Flip it. Be contrarian. A good friend of mine who used to be a bigwig over at Google and now is a bigwig at a startup and who is a subscriber to TradingWithCody.com, wrote to me the following after reading last week’s full transcript to our more recent “Live Q&A with Cody”. Holy moly. No […]
Trade Alert – There’s gold in them hills, but there’s a catch
Back when gold was still in the three digits pricing, (that is, when it was trading for less than $1000 an ounce), I put it in the Revolution Investing newsletter and we later sold it for a nice profit. I later put GLD and SLV short positions into the Revolution Investing portfolio and we caught […]
Trade Alert – ZAGG when others zig
Last week, I got an email from a good friend and the best value investor I know on his latest cheap stock pick, and when a guy with Robert Marcin’s record talks, I listen. Here’re just a couple of examples of why: Long-time readers may remember that we bought Seagate Technologies (STX) just more than […]
Trade Alert – Tiny NVDA options trade (and Take Our Poll, Please!)
Let’s do the poll and see what the results are — Who’s more scared right now, the bulls or the bears? Let me know by replying to this email, sending an email to support@tradingwithcody.com, or in the Subscriber Chat Section at https://tradingwithcody.com/subscriber-chat-room/. I’m bidding on some NVDA April calls, with strikes from $11-12 or so. […]
Trade Alert – Fission with the Fusion-IO
“Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies.” – Wikipedia “Fission is a process where a large atomic nucleus (such as uranium) is split into two smaller particles.” – Wikipedia Last week, Fusion-IO announced quarterly results that exceeded expectations for both revenue and earnings—and then it dropped a bomb. Revenue […]
Trade Alert – Earnings recap and adding to Qualcomm
Earnings season is on full blast and let’s run through last night’s reports. First, Facebook reported another quarter of strong growth with top and bottom line both showing expansion. Mobile ads were a “bit light” according to most of the sellsider’s models, but those same estimates had been moving upward all quarter, so that makes […]
Trade Alert – Trading one tech supplier for another (and some updated analysis on Apple)
I’m not changing my stance on Apple. I’m holding onto a large common stock position with huge gains that I’ve owned for years and I’m sitting on losses from the recent call options I’d scaled into. I do expect that Apple can and will deliver nearly $60 in earnings this year, and I expect that […]
Trade Alert and Latest Positions – Selling calls down, getting less aggressive
Great time on the honeymoon, but long story short — 20 hours of plane delays to leave El Paso, lost luggage, flu-like symptoms almost the whole time we were gone, and lots of sleep, rest, relaxation and purification while in the rain forests of remote Costa Rica. It’s always great to get back on US […]
Trade Alert – Pairing up the tech investments with short positions
These days, it seems, Samsung can do no wrong, while our portfolio cornerstone, Apple, can do no right. Just have a look at these headlines, all from the past week: Apple Cuts iPhone 5 Production, Stock Falls: Is the Age of Apple Over? Samsung’s Galaxy S Smartphone Series Passes 100 Million Channel Sales Is It Too […]
Trade Alert – Tale of two techs: One hyped buy and one hyped trim
Good morning and good week, as it were. Monday morning and we’ve already got a lot of movers and a few trades I want to make here early. First, Apple. The WSJ joined the chorus of “iPhone 5 sales suck”, with the same verses as everybody else has told us. I’ve been worried more about […]
Trade Alert – Two new positions and revisiting an old favorite
Howdy y’all and welcome back to the ranch where the bulls get branded and the bears get shot and only the rancher’s spoilt children enjoy life. I’m buying a bit of FutureFuel common, as noted the other day – FutureFuel Corp. engages in the manufacture and sale of diversified chemicals and bio-based products in the […]
Trade Alert – One tranche of call buys and one small tranche of call sells
OMG, have you heard about the fiscal-cliff? Oh, wait that was last month’s crisis and last December’s crisis and also December 2010’s crisis. I mean…holy moly, are you aware that Greece is having problems with their banks and sovereign debt? Hmm, my bad. That was last year’s repeated headline crisis and was also a repeat […]
New book – 100 Stocks for the Clean Tech Revolution
Click here if you would like a PDF version of 100 Stocks for the Clean Technology Revolution I coined the term “Flip It” many years ago, and it essentially is all about being contrarian and objective in your analysis of everything. One of the most important and profitable aspects of “Flipping It” is being willing […]
Trade Alert – Fe Fio Fo Fum, I smell the blood of a panicky downgrade
Good morning and welcome back to the pizza shop, where the pizza pies grow exponentially, so the larget size is always the best price per bite. FIO got downgraded along with EMC from a smaller welfare sellside investment bank. EMC was hit a bit last week on concerns about this year’s growth, and FIO was […]
Trade Alert – Tiny fruit and more RIMM puts trim
It’s the first new week in the new year and it’s already feeling awfully volatile out there. Speaking of volatile, how annoying is it when people confuse “volatile” with “down”. We can have a wildly volatile bull market just as easily as we can a wildly volatile bear market. The wild blow-off top tech bubble […]
Latest positions (and Trade Alert – Noogle Gibble, er Google Nibble)
The good news is that there’s been a definite spike in fear about both Apple and even the broader markets despite how tough they’ve been hanging the last couple days. That doesn’t mean we’ll spike Monday, but again, I do think the path of least resistance is up for the near-term. I’m not buying back […]
Trade Alert – The facts about the fiscal-cliff bill and a couple trims into the euphoria
For the last three years now, I’ve been preaching that we should buy mainstream market/media panics and sell mainstream media/market euphoria. Today’s huge rally is obviously euphoric. So I suggest continuing to follow the playbook and to trim down some of the purchases we were making in the recent panics over the Fiscal-cliff nonsense that […]
Trade Alert – History rhymes, so remember the times
Last week, when the Nasdaq was at 3050, I wrote the following: It looks to me like the path of least resistance is now lower for the near-term, as the R/D Regime clearly wants to try to hold this market hostage and appears ready to keep the “you should panic over this” push going. This […]
Trade Alert – Investing in Caine’s Arcade…er, Apple
Caine’s Arcade A 9 year old boy who built an elaborate cardboard arcade in his dad’s used auto parts store is about to have the best day of his life. Help Caine’s Scholarship Fund: http://CainesArcade.com. Here’s the Deep Investor’s Thought of The Day – Imagine that you had the opportunity to invest in Caine’s Arcade […]
Trade Alert – Update on our RIMM short
As for RIMM, here’s the discussion we had yesterday on TradingWithCody.com’s Subscriber Chat after the market closed: ChromeHearts5 December 20, 2012 – 5:12 pm Actual EPS: -$0.22 EPS Estimate: -$0.35 EPS Surprise: +37.1%, +$0.13 Actual Revenue: $2.70 Bil Revenue Estimate: $2.65 Bil Revenue Surprise: +1.9%, +$49.11 Mil ChromeHearts5 December 20, 2012 – 5:12 pm Research […]