Here’s the transcript to this week’s Live Q&A chat. Join me next Wednesday at 2pm EST at https://tradingwithcody.com/chat or send me an email with your question at support@tradingwithcody.com. Let’s rock n roll. Ask me anything. Q: Cody what is going to happen in the next stage of the technology revolution? A: Big topic and trying […]
Take the other side! A Recent History of Hype and the Markets
Hype is a funny thing. Remember when Greece’s many sovereign and bank debt crises kept tanking the stock market around here? The Europe crisis jumps the shark Feb. 13, 2012 | By Cody Willard Revolution Investing links: Greece collapse is bullish, Dick Cheney on twitter and more Sept. 12, 2011 | By Cody Willard Size matters: Greece vs Apple April […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: Buying Common, Buying Gold and Shorting the Market
Here’s the transcript to this week’s Live Q&A chat. Join me next Wednesday at 2pm EST at https://tradingwithcody.com/chat or send me an email with your question at support@tradingwithcody.com. Q. Hi Cody. I’m curious as to the thought process behind buying long common stocks while at the same time shorting the market. If you are buying […]
A look back at how we got to new highs and what’s next
(And don’t forget about this week’s Live Q&A at 2pm EST at https://tradingwithcody.com/chat) I always encourage every investor and trader to write about their activities, mindsets, psychology, and ideas every day and as much as possible. I learned long ago that writing my blogs and my own personal diaries and notes about the markets and […]
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 – 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 […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: Gold, Tapping a Zagg and Active Portfolio Management
Here’s the transcript to this week’s Live Q&A chat. Join me next Wednesday at 2pm EST at https://tradingwithcody.com/chat or send me an email with your question at support@tradingwithcody.com. All rightie folks, let’s do this. Ask me anything. Q. Cody, I have more than half of the funds parking in the money market funds, waiting for […]
Important lessons on why stock-picking and active portfolio management are key to long-term success
One of the trickiest parts of being a successful investor is keeping perspective on time horizons and expectations for the long- vs. short-terms. What’s your goal as an investor or a trader? It’s always that you want to maximize your long-term upside while limiting your risk over that time frame. Whether you’re a buy-and-hold investor […]
Now is a better time to panic if you really want to
Let’s run through a few headlines this morning to get some perspective on the set up in the markets and the economy and what the mainstream media is saying about it all. First, here are the actual headlines from WSJ.com today. This must be the most important business and markets news fit to report today, […]
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 […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: Looking Past the Nonsense
Here’s the transcript to this week’s Live Q&A chat. Join me next Wednesday at 2pm EST at https://tradingwithcody.com/chat or send me an email with your question at support@tradingwithcody.com. All rightie, cowboys and cowgirls, get saddled up. Let’s ride. Q. Happy New Year, Cody. Was just wondering if you had any short term trades in mind […]
Riding the bull: Trade Alert – Taking profits on the Dollar shorts and also on some Sandisk calls
Mornin’ y’all, and welcome back to the rodeo, where the bulls buck hard and only the best of the best can hold on til the buzzer. Our second largest position on the short side of our ledger, Dollar General, reported another round of dismal earnings and outlook and it’s down to the lowest levels its […]
Trade Alert and complete technical analysis for Facebook
Did we just see a blow-off top in Facebook this morning as it spiked another 3% to the highest levels its been in months? The stock has since faded and is up less than 1% as I type this which certainly begs the question of whether that morning rally was a blow-off top for the […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: Tranche Selling, Housing and Accounting Questions
Here’s the transcript to this week’s Live Q&A chat. Join me next Wednesday at 2pm EST at https://tradingwithcody.com/chat or send me an email with your question at support@tradingwithcody.com. Let’s rock n roll, baby. Q. Cody, what percentage of your trading portfolio is currently long? Cash? Short? A. As you know, I always include the disclaimer […]
Amazon is cheaper than Wal-Mart
Commentary: Look five years out to explain Amazon’s P/E What we’re focused on here today is Wal-Mart, with its massive global retail empire, versus Amazon, with its massive global “retail” empire. We added Amazon to the Revolution Investing portfolio in July, despite its triple-digit P/E ratio. Why? Amazon As Platform (AAP). Notice Wal-Mart was the […]
Trade Alert – Eden’s Apple and more FB analysis
Facebook traded flat in the pre-market and then opened up about 2% above last night’s close and hasn’t looked back. There stock is up 12% in the closing hour. Nearly a billion shares have hit the market today, meaning that nearly $20 billion of equity hit which of course could have swamped the buyers out […]
Trade Alert – In 3-D
Long-time Revolution Investing subscribers know that my ranch was hard hit last summer by the Little Bear fire that raged through central New Mexico in June. I was incredibly fortunate that my home, loved-ones and animals were unhurt, but it was nonetheless very traumatic. Today, I started smelling smoke again, after reading a lengthy, detailed expose […]
Trade Alert – More scaling, but don’t be a daredevil
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying. – Anonymous Bulls got no mojo. The selling pressure continues to swamp the bids and the markets just keep fading lower. Apple’s down after trying to open higher, and I think we’ve got to let it sit for now before doing another set of tranche buying. And […]
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Cody Kiss & Tell: Calling the Top, DDD and FIO Volatility, AONE Strategy and the Sprint Buyout
Here’s the transcript to this week’s Live Q&A chat. Join me next Wednesday at 2pm EST at https://tradingwithcody.com/chat or send me an email with your question at support@tradingwithcody.com. First things first: Did you guys know that at the end of each calendar month, the Top Trader at http://ThatMattered.com wins a free one month subscription to […]