Trading with Cody (Page 229)

Latest

All

Trade Alert: Economic analysis and adding to a short

I can’t bring myself to fully read, much less report to you guys, what the latest “He said, she said” so-called reports from the gathering of a bunch of bank-groveling bureaucrats from a continent’s supposed central bank whose charter, mandate and authority seems to change on

All

Cody Kiss & Tell: Investing Local, Handling Stress, Real Estate Thoughts and 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. Howdy folks. Let’s ride. Ask me anything. Q. The market and pundits

All

Can I stop writing about the endless Eurocrisis yet? Please?

I was wondering why I couldn’t find any headlines about the endless Euro-crisis and so I hit CTRL+F and searched Marketwatch’s homepage for “Euro” and sure enough, it was all over the front page after all. I mean, Eurocrisis headlines dominate the financial media coverage of

All

The Apple Suppliers in the Revolution Portfolio

Sometime next week, probably Wednesday September 12th, Apple will release the new iphone. If you consider Apple’s design iterations this one is a big deal. The iphone 5 will almost surely have a totally new shape, the first change in that department since the iphone 4 was released in

All

Headlines, the markets, our economy and what our playbook says to do about them

Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice. – Henry Ford It’s amazing how refreshed I feel after taking just a couple days away from the market to get some R&R. Let’s talk markets and run through the headlines to get back in the flow

All

Trades for the week of August 27th through August 31st

Here are my trades for the week of August 27th through August 31st: Common Stock: Stock Action Date Initiated Time Initiated Price LNN – Lindsay Long 8/28/2012 12:40pm $65.74 Options: Stock CALL or PUT Action Date Initiated Stock Price Strike Price Exp Date LPS – Lender Proc Srv

All

Cody Kiss & Tell: Options, options, options and 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. All right, gals & guys, let’s rock n roll. Ask me anything.

All

Full markets analysis and two housekeeping items

Flattish start to the day. And the longer we sit around here trying to break through these levels in the Nasdaq and the broader markets too, the more you’ll hear the technicians and the pundits talk about how that becomes bigger resistance to a higher high. The flip side

All

Trade Alert: Buying puts to hedge the portfolio

A couple other trades I’m putting on today. I’m adding to my LPS and Morgan Stanley short positions via puts. Been a long time since I felt the need to be get more aggressive on my short hedging. I still think the path of least resistance for the

All

“Stick” with Baidu: Deep analysis on the long-term fundamental set-up

Before bouncing back nearly 10% from its recent lows, Baidu’s stock has taken it on the chin as of late and I wanted to do a run down of the events. We’ve had some decent gains in this position since we initially added it and we’re up

All

Trade Alert: Drinking the water while it is cold

Lindsay is down nearly $10 from its recent highs, even as it remains up nearly $10 from where we first started buying it. I’ve not sold a share since we first bought it and I’d like to add to it now while it’s down even as its

All

Apple deja vu

I like to tell the story about how a few years ago, one of the Fast Money Five sent me an email explaining in great detail why Apple was about to collapse. Something to do with the consumer being backed into a corner and a recession imminent, I believe. The

See all