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Shorting is like David Bowie said: It Ain’t Easy http://grooveshark.com/s/It+Ain+t+Easy/4IiKls?src=5 Let’s run an experiment. Turn on CNBC or Bloomberg or my old home Fox Business right now and watch for ten minutes. Count the number of stock recommendations
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I’m nibbling on some DDD, using some common stock. It’s been down steadily over the last few days and I want to take advantage of the sell off to add to my position a little bit. Here’s what I was reading and thinking about when I wasn’
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Good morning and welcome back to the dog run, where your friends leave their pee-mails with their latest status updates for all their friends to sniff. I once again turned on a financial news television station this morning and my old colleagues, David Faber, Jim Cramer, Melissa Lee and
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Here are my trades for the week of September 4th through September 7th: Common Stock: Stock Action Date Initiated Time Initiated Price APOL-Apollo Group Short 9/6/2012 10:17am $29.52 GOOG-Google Trim 9/7/2012 10:26am $707.77 Options: Stock CALL or PUT Action Date
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Here’s a list of my latest positions in approximate order from largest to smallest. I give each stock a current rating from 1 to 10, 1 being “Get out of this position now!” and 10 being “Sell the farm, I’ve found a perfect investment” (there will never be
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Well, I’ve got butterflies in my stomach. The portfolio was already on a big tear higher when we hit the huge pop the last two days. And this kind of huge move in the markets which is reflected even stronger in our portfolios is making me nervous. Two days
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The last time the Nasdaq traded this high, here were the headlines. See how closely you can get to the exact date without clicking through: Northern chill sends oil price up over $35 a barrel – World oil prices began to shoot past the $35 mark overnight as the first cold
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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