Trade Alert

Whipsaws and fear are prevalent in the market today. I did a little nibbling on QCOM. Yes, the company has been anti-competitive, but most of what the judge was upset about is exactly what Qualcomm's new deal with Apple addressed. Meanwhile, this remains a very cheap stock, trading at about 10x next year's earnings with a 3.5% dividend right before The 5G Revolution, of which … [Read more...] about Trade Alert: Whipsaws, fear, two nibbles, one sell

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat including discussion on the Tesla, who might dominate 5G and who will be affected by the Huawei ban. Q. Thanks for your missive on the Tech Cold War. Not sure why the flip in Trump’s decision to ease up on Huawei, but it’s welcome… maybe Xi’s visit to the mines was sobering to Trump. Trump and Xi have met themselves in … [Read more...] about The Tech Cold War, Gold or bitcoin?, Flying iPhones, T-Mobile 5G and more

With the banning of Huawei, The Great Trade War of the 21st Century has gone from being mostly a distraction for the markets to perhaps something more ominous. Or maybe not. Trump's tariffs haven't really mattered much to the markets or the economy, as I've predicted from the beginning when Trump first imposed tariff. But the administrations handling of the Huawei situation … [Read more...] about Trade Alert: China Trade War opens opportunities

I'm doing a little more buying today and rebalancing the portfolio too. I'm also adding a new name and I'm going to get cut one name to do so from the portfolio to do so. I'm letting go of Intel here. The company's guidance for the next two or three years in their recent investor meeting makes me wonder how they're planning to get back to growth later. I'm covering most … [Read more...] about Trade Alert: Selling, nibbling, covering, and, yes, UBER

Good morning and welcome back to the stock market circus. I'm doing a little nibbling today, bought a tranche of COMM. The company is just getting about to start its integration with major acquisition Commscope which closed April 4. The quarter was pretty bad for both companies, but I will give it a quarter or two to play out and will use today's sell-off to nibble a … [Read more...] about Trade Alert: Getting a little bit longer exposure

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat including discussion on the volatility of the market, Tesla's cash raises practices and overall portfolio earnings. Q. Shall we nibble something when Mr. Trump scares everybody? A. Pitch by pitch. Scare by scare. Trade by trade. Easy does it. Q. Cody at what point, if at all, you would choose to add to any of … [Read more...] about Trade Alert: DELL and EWU, Market volatility, and Tesla’s cash raising brilliance

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat including discussion on the Market melt-up, where to trim and AI. Q. Feet to fire prediction for next 3 months. A. F2F guess for next 3mos is: Market falls 3.2% this week and next, consolidates quickly and rallies back towards the recent all-time highs we set earlier this week. Then, the market stops 0.9% short of … [Read more...] about Trade Alert: Market prediction, neural networks and a joyous heart

I've spent the last few weeks doing a deep dive analysis of Tesla. I've many investment bank research reports (great data and information, sometimes helpful analysis), Seeking Alpha research reports (great data and info but the analysis is almost always wildly negative and short-slanted), Elon Musk interviews, blogs, Twitter commentary and everything else I could get my hands … [Read more...] about Read this, you’ll buy TSLA and a Tesla