Here are my trades for the week of September 10th through September 14th: Common Stock: Stock Action Date Initiated Time Initiated Price DDD – 3D Systems Long 9/10/2012 10:54am $38.70 FB – Facebook Long 9/12/2012 11:00am $20.43 Options: Stock CALL or PUT Action Date Initiated Stock Price Strike Price Exp Date FB – Facebook […]
Trade Alert: Latest positions and locking in some big profits
You’ll notice I’ve lowered most of the long ratings 1 point. You know how I’ve been positioned for this kind of a bubbliciuos rally int he markets, and there will be another chance to get aggressively long again. The portfolio has had another heckuva run in the last few days on top of the other […]
Everything you need to know about the iPhone 5
A is for Apple, J is for… 1978 Apple Jacks with Cory Feldman The iPhone 5. I wish they had called it the New iPhone. What are we going to have, an iPhone 48 someday? It’ll be tough to continue convincing people to upgrade the higher the model number goes. They could have just kept calling each […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: The New iPhone, the LIBOR Scandals, Dollar vs. Dollar 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. Q. Hi Cody, I would like your thoughts on DG vs DLTR. You have both in the portfolio as shorts rated at 8. DG gave an upbeat […]
Trade Alert: Headlines and finally adding to this position
Lots of headlines to run through…but hardly a move in the markets for the day so far. I’m finally adding a new tranche of buying to my FB, adding just about 15-20% as much as I already own. I’ll be adding a little common and also to my January 14 calls with strikes about $30. […]
2 Huge Mistakes Investors Make When Shorting
Shorting is like David Bowie said: It Ain’t Easy http://grooveshark.com/s/It+Ain+t+Easy/4IiKls?src=5 Let’s run an experiment. Turn on CNBC or Bloomberg or my old home Fox Business right now and watch for ten minutes. Count the number of stock recommendations and keep track of the number of short recommendations. I’ll wait. Are you back. Was there […]
Trade Alert: Headlines, links, fascism and other deep thoughts
I’m nibbling on some DDD, using some common stock. It’s been down steadily over the last few days and I want to take advantage of the sell off to add to my position a little bit. Here’s what I was reading and thinking about when I wasn’t appreciating all the soft, steady rain we’ve been […]
When the folks on TV are loving on the stocks you own
Good morning and welcome back to the dog run, where your friends leave their pee-mails with their latest status updates for all their friends to sniff. I once again turned on a financial news television station this morning and my old colleagues, David Faber, Jim Cramer, Melissa Lee and everybody else was talking about how […]
Trades for the week of September 4th through September 7th
Here are my trades for the week of September 4th through September 7th: Common Stock: Stock Action Date Initiated Time Initiated Price APOL-Apollo Group Short 9/6/2012 10:17am $29.52 GOOG-Google Trim 9/7/2012 10:26am $707.77 Options: Stock CALL or PUT Action Date Initiated Stock Price Strike Price Exp Date MS-Morgan Stanley PUT Buy 9/6/2012 $16.25 $15 […]
Latest positions: Steady as she goes
Here’s a list of my latest positions in approximate order from largest to smallest. I give each stock a current rating from 1 to 10, 1 being “Get out of this position now!” and 10 being “Sell the farm, I’ve found a perfect investment” (there will never be a 10 rating, because there is no […]
Trade Alert: Make the hardest trade; another trim of another big winner
Well, I’ve got butterflies in my stomach. The portfolio was already on a big tear higher when we hit the huge pop the last two days. And this kind of huge move in the markets which is reflected even stronger in our portfolios is making me nervous. Two days ago I wrote this: The market’s […]
Trade Alert: Flashback to the last time we were at these levels and run from cocky stock brokers
The last time the Nasdaq traded this high, here were the headlines. See how closely you can get to the exact date without clicking through: Northern chill sends oil price up over $35 a barrel – World oil prices began to shoot past the $35 mark overnight as the first cold snap of winter hit the northern […]
Trade Alert: Economic analysis and adding to a short
I can’t bring myself to fully read, much less report to you guys, what the latest “He said, she said” so-called reports from the gathering of a bunch of bank-groveling bureaucrats from a continent’s supposed central bank whose charter, mandate and authority seems to change on a monthly basis. But the markets are up huge […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: Investing Local, Handling Stress, Real Estate Thoughts 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. Howdy folks. Let’s ride. Ask me anything. Q. The market and pundits pull you in so many conflicting directions. How do you prepare your mind for trading […]
Can I stop writing about the endless Eurocrisis yet? Please?
I was wondering why I couldn’t find any headlines about the endless Euro-crisis and so I hit CTRL+F and searched Marketwatch’s homepage for “Euro” and sure enough, it was all over the front page after all. I mean, Eurocrisis headlines dominate the financial media coverage of the news today like it has for months and […]
The Apple Suppliers in the Revolution Portfolio
Sometime next week, probably Wednesday September 12th, Apple will release the new iphone. If you consider Apple’s design iterations this one is a big deal. The iphone 5 will almost surely have a totally new shape, the first change in that department since the iphone 4 was released in June of 2010. I’m betting there […]
Headlines, the markets, our economy and what our playbook says to do about them
Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice. – Henry Ford It’s amazing how refreshed I feel after taking just a couple days away from the market to get some R&R. Let’s talk markets and run through the headlines to get back in the flow of things this morning. August U.S. Car Sales Boom […]