China’s going to let their currency devalue a bit and that’s a classic macro-economic news bite that the media will love to glom onto, but that probably doesn’t matter much to our overall thesis and economy and playbook and markets here in the US. Remember the same rinse-and-repeat macro-economic news cycle of panic to euphoria […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: New ideas, December rate hike?, FitBit, Ambarella & other stocks
Here’s the transcript from yesterday’s Live Q&A Chat. Q. Any new ideas in the works? A. I’m always looking at stocks, doing valuation and technology roadmap analysis, trying to find the next great short idea, and trying to make Trading With Cody as helpful as possible. One key lesson I’ve learned over the years that is […]
TWC App, Chat and Fed analysis
I was always shocked at how big our ratings at Fox Business Happy Hour would spike whenever there would be a major market downturn like there was a few weeks ago. If the $DJIA goes -1000 on the day, you can bet that people would tune in that night to hear my take on the […]
Trade Alert (Removing Three Longs) and Latest Positions
As you’ll see below, I went through and made notes of my latest analysis about each of our positions. I’m removing three positions from the portfolio. I’m selling Palo Alto Networks and Splunk and Iconix. Details in the notes below. Every few weeks I sit down and go through my entire portfolio and rank each […]
Latest Positions in Cody’s cleaned up portfolio
Though it’ll be tomorrow before I get done closing out the positions I mentioned in this morning’s Trade Alert report, I’ve gone ahead and removed them from the Latest Positions list below so as to avoid confusion. Every few weeks I sit down and go through my entire portfolio and rank each position on a […]
Latest Positions and a Trade Alert: Locking in more profits
We have a lot of stocks up big today, which has been a recurring theme for our portfolio during earnings season so far. Many of our biggest positions are at or near all-time highs. If you haven’t done any trimming, consider doing so. Maybe 10-20% of some of these biggest winners or about that same amount […]
Trade Alert: China/Greek/Oil selling provides chance to nibble two stocks
China/Greece/China/Oil/China Cross-currents Did you catch the 2-3% gyrations in the stock market by buying and selling stocks at the right time? Is that even possible to do for the long-term? No sense trying to game these near-term market gyrations, as they are being driving by cross-currents from China/Greece/China/Oil/China, and trying to game what headlines/policies/schemes are […]
From Apple to XLF: Cody’s Latest Positions ranked
Near-term, FYI, I’m more likely to do some buying than more trimming. I’ve done a bunch of trimming and raised a lot of cash over the last few months, and as always I am in no rush to force any trades. But I am starting to see some names and prices that are intriguing again. […]
A list of my latest positions from my portfolio
Latest Cody Underground Podcast: I talk to Igor Gonta about how to raise money for your start up, the best Big Data/Artificial Intelligence stocks plus Social Networking’s impact on stocks, trading, the markets and you. Click here to listen to it. Here’s a list of my latest positions. I’ve broken the list into Longs and Shorts. […]
Trade Alert: Betting on Peanuts
One of the keys to Revolution Investing is to find a trend, theme or technological disruption that is driving new demand in the marketplace and therefore creating new valuations for companies that are positioned to benefit from said trend, theme or technological disruption. In hedge fund land, we call such an approach “Top Down” because […]