Timothy Sykes
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Podcast Appearances
Whatever.
Yeah.
I mean, I trade penny stocks, so people naturally attack me.
I call out a lot of scams.
I'm very harsh with my criticism.
I remind everybody that most small companies fail.
Most people in finance fail.
Most traders fail.
So I'm always poking at statistics and history, and no one really likes that because the main TV commercial in my industry is a talking baby promoted by E-traders.
And I say, if that talking baby was actually a trader, he would get massacred.
It would be an ugly, ugly site.
And that would be the reality of my industry.
I was 17 years old.
I got started young.
So I was a tennis player.
My parents gave me control of my bar mitzvah game money, roughly 12,000.
And they thought, okay, give the kid the money to the stock market.
He'll lose it all.
It'll be a good lesson.
He'll learn the value of a dollar.