Trade Alert - Trading with Cody (Page 57)

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Trade Alert: Putting a hand on a hot stove

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity. – Albert Einstein Apple’s down 2% on the day which takes it down a full 10% from

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Trade Alert: Upticks, optimism, Apollo and Zynga

Let’s jump right in this morning. First off, let’s hit on my comments about the marked uptick in optimism at yesterday’s UNM Alumni Board meeting. I even asked the new President of the University about his concern that more austerity would further cut the UNM budget, and

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Trade Alert: Three trades and must-read headlines

There’s an awful lot of angst if not outright fear out there amongst the bulls. The high-beta stocks and especially big tech have been the leaders on the way up of late, but the momentum seems to be about to run out, at least for the near-term. I’m

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Trade Alert: More trims; PLUS Everything You Need To Know About 3D Systems Corp.

Before I jump into the hard core DDD analysis, let’s talk markets and stocks and trading for today. Feet to fire it feels like we go higher today, but again, I’m not making any moves on that analysis. I am however continuing to follow my playbook which means

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Trade Alert: Latest positions and locking in some big profits

You’ll notice I’ve lowered most of the long ratings 1 point. You know how I’ve been positioned for this kind of a bubbliciuos rally int he markets, and there will be another chance to get aggressively long again. The portfolio has had another heckuva run in the

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Trade Alert: Headlines and finally adding to this position

Lots of headlines to run through…but hardly a move in the markets for the day so far. I’m finally adding a new tranche of buying to my FB, adding just about 15-20% as much as I already own. I’ll be adding a little common and also to

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Trade Alert: Make the hardest trade; another trim of another big winner

Well, I’ve got butterflies in my stomach. The portfolio was already on a big tear higher when we hit the huge pop the last two days. And this kind of huge move in the markets which is reflected even stronger in our portfolios is making me nervous. Two days

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Trade Alert: Flashback to the last time we were at these levels and run from cocky stock brokers

The last time the Nasdaq traded this high, here were the headlines. See how closely you can get to the exact date without clicking through: Northern chill sends oil price up over $35 a barrel – World oil prices began to shoot past the $35 mark overnight as the first cold

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Trade Alert: Economic analysis and adding to a short

I can’t bring myself to fully read, much less report to you guys, what the latest “He said, she said” so-called reports from the gathering of a bunch of bank-groveling bureaucrats from a continent’s supposed central bank whose charter, mandate and authority seems to change on a monthly

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Trade Alert: Buying puts to hedge the portfolio

A couple other trades I’m putting on today. I’m adding to my LPS and Morgan Stanley short positions via puts. Been a long time since I felt the need to be get more aggressive on my short hedging. I still think the path of least resistance for the

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Trade Alert: Drinking the water while it is cold

Lindsay is down nearly $10 from its recent highs, even as it remains up nearly $10 from where we first started buying it. I’ve not sold a share since we first bought it and I’d like to add to it now while it’s down even as its

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Trade Alert: Buying when it’s down

The headline on Baidu’s breakdown today: Baidu [BIDU 111.84 -10.96 (-8.93%) ] fell after Deutsche Bank downgraded the Chinese search giant, saying it was expected to lose traffic share to Qihoo 360 Technology [QIHU 23.49 -1.09 (-4.43%) ]. Nothing new here for long-term investors, as

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