Here are my trades for the week of November 26th through November 30th: Options: Stock CALL or PUT Action Date Initiated Stock Price Strike Price Exp Date FB-Facebook CALL TRIM 11/27/2012 $25.90 $20-$22 13-Mar AAPL-Apple CALL TRIM 11/27/2012 $586.61 $650 13-Mar
Latest positions and Soft-thoughts
Trader’s thoughts of the day – should we have more MSFT puts than we do? Is there any chance the expectations are so low already that the Windows 8 failure is priced in? Is there a chance Windows 8 catches fire in the next few months? Is MSFT too cheap and too profitable for the […]
Euro-fiscal-debt-cliff-crisis-crisis-crisis
Speaking of the Euro-debt Crisis…oh, wait, nobody’s talking about the Euro-crisis and why you should be panicking out of your stocks because the Euro-debt Crisis is going to crash the world’s economies and markets. Now the mainstream media discussion is focused on the “fiscal cliff”. I guess Europe got all that sovereign debt and endless […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: Tranche Selling, Housing and Accounting Questions
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, baby. Q. Cody, what percentage of your trading portfolio is currently long? Cash? Short? A. As you know, I always include the disclaimer […]
How to trade the Fiscal Cliff market swings
The churn continues. Senator Donkeybutt says the fiscal cliff talks are going pretty well. Markets up a bunch. Congressman Elephantbutt says he’s not encouraged by the fiscal cliff talks. Markets down a bunch. Sure is starting to feel a lot like a fast-motion version of the playbook we have used so successfully for the last […]
Amazon is cheaper than Wal-Mart
Commentary: Look five years out to explain Amazon’s P/E What we’re focused on here today is Wal-Mart, with its massive global retail empire, versus Amazon, with its massive global “retail” empire. We added Amazon to the Revolution Investing portfolio in July, despite its triple-digit P/E ratio. Why? Amazon As Platform (AAP). Notice Wal-Mart was the […]
Trade Alert – Sandy’s continued aftermath, PTSD, blessings and two trims
I gave a 50 minute speech to the Philadelphia Institute of Internal Auditors last Tuesday. I was probably more nervous about giving a speech to 600+ internal auditors than I was doing any national TV show. Out of my element, I guess. I talked about no amount of quantitative easing, targeted tax tricks, subsidies or […]
Trades for the week of November 19th through November 23rd
Here are my trades for the week of November 19th through November 23rd: Options: Stock CALL or PUT Action Date Initiated Stock Price Strike Price Exp Date FB-Facebook CALL TRIM 11/21/2012 $24.39 $22 13-Mar
Trade Alert – Thanking some gives and booking some face gains
Let’s thank some gives today as we head into the holiday weekend. I’d mentioned the other day that Turkey Week is usually a mostly-up-market/bullish time, and such seems to be the case so far this week. Facebook’s finally back to where it was after the most recent quarterly report. That was a classic set-up for […]
The two biggest smartphone players
You may find yourself living in a shotgun shack And you may find yourself in another part of the world And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile You may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife You may ask yourself, “Well, how did I get here?” — […]
In Philadelphia today
I’m actually in Philadelphia today speaking to the Philadelphia institute of internal auditors. 600 people and lots of interesting discussions about fraud, Wall Street and corporate America in general. The markets are traditionally strong during Thanksgiving week for whatever reason. It appears that such is the case this week early Monday morning as the futures […]
Trades for the week of November 12th through November 16th
Here are my trades for the week of November 12th through November 16th: Common Stock: Stock Action Date Initiated Time Initiated Price DDD-3D Systems SOLD 11/13/2012 9:30am $40.20 BIDU – Baidu BUY 11/14/2012 1:20pm $94.05 AAPL-Apple BUY 11/16/2012 12:09pm $510.00 Options: Stock CALL or PUT Action Date Initiated Stock Price Strike Price Exp Date […]
Trade Alert – Bidding below for fruit but not booking the Facebook yet
Yesterday I wrote this: Apple’s slow bleed of death continues — can you believe it was at $350 earlier this year though? I’m waiting to add the next tranche until either the slow bleed of death stops or until we get a major capitulation by the longs on a single day’s decline of say 3% […]
Some cocky bears, but are the bulls STILL complacent?
Well, there’s still no panic out there in the headlines. And while the dozens of TradingWithCody subscribers who have replied so far have been over 90% in consensus that the bulls are more scared right now than the bears, take a look at a few of these replies from Marketwatch where I also always ask […]
Where’s the panic?
You know what surprised me this morning? The fact that there are no panicky headlines out there today despite the fact that markets are down 10% in the last month and down again this morning. Isn’t this the time in the playbook that we’d expect to see the mainstream media freaking out about the Endless […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: Fiscal Cliff Hype, Grandpa Willard, and Investing in China
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 y’all. Let’s ride. Q. Cody a lot of your analysis has been cautionary as of late, (yellow flags, large cash positions). Do you think that this […]
Trade Alert – Eden’s Apple and more FB analysis
Facebook traded flat in the pre-market and then opened up about 2% above last night’s close and hasn’t looked back. There stock is up 12% in the closing hour. Nearly a billion shares have hit the market today, meaning that nearly $20 billion of equity hit which of course could have swamped the buyers out […]
Trade Alert – A tranche buy and an FB update
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. – Isaac Asimov Yesterday I’d postulated that the Facebook lockup expiration might very well turn out to be a “Buy the news” event, and today the stock is up nearly 10% and about 15% since I stepped in to buy back our calls on Monday (still knock on wood). […]
Steve Alford, the Lobos and your portfolio
The markets are taking a rest this morning; maybe everybody is watching the 24-hour college hoops tip off marathon on ESPN instead of trading? When I built my barnhouse, I moved some old boxes of my childhood memories in. I found a 1983 VHS tape called “Steve Alford’s All-American Workout” that I used to study […]
Trade Alert – In 3-D
Long-time Revolution Investing subscribers know that my ranch was hard hit last summer by the Little Bear fire that raged through central New Mexico in June. I was incredibly fortunate that my home, loved-ones and animals were unhurt, but it was nonetheless very traumatic. Today, I started smelling smoke again, after reading a lengthy, detailed expose […]