Facebook’s popping and I’m sitting tight on it for now. Sellside analyst upgraded the stock and his report sounded almost as if he’s a TradingWithCody.com subscriber because it outlined many of our reasons for being long this stock. Those reasons, according to Jordan Rohan at Stifel Nikolas, whom I’ve known for many years, wrote in […]
Trades for the week of June 3rd through June 7th
Here are my trades for the week of June 3rd through June 7th: Common Stock: Stock Action Date Initiated Time Initiated Price ZNGA – Zynga BUY 6/4/2013 11:38am $3.00 LNKD – Linkedln BUY 6/4/2013 11:38am $163.00 Options: Stock CALL or PUT Action Date Initiated Stock Price Strike Price Exp Date Price VIX-Volatility S&P 500 […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: Wearable Computing, Amazon’s Profit Spigot and more
Here is the transcript to this week’s Live Q&A chat. Join me next Wednesday at 2pm EST at https://tradingwithcody.com/chat or send me an email with your question at support@tradingwithcody.com. Q. Do you think that this drop in the market is anticipating rate hikes, and Employee data views for tomorrow? Would you buy now your preferred […]
Trade Alert – Locking in more VIX gains, Ciena pops and Kansas is dry
As green as Kansas normally is, it’s shocking to see the yellow and brown fields throughout most of the west part of the state. The drought is bad here too, though not anything like it is in New Mexico right now. Water is the new oil. And water will someday be the new gold. Probably […]
Trade Alert – Dorothy we aren’t in Kansas anymore
I’m traveling to Kansas with my parents today for their 50th high school reunion. Markets are cracking this morning. This is part of the playbook as we have been expecting. Juniper is the only green stock on my screen as the CEO confirms the uptick in carrier spending. I’m going to sell half of my […]
Feet to fire- where the markets are headed over the next five years
I have to say, despite knowing how “out there” by conventional means much of Marketwatch’s and my own readership is, I am shocked at the results of our poll yesterday in which we asked, “Is the entire stock market (and the system it supports) completely corrupted?”. I take offense to the idea that any of […]
Trade Alert – Social add and Bottom-up analysis on our long positions
First, the trade – I’m adding to Zynga and LNKD this morning, double the size of what was a very small position. It’s still just a small position. Remember that LNKD and ZNGA along with the larger position in Facebook is part of a basket of stocks I plan to own for a decade and […]
TradingWithCody Chief Guide Elad Ryba on why Facebook will dominate and Twitter will just do ok
Social media is the future. No doubt about that. People have loved to communicate for as long as man has been on this planet. Telephone lines into homes were a revolution, everyone wanted to talk to one another from a distance. The stock of RCA radio went from 50 to 400 just so they can […]
Latest Positions – A game plan for a corrupted system
Is the entire stock market and the system it supports (or that supports it?) completely corrupted at this point? Think about it before you answer. Then click here and take our WallStreetAllStars.com poll. Knowing that most trades and prices in the stock market are set by computer algorithms and high-frequency trading software programs on a […]