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 […]
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, […]
We’re greeted with a rather listless ope…
We’re greeted with a rather listless open to start the trading week. We’ve had some wild up and down action in the four weeks since I started Trading With Cody. Just a couple days into the trading, Japan’s quake and resulting nuclear nightmare hit the markets hard, and I stepped up the buying into the […]
Obviously the big mover in our portfolio…
Obviously the big mover in our portfolio today is Riverbed. Unfortunately, its a big mover in the wrong direction. Some analyst on the street thinks that Riverbed’s competitor FFIV will miss its quarter. I would agree that its a possibility, after all FFIV missed its quarter last time. Riverbed on the other hand delivered a […]
My steady-build approach to slowly but s…
My steady-build approach to slowly but surely scaling into positions over the course of a few weeks to re-build my portfolio will continue again today. Today, I’m going to be looking to short some HYG, iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond Fund, which means I’ll make money if the cost of capital for second […]