It’s tough to remember how Apple developed into a company that is one of the most valuable in the world and one that right now makes more money in a given quarter than any but a handful of companies in history. Before the iPhone or iPad were even in pre-production, you could see that the […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: Bubble Blowing, Apple’s Sleeve and ZAGG Shorts
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. Any reason why you say in your alerts that you are not turning bearish “YET”? Is it just me or does it seem like you have […]
Trade Alert – Don’t order oysters at the diner
Good morning and welcome back to the diner, where you better stick with the stuff on the first couple pages of the encyclopedia-length menus that include things like Crab-stuffed Oysters. There’s a time and place for everything, see? And the time and place for crab-stuffed oysters isn’t at the 96th Street Diner where I worked […]
Trade Alert – Some active portfolio management with an update on gold and banks
Today I want to review a few positions in the portfolio and continue our endless pursuit of maximizing our long-term upside while minimizing our long-term risk through active portfolio management. I entered Baidu back in July as a technology platform play that doubled as exposure to China. It’s a rare time that I invest in […]
Trade Alert – Tiny toe, Markets movements, Apple action, earnings insights
The markets sure have had a hard time busting through the DJIA 14k range. You know I’m not nearly as bullish for the near-term as I have been in the past few years (especially when there’s not a panic out there to buy against). That said, I had a realization over the weekend. You always […]
Trades for the week of February 18th through February 22nd
Here are my trades for the week of February 18th through February 22nd: Common Stock: Stock Action Date Initiated Time Initiated Price Physical Gold BUY 2/19/2013 10:41am $1,564.00 AAPL – Apple BUY 2/19/2013 3:28pm $458.72 ZAGG – ZAGG Inc. BUY 2/20/2013 12:55pm $7.32 Options: Stock CALL or PUT Action Date Initiated Stock Price Strike […]
Latest positions – Antsy ain’t a strategy
Marvell is up after last night’s report. Steady as she goes, I’m holding all of my common and calls steady in that one for now. On the other hand, I’ve been actively refining the portfolio and getting ever less long as the markets run higher. I’d sure like to see a huge spike or a […]
Clean tech gets hot
Right about the time we started researching opportunities in Clean Technology last fall, President Obama was reelected. Suddenly, investors who’d been shying away from “Green Stocks” rediscovered their appetite—and how. Of course, the market in general has risen since then too, but loads of stocks in sectors like solar and energy efficiency and storage have […]
Trade Alert – Adding some broker puts as tension builds
Tension is building out there in the markets. The bears can’t believe that the markets are at all time highs even with Apple acting like it is. The Google gets a couple analysts putting $1000 price targets on it, and you have to wonder if we’re in for a replay of what happened to Apple […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: Gold, Hate, Love 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. Hi Cody, with sequestration looming on the horizon it seems likely that there may be a renewed end of the world fear and panic […]
Trade Alert – GOOG and ZAGG (And be sure to check out the new TradingWithCody Social Network!)
Couple of small trades this morning, as we continue to actively manage our portfolio to best maximize our upside and minimize our risk. We bought some June $800 Google calls back on January 4, when the stock was at $730 a share. It crossed $800 yesterday and those calls have tripled in price since then. […]
Trade Alert – Flip the fruit ninja
Flip it. Be contrarian. A good friend of mine who used to be a bigwig over at Google and now is a bigwig at a startup and who is a subscriber to TradingWithCody.com, wrote to me the following after reading last week’s full transcript to our more recent “Live Q&A with Cody”. Holy moly. No […]
Trade Alert – There’s gold in them hills, but there’s a catch
Back when gold was still in the three digits pricing, (that is, when it was trading for less than $1000 an ounce), I put it in the Revolution Investing newsletter and we later sold it for a nice profit. I later put GLD and SLV short positions into the Revolution Investing portfolio and we caught […]
Trades for the week of February 11th through February 15th
Here are my trades for the week of February 11th through February 15th: Common Stock: Stock Action Date Initiated Time Initiated Price NUAN – Nuance SELL 2/12/2013 12:47pm $19.20 ZAGG – ZAGG, Inc. BUY 2/12/2013 12:47pm $7.27
Earnings reports review
Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality. – John Tyler A couple quick updates on the earnings reports from last night. Nvidia reported a fine quarter and guided just about inline, which is pretty much what I’d expected heading into that call last night. More importantly, I really […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: Gold, Tapping a Zagg and Active Portfolio Management
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 rightie folks, let’s do this. Ask me anything. Q. Cody, I have more than half of the funds parking in the money market funds, waiting for […]
Neck deep in research and our Live Chat at 2pm EST
I’ve been neck deep in reading and researching and talking to sources all morning. Got some good ideas coming up. For today’s earnings reports, we’ve got Nvidia, our recent addition. Read this to recall why we’re long this one right one: I’m bidding on some NVDA April calls, with strikes from $11-12 or so. I […]
Trade Alert – ZAGG when others zig
Last week, I got an email from a good friend and the best value investor I know on his latest cheap stock pick, and when a guy with Robert Marcin’s record talks, I listen. Here’re just a couple of examples of why: Long-time readers may remember that we bought Seagate Technologies (STX) just more than […]
Important lessons on why stock-picking and active portfolio management are key to long-term success
One of the trickiest parts of being a successful investor is keeping perspective on time horizons and expectations for the long- vs. short-terms. What’s your goal as an investor or a trader? It’s always that you want to maximize your long-term upside while limiting your risk over that time frame. Whether you’re a buy-and-hold investor […]
Trades for the week of February 4th through February 8th
Here are my trades for the week of February 4th through February 8th: Common Stock: Stock Action Date Initiated Time Initiated Price FIO-Fusion-IO SELL 2/4/2013 1:23pm $17.61 Options: Stock CALL or PUT Action Date Initiated Stock Price Strike Price Exp Date NVDA-Nvidia CALL BUY 2/6/2013 $12.38 $11-$12 Apr-13