Whois & Analysis for timothysykes.com

Timothy Sykes (born April 16, 1981) is an American penny stock trader and entrepreneur.

He is best known for earning about $4 million by day trading while attending Tulane University.

Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

It is generally considered the top university and the most selective institution of higher education in the state of Louisiana.

From a nationwide perspective, U.S. News & World Report categorizes Tulane as "most selective," which is the highest degree of selectivity the magazine offers.

The school is known to attract a geographically diverse student body, with 85% of undergraduate students coming from over 300 miles away.

Day trading is speculation in securities, specifically buying and selling financial instruments within the same trading day.

Strictly, day trading is trading only within a day, such that all positions are closed before the market closes for the trading day.

Many traders may not be so strict or may have day trading as one component of an overall strategy.

Traders who participate in day trading are called day traders.

Traders who trade in this capacity with the motive of profit are therefore speculators.

The methods of quick trading contrast with the long-term trades underlying buy and hold and value investing strategies.

A stock trader or equity trader or share trader is a person or company involved in trading equity securities.

Stock traders may be an agent, hedger, arbitrageur, speculator, stockbroker or investor.

A stock investor is an individual or company who puts money to use by the purchase of equity securities, offering potential profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value (capital gains).

This buy-and-hold long term strategy is passive in nature, as opposed to speculation, which is typically active in nature.

Many stock speculators will trade bonds (and possibly other financial assets) as well.

Stock speculation is a risky and complex occupation because the direction of the markets are generally unpredictable and lack transparency, also financial regulators are sometimes unable to adequately detect, prevent and remediate irregularities committed by malicious listed companies or other financial market participants.

Entrepreneurship has traditionally been defined as the process of designing, launching and running a new business, which typically begins as a small business, such as a startup company, offering a product, process or service for sale or hire, and the people who do so are called 'entrepreneurs'.

It has been defined as the "...capacity and willingness to develop, organize, and manage a business venture along with any of its risks in order to make a profit." While definitions of entrepreneurship typically focus on the launching and running of businesses, due to the high risks involved in launching a start-up, a significant proportion of businesses have to close, due to a "...lack of funding, bad business decisions, an economic crisis -- or a combination of all of these" or due to lack of market demand.

In the 2000s, the definition of "entrepreneurship" has been expanded to explain how and why some individuals (or teams) identify opportunities, evaluate them as viable, and then decide to exploit them, whereas others do not, and, in turn, how entrepreneurs use these opportunities to develop new products or services, launch new firms or even new industries and create wealth.

Recent advances stress the fundamentally uncertain nature of the entrepreneurial process, because although opportunities exist their existence cannot be discovered or identified prior to their actualization into profits.

What appears as a real opportunity ex ante might actually be a non-opportunity or one that cannot be actualized by entrepreneurs lacking the necessary business skills, financial or social capital.