Once again it looks like we will muddle through the day as we have barely gotten to the tip of the earnings iceberg. Riverbed is down more than a buck fifty…sort of like a two-by-four across the forehead with your morning coffee. As you know, I am trying to be patient until we get past […]
Well, wasn’t that exciting? The DJIA fi…
Well, wasn’t that exciting? The DJIA finished up 1/100th of 1% higher by the close. And we came in for that action today! Sigh. Earnings start full blast tomorrow and by Thursday after the close we’ll have tech biggie Google reporting. I’m long a small common stock position in Google as we enter that report, […]
I nibbled on some…
I nibbled on some Adtran common stock. And I shorted a tiny bit of Cablevision. These two trades aren’t necessarily for earnings season or anything…they’re longer term positions that I just didn’t have on the sheets yet. Here’s my Adtran analysis: Adtran is an old name in the land of communications equipment with more than […]
Okay, as we start this week, I’m well-re…
Okay, as we start this week, I’m well-rested, prepared and ready to confront earnings season with a clear head and emotions checked. I’ll readily admit that I’m outright excited to see how our stocks react to earnings season. I do think some of the recently highlighted near-term earnings trades are technically set up nicely […]
Sloppy into the close is how it goes. I…
Sloppy into the close is how it goes. It’s the Friday contra hour and it’s a sloppy one, but the DJIA is still up more than 1% for the week. And we’re up 800 points from the bottom put in during the Japan crisis a few weeks ago. It’s been a very long week and […]
Flattish open as we crawl into earnings …
Flattish open as we crawl into earnings season starting next week when the fireworks should really start. The biggest question, as usual, is what fundamentals are priced into these markets? We see Corning this morning getting hit at the open for a couple percent and it’s now almost back to the levels it was before […]
Wow, it got ugly into the close. The sh…
Wow, it got ugly into the close. The shorts we’ve been scaling into save the daily profit and loss on the sheets, but we’re still down on the day. I got the follow question after my last post about Riverbed: Portfolio amount was great. Don’t know what low $30’s mean and next few months mean! […]
I threw a tiny bit of capital at some Ri…
I threw a tiny bit of capital at some Riverbed calls at strike prices in the low $30s that will expire over the next few months. Any capital put into such a trade needs to be able to be written off completely as there’s 100% downside if the stock falls from here and doesn’t […]
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 […]
The gentle steady rally action continues…
The gentle steady rally action continues its recent trend this morning. We’ve got a nice rally in Cisco again this morning. It was up 4% earlier. The question will be what happens the rest of the day – yesterday it faded and barely closed up on the day. Cisco’s CEO John Chambers sent a letter […]
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 […]
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 […]
Into the close and it’s a fading market….
Into the close and it’s a fading market. Then again, let’s call it a catlayst-less market as I did this morning instead. New geopolitical headlines could drive the markets up or down, perhaps, but I’m pretty sure the broader markets will be treading water until we start getting some fundamental updates and guidance from the […]
No buys today, just focusing on shorts a…
No buys today, just focusing on shorts and getting my portfolio a little more hedged. Though I’m bullish overall, I do want to get some hedges on for the short side. And come on! Did you guys see AONE down another 8% again today? If you’ve got shorts on that one, be sure that […]
Foxconn is one of the biggest contract m…
Foxconn is one of the biggest contract manufacturers in China and it’s running into some troubles finding profitability despite making gadgets for the Apples, Nokias and other big smartphone/tablet vendors of the world. But before you write off the app/tablet/smartphone revolution because of Foxconn’s bad news today, let’s drill down for some deeper analysis. Here’s […]
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 […]
Social butterfly. Social security. Soc…
Social butterfly. Social security. Social drinking. Social smoker. Social sciences. Social distortion. Let’s talk social for a minute because it’s one of the key drivers in all things related to tech, media, and advertising. First off, let’s touch on this Wedbush report I got in my inbox today that says we’ve entered a brand new […]