Lots of action today, so let’s jump right in and hit the names. Juniper – The company’s report was all about how strong carrier demand is and how weak enterprise/government spending is. Which is just exactly our thesis. The stock is getting hurt because guidance was a bit soft, but I’m a buyer at these […]
TradingWithCody Chief Guide Elad Ryba on Joining the Richest Money Managers and Buying the GLD
Gold Morning! Ok, Corny but the shiny metal, not to be confused with the shiny edible corn product, is TANKING this morning down 10% deep into further bear market territory. I for one had liked Cody’s idea to buy gold as the world central bankers were printing money and reflating their economies. The logic is […]
Trade Alert: Gold is Dead; Long Live Gold
Wild, wild morning in the currency markets once again. The currency wars (make sure to check out our ever-improving and incredibly helpful currency wars page) Gold specifically is down nearly 10% on the day and down much more than that in the last week. That is the definition of a panic and/or a crash. You […]
Trade Alert – Buying puts in a Red Box
“You wanted the best and you got the best! The hottest market in the world, S&P 500!” – Kiss Alive II Markets are down a bit this morning, but obviously still near their newest, latest and greatest all-time highs. There’s a lot of greed out there amongst the retail crowd right now, and a lot […]
Trade Alert – Scaling into one of our alternative energy ideas
Back in 2010 and 2011, my subscribers and I were short some of the biggest alternative energy stocks on the planet and we made a killing on their subsequent collapse. Here’s an example of my thesis from back then. Q: Hello Cody! How do you see FSLR for a short before its earnings and in the light […]
Trade Alert – Neil Patrick Harris, psychosomatic sickness, and tranche buying
My wife and I got up at 3:3oam MST Thursday morning to make the 180 mile drive to the ABQ airport to fly to DC to fly to La Guardia airport in NYC. David Burtka was throwing a surprise 40th birthday party for my very first friend in life and one of my very best […]
Trade Alert – Looking out into next week has me trimming and hedging further
The Cyprus Fireworks might be put off til next Tuesday, as the Eurocrats and US Treasury Dept give Cyprus’ government til then to come up with a new plan to steal from their citizenry in the name of “saving their economy”. The easiest plan for Cyprus is to follow the rule of law which calls […]
Trade Alert – Getting ourselves positioned in what will likely be some of the highest flyers
I’m going to continue adding to my Juniper and Ciena here. Just adding some more common, and hoping that we do get a big pullback in the broader markets that would give me the opportunity to get outright aggressively long in these names. Two headlines are adding to my bullishness in the broadband infrastructure sector […]
Trade Alert and Must-Read Revolution Investing Headlines
Two quick profit-taking trades to report on this morning. I’m trimming a little bit of my MRVL and SNDK call options. I’ve got big gains in both and am only selling about 1/5 of each, but I am going to lock in some profits on these and free up more cash. It’s been a while […]
Trade Alert – Watching Dexter on your smartphone
Last week I wrote about how it was time to start rotating out of the handset suppliers and into the infrastructure suppliers of the App Revolution we’re all living through. Let’s walk through a rudimentary model of the Internet and you’ll see why I’m about to add another infrastructure equipment supplier. When you request the […]
Trade Alert – When the Price Is Right, Bet on a Cliffhanger
Let’s play if The Price Is Right! You’ve won the bidding round and now you’re up to play the classic Cliffhanger Game (How to play Cliff Hangers: guess the price on three items! For each dollar you are higher or lower than the actual retail price, the climber moves up one space. If the climber has […]
Trade Alert – Reflexivity (And adding to a ramping stock)
Reflexivity is a concept that explains how the markets can feed off the headlines which can feed off the market action which can feed off the emotions of the masses which can feed off the headlines which can feed off the market action and so on…. I’ve observed, written about and traded against (or is […]
Trade Alert – Time to shift focus from components to infrastructure
Disclosure and portfolio to come. Title: Time to position for a new growth sector Staying ahead of the curve by getting into infrastructure We were way ahead of the curve and have made big money in components suppliers for the Smartphone/Tablet/App Revolution for the past several years (see The app revolution: the biggest market in the […]
Trade Alert – A euphoric tech sell and a disciplined but embarrassing buy
Our biggest position Google, courtesy of the Google calls we added when the stock was in a lull period two months ago, Latest positions (and Trade Alert – Noogle Gibble, er Google Nibble), is hitting new all-time highs yet again, and I think it’s time to trim a little bit here. We’ve had a heckuva run […]
Trade Alert – P/E ratio comparisons and time horizons
The Apple apathy apparently arises absolutely all of the time. Here’s your Trader’s Thought of the Day for today. Compare the following trailing twelve month P/E ratios, which don’t even account for the huge amount of cash (Apple, Google, Microsoft) or the huge amount of debt (IBM, HPQ, Comcast): Apple – 9 IBM – 14 […]
Trade Alert – Don’t order oysters at the diner
Good morning and welcome back to the diner, where you better stick with the stuff on the first couple pages of the encyclopedia-length menus that include things like Crab-stuffed Oysters. There’s a time and place for everything, see? And the time and place for crab-stuffed oysters isn’t at the 96th Street Diner where I worked […]
Trade Alert – Some active portfolio management with an update on gold and banks
Today I want to review a few positions in the portfolio and continue our endless pursuit of maximizing our long-term upside while minimizing our long-term risk through active portfolio management. I entered Baidu back in July as a technology platform play that doubled as exposure to China. It’s a rare time that I invest in […]
Trade Alert – Tiny toe, Markets movements, Apple action, earnings insights
The markets sure have had a hard time busting through the DJIA 14k range. You know I’m not nearly as bullish for the near-term as I have been in the past few years (especially when there’s not a panic out there to buy against). That said, I had a realization over the weekend. You always […]
Trade Alert – Adding some broker puts as tension builds
Tension is building out there in the markets. The bears can’t believe that the markets are at all time highs even with Apple acting like it is. The Google gets a couple analysts putting $1000 price targets on it, and you have to wonder if we’re in for a replay of what happened to Apple […]
Trade Alert – GOOG and ZAGG (And be sure to check out the new TradingWithCody Social Network!)
Couple of small trades this morning, as we continue to actively manage our portfolio to best maximize our upside and minimize our risk. We bought some June $800 Google calls back on January 4, when the stock was at $730 a share. It crossed $800 yesterday and those calls have tripled in price since then. […]