Tim Sykes' PEIX trade, Jan 14, 2010

This is a bet on the continued downward trend in PEIX after the convincing move down the day before and an opening with a gap down. According to Tim's log, he sold at $2.05, bought (to cover) at $1.96. Tim was able to time it accurately on the way up as well as down.



By the way, the longer time-frame chart puts the stock into the stair-stepper category.

Tim Sykes' PEIX trade, Jan 13, 2010

Predictably, this was a short. The stock had had 4 consecutive days of strong gains. According to Tim's log, the stock was sold at $2.27, covered at $2.19.

Tim Sykes' PEIX trade, Jan 12, 2010

I understand this was a long, based on strong momentum. Buy the way here a reduction in volume on January 12 is followed by a red candlestick next day. By the way Tim's fraction of the price action (bought at $2.31, sold at $2.35) looks tiny in comparison with the stock moves.

Tim Sykes' EONC trade, Jan 4, 2010

Again somewhat surprisingly, this trade idea was a short according to what I am gathering from reading Tim's site. Not sure when he entered the short trade. According to his log of recent trades, the buy level was $5.90 and the sell level $6.09. As usual the trade could have been entered not on the day it is shown in the chart. From the day scale chart, and again with the benefit of hindsight, executing this successfully seems hard to do.

Tim Sykes' ATHX trade, Dec 23, 2009

This is the ATHX trade as posted on Tim Sykes' front page: Tim bought at $5.88, sold at $6.04. However, based on Tim's posts, it looks like the story was more complex with more individual trades -- but TimAlert subscribes were kept up-to-date.

As is often the case, the time scale of these trades is finer than is resolved on the day chart. The bottom line is that I learn very little here -- except that this is the type of a stock event that triggers a speculative trader's attention -- which is obvious.

Tim Sykes' CLWT trade, Dec 2, 2009

A winning short according to Tim's comments on his site (money could be made that day either way -- look at the day's high for the stock). It's interesting that based on Dec 1st performance, Tim commented that stock did not look tempting after late day collapse. So could it be the opening with the gap down that made it look tempting again next morning?

Tim Sykes EONC trade, Nov 11, 2009

I continue collecting a gallery of Tim Sykes' recent trades so that with time it may become a useful educational tool. As I gather from the blog entries on Tim's site, the stock was shorted on fundamentals (misleading earnings report). The strong conviction explains another short trade in EONC (the first one is found here).

Tim Sykes' EONC trade, Nov 10, 2009

This post is another addition to the gallery of Tim Sykes' trades -- I am trying to reconstruct the logics of his decision-making. Most likely this is a short trade (but strictly speaking, in a complex case like this one can't be 100% sure). If this is a short, then a change in the intra-day trend on Nov 9 and an opening with a gap (down) must have served as a trigger. (Another hint to pay attention to inter-day dynamics). Either way, a difficult trade to execute.

Tim Sykes' CTDC trade, Oct 29, 2009

This looks like a messy but eventually profitable trade. Again, on his site, Tim only gives the date when the trade was closed, which is in this case Oct 29, and the buy and sell levels ($4.00 and $4.42). One can only guess when the trade was enetered. We know for sure the trade was closed on Oct 29.

Tim Sykes USEG trade, Oct 22, 2009

As you see in the immediate history of the stock, what it did a couple of times was making a big step upwards, then taking a breather for three or four days, then making another big step. This is what Tim calls stair-stepper in his educational materials. According to the info on the same site, Tim bought at $6.12 and sold at $6.09 -- a small loss. Typically, such stock develop flag formations and it's hard to predict the next big step. It seems you can only be sure once you are inside the big step, which is something you can in principle detect intra-day by a combination of large price and volume jumps.

Tim Sykes' SPDE trade, Sept 18, 2009

Like in OPXA, here we see a stair-case pattern. This trade is a loss, Tim bought at $7.34, sold at $7.10. Apparently he was counting on a continuation of September 17th's upward step, despite tfact that both previous steps played out within a day, each time the euphoric upward step being followed by several days of "hang-over".