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Is the higher education industry doomed?

Last week was another in a long series of market glitches that continue to sap investor confidence. The 2008 global mini recession aside, we’ve had the Flash Crash (and lots of tiny ones), MF Global, PFG, Nasdaq botching the Facebook IPO and now Knight Capital. When systems trip themselves

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If you were losing sleep at the bottom, it’s time for you to trim

We’ve got quite a few stocks at or near their 52-week highs right now. Apple, Google, Baidu, Amazon, and Lindsay for example. I know from the tone of the emails and other interactions that I have with you guys on a daily basis, that a lot of you are

Cody is attending a funeral this morning

This is Bill, Cody’s Chief Technology Officer. Cody had to attend a funeral this morning but he will be back in the office to post an update later today. Thank you for your patience.

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Trades for the week of July 30th through August 3rd

Here are my trades for the week of July 30th through August 3rd: Common Stock: Stock Action Date Initiated Time Initiated Price LVLT – Level 3 Sold 7/31/2012 11:24am $19.46 ADSK – Autodesk Sold 7/31/2012 11:24am $34.29

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How to Read the Blueberry Jobs Report

Although all blue berrys are blue, not all blue berrys are blueberries. – Alex Reiger from Taxi The Jobs Report was “better than expected”. Not that anybody expected much, as the country added jobs last month equal to 0.05% of the country’s population instead of having added “only” 0.

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Your answers so far

Wow, we are getting some fascinating, enlightening and sometimes funny feedback in regards to my earlier questions abut how much faith you have in the Wall Street system. Here’s some of what you’ve said so far. Send in your feedback soon as I’ll be sharing the insights

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How much faith do you have? Or, Just How Badly Are You Really Going to Be Screwed?

How much faith do you have in the system of stocks, trading and investing on Wall Street do you have? Do you believe that it’s only a matter of time before the money that you think you have in your eTrade, Schwab, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, etc

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Cody Kiss & Tell: Cody runs for President and other true stories

Here’s the transcript to this week’s Live Q&A chat. Join me next Wednesday at noon at http://tradingwithcody.com/chat or send me an email with your question at support@tradingwithcody.com. Let’s hit it. Ask me anything. BTW, we’re almost done putting together

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Deep random thoughts for investors and traders

Mixed markets, with S’s over N’s meaning that the S&P 500 is stronger than the Nasdaq, meaning not much of anything. Don’t force any trades here. Don’t scramble for performance, even if you need to make some performance up. Stay focused, stay in the

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Portfolio run through

A decade ago, I was sitting in Jim Cramer’s offices down on Wall Street and we were talking about my dream of running my own hedge fund. Cramer had heard from the editor of TheStreet.com, where I’d been publishing investment articles for a couple years, that I

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Big fat Belizean bank accounts, Olympic Flip It and other Must-reads for investors and traders

Here are some headlines, links and deep thoughts to ponder today:ALEC seeks lower taxes for smokeless tobacco products marketed to teens, ‘tweens – The most outrageous part of this article is the part that quotes the Congress lady who “authored” the bill explaining that she didn’t understand what it

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Trade Alert: Letting go of two longs

I’ve got a UNM Alumni Finance Committee meeting in Albuquerque again this afternoon, so I’m going to be headed out of here soon. I am going to be selling our long-held and winning position in Autodesk and our short-lived, losing position in Level 3.Here’s the analysis:

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