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Where the heck did the trading day go? It’s already the contra hour and I’ve been pedal to the metal all day but this is the first time I’ve sat at the computer all day. The markets are flattish to down. Greece sovereign debt crisis is dominating
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It’s fried-day, as my old pal Herb Greenberg from CNBC used to write back at TheStreet.com a decade ago. It was a long week with lots of headlines, earnings, and Fed developments. I’ve listened to and/or read the transcript from dozens of earnings calls not to
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Yesterday in the chat, I was asked this detailed question and I gave these detailed answers. Our editors decided it was worthy of a full article for you guys. I agree. Q: Cody, you have mentioned several times about cash positions and it depends on how it fits into one’
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Two quick items to address before today’s linkfest. Specifically, I bought some Riverbed options with strikes right around $30 or just above that expire in three to six months. Again, I’m still net long just doing some prudent hedging. Lots of questions today about EKDKQ. I’m holding
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Two earnings trading thoughts into tonight’s round of reports. 1. Riverbed – The stock has been on an absolutely tear of late and is up 30% from recent lows and at new recent highs today. We’ve seen a pattern this earnings season of tech stocks that are near their
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The markets are holding steady this morning and we remain near recent highs, which for the markets, also happen to be as high as they’ve been since last spring. The markets are near annual highs and the question that nobody seems to be asking is what happens if we
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You guys remember when we were loading up on Sandisk calls back when SNDK was in the $30s? It’s now at $51. And yes, we’ve taken a lot of profits along the way and as you might have noticed, the stock’s not been a big position in
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“I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives.” – Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, Book 2, Chapter 6 Well, it’s a tale
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After weeks of exhaustive research uncovering the industries and companies that are in the most trouble right here, right now, I’m proud to release my latest investment book to you dear TradingWithCody subscribers. The new book is called “The Dirty Dozen: Twelve Stocks with Fundamentally Broken Business Models”. You
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Our favorite short and one that’s been a huge winner for us is the ol’ Lender Processing Services, which likes to tout itself as a technology software company but is really almost a pureplay on the modern-day mortgage complex. The stock’s been up about 5% in the last
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Capt. Jimmy Wilder: Let’s kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy! — Independence Day It’s a brand new day with new people to meet, stocks to research and trades to analyze. Tonight we have two of our biggest positions reporting earnings — Apple and Fusion-IO. Apple is one
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Quick clarification in the numbers here. When I was typing, I accidentally hit 22 cents instead of 33 cents a share for the EKDKQ trade that I mentioned earlier. So to be clear — I’d try to get Eastman Kodak for a short-term long trade here below 35 cents a
