Tim Sykes

Trader Xiuxan Du, known as Steven Dux, discussed data-driven trading strategies and tips for succeeding in a competitive market in an interview with Benzinga.  'I Wanted To Do Something Creative'  Dux was born in China and moved to America for foreign exchange studies. At...

Hedge fund manager and biopharma CEO Martin Shkreli was arrested Thursday, charged with securities fraud relating to his time as CEO of Retrophin Inc (NASDAQ: RTRX), a company he founded. "Prosecutors charged [Shkreli] with illegally taking stock from Retrophin Inc., a biotechnology firm...

Shares of KaloBios Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: KBIO) fell around 50 percent on Tuesday. Notable penny trading expert Tim Sykes told New York Post that KaloBios' stock is expected to return to being a penny stock. Martin Shkreli, KaloBios' newly appointed CEO and major stockholder...

Penny stock guru Tim Sykes and TheStreet.com's biotech columnist Adam Feuerstein got into a little bit of a spat over Twitter today. Sykes has criticized Jim Cramer for not having a successful track record, and apparently Feuerstein took exception. It appears that Feuerstein tweeted to Sykes about...

Former hedge fund manager and author, Timothy Sykes, was nice enough to grant Benzinga.com an exclusive interview. Tim famously turned $12,415 in Bar Mitzvah gift money into a fully audited pre-tax sum of $1.65 million while studying Philosophy at Tulane University. He also ran the hedge fund...

Small-cap stock, Encorium Group (Nasdaq: ENCO) is up over 90% today and Timothy Sykes just alerted his paid subscribers that he is shorting shares. Encorium Group is a very tiny company, with a market cap of only $13.89 million. There does not appear to be any company specific news out on the stock...

Zanett, Inc. (Nasdaq: ZANE) is up approximately 65% after Zanett announced it won a couple of contracts and a press release from Beacon Equity's StockPreacher. Stockpreacher saide Zanett has won over $12 million in contracts in January and February. StockPreacher often promotes speculative...

Looking to get short on a pump and dump scheme? Tim Sykes says that Clean Coal Tech, Inc. (OTC: CCTC) is running up on all hype and pure speculation. The penny stock expert is keen at sniffing out schemes and he is stating this as another one. The stock has run up from $0.034 to $0.42 per share and...

It appears as if Shaquille O'Neal, a.k.a Shaq Diesel, a.k.a "The Big Aristotle," has gotten himself mixed up in a sleazy penny stock pump and dump scheme. According to Timothy Sykes, who Benzinga.com interviewed here, Shaq is a compensated spokesperson for NXT Nutritional Holdings (OTC:NXTH). The...

Former hedge fund manager and author, Timothy Sykes, was nice enough to grant Benzinga.com an exclusive interview. Tim famously turned $12,415 in Bar Mitzvah gift money into a fully audited pre-tax sum of $1.65 million while studying Philosophy at Tulane University. He also ran the hedge fund...

According to Tim Sykes, of Wall Street Warriors and Trader Monthly fame, Digg.com was EBITDA profitable in 2009. Digg CEO, Jay Adelson, informed Tim of this important development yesterday. Wikipedia describes Digg as “a social news website made for people to discover and share content from...