I bought the Google calls and am watching LPS continue to crack. Riverbed and Ciena both look tempting to me, but I was a buyer of both in front of you guys at lower levels in recent weeks and I’m not going to force anything more just now. The S&P 500 and the DJIA […]
Here’s a list of my positions, in approx…
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
Japan’s dumping thousands of tons of hig…
Japan’s dumping thousands of tons of highly radioactive waste into our oceans, China raises rates and bank reserve requirements, our own Republican/Democrat Regime continues to find trillions in new forms of corporate and banker welfare as they cut trillions in social services for the elderly and poor, the banks in the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, […]
It’s a flattish open as we remain cataly…
It’s a flattish open as we remain catalyst-less until we fully enter earnings season in the next couple weeks. Here’s a list of my longs and shorts so far: Longs- Apple Ciena Celestica Cisco Cypress DBA Corning Google Microsoft Nokia Nuance Riverbed Shorts – Lender Processing Services XLF I’m going to look to start building […]
Pretty steady betty open today as the ma…
Pretty steady betty open today as the market needs more of a catalyst than a meaningless S&P downgrade of some irrelevant country in Europe that speaks Portugese. One of the things we have to do as traders is deal with missed opportunities. I’ve been all over the web and in my reports (you Trading With […]
Ciena, Cypress and a few others are real…
Ciena, Cypress and a few others are really putting on some nice moves this morning. The markets are drifting higher and I’m looking at adding a couple more short names today and tomorrow. Here’s my analysis on why I’m looking to start shorting Live Nation from my recent republished/updated report, 14 Stocks That Could Double […]
These markets and the willingness for tr…
These markets and the willingness for traders to risk paying up for higher prices in the near-term is likely to be driven by the newsflow out of Japan. Regardless of the near-term multiple/risk appetite of the market, let’s remember the lessons we discussed about why we should pretty much just be ignoring (fill-in-the-blank foreign crisis, […]
A flattish open! Stop the presses, it’s…
A flattish open! Stop the presses, it’s been a long, long time since we last had a flattish open. Well, it’s been a few days at least. At any rate, it feels a bit slippery out there to this trader and I expect the path of least resistance for the intraday action today is lower. […]
In a general sense, my mission is always…
In a general sense, my mission is always to find the best companies in the fastest growing sectors and invest in their stocks when they are cheap and to find the worst companies in declining sectors and short them when they are way overvalued. More specifically for the last year, I’ve been operating the Marketwatch […]
Nice intraday rally continues as the emo…
Nice intraday rally continues as the emotions and worries over Japan’s disaster today start to fade and traders look to position themselves into the weekend. The shorts have had a huge week, and are feeling great about double digit gains in many of their most-hated positions. And that propels them to cover some of those […]
I expect to get up to about 15-20 total …
I expect to get up to about 15-20 total positions in this portfolio with about 2/3 of the picks longs and 1/3 shorts by the time I’m done building in this set up. That 2/3 longs vs 1/3 short set up is in large part a function of my overall bullishness about the stock […]
I got some of my early morning purchasin…
I got some of my early morning purchasing done here when the market was at its (so far) worst of the day. I outlined the following playbook for my Revolution Investing newsletter subscribers back on February 8: “Here’s what my experience and analysis says on how the near-term market action will play out: “After all […]
I was hoping for a bigger hit in Ciena t…
I was hoping for a bigger hit in Ciena this morning so I could buy more and lower my cost basis by 7% or more, had the stock been down double digits, as I would have bought twice as much today as I bought yesterday, which would have brought my total position in Ciena up […]
Ciena will likely be down…
Ciena will likely be down 5% or more early tomorrow morning after one of its suppliers, FNSR, just blew up after hours by guiding estimates for next quarter’s sales and earnings down big time. I bought 1/10 of how much I’ll eventually want to own and will probably by another 1/10 slug tomorrow and perhaps […]