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Trade Alert – Buying back some puts and some true fairy tales

I’m buying back the PCLN puts I sold for quadruples earlier this week. Using December $950s. And that’s it for the trading for me today. Dollars, currency wars, volatility and gold. Lots to hit on here today and this will be one of the rare times you will

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Subscriber Chat Room Archive (October 3rd – October 9th)

Here’s the past week’s discussion from the TradingWithCody.com Subscriber Chat Room: ebdavids October 4, 2013 – 12:48 pm @Cody: unless you’ve touched on it before, or feel it’s too soon — what would you say would be a good play in the social media basket (all

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Cody Kiss & Tell: The Ace Frehley of Wall Street and much more

Here is 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. Yo diggities. Q. In times like this, I wonder what the things are

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Note the dollar

Markets are trying to put in an intraday bounce. This will be one of the rare times you will see me sight the dollar action as an impetus for stock market direction. The dollar is rallying hard. It’s not the direction or the magnitude of currency movements that causes

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A plethora of trade updates

El Guapo: Would you say I have a plethora of pinatas? Jefe: A what? El Guapo: A *plethora*. Jefe: Oh yes, you have a plethora. El Guapo: Jefe, what is a plethora? Jefe: Why, El Guapo? El Guapo: Well, you told me I have a plethora. And I just would

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Trade Alert – Locking in a couple 300% plus gains

Selling a tiny bit of my PCLN puts which are up some 300% today. And I’m selling the last bit of my VIX calls for a huge homerun too. Still cash heavy and very hedged with my recent puts and shorts. Just gotta lock in some of these huge

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Trade Alert – Like the Pink Panther, looking to sneak in (ahead of the Street) once again

Clouseau: Does your dog bite? Hotel Clerk: No. Clouseau: [bowing down to pet the dog] Nice doggie. [Dog barks and bites Clouseau in the hand] Clouseau: I thought you said your dog did not bite! Hotel Clerk: That is not my dog. – Pink Panther Returns (1975) The recent huge success

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News you can use (or ignore, depending on the topic and application)

Let’s run through some headlines I was reading this morning and add some Revolution Investing commentary to each. One-month shutdown could cost stocks 30%: Barry Ritholtz – I love Barry and he’s an old friend of mine dating back to the time I met him when I walked

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You want the truth about the Twitter IPO?

In 2009, I met and then sat down and interviewed Twitter co-founder Biz Stone on my show, Happy Hour, on Fox Business. Twitter, at the time, was just a few hundred days old, but already had tens of millions of users. We spoke at length about the timeline that

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Trades for the week of September 30th through October 4th

Here are my trades for the week of September 30th through October 4th: Common Stock: Stock Action Date Initiated Time Initiated Price FB – Facebook TRIM 9/30/2013 12:41pm $50.88 SPY – SPDR S&P 500 COVER 10/2/2013 12:29pm $168.77 Options: Stock CALL or

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Trade Alert – Buying puts on Balloon Fiesta Weekend

Watch this video of “Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta 2012 | Time Lapse“. Remind you of anything? The balloons be stock prices all inflating and floating into the sky in the current stock market bubble. Tense week on the Street, glad it’s almost over. But still 15% of the trading week to

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Some trading ideas for a pullback

No trades for me today. But color me outright bearish for the next month. The momentum traders are fleeing the high-priced, high-flyers first, as evidenced by that crashing sound bursting into a ball of flames called “Tesla”. Indeed, I think that stock is now short-able for the

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