Cody Willard - Trading with Cody (Page 206)

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Full markets analysis and two housekeeping items

Flattish start to the day. And the longer we sit around here trying to break through these levels in the Nasdaq and the broader markets too, the more you’ll hear the technicians and the pundits talk about how that becomes bigger resistance to a higher high. The flip side

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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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“Stick” with Baidu: Deep analysis on the long-term fundamental set-up

Before bouncing back nearly 10% from its recent lows, Baidu’s stock has taken it on the chin as of late and I wanted to do a run down of the events. We’ve had some decent gains in this position since we initially added it and we’re up

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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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Apple deja vu

I like to tell the story about how a few years ago, one of the Fast Money Five sent me an email explaining in great detail why Apple was about to collapse. Something to do with the consumer being backed into a corner and a recession imminent, I believe. The

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Apple, Samsung, Google and Microsoft and the big court ruling

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. Jane Austen Good morning and welcome back to the garden, where you need lots of sunshine, lots of water and lots of care to flourish.

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Trades for the week of August 20th through August 24th

Here are my trades for the week of August 20th through August 24th: Common Stock: Stock Action Date Initiated Time Initiated Price AAPL – Apple Trim 8/20/2012 12:51pm $661.56 BIDU – Baidu Long 8/23/2012 12:59pm $111.82 Options: Stock CALL or PUT Action Date Initiated

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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,

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Deep thoughts about platforms, new and old

Over the last few years, I’ve repeatedly called RIMM dead, I’ve said over and over that Dell’s brand and business are ruined (see Good Morning America’s Bianna Golodryga interviewing me in this clip when she was still an assistant for CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo), and I’

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Internet 3.0 and Fusion-IO’s place in it

Here’s an analyst note I read yesterday about a trend that our little ol’ Fusion-IO is helping to create from scratch before our eyes: IT Hardware : Quick Thoughts: All-Flash Arrays Appear on Path Toward Mainstream Adoption. Our Quick Thoughts series distills salient company-specific or secular dynamics

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Cody Kiss & Tell: Facebook lockup, FIO upside, the Mainstream media and more…

Here’s the transcript to this week’s Live Q&A chat. Join me next Wednesday at 2pm EST at http://tradingwithcody.com/chat or send me an email with your question at support@tradingwithcody.com. Let’s rock n roll. Ask me anything. Q. Hi Cody, I would

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TradingWithCody Linkfest

Flattish markets. Don’t chase. And remember if you were stressed out six weeks ago at the lows, be sure to do some trimming/selling. And don’t forget to meet me at 2pm EST at TradingWithCody.com/Chat for this week’s Live Q&A. And just email

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