It’s still a flattish, range bound market. Here’s the Nasdaq over the last month, pretty much when we started selling down and hedging: It’s been flat and/or trying to peak here. And here’s the Nasdaq for the last year: Up 33% over the last year. Despite all the recycled headlines of how the EU’s debt […]
Facebook analysis from a kid half my age
I asked a really bright college student who loves trading and Wall Street and technology and all that stuff to take what he knew about my Facebook analysis and build off it with more detail and maybe some new insights into the stock that we might have missed. He sent me this a couple weeks […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: Adages, Gaming Expiration, and much more
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. Hello everybody, let’s do this! Ask me anything. Q. Do you pay any attention to any of the adages? Sell Rosh Hashana buy Kippur or the LOW VIX reading now […]
Revolutionomics Principle: Adoption rates of new technologies continue to accelerate
BOOK : The Revolutionary Technology Can’t you just picture a bunch of monks, counts and princes fighting over the patents for say, “page turning” or for “bound cover” in the same way Apple, Amazon, Google, et al fight over patents for “swipe screen” and “app placement” in smartphone technologies of today? Isn’t this just about how […]
Markets analysis and must-reads
Markets feel heavy, like they want to fade lower today. I’m not a daytrader though, and I’m going to stick with my playbook, which has been one of betting on an overall bull market by buying pullbacks, getting aggressively long on panics, and trimming/hedging when we hit new highs. As we have been hitting new […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: Facebook lockup, FIO upside, the Mainstream media and more…
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. Hi Cody, I would like to ask your advice in how to start investing. I mean, I don’t have […]
Top 5 most shocking stocks that have doubled in the last year
Subscribers have heard me say this a dozen times but the stock market doesn’t work on your schedule. Check out this chart from Alpha Trends via my friend Barry Ritholtz. With the country falling apart and things as bleak as they’ve ever been, stocks rallied more than 15% eight times and even doubled twice. And look […]
Let’s think this through: Markets and economic analysis
I just heard on the financial news tv station as I was brushing my teeth this morning that only 11% of long/short hedge fund managers are outperforming the markets this year. I’ve talked a lot all year about how the professional money manager has seemed to be overly bearish about the near-term and they’ve obviously […]
How to build up a winning position
Sometimes you encounter the champagne problem of stock trading, having the companies you love start to rocket just as you start buying them. Here’s an example of what I’m talking about, from last week’s TradingWithCody.com chat: Q. 3D Systems DDD +0.55% and SYSS going gangbusters….I want to add and I know we exchanged notes about adding more in the […]
Fused markets
The markets are mixed to down fractionally this morning. There’s a collective summer apathy that’s permeating the trading this morning. I’m ready for the weekend after a long week of work, how about you? Our long-maligned Fusion-IO is up more than 25% today, having delivered a rather shocking quarter of growth, coming in nearly 20% […]
Everything You Need to Know About Investing
Please click here to write a review for the book on Amazon.com when you’ve finished reading it. Thanks in advance. Read as PDF (right click to or click through and download the PDF version): Everything You Need to Know About Investing Everything You Need to Know About Investing • 1 Introduction Page 4 Getting Started: […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: Romney’s IRA, Apple dividend, Nuance rising and more…
Here’s the transcript to this week’s Live Q&A chat. Join me next Wednesday at noon at https://tradingwithcody.com/chat or send me an email with your question at support@tradingwithcody.com. All rightie guys, let’s rock n roll. Ask me anything. Q. You said yesterday you aren’t selling but for those who cant sleep sell some as we had […]
Trade Alert: Real World Wall Street
This is the true story… of strangers… picked to live in a house…work together and have their lives taped… to find out what happens… when people stop being polite… and start getting real…MTV’s Real World Wall Street. Good morning and welcome back to MTV’s Real World Wall Street. There’s a bunch of news with a […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: Why a contrarian?, Tech risks, Apple’s earnings and much more
Here’s the transcript to this week’s Live Q&A chat. Join me next Wednesday at noon at https://tradingwithcody.com/chat or send me an email with your question at support@tradingwithcody.com. Yo! I’m here, sorry for the delayed start. Had a visitor in my office and it ran late. All right, let’s rock n roll. I’m here and you […]
Trade Alert: How to invest in 3D printing
Looking at our Revolution Investing portfolio makes me really excited. And looking headlines like this makes me really bullish: Roubini: My ‘Perfect Storm’ Scenario Is Unfolding Now Dr. Doom Nouriel Roubini says the “perfect storm” scenariou he forecast for the global economy earlier this year is unfolding right now as growth slows in the U.S., […]
Trade Alert: Two new platform buys and a closed pair trade
Happy July 4th to you and yours. Hope and trust you’ll all be safe celebrating America’s 236th birthday, especially those of you setting of fireworks in the super-dry west. As we celebrate our revolution here is the U.S. of A there’s a non-revolution brewing in the non-United-States-of-a-Zone-in-Europe. Last week Germany decided to make ‘concessions‘ which […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: The best Q&A we’ve ever had
All rightie folks, let’s meet for our weekly 1-hour Q&A. Ask me anything. Q. Hi Cody, can you recommend any investment/trading conferences and shows you like. I signed up for optionMonster conference July 26-27 in Chicago. Looking for other ideas. Thanks! A. Good question, which leads me to have a question for you and the […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: The Fire, The EU Crisis, Facebook Options, TBTF Banks and much more…
We came up with a new, more compelling title for these weekly Q&A Chat Transcripts, Cody Kiss & Tell. Here’s the transcript of the back and forth (via email this week because I couldn’t log on for the live chat) with subscribers from TradingWithCody.com. How can we HELP U to HELP others affected by the […]
Updated analysis on the EU crisis and three of our weakest stocks
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. Those are the words on the facade of the James Farley post office on 8th Avenue in Manhattan, derived from a Herodotus quote. It’s an incredible building that takes up an entire New York […]
Chat Transcript for June 6, 2012: Scenarios for Europe, Facebook’s platform/operating system and much 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. Hi guys, sorry I’m late. Let’s rock. Q. What percentage of your portfolio is long what percentage of it is short? Also you often say EU problems won’t affect this or […]