I bought the Google calls and am watching LPS continue to crack. Riverbed and Ciena both look tempting to me, but I was a buyer of both in front of you guys at lower levels in recent weeks and I'm not going to force anything more just now. The S&P 500 and the DJIA are both literally flat on the day, up 0.00% at this minute as I type. Don't lose focus, but there's … [Read more...] about I bought the Google calls and am watchin…
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Here’s a list of my positions, in approx…
Here's a list of my positions, in approximate order from largest to smallest, though the variations between relative sizes are decreasing as time wears on and I get these longer positions built up. We'll have some shorter-term and newer name trades in coming weeks to complement these longer-term positions. Longs … [Read more...] about Here’s a list of my positions, in approx…
Here’s a list of my positions, in approx…
Here's a list of my positions, in approximate order from largest notional size, to smallest: Longs - Corning Nuance Riverbed Cisco Cypress Celestica Ciena Microsoft Apple Google Adtran DBA Visteon Nokia Shorts - GLD SLV LPS LYV XLF CVC … [Read more...] about Here’s a list of my positions, in approx…
Silver has dislocated itself to the down…
Silver has dislocated itself to the downside again today, losing almost 5% this morning and making our SLV puts pop. Gold down. It sure seems to me that silver and not gold is the driver of the direction of the precious metals everyday. Nice gains in the portfolio again this morning and I've not pulled any triggers so far today. As noted by one of our loyal subscribers, … [Read more...] about Silver has dislocated itself to the down…
With Nokia, Ciena and Riverbed all up 3%…
With Nokia, Ciena and Riverbed all up 3% plus today, we ended up nicely green by the close after bobbing up and down most of the day. We'll take it. I bought those long-dated Softee call options and that was the only trigger pull of the day from my headquarters. Nuance announced earnings after the bell, but that was already baked in because they'd pre-announced the upside … [Read more...] about With Nokia, Ciena and Riverbed all up 3%…
Here’s my positions, in general order fr…
Here's my positions, in general order from largest notional position to smallest, though they all are about where I want them to be right now: Longs - Corning Cisco Nuance Celestica Cypress Riverbed Ciena Apple Microsoft DBA Visteon Google Nokia Adtran Shorts - GLD SLV LPS XLF LYV … [Read more...] about Here’s my positions, in general order fr…
We are probably now more than halfway th…
We are probably now more than halfway through with the earnings season, though next week will bring another barrage and there are a few laggard reporting schedules after that too. Here's the earnings dates for all our positions: aapl - Already Reported on Apr 20th adtn - Already Reported on Apr 13th cien - June 6th cls - Already reported on Apr 21st csco - May … [Read more...] about We are probably now more than halfway th…
It’s a flattish open, but the story of t…
It's a flattish open, but the story of the day is the 15% drop, the crushing of RIMM. I've kept us out of RIMM and even had it as a short position in the Revolution Investing model portfolio last year before I started trading again where we rode it down from over $100 to some big profits before covering. Microsoft is down a couple percent after reporting a strong quarter, but … [Read more...] about It’s a flattish open, but the story of t…
Japan’s dumping thousands of tons of hig…
Japan's dumping thousands of tons of highly radioactive waste into our oceans, China raises rates and bank reserve requirements, our own Republican/Democrat Regime continues to find trillions in new forms of corporate and banker welfare as they cut trillions in social services for the elderly and poor, the banks in the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain) are … [Read more...] about Japan’s dumping thousands of tons of hig…
It’s a flattish open as we remain cataly…
It's a flattish open as we remain catalyst-less until we fully enter earnings season in the next couple weeks. Here's a list of my longs and shorts so far: Longs- Apple Ciena Celestica Cisco Cypress DBA Corning Google Microsoft Nokia Nuance Riverbed Shorts - Lender Processing Services XLF I'm going to look to start building up the short … [Read more...] about It’s a flattish open as we remain cataly…