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Verified Millionaire Trader Steven Dux Shares His High-Odds Strategy
Wednesday, August 21, 2019 - 3:52pm | 798Trader 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...
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Tim Sykes: Lucas Energy A 'Potential Short' Amid Low Volume Run-Up
Thursday, December 31, 2015 - 3:39pm | 311Shares of nano cap independent oil and gas company Lucas Energy, Inc. (NYSE: LEI) were trading up more than 345 percent on Thursday afternoon. The surge was triggered by the announcement of an agreement to purchase “working interests in producing properties and undeveloped acreage...
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Martin Shkreli-KaloBios Saga An Example Of How Penny Stocks Can Be Misunderstood, Tim Sykes Says
Thursday, December 17, 2015 - 5:44pm | 1009Hedge 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...
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Martin Shkreli: Who's Tim Sykes?
Wednesday, November 25, 2015 - 12:19pm | 434Shares 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...
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Penny Stock Wars
Friday, September 24, 2010 - 3:57pm | 114Short sellers of REVOLUTIONS MEDICAL Corp. (RMCP:OTC BB) are in for a fight, even if it means getting sued. Noted penny stock short seller Tim Sykes had shorted the stock after it became apparent that the company was suspected of engaging in the same sort of stock-boosting activities that led...
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7 Important Penny Stock Trading Lessons
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 3:29pm | 644Today I've invited Tim Sykes to be a guest blogger on the site and help us understand pennystocks MUCH better! He's a powerful trader in this niche, and he's actually got a new video series that you should check out here. Please enjoy the article and be sure and get these free video lessons before...
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Tim Sykes And Adam Feuerstein Get Into Spat
Friday, July 2, 2010 - 2:07pm | 283Penny 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...
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Big Bear Mining Surging Today, Time To Get Out (BGBR)
Friday, June 11, 2010 - 1:23pm | 109Shares of Big Bear Mining (OTC: BGBR) have gained 13.75% today. Since we covered the stock, which we believe is a blatant pump and dump scheme, BGBR has fallen from $1.29 to $0.33. The company still has a ridiculous market cap of $45.85 million, despite every indication that BGBR is worth far less...
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Benzinga's Exclusive Interview With Timothy Sykes - The Penny Stock King (AAPL, BAC, TRLG)
Thursday, May 20, 2010 - 2:26pm | 3541Former 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...
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Short-Seller Says Sell Encorium Group (ENCO)
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 2:50pm | 161Small-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...
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Zanett, Inc. Rocketing Higher; Noted Short-Seller Says Time To Sell It
Monday, March 8, 2010 - 1:33pm | 211Zanett, 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...
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Clean Coal Techs Inc Is A Short Target By Tim Sykes (CCTC)
Friday, February 19, 2010 - 10:48am | 162Looking 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...
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Tim Sykes Threatened By Shaquille O'Neal's Legal Team (NXTH)
Friday, February 12, 2010 - 7:27pm | 357It 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...
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Exclusive Interview With Tim Sykes
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 4:57pm | 657Former 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...
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Digg EBITDA Profitable In 2009 (MSFT, GOOG)
Friday, February 5, 2010 - 1:52pm | 450According 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...