Sykes: John McAfee's penny stock tanked 50% under an SEC investigation
Timothy Sykes · EP 445: $20M in 2015 Infoproduct Revenue With "Degenerate" Customers with Timothy Sykes · Oct 12, 2016 · at 22:25
Financial educator and penny stock trader Timothy Sykes discusses John McAfee and MGT Capital with host Nathan Latka.
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“His penny stock has also gone from 30 cents to four dollars a share, and it just tanked 50% in the past two days now that he's under SEC investigation.”
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