Earnings season is on full blast and let’s run through last night’s reports. First, Facebook reported another quarter of strong growth with top and bottom line both showing expansion. Mobile ads were a “bit light” according to most of the sellsider’s models, but those same estimates had been moving upward all quarter, so that makes […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: FIO Strategy, Apple Shakeout and Dr. Shore’s Medical Miracles
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. How everybody! Let’s rock n roll. Q. Cody, absolutely an incredible video of your friend Dr. Shore explaining the double arm transplant, what cutting edge medical skills […]
Double arm transplant at Johns Hopkins; Or why it’s time to look start investing in the Medical Revolution
Amazon’s up big after another strong quarterly report, proving our long-held thesis that the company at some point can and will turn on the gross margin and earnings machine in its model. Facebook’s reporting tonight. Feet to fire I’d rather be long than short into the report, as indeed I am. Gulp, as always. Meanwhile, […]
Trade Alert – Trading one tech supplier for another (and some updated analysis on Apple)
I’m not changing my stance on Apple. I’m holding onto a large common stock position with huge gains that I’ve owned for years and I’m sitting on losses from the recent call options I’d scaled into. I do expect that Apple can and will deliver nearly $60 in earnings this year, and I expect that […]
Trade Alert and Latest Positions – Selling calls down, getting less aggressive
Great time on the honeymoon, but long story short — 20 hours of plane delays to leave El Paso, lost luggage, flu-like symptoms almost the whole time we were gone, and lots of sleep, rest, relaxation and purification while in the rain forests of remote Costa Rica. It’s always great to get back on US […]
Reminder as to why we own Apple
This is William Fox, Cody’s Chief Technology Officer. As you all are aware, Cody got married last weekend and is currently enjoying his honeymoon. He therefore will not be posting anything this week. However, after Apple’s earnings report last night and subsequent drop in the stock price this morning, I’m going to re-post an article Cody […]
Earnings Calendar
Here’s a list of our positions with the date for each of their respective earnings reports. Stock Reporting Date AAPL – Apple January 23rd AMZN – Amazon January 29th APOL – Apollo January 8th BIDU – Baidu February 4th BRCM – Broadcom January 29th DG – Dollar General March 18th DLTR – Dollar Tree February […]
A dollar saved is a dollar earned
It’s been about six months since we initiated short positions in two dollar store stocks: Dollar Tree (DLTR) and Dollar General (DG). No one, at the time, liked my thesis. In fact, as I wrote in June, many of the fund managers I spoke with tried to talk me out of it…Well, they’re eating their […]
Trades for the week of January 14th through Jan 18th
Here are my trades for the week of January 14th through January 18th: Common Stock: Stock Action Date Initiated Time Initiated Price AAPL-Apple BUY 1/14/2013 10:40am $498.37 EWY-MSCI South Korea Index (Samsung short) SHORT 1/15/2013 2:47pm $62.30 IBM-International Business Machines SHORT 1/15/2013 2:47pm $192.01 PSO-Pearson COVER 1/15/2013 2:47pm $19.62 Options: Stock CALL or PUT […]
Latest positions
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 […]
Note about next week and be sure to check out AppConsumer.com
As I noted in today’s chat, I’m officially going off grid and out of the country to a remote location for R&R after I marry my dream girl this coming Saturday. I’ll be back on January 28, full speed though. I’ll probably have a post or two before I the big day, including a “Latest […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: Unsustainable Banks, Telecom Equipment and When to Take Money Off the Table
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 do this. Q. How do you decide when to take money off the table versus let it ride? I had a bunch of Ford calls last […]
Trade Alert – Pairing up the tech investments with short positions
These days, it seems, Samsung can do no wrong, while our portfolio cornerstone, Apple, can do no right. Just have a look at these headlines, all from the past week: Apple Cuts iPhone 5 Production, Stock Falls: Is the Age of Apple Over? Samsung’s Galaxy S Smartphone Series Passes 100 Million Channel Sales Is It Too […]
Trade Alert – Tale of two techs: One hyped buy and one hyped trim
Good morning and good week, as it were. Monday morning and we’ve already got a lot of movers and a few trades I want to make here early. First, Apple. The WSJ joined the chorus of “iPhone 5 sales suck”, with the same verses as everybody else has told us. I’ve been worried more about […]
Trades for the week of January 7th through Jan 11th
Here are my trades for the week of January 7th through January 11th: Common Stock: Stock Action Date Initiated Time Initiated Price FIO – Fusion-IO BUY 1/8/2013 12:22pm $19.45 FF – Future Fuel BUY 1/10/2013 1:38pm $12.20 NUAN – Nuance BUY 1/10/2013 1:38pm $22.99 MRVL – Marvel BUY 1/10/2013 1:38pm $8.38 Options: Stock CALL […]
Trade Alert – Two new positions and revisiting an old favorite
Howdy y’all and welcome back to the ranch where the bulls get branded and the bears get shot and only the rancher’s spoilt children enjoy life. I’m buying a bit of FutureFuel common, as noted the other day – FutureFuel Corp. engages in the manufacture and sale of diversified chemicals and bio-based products in the […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: Facebook’s breakout, Apple’s languish, and Cookin’ 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. Happy New Year everybody. Let’s rock n roll. Q. Cody, Happy New Year. New subscriber. What is a good ratio say with a 100k portfolio (nice round […]
Trade Alert – One tranche of call buys and one small tranche of call sells
OMG, have you heard about the fiscal-cliff? Oh, wait that was last month’s crisis and last December’s crisis and also December 2010’s crisis. I mean…holy moly, are you aware that Greece is having problems with their banks and sovereign debt? Hmm, my bad. That was last year’s repeated headline crisis and was also a repeat […]
New book – 100 Stocks for the Clean Tech Revolution
Click here if you would like a PDF version of 100 Stocks for the Clean Technology Revolution I coined the term “Flip It” many years ago, and it essentially is all about being contrarian and objective in your analysis of everything. One of the most important and profitable aspects of “Flipping It” is being willing […]
Trade Alert – Fe Fio Fo Fum, I smell the blood of a panicky downgrade
Good morning and welcome back to the pizza shop, where the pizza pies grow exponentially, so the larget size is always the best price per bite. FIO got downgraded along with EMC from a smaller welfare sellside investment bank. EMC was hit a bit last week on concerns about this year’s growth, and FIO was […]