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Nice intraday rally continues as the emotions and worries over Japan’s disaster today start to fade and traders look to position themselves into the weekend. The shorts have had a huge week, and are feeling great about double digit gains in many of their most-hated positions. And that propels
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I’m personally starting to buy some of these app revolution stocks back using both common and some longer-dated call options. If you’d like to see the details behind what stocks and options I am purchasing for my own account, please sign up at http://tradingwithcody.com. You guys
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I expect to get up to about 15-20 total positions in this portfolio with about 2/3 of the picks longs and 1/3 shorts by the time I’m done building in this set up. That 2/3 longs vs 1/3 short set up is in large part
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Prayers and hopes go out to everybody affected by the tragedy in Japan. Obviously this is a human story. As we all have a commitment and duty to address each of our daily routines and jobs, mine is to try to navigate the markets again today. Stepping back then, its
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Most of the stock markets closed near their lows of the day by the time the contra hour was over, but I’ll tell you I thought they’d fade even harder than that after the panicky action once the news that Saudi Arabia was shooting on protesters in the
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I’ve added to my Cisco January 13 $20 strike price calls and will continue to look to add to existing positions into the close depending on how much we might sell off in the contra (final) hour. As the markets’ sell offs accelerate here as word of Saudi Arabia’
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I just bought some Celestica and some slightly-in-money Celestica calls dated a few months out. Careful with the call options in this name, which even though the premiums aren’t bad, there’s just not a lot of liquidity or offers out there for these. Use the common stock if
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I got some of my early morning purchasing done here when the market was at its (so far) worst of the day. I outlined the following playbook for my Revolution Investing newsletter subscribers back on February 8: “Here’s what my experience and analysis says on how the near-term market
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Whoa nellie, it’s ugly out there this morning, eh? I’ve been being very patient and steady and while I will continue to steady-pace, I am likely to double how much capital today than I have most of the other days this week. That is, I’m likely to
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Thar’ she blows! And another day is in the books once again. It’s a bit painful paying 1x or even worse, 2x, more than these stocks were at when I first added them to the Revolution Investing portfolio, but that is yet another reason why I’m starting off
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I’m shorting my first stock in three and a half years, right now, as I hit the shortsell button on Lender Processing Services (LPS) in the thinkorswim.com account I’m managing my personal account from. With a stock price up 15% year-to-date, an LPS short offers the most
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Well, I was up at 5am here in NM time, talking about cattle trading, inflation, the fallacy of a difference between the Republican and Democrat policies despite each of their respective claims of being otherwise, and…the opportunity in buying long-dated, Cisco calls. The stock is trading at about 7x
