Here are my trades for the week of June 24th through June 28th: Common Stock: Stock Action Date Initiated Time Initiated Price SPY – S&P 500 COVER 6/24/2014 11:55am $156.10 Physical Gold BUY 6/24/2013 11:55am $1,280.00 Physical Silver BUY 6/24/2013 11:55am $19.50 EWY – MSCI South Korea COVER 6/24/2013 11:55am $49.64 XIDEQ – Exide Tech […]
Latest positions (new format gives even greater detail than ever)
This type of action is not normal, though it feels like it right now. 5% intraday dislocations in ETFs, 5% intraday dislocations in precious metals, 2-3% intraday moves in stock markets around the world. a huge spike in rates and sell-off in Treasurys a US Federal Reserve bank’s inability to deliver gold as promised to its […]
Trade Alert – “We sell the car and buy diving gear!”
Buried Treasure (1967) We can’t control when or where opportunity arises. And as you know with gold having crashed some 30% from its highs, I started rebuilding my own physical gold and silver assets in April, looking to take about 1-2 years to build up those assets to about 10-15% of my portfolio to own/hedge/protect […]
Cody Kiss & Tell – Boiled frogs, cheap energy, and a gold catalyst
Here is 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. Ask me anything. Q. Hello Cody, I just finished reading “Buy Side”, a quite entertaining book. It is pretty clear that in the markets, […]
Trade Alert – Gold, silver and diamonds
“The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at no cost.” – Ben Bernanke 2002 “With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable […]
Trade Alert – Preview of my upcoming “Ten Potential 10-Baggers” book
I’m working on a new investment book called “Ten Potential 10-Baggers” and we should be publishing it next week. In it, I drill down on three disparate extremely high growth sectors of our economy and detailing their financials, their fundamentals and their long-term prospects, giving each a Revolution Investment Rating from 1-10 with 10 being […]
Trade Alert – Rolling profits into a risky options trade
Talk about some volatility. We’re watching 2-3% daily moves in the US stock markets and 5% plus daily moves in Asia. When volatility is this high, and when you were buying VIX calls back when volatility was extremely low just a few weeks ago, it’s time to take profits and close the trade. I’m closing […]
Trade Alert – Making several moves in the portfolio
All we know are the facts, ma’am. – Sgt. Joe Friday On Friday, last week I asked, “Who’s more scared right now, the bulls or the bears?” We got hundreds of replies at our poll on WallStreetAllStars.com and by email and twitter. Even before this morning’s market tanking, the poll results were skewed heavily towards the […]
Trades for the week of June 17th through June 21st
Here are my trades for the week of June 17th through June 21st: Common Stock: Stock Action Date Initiated Time Initiated Price XIDE – Exide Technologies BUY 6/17/2013 1:53pm $0.24 Physical Gold BUY 6/20/2013 11:15am $1,300.00 Physical Silver BUY 6/20/2013 11:15am $19.87 Options: Stock CALL or PUT Action Date Initiated Stock Price Strike Price […]
Latest Positions – And who’s more scared right now?
It’s time for another edition of “Who’s more scared right now, the bulls or the bears?” To review, as I laid out yesterday, there are a lot of markets that sure seem prime to go crazy here. We all know there are huge imbalances and artificially propped up asset prices around the globe and here […]
Trade Alert – Shiny stuff and six crazy markets you need to think about
What a time and place in these markets, eh? Do you sense that every major market in the world is coiled and about to either crash or spike any day now? Are we already seeing some of these major crashes and spikes presently? Let’s run through the gamut of what’s what right now in the […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: Bankruptcy Trading, Facebook Reassurance and Apple Stagnation
Here is 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. You are always speaking of targets for your stocks and a strong market into later 2014 or early […]
Weekly Live Q&A Chat today at 2pm EST
This is Bill, Cody’s Chief Technology Officer for TradingWithCody. Don’t forget we have the Weekly Live Q&A chat with Cody today at 2pm EST. Go to: https://tradingwithcody.com/chat/
Getting in front of the great growth Revolutionary trends
For all the homework and analysis and strategy we apply to our investment portfolios and to our net worth in general, there’s only so much we can control. Geopolitical and economic forces, corruption, fraud, mistakes and plain ol’ bad luck are tough to game. But each significantly impacts our personal life and wealth greatly over […]
Trade Alert – Forced to play the game (and a flip & a trim)
The cross currents in the markets and the economy and especially in the political world are swarming faster than ever. As always, it’s crucial to step back and get some perspective on what is dominating the headlines. Deciphering what matters from hype is one of the most important keys to staying in front of the […]
Trades for the week of June 10th through June 14th
Here are my trades for the week of June 10th through June 14th: Common Stock: Stock Action Date Initiated Time Initiated Price Physical Gold BUY 6/12/2013 11:37am $1,380.00 Physical Silver BUY 6/12/2013 11:37am $21.95 SLV – iShares Silver Trust BUY 6/12/2013 11:37am $21.10 Options: Stock CALL or PUT Action Date Initiated Stock Price Strike […]
Growing up with civilization’s entire knowledge base at your finger tips
The big news overnight is obviously the Japanese stock market crash following the recent Japanese stock market blow off top. Is the Fed QE the only thing keeping our own stock market up near the recent highs? Deep thought of the day – Every baby in the US is being reared on smartphones and tablets […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: Bubbles, Clouds, Surveillance and You
Here is 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. Ask me anything! Welcome, Marketwatch readers! To ask a question, simply type in your comment and hit enter. Be sure to sign up for […]
Trade Alert – Relative Valuation Analysis (and buying more metals)
Don’t forget this week’s Live Q&A Chat at 2pm EST at https://tradingwithcody.com/chat. Be there or be square. Speaking of being square, I don’t think the action in the gold and silver markets is “squaring” with the reality of actual prices in the market place. There’s a serious and non-stop demand for physical gold and silver […]
Revolutionomics – Empower or die (Or 1984 is for losers)
In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. – George Orwell A few years ago before I took the job as an anchor on Fox, I was running a hedge fund and […]