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 […]
Nice up day for the markets and for our …
Nice up day for the markets and for our portfolio. Steady as she goes for now. Let’s hit today’s big movers and a note on each: Cypress — up 5% today. It’s been a steady climber for a long time now and has been in pause mode for a few weeks. Look at the chart […]
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 […]
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
I got a phone call on my cell this morni…
I got a phone call on my cell this morning from an unknown New Mexico number and when I answered, my senior English teacher, now retired at 72 years old, wanted to know if we could go to lunch to “memorialize the death of Osama Bin Ladan and this great day for our great country.” […]
I bought some Live Nation puts that are …
I bought some Live Nation puts that are currently slightly out of the money and will expire in a couple quarters. That is the stock needs to fall 10% in the next few months for the puts to get “in the money”, but if the stock doesn’t fall like that before the puts expire, I […]
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 […]
Live Nation, one of our shorts, got an u…
Live Nation, one of our shorts, got an upgrade today: Live Nation upgraded by Stifel Nicolaus Briefing.com(Thu 8:02AM EDT) The stock is up nearly 3% this morning. Remember when Riverbed was down 5% one day and I said we needed to let it “settle” first. We subsequently picked up Riverbed calls 10% lower than that […]
Had a long trip home, but I got a great…
Had a long trip home, but I got a great night’s sleep and have been cranking since early this morning. A well-rested trader is one who thinks more lucidly. Most of our positions are still less than half of what I want them to be, but I’m mostly continuing to work on the short side […]
Look around — the stock markets and the…
Look around — the stock markets and the corporate economies they reflect are doing great (exactly what we’ve been positioning our portfolios for), but there are always crises in this world and there are always new crises coming along. The trick is to tell which crises actually matter and when they will matter. So which […]
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 […]
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 […]