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Some traders are born great, some traders become great, and some traders have greatness thrust upon them. And some are all three.

Meet Tim Sykes - brought to you by Dealbreaker -the people who talent-spotted Aleksey Veyner and Zachary Michaelson.

Sykes is a former wunderkind turned black sheep of the trader community - a member of Trader Daily’s former “30 under 30″ pantheon of the trading world’s jeunesse doree. And he’s just published his book - “An American Hedge Fund“, which purports to lift the lid on the whole shebang.

Thus the bad blood. Last week, Trader Daily disinvited him from its annual bash - ostensibly on the grounds that Sykes’ fund, Cilantro, has done nothing but lose money all year and therefore Tim was unworthy. Oh, and then there was the matter of the pink bathrobe, or something. And so began the oh-so-quotable email exchanges.

Randall Lanes, Trader Daily’s editor-in-chief nixed Sykes’ party hopes with a frosty cold shouldering:

Tim,

Acclaim comes with performance. While you’ve been busily self-promoting, your track record this past year for yourself and your investors has been pitiful. Laughably horrid. If you ever again become a real trader, rather than ignore the hard work required to instead play one on tv, you’ll be welcome in our community. Until then, including today, we will have nothing to do with you, as we celebrate those who actually perform versus those who pretend to.

RL

Poor Tim. No matter how he pleaded (he’s got two “female friends” he invited and doesn’t want to let down), how many religious leaders he discoursed with, or how chummy he was with Oprah, Randall wouldn’t budge.

And now everyone’s laughing at him.

If only they’d got to know the real Tim Sykes. Randall should have read his Amazon blog - perhaps then he’d recognise the creative genius behind ‘BullShip’^TM:

Over the past decade, I’ve had a wild ride, but more importantly, I’ve come to realize that Wall Street is enshrouded in a thick layer of BullShip! It’s time for somebody to cut through all this BullShip with a story that is both entertaining and educational.

As a general rule, making up words hasn’t been done well since Bill Shakespeare tried his hand at it. And it’s doubtful that the man who brought us demurring, trenchant and articulate would be too impressed with “BullShip”.

I can’t tell everybody how excited I am to finally be selling my book here on Amazon.com.

Us too, Tim.

Six months into my publishing company’s, BullShip Press, LLC (you’ll under stand the name after you read my book!) odyssey, I have to say I’m loving every second of this. I’ve already been fortunate enough to have met so many incredible people who truly believe in me, my book and my purpose. What else could I ask for?

Humility, perhaps.

But then, who’s got time for that when among one’s interests, are “inspiring a new generation” and ushering in “a new age, an age full of understanding, learning and transparency.”