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The darkening of the market mood is palpable. Just two months ago stocks were going up in a straight line and everyone was in agreement that the economy was picking up steam. Funny what a difference a big down move can make. Let’s look at some numbers. In the
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You won’t find Google on Apple’s list of its suppliers (it’s here in PDF form if you want to check). But they should absolutely be there right between ‘Fujikura‘ and ‘Grand Upright TechnologyLtd.’, because Google is one of the most critical suppliers in the iOS ecosystem. And
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So I finally take a couple days off and all hell breaks lose? It seems like the markets want to crash every time I happen to take a rare couple of days off. And last Thursday and Friday followed that strange pattern. When the markets were at their highs in
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Here are my trades for the week of May 14th thru May 18th: Common Stock: Stock Long or Short Action Date Initiated Time Initiated Price LNN – Lindsay Corp. Long Buy 5/15/2012 1:22pm $61.17 Have a great weekend, everybody!
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We haven’t learned any lessons from the ethanol debacle. Subverting our food supply chain in search of energy is one of the dumbest trades of all time. So when I see headlines like this from the Denver Post, I fret: Fracking bidders top farmers at water auction By BRUCE
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Here’s the transcript of today’s chat. See you next week at 2pm EST at http://tradingwithcody.com/chat for more Q&A where you can ask me anything.All right guys, ask me anything. Q. Any idea or explanation why some important AAPL suppliers have completely different
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Flattish. The markets aren’t doing much today and I’m not doing any trading so far. Two quick housekeeping notes — 1. I’m going to southern Colorado to go flyfishing with my father for the next couple days. I’ve not taken a market day off in a long
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Flip It. It’s a concept that I created when I was learning to invest that is all about looking at the news, the trades, the analysis, and everything else completely upside down from what you’ve been taught. When the economy is rosy, and everybody thinks it’s a
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For the last 30 years the price of oil has been on a steady climb upward. NYMEX traders who used to sit around all day for a penny move in crude now have to deal with $4 intraday spikes. Peak oil and the feeling everyone has that we are running
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Talking babies notwithstanding, Etrade has seen better days. It’s the rare company that got clobbered by Web Bubble 1.0 and the ownership of subprime debt. Here’s a chart of its all-time performance: Facebook recently added Etrade as an underwriter along with usual suspects like Goldman Sachs,
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Last month I told you Six ways to invest in Facebook before the IPO. Now we’re a month closer and about a week out from that holy day. A company founded in a dorm room less than a decade ago is about to be the biggest American company to
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Good morning and welcome back to the show, where the stars aren’t always what you should have your eyes on. The broader markets are to open soft again this morning, but they are all still up 1-2% from the lows they opened at on Friday when I’d
