$FB flat. Before the report, I’d really thought it’d be up or down at least 5% and after seeing the flat action after the strong report, I’m wondering if and when it ever will get out of the $70s. No trades for me today. Here’s the transcript for this week’s Live Q&A Chat. Q. Any thoughts on […]
Trade Alert: Second tranche of this sector ETF
Don’t forget to join me for this week’s Live Q&A Chat at 2pm EST or send me your at support@tradingwithcody.com and I’ll include it and my answer in the transcript from the chat. I’m doing a second tranche of the Financial Sector ETF $XLF puts, to help further hedge the portfolio in this time of […]
Analysis on $AAPL and recent IPO $BOX
Don’t over trade. Don’t force trades. Remember the goal of what we’re doing — maximizing our huge potential returns while minimizing our potential for losses. Your $AAPL factoids of the day: $AAPL has $178 billion in cash, that’s equal to 1.2% of the ENTIRE US GDP. $178 billion is also exactly 1/2 of $GOOG‘s entire market cap of $363 Billion. […]
$GOOG, $AAPL, $INTC and $MSFT: Predictions and platforms
Markets tanking hard today, $DJIA -384. Lackluster earnings reports from $MSFT and $CAT and others, a “surprising” decline in Durable Goods, and low volume from the Blizzard are (mostly) to blame. $AAPL earnings on deck tonight, and the pressure’s ramped up now on the bulls. Let’s look at the tech world for a minute and do some Revolution Investing analysis. Looking back and […]
Trade Alert: Adding more of this Wearables revolution stock
Check out the new “Cody’s List” page on the new TradingWithCody site that tracks our Longs, Shorts and Watch Lists. (If you can’t log into the new site, just shoot us an email at support@tradingwithcody.com and we’ll get you set up immediately.) You’ll notice I’ve got a Biotech ETF and a Treasuries ETF on the Cody’s […]
Trade Alert: Taking profits on half of my $GOOG call options
Trim, tranche, ebb and flow. Keep it steady as she goes using the playbook we’ve developed of scaling into and out of Revolution Investments as we get opportunities over time. Back on December 18, I wrote: “I am buying a small first tranche of call options in GOOG, dated out into January 2016 with strike […]
Energy, solar, bankruptcies and other theories
Don’t forget this week’s Live Q&A Chat with me at 2pm EST today at: https://twc.scutify.com/members/ Trying to game the next short-term move in oil and energy is probably a fool’s game, in part because there is no real consensus to bet against in a contrarian kind of way right now. There are too many opinions on […]
Trade Alert: Betting on big trouble for this sector
I’m on the road to Vancouver for a business meeting and I’ll be back Wedesday night. We’ll have this week’s Live Q&A Chat at 2pm EST on Thursday this week, instead of Wednesday. The fall out from crashed energy prices and the dislocating currency prices from Currency Wars are likely now the driver for the markets, the […]
Financials in big trouble for 2015?
The #CurrencyWars are likely now the driver for the markets, the finanicals and perhaps geopolitics. I’m growing increasingly bearish on the financials again. Haven’t acted on it yet, still in homework phase, but methinks there are going to be some big TBTF banks on the wrong side of the currency dislocations we are seeing this week and […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: Oil, bonds, earnings and more
Reminder: I’m very excited to tell you that we’ve finally launched the new TradingWithCody site at http://twc.scutify.com. We’re going to host our Live Q&A Chats at 2pm EST Wednesdays in our new Chat Room, http://twc.scutify.com/members. The new TWC site and chat room are much cleaner and faster and we are building it to our own specs. We are also […]
Playbook for currency wars more important than ever
I often write about how we’re living in a time of escalating currency wars. The Swiss National Bank just used their counterweight trebuchet to launch a projectile into the currency markets as they announced that they will no longer peg their Swiss Franc to the Euro at a set rate. It’s not often you see a chart […]
Energy crash’s impact on the economy, Fully updated SSYS analysis PLUS Trade Alert: Trimming more AMBA
I’m going to trim another 10% of my Ambarella position after seeing it hit yet another all-time high this morning. The stock is down a little bit now on the day but I am going to go ahead and trim it down just a little bit more as it is one of my biggest positions […]
Trade Alert: Scaling into two of my favorite tech stocks
Last week, I’d noted that I’d want to scale into $GOOG below $490 and into $SNDK below $90. We’re here. I’m following my playbook. I’m scaling into a 1/6th size tranche position in GOOG common stock. I’m scaling into a 1/5th size tranche position in SNDK common stock today too. We’ve owned both of these […]
Markets, Apple, Google and the App Revolution redux
Markets a’ rocking and the ugly start to the year seems far in the rear-view mirror, just 1.75 trading days after it hit its lows. Off the races again? Or one more test towards DJIA 17k to come first? I’ve said the path of least resistance is likely range-bound around 17500 or so for the last […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: Search for yield, Apple expectations and more
Here’s the transcript to this week’s Live Q&A Chat. Q. Hi Cody, what are the main differences between treasury vs. municipal bonds? And if you had to, which one would you prefer? A. The main difference between Municipals and Treasuries is whom you’re lending your money to. When you buy a Municipal Bond, you’re risking your hard-earned […]
Random Thoughts
Don’t forget to join me for this week’s Live Q&A Chat at 2pm EST at https://tradingwithcody.com/chat. Markets rebounding, but they are still off to ugly start for the year. Before the open yesterday, I wrote: “I think I’d rather see one more big 300+ down day that would give me the chance to sneak in […]
Oil’s least expected outcome PLUS Trade Alert: Syna nibble
I’m going to buy a third tranche of Synaptics here. This will get $SYNA to about 3/5 of a “full” position for me in this name though it’s still one of my smaller positions as I’m still continuing to build it per my playbook of scaling into my stock picks over time. Now onto today’s […]
Stocks I’d like to buy next and why the Greek/EU crisis might give us that chance
Some of the stocks on my Buy List and the prices at which I’d likely start to step in and nibble: $FB below $70, $FSLR below $40, $SNDK below $90, $GOOG below $490, $AAPL below $100 and so on. Maybe even some Yandex call options if it drops below $15. If we get a sell-off in […]