Here are my trades for the week of August 27th through August 31st: Common Stock: Stock Action Date Initiated Time Initiated Price LNN – Lindsay Long 8/28/2012 12:40pm $65.74 Options: Stock CALL or PUT Action Date Initiated Stock Price Strike Price Exp Date LPS – Lender Proc Srv PUT Buy 8/28/2012 $27.94 $28-$30 12-Dec […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: Options, options, options and more…
Here’s the transcript to this week’s Live Q&A chat. Join me next Wednesday at 2pm EST at https://tradingwithcody.com/chat or send me an email with your question at support@tradingwithcody.com. All right, gals & guys, let’s rock n roll. Ask me anything. Q. Cody, I read and enjoyed your recent book on Everything You Need to Know […]
Full markets analysis and two housekeeping items
Flattish start to the day. And the longer we sit around here trying to break through these levels in the Nasdaq and the broader markets too, the more you’ll hear the technicians and the pundits talk about how that becomes bigger resistance to a higher high. The flip side of that (Flip It when it […]
Trade Alert: Buying puts to hedge the portfolio
A couple other trades I’m putting on today. I’m adding to my LPS and Morgan Stanley short positions via puts. Been a long time since I felt the need to be get more aggressive on my short hedging. I still think the path of least resistance for the overall markets and for tech in particular […]
“Stick” with Baidu: Deep analysis on the long-term fundamental set-up
Before bouncing back nearly 10% from its recent lows, Baidu’s stock has taken it on the chin as of late and I wanted to do a run down of the events. We’ve had some decent gains in this position since we initially added it and we’re up nearly 10% on the part we nibbled last […]
Trade Alert: Drinking the water while it is cold
Lindsay is down nearly $10 from its recent highs, even as it remains up nearly $10 from where we first started buying it. I’ve not sold a share since we first bought it and I’d like to add to it now while it’s down even as its outlook and visibility into that outlook for the […]
Apple deja vu
I like to tell the story about how a few years ago, one of the Fast Money Five sent me an email explaining in great detail why Apple was about to collapse. Something to do with the consumer being backed into a corner and a recession imminent, I believe. The more things change, the more […]
Apple, Samsung, Google and Microsoft and the big court ruling
Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. Jane Austen Good morning and welcome back to the garden, where you need lots of sunshine, lots of water and lots of care to flourish. The big news on the Street […]
Trades for the week of August 20th through August 24th
Here are my trades for the week of August 20th through August 24th: Common Stock: Stock Action Date Initiated Time Initiated Price AAPL – Apple Trim 8/20/2012 12:51pm $661.56 BIDU – Baidu Long 8/23/2012 12:59pm $111.82 Options: Stock CALL or PUT Action Date Initiated Stock Price Strike Price Exp Date GOOG – Google CALL […]
Trade Alert: Buying when it’s down
The headline on Baidu’s breakdown today: Baidu [BIDU 111.84 -10.96 (-8.93%) ] fell after Deutsche Bank downgraded the Chinese search giant, saying it was expected to lose traffic share to Qihoo 360 Technology [QIHU 23.49 -1.09 (-4.43%) ]. Nothing new here for long-term investors, as we are betting on the Baidu platforms in web and mobile to enable huge growth for the company for the […]
Deep thoughts about platforms, new and old
Over the last few years, I’ve repeatedly called RIMM dead, I’ve said over and over that Dell’s brand and business are ruined (see Good Morning America’s Bianna Golodryga interviewing me in this clip when she was still an assistant for CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo), and I’ve cited how the only way to get value of Hewlett-Packard these […]
Internet 3.0 and Fusion-IO’s place in it
Here’s an analyst note I read yesterday about a trend that our little ol’ Fusion-IO is helping to create from scratch before our eyes: IT Hardware : Quick Thoughts: All-Flash Arrays Appear on Path Toward Mainstream Adoption. Our Quick Thoughts series distills salient company-specific or secular dynamics into a quick read. In this report, we discuss […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: Facebook lockup, FIO upside, the Mainstream media and more…
Here’s the transcript to this week’s Live Q&A chat. Join me next Wednesday at 2pm EST at https://tradingwithcody.com/chat or send me an email with your question at support@tradingwithcody.com. Let’s rock n roll. Ask me anything. Q. Hi Cody, I would like to ask your advice in how to start investing. I mean, I don’t have […]
TradingWithCody Linkfest
Flattish markets. Don’t chase. And remember if you were stressed out six weeks ago at the lows, be sure to do some trimming/selling. And don’t forget to meet me at 2pm EST at TradingWithCody.com/Chat for this week’s Live Q&A. And just email your question to support@tradingwithcody.com if you can’t make the live version. Let’s run […]
Top 5 most shocking stocks that have doubled in the last year
Subscribers have heard me say this a dozen times but the stock market doesn’t work on your schedule. Check out this chart from Alpha Trends via my friend Barry Ritholtz. With the country falling apart and things as bleak as they’ve ever been, stocks rallied more than 15% eight times and even doubled twice. And look […]
Let’s think this through: Markets and economic analysis
I just heard on the financial news tv station as I was brushing my teeth this morning that only 11% of long/short hedge fund managers are outperforming the markets this year. I’ve talked a lot all year about how the professional money manager has seemed to be overly bearish about the near-term and they’ve obviously […]
Time for the Relative Valuation Game!
Well, lots of fireworks with Apple today, as it busted through its all-time high on Friday and now is in all-out breakout mode. At least until it isn’t and then who knows if it’ll pull back 2-3%. And then who knows if at that point everybody will say it couldn’t sustain its breakout and then […]
Trade Alert: Trimming down our two biggest positions
Apple’s on a tear. FIO’s on a tear. Google’s been steadily rallying for a long time now. Lindsay too. Which means four out of our five largest positions have been rocking higher and propelling our portfolios to new places. Here’s a chart of these four stocks over the last 90 days (which consists of about […]
Trades for the week of August 13th through August 17th
Here are my trades for the week of August 13th through August 17th: Common Stock: Stock Action Date Initiated Time Initiated Price SNDK – Sandisk Trim 8/15/2012 11:10am $41.73 NUAN – Nuance Trim 8/15/2012 11:10am $23.24 LPS – Lender Processing Serv. Short 8/15/2012 11:10am $26.90 Options: Stock CALL or PUT Action Date Initiated Stock Price […]
How to build up a winning position
Sometimes you encounter the champagne problem of stock trading, having the companies you love start to rocket just as you start buying them. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about, from last week’s TradingWithCody.com chat: Q. 3D Systems DDD +0.55% and SYSS going gangbusters….I want to add and I know we exchanged notes about adding more in the […]