Trade Alert - Trading with Cody (Page 52)

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Trade Alert – When the Price Is Right, Bet on a Cliffhanger

Let’s play if The Price Is Right! You’ve won the bidding round and now you’re up to play the classic Cliffhanger Game (How to play Cliff Hangers: guess the price on three items! For each dollar you are higher or lower than the actual retail price, the

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Trade Alert – Reflexivity (And adding to a ramping stock)

Reflexivity is a concept that explains how the markets can feed off the headlines which can feed off the market action which can feed off the emotions of the masses which can feed off the headlines which can feed off the market action and so on…. I’ve observed, written

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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

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Trade Alert – A euphoric tech sell and a disciplined but embarrassing buy

Our biggest position Google, courtesy of the Google calls we added when the stock was in a lull period two months ago, Latest positions (and Trade Alert – Noogle Gibble, er Google Nibble), is hitting new all-time highs yet again, and I think it’s time to trim a little bit

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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

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Trade Alert – Don’t order oysters at the diner

Good morning and welcome back to the diner, where you better stick with the stuff on the first couple pages of the encyclopedia-length menus that include things like Crab-stuffed Oysters. There’s a time and place for everything, see? And the time and place for crab-stuffed oysters isn’t at

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Trade Alert – Some active portfolio management with an update on gold and banks

Today I want to review a few positions in the portfolio and continue our endless pursuit of maximizing our long-term upside while minimizing our long-term risk through active portfolio management. I entered Baidu back in July as a technology platform play that doubled as exposure to China. It’s a

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Trade Alert – Tiny toe, Markets movements, Apple action, earnings insights

The markets sure have had a hard time busting through the DJIA 14k range. You know I’m not nearly as bullish for the near-term as I have been in the past few years (especially when there’s not a panic out there to buy against). That said, I had

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Trade Alert – Adding some broker puts as tension builds

Tension is building out there in the markets. The bears can’t believe that the markets are at all time highs even with Apple acting like it is. The Google gets a couple analysts putting $1000 price targets on it, and you have to wonder if we’re in for

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Trade Alert – GOOG and ZAGG (And be sure to check out the new TradingWithCody Social Network!)

Couple of small trades this morning, as we continue to actively manage our portfolio to best maximize our upside and minimize our risk. We bought some June $800 Google calls back on January 4, when the stock was at $730 a share. It crossed $800 yesterday and those calls have

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Trade Alert – Flip the fruit ninja

Flip it. Be contrarian. A good friend of mine who used to be a bigwig over at Google and now is a bigwig at a startup and who is a subscriber to TradingWithCody.com, wrote to me the following after reading last week’s full transcript to our more recent

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Trade Alert – There’s gold in them hills, but there’s a catch

Back when gold was still in the three digits pricing, (that is, when it was trading for less than $1000 an ounce), I put it in the Revolution Investing newsletter and we later sold it for a nice profit. I later put GLD and SLV short positions into the Revolution

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