My Latest Positions + Investment strategies and tactics for right now

If you’re new to TradingWithCody or if you’ve been a subscriber for a while but haven’t acted on much of my strategies yet and/or if you haven’t been in the markets, but you’re sick of getting 0% on your CDs, Treasuries, savings, checking, etc while the markets have been continually hitting all-time highs this year, what should you do now?

First, step back and catch your breath before moving any money anywhere and make sure you’re not about to make any emotional moves with your money.

If you haven’t yet read “Everything You Need to Know About Investing” then spend a couple hours doing so, please. It’s a quick read but chock-full of important ideas, concepts and strategies that amateurs and pros alike should understand.

Then, take a look below at my own personal portfolio’s Latest Positions and slowly start to scale into some of the ones you like best and/or the ones I have rated highest right now. I’d look to start scaling into a few of the many stocks in the Latest Positions that are at all-time highs along with a couple that we’ve recently featured in our Weekly Trades that I’ve personally been scaling into.

You can find an archive of Trade Alerts here – http://tradingwithcody.com/category/trade-alert/.

And you can find an archive of our summary of those Trade Alerts in our Weekly Trades archive here – http://tradingwithcody.com/category/trades-of-the-week/.

Long-time subscribers know that I have gone from Very Aggressively Long in 2010 and 2011 and that starting last year I slowly but surely began becoming less aggressively long. I still think the Bubble Blowing Bull Market is likely to inflate much bigger yet in 2014 and maybe into 2015 and a bit further than that if it truly becomes the Biggest Bubble of All-Time as I’ve said it will eventually become for years now.

It is truly a shame that we are forced to fight this hard to get some sort of relative return on your savings, wealth and capital, but in a world of 0% interest rates and QE Infinity and global fiat currency wars and a worldwide coordinated policy push towards ever higher corporate profit margins and profits and so on…we must deal with the financial realities of our world, which we’ve been doing very well thank you very much, and which we can indeed continue to actually profit and prosper while the music plays. The alternative is to cower in a corner of your bunker and hope for the best.

But be careful and be diversified and make sure you’ve betting first and foremost on your own mind and working to maximize your own income potential and revenue streams that you can control, such as starting and/or growing your business and investment portfolio from sweat and tears rather than just moving capital into a revolution growth sector spot before the crowd.

I’ve broken the list into Longs and Shorts. And from there, I’ve broken down each list into refined categories in order from the largest positions within each category to the smallest.

Finally, I give each stock a current rating from 1 to 10, 1 being “Get out of this position now!” and 10 being “Sell the farm, I’ve found a perfect investment” (there will never be a 10 rating, because there is no such thing as a perfect investment, of course).

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So here’s the list:

Longs –

• Forever assets and other permanent holdings –
  • Media and other private investment/business holdings (9+ because betting on yourself and running a biz is always a best bet)
  • Real estate, including land and the ranch I live on in NM (7)
  • Physical gold bullion & coins (9)
  • BitCoin (6) – This position has gotten to be much bigger than I expected much sooner than I expected and though I remain very bullish about the potential for Bitcoin from here, I’m likely to take a bit off the table with it being up nearly 10-fold since my most recent purchases.

• Primary stock exposure portfolio
  • Amazon (7)
  • Apple (7)
  • Facebook (8)
  • Google (7)
  • TriQuint (8)
  • First Solar (6)
  • Sandisk (7)
  • Juniper (7)
  • Calgone (8)
  • Cree (7)
  • Ciena (7)
  • FutureFuel (8)
  • Lindsay (8)
  • Intel (8)
• Stock baskets and short-term flips
  • Microsoft (6)
  • VIX (7)
• Long-term social basket
  • LinkedIn (7)
  • Zynga (5)
• Long-term 3-D printing basket
  • SSYS (7)
  • DDD (6)
  • XONE (7)
• Short-term metal ETF flips
  • GDX (6) – Note: I have call options in GDX that are not worth very much any more.

Shorts –

• Other shorts
  • Pandora (8)
  • GSVC (6)
  • Tesla (6)
  • UBNT (8)
  • HLF (8)
  • Priceline (7)
  • Apollo (8)
  • IBM (8)
  • Dollar Tree (7)
• Welfare bank basket
  • GS (7)
  • JPM (8)
• Samsung/South Korea basket
  • EWY (8)
• Bet on interest rates rising
  • IEF (8)