Palin (Not Pallian!) Entertainment - Part 1

With the vice-presidential debates going live in a few hours, I thought I should dedicate a post or two on Palin’s greatest moments on TV. I know most of you have seen this interview many times over - but the following segment is really a treasure-trove of wonder:

And Sarah Palin, if you’re reading this, you should subscribe to my RSS feeds as well… to add to your “vast variety of sources” for infotainment :) Enjoy the debates - my popcorn is already popping in anticipation!

Introducing PennyStocking.com

Check out the all new PennyStocking.com - this is our interim website while we work on the extended version launching later in October. Once complete - pennystocking.com will be the one stop destination for anything related to penny stocks… in short, we’ll be the KING of PennystocKING!

Next on the production line is the TIMraw.com website - updates shortly!

The Wolves of Wall Street

Just launched another new site this morning for Gryphon Financial. Excited by the success of the first project we did for them - TNN - they’ve dumped a whole bunch of new sites on us. The Wolves of Wall Street is our second collaboration with a lot more to come in the following months.

Take a look and let me know what you think. If you like our work - feel free to get in touch with us HERE for your next project.

Have a good weekend and enjoy the presidential debates this evening!

How To Short A Stock

It’s surprising how many people out there haven’t got the slightest clue on what shorting a stock is all about. After reading the hundreds of emails we receive daily over at TIM, I’ve decided to write a short post (no pun intended) in layman terms as possible on what shorting is and how you too can short a stock using your online discount broker.

Shorting: The concept is simple. It involves 3 people. You, your broker and an anonymous share holder.
Say a stock you’re watching, let’s call it XYZ, is currently priced at $5/share and is poised to drop down due to some speculative bad press. You call up your broker and you ask him to lend you 10 shares of XYZ at $5/share. Your broker tries to find a share holder who currently owns 10 shares of XYZ and lends them to you. Now - what to do with the 10 shares you just borrowed? You sell it! You sell it for $5 to anyone willing to buy it in the open market. Remember, you do not own this stock - you’re selling a borrowed stock.

Now, here comes the best part. Say that $5/share stock XYZ you sold has dropped as predicted to $3/share. Since you sold 10 shares and have an obligation to pay back your broker, you decide to BUY 10 shares from the open market at $3.

See what just happened there? You sold a stock you borrowed for $5, then bought it back at $3 which makes you a profit of $2/share. You then call your broker and give him back the 10 shares you borrowed and the broker gives it back to the original share holder. All of this is done electronically and anonymously, so the original shareholder does not know what just happened nor does he care. The broker acts as the middleman who takes his commission on this transaction.

It will make a lot more sense once you actually short a stock. So this morning, after receiving the early morning stock watch-list fromTIM ALERTS, I decided to actually listen to TIM and short a stock.

I log into my ThinkOrSwim (TOS) account and search for SIL (Apex Silver Mines Limited). TOS promptly tells me that there are plenty of SIL’s to borrow - so I borrowed 600 shares at $3.47 (see bottom of table below). I immediately sold them for $3.47 and my order was filled. Now comes the waiting game. Tim’s alert asked us to look for support at $3 - so I put a buy order at $3.08. Twenty minutes later, my buy order was filled and i just made a quick profit of $250. See the transaction table below to see how it all went down.

Hopefully this would give you a little better idea on how to short a stock and actually profit from falling stocks. If you understood the basic concept, the next step would be to go buy our SHORTSTOCKING DVD which gets into a lot more detail on how to spot stocks that are good shorts, how to read chart patterns and how to easily make money like big hedge funds do by strictly shorting falling stocks. Then head out to TIMALERTS and sign up to receive a watch-list of potential shorts (and longs) every morning.

Happy Trading!

Introducing The All New TIMalerts.com and Shortstocking.com

We just launched 2 new sites to the TIM family of sites. Check out the all new TIMAlerts.com - now with chat! We also have a few more features lined up to launch in the following weeks exclusively for TIMalerts members, mainly SMS alerts and facebook alerts. We’ve been experimenting with the facebook app for mobile to see how scalable it is. The plan is to send SMS either directly to your cell or via facebook to your iphone/blackberry whenever Tim makes live trades so you can get into the action.

The other site we just launched is Shortstocking.com - one of the four new DVD’s we’re set to release in the coming months. This is a definitive DVD for anyone interested in learning to short stocks… I watched a few episodes and it is as comprehensive as you can get. It comes in 4 DVDs and a nice big fat binder with notes and tips… anyone who bought the original Pennystocking DVD will be familiar. If you’ve never shorted a stock before and want to get into the game, this DVD is a must (and I’m not just saying this because I’m selling it, it really is THAT good). You can buy them HERE.

What next? Well, we have the grand-daddy of all sites - PENNYSTOCKING.COM launching next. This will be a portal based site with everything to do with pennystocking. We have multiple authors and bloggers lined up and when launched will be the one stop for anything related to pennystocks. We’re hoping to launch by mid-october… just in time for the TIM seminars we have planned for oct and nov. More details soon.

If you own a stock related blog and wish to either advertise or join our sites, send me an email and we can chat about possible collaborations.

NOTE: Just got word that the DNS propagation has not completely gone through for timalerts.com - if you’re not able to view the new site yet - please check back in a few hours. DNS usually takes 24 hours to completely propagate.