ
T: Fucking sluts! You lost to a bunch of sluts!
S: I get emotional when I get drunk
T: I do too
S: I cry sometimes
T: I wouldnât go that far
S: I cry
T: Thatâs awesome, bring it on tonight
T: That right there, is my frequent karaoke card. Look at that, look how many stamps Iâve gotten. This is my late night place. Most guys bring girls back to their houses, I bring them to karaoke.
Quote from bontrjd:
Name this idiot.
T: They have some really good drinks here.
S: Like?
T: I donât know, I donât drink that crap, I drink my Goose and soda--
S: You used to drink whiskey--
T: I know, I donât do that anymore, Iâm in it for the long-term now, I canât do Whiskey all night
S: I could eat sushi every day.
T: Welcome to my life, I do eat sushi every day, I have a $500 a week sushi habit.
S: Are there a lot of young people now [in hedge funds]?
T: No. Most young people are bitches in firms. Thatâs why I started my own firmâIâm never the bitch [knowing glance].
T: How did you do in the tennis tournament [Shilla plays for FIU]
S: We lost--
T: Sluts!
S: No we played pretty good butâ
T: Fucking sluts! You lost to a bunch of sluts!
S: I get emotional when I get drunk
T: I do too
S: I cry sometimes
T: I wouldnât go that far
S: I cry
T: Thatâs awesome, bring it on tonight
T: That right there, is my frequent karaoke card. Look at that, look how many stamps Iâve gotten. This is my late night place. Most guys bring girls back to their houses, I bring them to karaoke.
Yeah man, classic scene--700 airings now dude, rip on it all you want, no other Wall Street TV show has veer aired as many times.
Three more positive reviews:
http://alphatrends.blogspot.com/2007/09/american-hedge-fund.html
http://www.uglychart.com/2007/09/18/timothy-sykes-new-book/
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
More Livermore, September 18, 2007
By Craig L. Howe "www.craighowe.com - Home of th... (Darien, CT United States) - See all my reviews
(TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
Stick with this book till the end.
I found it to be the most realistic portrayal of the risks, rewards, joys, frustrations, exhilarations and the depths of a securities trader's life since Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Wiley Investment Classics)
This is not the tale of a 90-day wonder who made a fortune trading internet stocks and walked away without learning the difference between being good and being luck. Timothy Sykes, as a cocky college student, rolled his $12, 415 of Bar Mitzvah money into an audited $1.65 million. He did not make many classes, but he acquired a life-time of knowledge for his time spent on campus.
I found it to be more than a tale of a wild rocket ride. Novice traders do not become experienced speculators until they have given some or most of it back. Sykes is an experienced speculator. Although you would never guess it from the first half of An American Hedge Fund, the last hundred pages or so take on an air of reality.
In securities markets nothing is ever simple. This story realistically illustrates the agonies and the ecstasies of market trading, risk taking, ambition and greed. In short, it is a realistic picture of life on Wall Street.
http://alphatrends.blogspot.com/2007/09/american-hedge-fund.html
http://www.uglychart.com/2007/09/18/timothy-sykes-new-book/
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
More Livermore, September 18, 2007
By Craig L. Howe "www.craighowe.com - Home of th... (Darien, CT United States) - See all my reviews
(TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
Stick with this book till the end.
I found it to be the most realistic portrayal of the risks, rewards, joys, frustrations, exhilarations and the depths of a securities trader's life since Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Wiley Investment Classics)
This is not the tale of a 90-day wonder who made a fortune trading internet stocks and walked away without learning the difference between being good and being luck. Timothy Sykes, as a cocky college student, rolled his $12, 415 of Bar Mitzvah money into an audited $1.65 million. He did not make many classes, but he acquired a life-time of knowledge for his time spent on campus.
I found it to be more than a tale of a wild rocket ride. Novice traders do not become experienced speculators until they have given some or most of it back. Sykes is an experienced speculator. Although you would never guess it from the first half of An American Hedge Fund, the last hundred pages or so take on an air of reality.
In securities markets nothing is ever simple. This story realistically illustrates the agonies and the ecstasies of market trading, risk taking, ambition and greed. In short, it is a realistic picture of life on Wall Street.
In my earlier post I listed some guidelines for hedge fund management that you seemed to ignore with cilantro.
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1607479#post1607479
Your reply was:
Really, try the web crawler called the 'wayback machine'.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.cilantrofund.com
Looks like the www.cilantrofund.com was up and running in 2003 and 2004 until you got into problems with Cygnus.
www.cilantrofund.com points today to www.timothysykes.com so it is yours correct?
This particular web cache has a bug with your pages but there are other caches on the internet that were crawling the web in those days.
Glad to see your book was vetted by the lawyers if not the copy editor!
Remember, always better to say, "Sorry, I do not recall." to a direct inquiry when it can be checked in less than 5 minutes.
Next.
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1607479#post1607479
Your reply was:
"I didn't have any website at all!!!"Quote from TimothySykes:
Nice try but your thesis has a few holes in it:
1. When I said I didn't bother creating a password protected website--I didn't have any website at all!!! (Again haters love taking sentences out of context--God love em--do they actually believe they are right?)
Sorry to burst your bubble dude, but you didn't make it very difficult. Any other questions or is play time over?
Really, try the web crawler called the 'wayback machine'.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.cilantrofund.com
Looks like the www.cilantrofund.com was up and running in 2003 and 2004 until you got into problems with Cygnus.
www.cilantrofund.com points today to www.timothysykes.com so it is yours correct?
This particular web cache has a bug with your pages but there are other caches on the internet that were crawling the web in those days.
Glad to see your book was vetted by the lawyers if not the copy editor!
Remember, always better to say, "Sorry, I do not recall." to a direct inquiry when it can be checked in less than 5 minutes.
Next.
Quote from slacker:
In my earlier post I listed some guidelines for hedge fund management that you seemed to ignore with cilantro.
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=1607479#post1607479
Your reply was:
"I didn't have any website at all!!!"
Worthy effort, but as you see in your little link, my cilantrofund website didn't launch until November 2003. The quote in my book you're referring to was when I first started my fund in March 2003. You would know this if you had actually read the entire book instead of only seeing a few pages of it on Google.
In any case, from 2003-mid-2007 cilantrofund.com was a password-protected website, per SEC guidelines. Now, while I'm promoting my book, I'm not taking any new investors whatsoever (not that they're baning down my door anyway)