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Never make a trade for trading’s sake

Strange feel to the trading this morning, and I’m betting that’s there some sort of a much smaller computerized/high-frequency-trading shenanigans going on out there. A couple weeks ago Knight Capital had a computerized glitch roil hundreds of intraday stock prices, and this just feels like

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Latest positions + Asking for a favor from each of you

I’ve gotten a lot of great feedback from you guys about the new book, Everything You Need to Know About Investing, and I encourage all of you to read through it. Even those of you who read the first draft should read the finished product, because it’s literally

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Trades for the week of August 6th through August 10th

Here are my trades for the week of August 6th through August 10th: Common Stock: Stock Action Date Initiated Time Initiated Price FIO – Fusion-io Trim 8/10/2012 10:25am $27.00

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Fused markets

The markets are mixed to down fractionally this morning. There’s a collective summer apathy that’s permeating the trading this morning. I’m ready for the weekend after a long week of work, how about you? Our long-maligned Fusion-IO is up more than 25% today, having delivered

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Adapt your strategies in an increasingly rigged market

You ever heard the term, “The markets will climb a wall of worry?” Well, that’s exactly what we’re seeing here as the markets and so many stocks slip their toes into the cracks and keep on climbing the wall of worry. Last week, I wrote a column called,

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Everything You Need to Know About Investing: The new book is finally done

Well, we’re finally done editing and even publishing this new book, Cody Willard’s Everything You Need to Know About Investing. Subscribers to TradingWithCody.com can read the whole book right there on that page or you can download a PDF version of the book for free. Or you

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Cody Kiss & Tell: Romney’s IRA, Apple dividend, Nuance rising and more…

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. All rightie guys, let’s rock n roll. Ask me anything. Q. You said

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Breakouts coming? Bernanke idiocy. And ask me anything.

Two random Trader Thoughts of the Day: 1) Take a look at most any stock chart, especially in tech, and you’ll see that it spiked to start the year, peaked in March, dropped hard, baselined and now is headed up towards that March high. I’m no chartist, but

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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

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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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