No trades made this week. As you know, I’m in a patient holding pattern.
Latest positions and market thoughts
You’ll see I’ve lowered the ratings of several longs and I upped the ratings of several shorts. I’m not bearish overall by any stretch of the imagination, as I think we are still headed into an even bigger equity bubble before this is over, but I don’t like the idea of being overly long here […]
Where’s my money?
I had to be at the dentist for a checkup and cleaning at 7:45am yesterday and I couldn’t find my wallet. We were sure we’d seen the wallet on the table by the door, but it was nowhere to be found. I finally thought — I wonder if that new six month old Great Pyrenees […]
Google and parabolic moves
You guys know I’m in a patient holding pattern right now. No Trades for me so far today. I got just about one red stock on my screen this morning and that one is named Google. Probably not a bad thing to let that stock breathe a little bit. Look at this one month chart […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: Options Pricing, Portfolio Allocation, AAPL Strategies and much 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! Q. Cody, in regards to options pricing: I’ve been reading up on the greek components that determine an options’ theoretical value, and got a pretty […]
Markets update and must-reads
Markets are in the red, tech leading on the downside. Apple itself has now pulled back some 6% from its all-time highs, which were set just last week. As a subscriber wrote on the Subscriber Chat last night: “I think the last couple of days have been just a great illustration of what we have […]
Staples has a Fundamentally Broken Business Model
The markets are up huge in the last three months. Check out this chart of the Dow and the S&P 500 via BigCharts.com: With stocks up so much I’ve been reducing the weighting of my longs on TradingWithCody.com (a service not affiliated with MarketWatch, where I detail my trades in real time). And I’m really quite […]
Having your cake and eating it too
I got the following email from a subscriber and it underscores an important mistake that both professional and retail investors make: Hi Cody. I subscribe to yours service and think it is great…overall I think you have great insight and enjoy your recommendations. One of the things I really enjoy about it is your Contrarian views […]
Green Day Google
Green Day. And I’m not just talking about the band whose leader lost his cool in a big concert a couple nights ago thereby helping juice sales of a just-happened-to-be-upcoming new album. Nothing in the mainstream media is ever what they say it is. For stocks or rock stars, you gotta look past the headlines. […]
Don’t force anything here
Well it’s a little bit slippery to the downside out there in the markets this morning. I’ve been trimming some of my biggest positions and adding some hedges for the last couple weeks or so even as the action in the markets has been so bullish even near-term. I’m still plenty net long but I’ve […]
Trades for the week of September 17th through September 21st
Here are my trades for the week of September 17th through September 21st: Common Stock: Stock Action Date Initiated Time Initiated Price ZNGA – Zynga BUY 9/19/2012 11:15am $3.18 Options: Stock CALL or PUT Action Date Initiated Stock Price Strike Price Exp Date AAPL – Apple CALL SOLD 9/18/2012 $700.63 $700.00 13-Jan GOOG – […]
Latest positions and a request for referrals
Lots of great feedback from you guys continues to pour in, such as this: Just exited the last of the GOOG calls you suggested a while back. The Sept 650’s for an 842% return. How sweet is that? Scaled back as it went up and took home some profits, but the last batch was sold […]
Facebook analysis from a kid half my age
I asked a really bright college student who loves trading and Wall Street and technology and all that stuff to take what he knew about my Facebook analysis and build off it with more detail and maybe some new insights into the stock that we might have missed. He sent me this a couple weeks […]
Apple’s up 10,000% since I first recommended it. Is that possible?
This morning, sleepless as I stared at the ceiling, I realized that Apple had now gone up a full 10,000% since I first bought it and recommended to my subscribers when Apple hit $703 earlier this week. When I got up later, I started putting doing the math and realizing just how next to impossible […]
Real-life portfolio guidance
Here’s some real-life guidance I’ve been giving to a long time friend of mine about his own IRA. This friend is a successful services business owner who used to work at one of the biggest tech companies in the world. With a kid and wife at home, he still makes good money and has some equity […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: Adages, Gaming Expiration, and much 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. Hello everybody, let’s do this! Ask me anything. Q. Do you pay any attention to any of the adages? Sell Rosh Hashana buy Kippur or the LOW VIX reading now […]
Trade Alert: Three trades and must-read headlines
There’s an awful lot of angst if not outright fear out there amongst the bulls. The high-beta stocks and especially big tech have been the leaders on the way up of late, but the momentum seems to be about to run out, at least for the near-term. I’m buying some JP Morgan puts today. Thus […]
Trade Alert: More trims; PLUS Everything You Need To Know About 3D Systems Corp.
Before I jump into the hard core DDD analysis, let’s talk markets and stocks and trading for today. Feet to fire it feels like we go higher today, but again, I’m not making any moves on that analysis. I am however continuing to follow my playbook which means continuing to trim a little bit here […]
Revolutionomics Principle: Adoption rates of new technologies continue to accelerate
BOOK : The Revolutionary Technology Can’t you just picture a bunch of monks, counts and princes fighting over the patents for say, “page turning” or for “bound cover” in the same way Apple, Amazon, Google, et al fight over patents for “swipe screen” and “app placement” in smartphone technologies of today? Isn’t this just about how […]
Markets analysis and must-reads
Markets feel heavy, like they want to fade lower today. I’m not a daytrader though, and I’m going to stick with my playbook, which has been one of betting on an overall bull market by buying pullbacks, getting aggressively long on panics, and trimming/hedging when we hit new highs. As we have been hitting new […]