<prompt> Human: I was listening to the podcast Listen Money Matters and they had a guest named Timothy Sykes on to talk about his successful career trading penny stocks. He claims to have turned about 12k of bar mitzvah money into 1.65m over 7 years. He then tried to duplicate his initial success with another 12k and managed nearly 100k after 2 years. He admits that he spends nearly all of his time researching and making these trades, equivalent of having 2 full time jobs, but from Google searching his name and reputation, there doesnt seem to be any claims that he did not make these achievements.How does someone like Timothy Sykes fit into the idea that nobody can reliably beat the stock market? The high frequency of his trading over a 10 year span seem to suggest that it can albeit with a LOT of effort be done to great success.  <response>: For every one Timothy Sykes theres most likely hundreds who turned 12k into nothing, tried again and turned another 12k into nothing, and then quit. You typically only hear of the success stories because in that realm theyre quite rare. 