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What it means when the professional money managers lag (And don’t forget today’s chat)

All year I’ve been writing about how most of my contacts who are professional money managers have been very bearish and pessimistic about the markets all year and how that, technically-speaking, is a contrarian indicator. Here are three articles about just how badly the pro’s are performing

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Europe’s endless negative feedback loop

It’s still a flattish, range bound market. Here’s the Nasdaq over the last month, pretty much when we started selling down and hedging: It’s been flat and/or trying to peak here. And here’s the Nasdaq for the last year: Up 33% over the last year.

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“How much cash should we raise?”

Emailer asks what a lot of people are thinking: Hi Cody, any suggestions on how to be allocated at this time?  Especially, how much should be in cash? There’s never an easy answer to the question about “how much to be in cash?” It all depends on how much

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Don’t get complacent

Good morning and welcome back to the terrordome, where you better wear plated armor. The markets are all basically at multi-year highs. Apple and Google, our long-time two largest positions, are up huge and we’ve even juiced those gains with our strategy of buying long-dated call

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Trades for the week of September 24th through September 28th

No trades made this week. As you know, I’m in a patient holding pattern.

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Latest positions and market thoughts

You’ll see I’ve lowered the ratings of several longs and I upped the ratings of several shorts. I’m not bearish overall by any stretch of the imagination, as I think we are still headed into an even bigger equity bubble before this is over, but I don’

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Where’s my money?

I had to be at the dentist for a checkup and cleaning at 7:45am yesterday and I couldn’t find my wallet. We were sure we’d seen the wallet on the table by the door, but it was nowhere to be found. I finally thought — I wonder if

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Google and parabolic moves

You guys know I’m in a patient holding pattern right now. No Trades for me so far today. I got just about one red stock on my screen this morning and that one is named Google. Probably not a bad thing to let that stock breathe a little bit.

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Cody Kiss & Tell: Options Pricing, Portfolio Allocation, AAPL Strategies and much more

Here’s 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. Let’s rock! Q. Cody, in regards to options pricing: I’ve been

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Markets update and must-reads

Markets are in the red, tech leading on the downside. Apple itself has now pulled back some 6% from its all-time highs, which were set just last week. As a subscriber wrote on the Subscriber Chat last night: “I think the last couple of days have been just a

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Staples has a Fundamentally Broken Business Model

The markets are up huge in the last three months.  Check out this chart of the Dow and the S&P 500 via BigCharts.com: With stocks up so much I’ve been reducing the weighting of my longs on TradingWithCody.com (a service not affiliated with MarketWatch, where

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Having your cake and eating it too

I got the following email from a subscriber and it underscores an important mistake that both professional and retail investors make: Hi Cody. I subscribe to yours service and think it is great…overall I think you have great insight and enjoy your recommendations. One of the things I really