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 […]
Where’s the panic?
You know what surprised me this morning? The fact that there are no panicky headlines out there today despite the fact that markets are down 10% in the last month and down again this morning. Isn’t this the time in the playbook that we’d expect to see the mainstream media freaking out about the Endless […]
Trade Alert – Two buys into the panic
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly. – Oscar Wilde Ugly day post-election. Oh, and there’s panic about the EU debt crisis in the headlines again. Shocker, eh? The DJIA opened down 100 plus and has faded another 150 since then. Apple’s being […]
Trade Alert: Now is not the time to panic
It’s a down day to start the day, again. Do you remember back when Apple went straight from $500 to $620 just as the first annual Apple Investor Summit hit and how it felt like stocks would never go down again? And now…can you imagine the relief you would fell if Apple were to rally […]
Trade Alert: Trade against the panic
So I finally take a couple days off and all hell breaks lose? It seems like the markets want to crash every time I happen to take a rare couple of days off. And last Thursday and Friday followed that strange pattern. When the markets were at their highs in early Spring, I wrote a […]
Chat Transcript for May 2, 2012: Panick vs. non-panicked dips, ZNGA, FIO, and more
Here’s the transcript of today’s chat. See you next week at 2pm EST at https://tradingwithcody.com/chat for more Q&A where you can ask me anything. Q. Hi Cody, any opinion on MRVL here? The stock seems way too cheap! A. I owned MRVL a few months ago and didn’t make a dime on it, but it […]
Remember the panics and how to profit from them
It’s Friday. And it’s the last trading day of the year. And we’re going to close out the year at just about the exact same levels we started the year at. Aren’t you glad you didn’t panic when Greece blew up. Or when Greece blew up. Or when Italy blew up. Or when Greece blew […]
Today’s Links: Obama drops Biden, BNY panics, and thoughts on gold
Here’s what I was reading and thinking about when I was working late into the night: 2012 – Things that will happen – I’ve read and re-read Bruce Krasting’s latest piece here, a fascinating look at the year ahead with lots of suprise predictions. My favorites include: “-Obama will drop Joe Biden from the ticket. Obama […]
How to trade the new Greek panic
But, wait..they said Greece’s problems and therefore the entirety of the EU was fine. Less than a handful of trading days ago, here were the headlines, straight from last Tuesday’s “Must-reads” column right here on these pages: Rekindled Optimism In Europe – I’ve got Europe crisis fatigue. This stupid “bail out the banks in the name […]
Panic is not a winning investment strategy…
Mmm, Wide awake and he shakes in a panic. Never woke up alone ever before. Had his woman long as he can remember. Tries to forget but he can’t, he can’t. Out of bed and he dreams in the shower. She’s standing naked and apologizing. Reaches for her till his mind becomes blood hot. Woken […]
Time to panic! Or not…
Greece! Oh my goodness, did you hear about Greece?! There’s a debt problem over there. And it might lead to contagion. You better sell your stocks right now because of this Greece contagion risk. Oh wait. My bad, I was watching a replay of CNBC from two weeks ago. Or was it two months ago. […]
Remember how panicky you felt last week? Do you remember why now…
Got a chainsaw buzzin’, Who’s that cussin’ Eyes start blinkin’, The boys all start their wishing Left holdin’ the bag again, Burying it at both ends Don’t believe she’s a friend Thick, thick & thin Let it loose now, let it go to the wind — Black Crowes Pretty red day overall, but again, that’s […]
Don’t let the panicking public get in your head…
“Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.” — Tom Landry That was sloppy, ugly, nasty, slippery, etc-y. In yesterday’s chat, I’d had this discussion with a subscriber: Q: Do you think we’re gonna revisit or go lower than August […]
Everything You Need To Know About Options Trading
Cody here. Since I launched the hedge fund five years ago, we’ve been using options a lot more than I had been in the years when I was only trading/investing my own capital in my personal account. Consequently, I’ve received a lot of questions about how options work, when we choose which options to use, […]
Strategies For A Market That Nobody Fears
“Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed, The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That’s how it goes, Everybody knows.” – Leonard Cohen Every money manager and professional finance pundit […]
New Chat Time + Don’t Lose Yourself In This Cryptomania
First off, we are moving this week’s chat to Friday, December 8th at 11:00am ET in the TradingWithCody Chat Room. Or as always, you can email your questions to support@tradingwithcody.com. Crypto is back baby! (Spoiler alert: we added to our bitcoin hedges today, see discussion below). Bitcoin is over $42,000 and is now up about […]
Revolutions > The Fed, Burry’s Big Semi Short, Sam Altman Drama, And Much More
Here’s the transcript from today’s live Q&A chat: Q. With the latest economic data released, where do you see the general market headed into the new year, and what catalysts (FOMC, interest rates, etc) do you think we need to watch out for, both good and bad? A. I’m not sure that the Fed will […]
AI Mousetraps, Tech Wreck?, Bank Crash?, Bitcoin Trade Alerts, And Much More
Here’s the transcript from today’s live Q&A chat. Please take a look at the comments below about selling some BITO, adding hedges, and a couple of other minor trade alerts. Q. What’s your take on the current market action today? Seems odd to be getting this flush of sorts today after good to mixed earnings […]
Bulls And Bears Dancing In NYC This Week
Bryce and I are hard at it in NYC this week meeting with many of my long-time friends and folks across the spectrum from other fund managers, brokers, and lawyers, to one of Google’s machine-learning gurus. We will be here all week and our schedule is packed with meetings with interesting folks so we will […]
Near Holes-In-One, TSLA Earnings, Trimming Strategies, And Much More
Here’s the transcript from today’s live Q&A chat. Also, Bryce and I are going to be in NYC next week and I’ll be appearing on Fox Business with Charles Payne on Tuesday sometime around 2:00-3:00pm ET. And don’t forget to follow us on Twitter @TradingWithCody! Q. We have some good gains and the market seems […]