For the next interview in the StockTickr Interview Series (RSS feed), I spoke with Timothy Sykes, the somewhat controversial trader who was featured in the hit documentary Wall Street Warriors.

For those of you that know of Tim, you know how shy and reserved he is - it’s hard to draw out his true feelings. (OK, that was sarcasm.) Whatever your opinion of Timothy Sykes - he tells it like he sees it whether that gets him in trouble or not.

Tim is also the author of the bestselling book, An American Hedge Fund: How I Made $2 Million as a Stock Operator & Created a Hedge Fund.

Read on for more about how Tim trades, the way he trades the pump and dump schemes in penny stocks, and why he thinks controversy seems to follow him around.

Tim is looking for your questions in the comments of this post - so ask him anything you want.

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For the next interview in the StockTickr Interview Series (RSS feed), I spoke with Jamie Hodge, the director of education at Trade-Ideas and an automated trader. He’s made the switch to almost completely automated trading these days. Jamie’s also the one you’ll be able to have a 1-on-1 training session with when you sign up for Trade-Ideas.

Read more about how Jamie trades, how he got started in the business, and how he lost a wad of money early in his trading career.

Jamie has agreed to answer questions in the comments of this post, so feel free to ask away.

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For the next interview in the StockTickr Interview Series (RSS feed), I spoke with Barry Burns of Top Dog Trading.

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For the next interview in the StockTickr Interview Series (RSS feed), I spoke with Joshua Hayes, the founder of BigWaveTrading.com and a free service called BigWaveTrading.net.

Read on for more about how Joshua trades, how he got started trading the markets, and the most valuable lesson he learned to improve his trading.

There are several great interviews on the way - have a recommendation for an interviewee? Drop us a line.

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For the next interview in the StockTickr Interview Series (RSS feed), I spoke with Corey Rosenbloom of the Afraid to Trade blog. Corey has a background in psychology and touches on those topics on his site. Trading psychology is a popular theme in the interview series (see the interviews with Van K. Tharp and Brett Steenbarger).

Read on for more about how Corey trades, how trading is a balancing act, and a couple light-bulb moments for his trading.

(Corey mentions that he’s a TradeStation user - StockTickr has recently added excellent support for TradeStation.)

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I’ve taken a little break from the interviews, but I’m cranking it back up now. For the next interview in the StockTickr Interview Series (RSS feed), I spoke with Eddy Elfenbein, a longer term investor and the blogger behind Crossing Wall Street.

Read on for more about how Eddy invests, how he averaged down to zilch, and how Spock from Star Trek would have been a great trader.

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For the next interview in the StockTickr Interview Series (RSS feed), I spoke with Bennett McDowell, a well known trading coach and founder of TradersCoach.com.

Bennett is a frequent speaker at the Traders’ Expos and often participates in their live trading challenges. He’s also written several books with two more coming out in 2008.

Read on for more about Bennett, the worst trade he’s ever taken, and the most common mistakes he sees traders making.

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For the next interview in the StockTickr Interview Series (RSS feed), I spoke with Matt Davio, a.k.a. Misstrade from Trading for the Masses. Matt’s blog has some nice daily linkdumps which are always popular.

Read on for more about how Matt trades, the biggest losing position he ever had, and how much money you really should start out with to trade stocks.

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For the next interview in the StockTickr Interview Series (RSS feed), I spoke with Adrienne Toghraie, a well known trading coach and founder of Trading on Target.

I sat in on part of Adrienne’s session at the Traders’ Expo on ways that traders sabotage their own success. It was quite good and refreshing to see sessions on how traders can help themselves rather than highlighting another fancy indicator.

Read on for more about what Adrienne likes about coaching and what questions you should ask yourself at the end of each trading day.

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For the next interview in the StockTickr Interview Series (RSS feed), I spoke with Teresa Lo, a well known swing trader and founder of PowerSwings.com.

After all the hubbub a while back, I wanted to talk with Teresa directly and make my own determination of her. We had a lengthy conversation and I was impressed with her openness and honesty. We also had a philosophical discussion about R.

Read on for more about how Teresa Lo trades, how she blew up her account in the early years, and the most common mistakes she sees traders making.

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