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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

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Updates on two other earnings reports

Good morning and welcome back to the baseball field, where the savers aren’t punished by the Fed like they are in the real world. As I’d mentioned in the interview with the WSJ on Friday, I didn’t address two of our other stocks that reported earnings on

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WSJ interviews me about Facebook

Here’s an interview I did with the Wall Street Journal on Friday about why I’m still bullish and buying more Facebook. Simon Constable, who will host his own TV show someday, asks probing questions and we cover a lot of ground in a short amount of time. WSJ:

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Trades for the week of July 23rd through July 27th

Here are my trades for the week of July 23rd thru July 27th: Common Stock: Stock Action Date Initiated Time Initiated Price APOL – Apollo Group Cover 7/24/2012 10:44am $28.21 PCXCQ – Patriot Coal Sold 7/24/2012 10:44am $0.16 ZNGA – Zynga  Long 7/26/2012 10:17am $3.05 FB – Facebook Long 7/27/2012 9:3

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Latest positions and option ideas for the FB

I was asked earlier this week to include some ideas for options strategies even when I’m personally just buying the common stock. So in regards to Facebook this morning, I’d look at the January 2014 call options with the strike prices at $30 and above, all the way