Here’s a list of my positions, in approximate order from largest to smallest, though the variations between relative sizes are decreasing as time wears on and I get these longer positions built up. We’ll have some shorter-term and newer name trades in coming weeks to complement these longer-term positions. Longs – GLW Nuance Riverbed […]
I’ve used both common stock and call opt…
Here’s the story. Back in 1997, right after Steve Jobs took back over the CEO job at Apple, Michael Dell told a bunch of tech investors that if he were in charge of Apple he would, “‘d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.” Then in 2006, Steve Jobs Jobs sent […]
Rougher day for the portfolio today than…
Rougher day for the portfolio today than we have had even on most down days of late. Our silver puts and other bearish bets were all profitable for us today, while most of our longs were in the red. So be it. Three quick news articles for you to look over tonight. First, Apple’s got […]
Here’s a list of my positions, in approx…
Here’s a list of my positions, in approximate order from largest notional size, to smallest: Longs – Corning Nuance Riverbed Cisco Cypress Celestica Ciena Microsoft Apple Google Adtran DBA Visteon Nokia Shorts – GLD SLV LPS LYV XLF CVC
Germany’s GDP was apparently better than…
Germany’s GDP was apparently better than the results of some poll from some news organization of some idiot economists who think it matters if they can extrapolate the last three months worth of macroeconomic trends into a decent guess about what the bureaucrats who are paid to hedonize and modify and seasonally adjust government measurements […]
I am also buying some Google common stoc…
I am also buying some Google common stock today. I think, like Apple, it looks like it could get be getting ready to go on run. The momentum traders have left both names — Apple because it’s been so flattish for months now and Google because it’s been worse than flattish since it topped out […]
I do think Apple’s setting itself up to …
I do think Apple’s setting itself up to run in both the near-term as well as the longer-term, and as you guys know I see a $2k target on it in ten years anyway. I’d like to build up my Apple common position, so I’m adding to my Apple today. Here’s a video we shot […]
Silver has dislocated itself to the down…
Silver has dislocated itself to the downside again today, losing almost 5% this morning and making our SLV puts pop. Gold down. It sure seems to me that silver and not gold is the driver of the direction of the precious metals everyday. Nice gains in the portfolio again this morning and I’ve not pulled […]
I’ve written before about how people tho…
I’ve written before about how people thought I was nuts when I was writing about how I was buying Apple at $7 per share back in 2003, even though at that time, as I put it for my subsribers, “Apple was trading for less than the cash it had on the balance sheet, making it […]
With Nokia, Ciena and Riverbed all up 3%…
With Nokia, Ciena and Riverbed all up 3% plus today, we ended up nicely green by the close after bobbing up and down most of the day. We’ll take it. I bought those long-dated Softee call options and that was the only trigger pull of the day from my headquarters. Nuance announced earnings after […]
I did not trade today, but we had a nic…
I did not trade today, but we had a nice pop in the portfolio despite the (as expected) moves in Silver and Gold going against us today. Corning was up more than 3% itself and as that and Nuance are two of our largest positions, we made out pretty green on the day. More on […]
Here’s my positions, in general order fr…
Here’s my positions, in general order from largest notional position to smallest, though they all are about where I want them to be right now: Longs – Corning Cisco Nuance Celestica Cypress Riverbed Ciena Apple Microsoft DBA Visteon Google Nokia Adtran Shorts – GLD SLV LPS XLF LYV
Nuance is the big mover on the sheets to…
Nuance is the big mover on the sheets today, now up 7%. Rumors out there that Apple’s considering buying the company. I don’t believe the rumor, but I am not selling it either. Nuance is still too cheap.
Remember how I told you guys a few times…
Remember how I told you guys a few times over the last few weeks while we were letting the portfolio stew a little bit and not doing many trades that we’d soon have some wild opportunities to do more. Does the 20% gain on our silver short in 2 days count? How about the 5% […]
The App/Smartphone/Tablet/Dashboard/PC i…
The App/Smartphone/Tablet/Dashboard/PC is the fastest growing marketplace in the history of business. I’ve been saying exactly that for more than a year now and I’ve been dead serious about betting my time, money and reputation on what I call the “App Revolution” for shorthand. But I know a lot of you are confused about what […]
The headlines read like something out of…
The headlines read like something out of a case study of runaway success in technology business strategies in a Hal Varian text book. I use Varian’s, now a big shot at Google, seminal book, Information Rules, in my class, and this App Revolution is the kind of thing I’ll be teaching about in my Revolutionomics […]
A few months ago I wrote an article call…
A few months ago I wrote an article called “49 app stocks that should go up huge and one that won’t” and the whole article was about how I thought Research-in-Motion was doomed despite being so seemingly well-positioned to benefit from the fastest growing sector in the history of business — the app/smartphone/tablet/cloud revolution. The […]
We are probably now more than halfway th…
We are probably now more than halfway through with the earnings season, though next week will bring another barrage and there are a few laggard reporting schedules after that too. Here’s the earnings dates for all our positions: aapl – Already Reported on Apr 20th adtn – Already Reported on Apr 13th cien – June […]
It’s a flattish open, but the story of t…
It’s a flattish open, but the story of the day is the 15% drop, the crushing of RIMM. I’ve kept us out of RIMM and even had it as a short position in the Revolution Investing model portfolio last year before I started trading again where we rode it down from over $100 to some […]
From 2005 to 2007 and for the first year…
From 2005 to 2007 and for the first year of my show on Fox from late 2007 into 2008, I used to say one thing about real estate as an asset class whenever it came up, “There’s never been a better time to sell real estate than right now.” I used to write a weekly […]