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 – GLW Nuance Riverbed […]
After having flagged them as I was doing…
After having flagged them as I was doing them for you dear subscribers, I’ve still got my GLD and SLV puts which have some big profits on them. I just added to the hedge of those a by adding some more DBA. Here’s what the DBA profile is: The investment seeks to track the price […]
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
Quick bulls, what’s the bear case?! And…
Quick bulls, what’s the bear case?! And tell right now, bears, what’s the bull thesis? Several years ago, I trademarked the term “Flip It” because I noticed how crucial it is for great investors, traders, thinkers, business people, comedians, and everybody to flip conventional wisdom upside down. The old saying, “Buy when others are fearful […]
Let’s review what I’ve been doing to re-…
Let’s review what I’ve been doing to re-build my portfolio in broad terms. From a strategic standpoint, I’ve been buying the best companies I can find in the App Revolution and the Cloud Revolution which I think will explode into a new bubble in coming years and I’ve complimented those longs with long positions in […]
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 […]
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
And there’s the market’s intraday fade t…
And there’s the market’s intraday fade that I was talking about in the post last night about what to expect from the market upon the news of Osama Bin Laden’s death. The morning pop and subsequent reversal weren’t nearly as dramatic as they were the Monday after we caught Saddam Hussein, but the same sort […]
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 […]
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 […]
Stocks are looking to open flat, and we …
Stocks are looking to open flat, and we might actually have a first day in a very long time without a huge move in any our stocks. But that’s because it’s Monday and there aren’t any major earnings reports until this evening and then our earnings catalyst will really kick in again starting tomorrow. We’re […]
I’m republishing this for the email subs…
I’m republishing this for the email subscribers so you can tell where Marcin’s comments stop and mine start (look for the =====) One of my Wall Street mentors wrote the following today: Robert Marcin The Hubris of The Bulls… 4/14/2011 10:37 AM EDT Not the equity bulls. They had their head chopped off in 2008-2009. […]
One of my Wall Street mentors wrote the …
One of my Wall Street mentors wrote the following today: Robert Marcin The Hubris of The Bulls… 4/14/2011 10:37 AM EDT Not the equity bulls. They had their head chopped off in 2008-2009. Even after a historic rally, they are subdued. I mean the commodity/precious metal bulls, currently the most arrogant group of investors on […]
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 […]
Nice rally to close the day as the contr…
Nice rally to close the day as the contra hour reversed yesterday’s ugly close and powered us steadily higher. I bought the DBA and that’s it today. One of my old mentors used to tease me about an answer I once gave on CNBC, when I answered Larry Kudlow’s question of “Cody, is the stock […]
I just bought some DBA, which is the sym…
I just bought some DBA, which is the symbol for the ETF otherwise known as Power Shares DB Agriculture Fund, an exchange-traded fund of food and agriculture related stocks. One of the core themes in my approach for the last few years o is a bet that the things we need are likely to go up […]
Ugly, slippery action into the close and…
Ugly, slippery action into the close and the markets end lower on the day for the first time in a long while. Other than the LPS short, my trading sheets are bare today and that’s ok. I’ve got a couple more names I’m looking to buy, such as the DBA, which will reflects a basket […]
I bought some Nuance and that’s about it…
I bought some Nuance and that’s about it into the close. Is the week already over?! It’s important for investors and traders to acknowledge the broader macro-economic cycle and how it can affect your portfolio. And more to the point, with government helping fund most of the biggest corporations and the financial sector that […]
I’ve added to my Cisco January 13 $20 st…
I’ve added to my Cisco January 13 $20 strike price calls and will continue to look to add to existing positions into the close depending on how much we might sell off in the contra (final) hour. As the markets’ sell offs accelerate here as word of Saudi Arabia’s dictatorship shooting on demonstrators in the […]