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Trade Alert – Buying back some FB as planned. And a complete run-down of my Latest Positions

Cody Willard

Cody Willard

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On March 10, when $FB was above $70 a share, I sent out the following Trade Alert –

I am however going to trim down a bit of our biggest position, Facebook, just to lock in some more profits.

I’m stepping back in and buying exactly as many shares of Facebook as I sold on that profit-taking trade this morning at $56-57ish. This is why we tranche buy and sell and this is how move to take advantage of the swings the markets give us.

Here’s a list of my latest positions. I’ve broken the list into Longs and Shorts. And from there, I’ve broken down each list into refined categories in order from the largest positions within each category to the smallest.

Finally, I give each stock a current rating from 1 to 10, 1 being “Get out of this position now!” and 10 being “Sell the farm, I’ve found a perfect investment” (there will never be a 10 rating, because there is no such thing as a perfect investment, of course).

So here’s the list:

Longs –

  • Forever assets and other permanent holdings –
    • Media and other private investment/business holdings (9+ because betting on yourself and running a biz is always a best bet)
    • Real estate, including land and the ranch I live on in NM (7)
    • Physical gold bullion & coins (9)
    • BitCoin (7)
  • Primary stock exposure portfolio
    • Apple (8)
    • Google (6)
    • Facebook (9)
    • Intel (8)
    • Sandisk (7)
    • First Solar (7)
    • InvenSense (8)
    • Juniper (7)
    • Amazon (7)
    • Lindsay (7)
    • JDS Uniphase (8)
    • Calgone (7)
    • Cree (7)
    • Ciena (7)
  • Short-term Russian options trade
    • Yandex (8)
  • Long-term social basket
    • LinkedIn (7)
    • Zynga (5)
  • Long-term 3-D printing basket
    • Stratasys (7)

Shorts –

  • Primary short portfolio
    • GSV Capital (6)
    • IBM (9)
    • Pandora (6)
    • Apollo (8)
    • Dollar Tree (8)
    • XRT (8)
    • Plug (8)
    • IWM/SPY (7)
  • Welfare bank basket
    • GS (7)
    • JPM (6)
  • Samsung/South Korea basket
    • EWY (9)
  • Bet on interest rates rising
    • IEF (7)

** NOTE FOR NEW SUBSCRIBERS:

If you’re new to TradingWithCody or if you’ve been a subscriber for a while but haven’t acted on much of my strategies yet and/or if you haven’t been in the markets, but you’re sick of getting 0% on your CDs, Treasuries, savings, checking, etc while the markets have been continually hitting all-time highs this year, what should you do now?

First, step back and catch your breath before moving any money anywhere and make sure you’re not about to make any emotional moves with your money.

If you haven’t yet read “Everything You Need to Know About Investing” then spend a couple hours doing so, please. It’s a quick read but chock-full of important ideas, concepts and strategies that amateurs and pros alike should understand.

Then, take a look below at my own personal portfolio’s Latest Positions and slowly start to scale into some of the ones you like best and/or the ones I have rated highest right now. I’d look to start scaling into a few of the many stocks in the Latest Positions that are at all-time highs along with a couple that we’ve recently featured in our Weekly Trades that I’ve personally been scaling into.

You can find an archive of Trade Alerts here – http://tradingwithcody.com/category/trade-alert/.

And you can find an archive of our summary of those Trade Alerts in our Weekly Trades archive here – http://tradingwithcody.com/category/trades-of-the-week/.

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