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Timothy Sykes (born April 16, 1981) an American stock trader, entrepreneur, and penny stock expert. He is best known for turning his bar mitzvah money into over $1 million by day trading in-between classes at Tulane University. ==Career== In 1999, while still in high school, Sykes took $12,415 he had received in bar mitzvah gift money and began day trading penny stocks. He would turn this initial investment into over $1.65 million before the age of 21. Sykes graduated from Tulane University in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in philosophy and a minor in business.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Timothy Sykes' LinkedIn Profile )〕 While at Tulane, Sykes routinely skipped class to day trade. In 2003, during his senior year, he founded Cilantro Fund Management LLC, a short bias hedge fund, using $1 million mostly from Sykes' own friends and family. In 2006, Sykes was included on ''Trader Monthlys "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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=5 Things You Should Know about Tim Sykes )〕 In 2008 Sykes decided to recreate his initial investing success by again starting with $12,415.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wunderkid is Back )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title='Wall Street Warriors' TV Star Timothy Sykes Sets Up New & Transparent Challenge )〕 He named the attempt Transparent Investment Management (TIM).〔 After two years, Sykes turned the initial sum into $90,368 and was the #1 ranked trader on Covestor. Sykes self-published ''An American Hedge Fund: How I Made $2 Million as a Stock Operator & Created a Hedge Fund'' in 2007. The book chronicled Sykes' rise from a day-trading college student to a multi-millionaire hedge fund manager.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=An American Hedge Fund )〕 In 2012, Sykes created "Miss Penny Stock," a financial beauty pageant among the female representatives for his brand and company.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/stock_up_on_girls_rCeD56kLmC2sCuRDfZmDvK )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Timothy Sykes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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