Timothy Sykes

Quick Facts

Full Name	Timothy Sykes
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Date Of Birth	Apr 15, 1981(1981-04-15)
Age	43
Country	United States
Birth City	Connecticut
Horoscope	Aries

Timothy Sykes Biography

Timothy Sykes is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on April 15, 1981 in Connecticut, United States. American investor and entrepreneur who established Cilantro Fund Management, LLC that was named the most highly rated Short Bias Fund from BarclayHedge at the end of 2003. He has appeared as a guest on television networks such as CNN, ABC and CBS and published his first book An American Hedge Fund in 2007.

He was involved in the involvement of pop singer He implicated pop star Justin Bieber in a “pump and dump” scam with Options Media Group in 2011. in an “pump and dump” scam together with Options Media Group in 2011.

Sykes graduated from Tulane University in 2003 with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and a minor in business. While at Tulane, Sykes routinely cut class to day trade. In 2003, during his senior year, he founded Cilantro Fund Management, a short bias hedge fund, using $1 million mostly from his friends and family.

In 2006, Sykes was included on Trader Monthly’s “30 Under 30” list of up-and- coming traders in the market, a selection which editor Randall Lane later called “our worst pick” among the chosen honorees. Sykes claimed that the Cilantro Fund was “the number one long-short microstock hedge fund in the country, according to Barclays”; Lane later discovered that the rating came from “the Barclay Group,” a small research company based in Fairfield, Iowa, and not the well-known Barclay’s British bank.

He was married to model Bianca Alexa in January 2015.

Timothy Sykes Net Worth

Timothy Sykes is one of the richest Entrepreneur from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Timothy Sykes 's net worth $15 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He transformed $12,000 worth of bar mitzvah funds to more than $1.65 million in a single day of trading penny stocks, while in high school.

He has been famously exposed for his work in exposing known “pump and dump” scams from companies like SpongeTech as well as NXT Nutritionals Holdings.

Timothy Sykes (born April 15, 1981) is a penny stock trader. He is best known for earning $1.65 million by day trading while attending Tulane University.

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Sykes co-founded Profit.ly in 2011, a social service with about 20,000 users that provides stock trade information online. Sykes said the service serves two purposes: “creating public track records for gurus, newsletter writers and students everyone to learn from both the wins and losses of other traders to benefit the entire industry.”

Facts & Trivia

Timothy Ranked on the list of most popular Entrepreneur. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Timothy Sykes celebrates birthday on April 15 of every year.

In February 2017, Sykes donated $1 million to Pencils of Promise to help build 20 new primary schools across Ghana, Guatemala and Laos, to be completed between 2017 and 2018.

Top Facts about Timothy Sykes

1. Timothy Sykes has a BA in Philosophy and a minor in Business, and graduated from Tulane University in 2003.
2. In 2003, he founded Cilantro Fund Management, a small short bias hedge fund.
3. Sykes wrote a book called An American Hedge Fund: How I Made $2 Million as a Stock Operator & Created a Hedge Fund in 2007.
4. In 2008, he started with $12,415 and eventually made $1.65 million by day trading.
5. He established Investimonials.com, a website collecting user reviews of financial services in 2009.
6. Sykes co-founded Profit.ly in 2011, a social service with about 20,000 users.
7. In 2012, he created “Miss Penny Stock”, a financial beauty pageant.
8. He had an Instagram feud with Bow Wow in 2017 over accusations of using coded racist language.
9. In February 2017, Sykes donated $1 million to Pencils of Promise to build 20 primary schools.
10. He founded the Timothy Sykes Foundation, which has raised $600,000 and has partnered with Make-a-Wish Foundation and the Boys and Girls Club.
11. The Timothy Sykes Foundation was renamed the Karmagawa Foundation and had built 57 schools by 2019.
12. In 2020, Sykes and Karmagawa made a joint pledge to donate $1 million for relief efforts in Yemen.
13. Karmagawa built its 100th school in Myanmar in 2022.
14. Sykes has publicly criticized businesses and celebrities for promoting “pump and dump” stock schemes.
15. Sykes was featured on Bravo network show Below Deck season 2 and 5.

What is Timothy Sykes net worth?

Timothy Sykes
Alma mater| Tulane University
Website| timothysykes.com

Who is the richest penny stock trader?

Tim Grittani (left) began day trading penny stocks with $1,500 three years ago. By following the lessons of penny stock guru Tim Sykes (right), Grittani has raked in over $1 million in profits.

What is Tim Sykes method?

Tim says that he acts like a ‘Sniper’ – ‘Aim Small, Miss Small’. He deals with small slices of time, and even made money selling short stocks during a bull market. He figured out that short selling pennystocks and all stocks is a viable trading method, and potentially lucrative.

How did Timothy Sykes get rich?

Timothy Sykes started off with a little over $10,000, his Bar Mitzvah gift money, and converted that amount into a whopping $2 million, all by trading penny stocks. Soon enough, he started his own hedge fund and became one of the top traders in 2006.

Can penny stock make you rich?

Penny stocks are viewed as a way to get rich because they tend to have high percentage returns. You can’t deny it — the math on owning these stocks is psychologically attractive, particularly for inexperienced traders. For example, imagine that you have $1,000. If you decide to buy one stock with all $1,000.