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Pretty strong move in the overall markets here today, with nice breadth (“nice breadth” means that there were a lot of stocks up and not that many stocks down). My overall combined portfolios barely budged today. Those Amazon calls we held despite the sell off after earnings have come back
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The phrase jump the shark comes from a scene in the fifth season premiere episode of the American TV series Happy Daystitled “Hollywood: Part 3,” written by Fred Fox, Jr.[4], and aired on September 20, 1977. In the episode, the central characters visit Los Angeles, where a water-skiing Fonzie(
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Here’s what I was reading and thinking about this morning when I wasn’t shooting hoops outside in the brisk mountain air. The Biggest, Baddest Bubble of Them All – David Merkel writes: The biggest bubble, waiting to pop, is that of [I don’t want to give away the
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As the riders loped on by him he heard one call his name If you want to save your soul from Hell a-riding on our range Then cowboy change your ways today or with us you will ride Trying to catch the Devil’s herd, across these endless skies – Ghost
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Modell: You know what word I’m not comfortable with? Nuance. It’s not a real word. Like gesture. Gesture’s a real word. With gesture you know where you stand. But nuance? I don’t know. Maybe I’m wrong. – Diner (1982) Nuance quarter, quick take: Nice growth, continued
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I get asked all the time, for years on end now, questions like this one I got today: AAPL price action scares me—and I’m way long. Don’t like parabolic moves. What do you you think is happening there Cody? Revaluation of PE or machines running wild? My
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Here’s the transcript of today’s chat. We broke the questions and answers down into two sections as usual — Economy/markets/trading/strategy and Stocks. See you next week at 2pm EST at http://tradingwithcody.com/chat for more Q&A where you can ask me anything. Economy/
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Don’t forget this week’s chat session at 2pm EST at http://tradingwithcody.com/chat where you can ask me anything. Here’s what I was reading and thinking about when I wasn’t cutting wood this morning. CBO Solution to Budget Crisis – Everyone Bend Over! – Bruce’s title
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The nation of all the Gauls is extremely devoted to superstitious rites; and on that account they who are troubled with unusually severe diseases and they who are engaged in battles and dangers, either sacrifice men as victims, or vow that they will sacrifice them, and employ the Druids as
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Good-bye January, hello leap-year-February. Before you knew it, 1/12th of the trading year, 8.3333% (repeating), is gone for good. We’re at new levels of absurdity. March 20th is the vernal equinox and the day €14.5 billion in debt payments come due for Greece. Note that I
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The markets are getting back a little bit of what we gave up and the broader indices remain near highs. “Sticky” is how you could describe this action as the markets are “sticking” near their recent highs like an old piece of tape on your dashboard. Is it possible that
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I woke up with something wrong going on with my system and I’ve spent the day just trying to recover enough to get productive. Regardless, the markets stop for no man. So let’s talk it. Markets are flattish to slightly down on the day and there’s a
