Here are some Revolution Links to what I’m reading and thinking about today. Value Investing and Financials – David Merkel is an old mentor and investor of mine. He also happens to be the best value investor I know and he’s saying that the financials are not value stocks despite their ongoing crashing. He’s also […]
Don’t stand on the monkeybars…
Good morning and welcome back to the playground. Don’t stand on the monkeybars. At least not while the teachers are watching. RIMM’s the story of the day. The stock is off 24% today, mainly for two reasons. That 200k unit number of Playbook tablet sales is gawdawful. And the even bigger reason is that the […]
Day’s end and RIMM’s end…
And there you have it, another day in the bag. Another critter cooked. Another hand dealt. I trimmed some Marvell today as noted and trimmed some Sandisk calls yesterday as noted and other than that, it’s also been pretty darn profitable to just let things play out as I’ve been saying. RIMM’s out and it’s […]
Thoughts on RIMM before its earnings report tonight…
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I’m trimming some Marvell common right now…
The markets are up nicely today and so again are we. As much as I continue to want to let things ride for us, I always want to maintain some discipline and take some gains when we’ve got them and we’re this heavily long. So I’m trimming some Marvell common right now. Just about 1/3 […]
Float like a butterfly. Sting like a bee…
”Float like a butterfly. Sting like a bee. Your hands can’t hit what your eyes can’t see.” – Muhammad Ali Ebb and flow. Bob and duck. Jab and dance. That’s what everybody wants to do right now. Nobody wants to let these stocks play out. Nobody wants to buy. Everybody wants to sell. Everybody wants to start getting […]
The best tech investor I know is buying tech right now…
The best tech trader I know is probably the one and only Jay Somaney of TSG Capital Partners who writes at WallStreetAllStars.com. Yesterday, he wrote an article called, “Adding To Techland Holdings” and I about fell out of my chair when I saw the headline and read the article in which he writes such things […]
18 stocks analyzed: Transcript from today’s chat…
Here’s the transcript of today’s chat. See you next week at 2pm EST at https://tradingwithcody.com/chat for more Q&A where you can ask me anything. Q: Cody, I remember you writing some time ago on MarketWatch that Intel will go to the moon, recommending investing into it. Why don’t you have INTC in your portfolio? A: […]
Come ask me to analyze any stock you want right now in the chat room…
I’m doing a special “Stock questions only” chat with you guys today at 2pm EST at https://tradingwithcody.com/chat. Come by today if you’d like to ask me to analyze a specific stock for you today. I’ll give each stock I analyze a Revolution Investment rating on a scale from 1 to 10. See you there!
Making a disciplined sell. And ask me to analyze any stock during today’s chat…
Another day, another donut, right? The markets are up slightly, with the Nasdaq leading the way up almost 3/4%. How many times have I written “Sandisk is up nicely” in the last week, even as the markets have been trading within a handful of percentage points of their lows? A lot. I had been […]
Links for today…
I got a lot of great feedback about my “Revolution Investing Must-Reads” links column on Monday, so I’m going to start doing these links-with-Cody-commentary columns more often. Here’s what I’m reading today and a few thoughts about each headline: Bicycle Stability Versus Table Stability – My old friend David Merkel wrote this piece back in 2007 and […]
The near-term market outlook and how our playbook fits from here…
So yeah, like I said in the last post, I’m proudly sitting on my hands right now and letting our positions play out as we wait for our next set of pitches. That doesn’t mean that I don’t have a playbook and expectations about how this market turmoil will play itself out and how we […]
Avoiding losses is as important as making profits in the long run…
With one breath, with one flow, You will know Synchronicity A sleep trance, a dream dance, A shared romance, Synchronicity A connecting principle, Linked to the invisible Almost imperceptible, Something inexpressible Science insusceptible, Logic so inflexible Causally connectible, Yet nothing is invincible — The Police The markets and most stocks in them are simply trading by program right now. Like color by number, […]
Going 5 for 5 on earnings set up trades…
In the last few months, we’ve risked some capital on some quick trades, especially around earnings reports. Indeed, we traded the following stocks to the long side using call options before their respective reports: Apple Google Sandisk Marvell Ciena And we got pretty lucky on all of them, having caught a big pop after the […]
This won’t be the last 50% pop in this sector…
Quite a power move higher in the markets and most individual stocks this afternoon. Indeed, that’s the kind of stealth rally that can make the bears quiver in their boots. Someone’s quivering in their boots anyway: The calls in the portfolio continued to kick in again today, as Sandisk and Marvell both led the semi’s […]
Latest positions and a trim…
Here’s a list of my positions, both longs and shorts in approximate size from biggest to smallest: Longs – Sandisk Google Apple Riverbed Cisco Nuance Microsoft Cypress Marvell Autodesk Ciena DBA Corning Visteon Adtran Shorts – LPS Wells Fargo Cablevision Live Nation SLV As for the markets, well, so much for the morning’s rally. The […]
The question for traders is…
The markets were down and down big to open the day. But the selling pressure lifted almost immediately and the Nasdaq even got itself green for a bit here. Sandisk tried to get back through $40, but got slapped down at $39.99. I’ve got a lot of that one as you know, including calls that […]
Here’s some of what I’m reading right now with some Cody-commentary on each…
Greece and the banks and Germany’s will to bail out other Euro countries. Have you heard?! These are the headlines that matter today…at least according to the mainstream media. I haven’t done a “Must-reads” posts with links in a while. Here’s some of what I’m reading right now with some Cody-commentary on each. Something Stinks […]
Emotions around 9/11 and planning for the future anyway…
Guys, I am having a real-hard time with my emotional state as we head into the tenth anniversary of 9/11. I’m going to step away from the markets and the economy and deal with some of my own issues here this weekend. Here’s something I wrote about 9/11 five years ago and it might as […]
Discipline. It matters…
“Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.” — Buddha The markets have taken a nasty turn down intra-morning here. That said, it’s Friday….and I’ve heard more than one trader ponder outloud to me today “how should I be positioned into […]