“You hear the sound, you wait around and get the word, You see the picture changing everything…” Neil Young – Change Your Mind I’ve built up my Twitter position to about half where I want it to be, so I’ll probably do a little more scaling in next week to round it up a bit more. But […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: Weekly options, Twitter leadership, Coke and more
Howdy doodie time. Let’s rock. Ask away. Q. Cody: an investing 101 question. What are your thoughts on WEEKLY options — when would one use those instead of the standard monthlies? When a near-term move/event is expected? (Then why is that better than doing the monthly and just bailing when the event happens?) Do they […]
Upcoming speech in Vegas plus FB/INVN updates
On Thursday, November 20, 2011, from 10:30 am – 11:30 am I will be giving a presentation called “10,000 Days: The Shocking Concept That Will Change the Way You Trade and Invest Forever” FREE Entry/Registration. Come by and watch it if you can. Nobody wants to be long for a trade into the Fed 2pm […]
Earnings updates
Tough night on the earnings front. Facebook just said on its conference call that “Total revenue in Q4 is expected to grow 40% to 47%.” That’s still huge growth, but the market is knocking 10% off FB after hours on that guidance. Steady as she goes for me and if the stock were to drop […]
Trade Alert: Analyzing the social stock sphere
Stocks up nicely again this week and now up pretty huge from those panicky Ebola lows a couple weeks ago. Have you trimmed anything? Should you? Now’s the time — sell when you can, not when you have to. Yelp took a 15% hit last week, after they guided for next quarter to be about 2% […]
Trade Alert: Full earnings report analysis for Twitter and Invensense PLUS A tiny speculative options trade
Feels like the markets coiling before its next phase of volatility. Do you remember just a few trading days ago that the DJIA dipped back below 16,000? Are you prepared for wherever the near-term market might take us, including a potential near-term weakness towards the 16,000 level again. I’d likely do another round of buying […]
Strategies for gambling on earnings
Stocks thru the roof again today, wild volatility remains the theme. Still no trades for me today. Now onto today’s report. I always call it “gambling” when I trade around earnings. Trying to game earnings reports is one of the hardest and most volatile ways of trading. In fact, most technical analysts and many […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: Busted shift-key, ex-dividend, and lots o’ stocks
Howdy folks, let’s ride. Q. When a company announces their earnings for the quarter and they announce a dividend with it. Like when Apple announced, “The dividend is payable on November 13, 2014, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on November 10, 2014.” If I were to buy shares of the […]
Update on YELP
Mr. Market woke up this morning and says that he’s willing to sell his investment in YELP for 12% less than he was yesterday after YELP says next quarter will be a couple million less than the analysts had expected but that full year guidance might even be better than expected. To be sure, the […]
Trade Alert: Taking some more profits from the buys last week
Into the depths of the declines last week, I stepped up and did several rounds of buying. Recall these posts: It’s time for another fresh round of tranche buying of a little more GOOG and FSLR common stocks and I’m also going to add a couple call options on the SPY here — buying the […]
Trade Alert: Locking in SPY profits and a new pair trade
Markets are straight up this morning and I want to peel off the last of my SPY call options that we bought during the panic last week. We have about 1/3 remaining after taking profits on some of them last week and I’m going to sell the rest of those now for very nice short-term […]
Navigating IBM, the markets and the Fed, Fed, Fed
No trades for me today so far. We took advantage of panicky sell-offs last week to get in a few trades and tranches and like I always remind you guys, we want to take the best pitches we can get before we swing. Steady as she goes then for now. It was an an ugly […]
Trade Alert: Taking some profits on the SPY calls
Wednesday when the market was down huge, I wrote the following: “With the markets down 2% across the board this morning, it’s time for another fresh round of tranche buying of a little more GOOG and FSLR common stocks and I’m also going to add a couple call options on the SPY here — buying […]
The Hundred-Billion-Dollar Wearables Market
Now we don’t rush in our or out of any of our stocks. If you were in pain at the lows when the market was down 3% yesterday and the Nasdaq was in full 10% correction territory, you might want to consider trimming down a little bit on this reprieve. Otherwise, I think scaling into […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: Phantom-permabear-not-actually-meaningful catalysts and much more
Howdy folks. Crazy ugly out there. Part of the cycle tho. If the reason the market is selling off the last 5% or so is because of #Ebola concerns then I expect a bounce back to new highs relatively quickly. If there’s an economic/financial Black Swan (including if #Ebola spreads further), then it’s going to […]
Trade Alert: A little bird
Don’t forget to join me for this week’s Live Q&A Chat at 2pm EST at https://tradingwithcody.com/chat. And if you can’t make the Live Chat Q&A, just email me your question by hitting reply to this and I’ll include it with my answer in the actual chat and the transcript. Okay, a little more analysis […]
Trade Alert: Buying Spy calls, Google and First Solar
Stocks crashing, DJIA -345 at 15972, Nazz officially in correction territory. Many stocks like INTC down 5-10%. Remember when we were trimming our favorites at all-time highs over the last few weeks? Remember how many names like Ciena and Juniper and JDSU and others that I removed from the portfolio as we steadily raised cash […]
Diversification in the portfolio: What it actually means and how to actually do it
No trades for me today. Holding steady for today. Market volatility has spiked. The DJIA is down 1000 points from its all-time highs, which were set just about 20 trading days ago. The Russell 2000 is down more than 10% from its recent highs, putting it fully in correction territory. You have to be careful […]
Trade Alert: Nibbling some names as we analyze the cycles
To put it bluntly, most analysts and pundits and economists are puppies chasing their own tails. There are three main types of these puppies. First, there’s the Permabear camp. These are the people who spend all their lives focusing on how inefficient and corrupt our financial as well as our stock markets are in general. […]
Trade Alert: Selling remainder JRJC puts, Markets commentary and my first two months trading
Go Home with the JRJC Profits Time to sell the last of our JRJC puts for some very nice gains. The stocks is down nearly 60% in the six weeks since we bet on the stock going down with out of the money puts. My last tranche of remaining puts now have gains between 200-300%. […]