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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

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Green Day Google

Green Day. And I’m not just talking about the band whose leader lost his cool in a big concert a couple nights ago thereby helping juice sales of a just-happened-to-be-upcoming new album. Nothing in the mainstream media is ever what they say it is. For

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Don’t force anything here

Well it’s a little bit slippery to the downside out there in the markets this morning. I’ve been trimming some of my biggest positions and adding some hedges for the last couple weeks or so even as the action in the markets has been so bullish even near-

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Trades for the week of September 17th through September 21st

Here are my trades for the week of September 17th through September 21st: Common Stock: Stock Action Date Initiated Time Initiated Price ZNGA – Zynga BUY 9/19/2012 11:15am $3.18 Options: Stock CALL or PUT Action Date Initiated Stock Price Strike Price Exp Date AAPL – Apple CALL SOLD

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Latest positions and a request for referrals

Lots of great feedback from you guys continues to pour in, such as this: Just exited the last of the GOOG calls you suggested a while back.  The Sept 650’s for an 842% return.  How sweet is that?  Scaled back as it went up and took home some profits,

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Facebook analysis from a kid half my age

I asked a really bright college student who loves trading and Wall Street and technology and all that stuff to take what he knew about my Facebook analysis and build off it with more detail and maybe some new insights into the stock that we might have missed. He sent