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I, like the markets apparently, needed a morning to catch my breath. I was up into the early morning hours working and as you might have noticed, I’ve done a good bit of writing and trading in the first three days of the work week. Anyway, the markets are
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A few years ago I developed the Cody’s Inbox Hate-O-Meter which turned out to be an excellent contrarian indicator. One of the classic examples of its efficacy was back when I bought Apple common and calls at $7 a share when they had $8 per share in net cash
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Here’s the transcript of today’s chat. See you next week at 2pm EST at http://tradingwithcody.com/chat for more Q&A where you can ask me anything. Hi guys, sorry I’m late. Let’s rock. Q. What percentage of your portfolio is long what percentage
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This week I added two new stocks to the Revolution Investing portfolio, including the now much-maligned Facebook, FB. Because as I see it, the IPO was a raging success and because it was such a success, it has made investing in Facebook here much cheaper than it would have been
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I’m buying FB more aggressively than usual for a new position. I’ll explain in detail in a follow-up post with the clearest fundamental analysis for Facebook that you’ll find on Wall Street but as for the opening trades in FB for me, I’m starting with some
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We have two new names in the portfolio today so let’s dig right into the never-ending woes in Europe. The Euro-crisis is part of the trader’s mentality, so it’s part of our reality, and it’s been three consecutive summers of the Euro-debt crisis swinging the markets.
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Here’s the second story about a market collapsing back when I was managing my hedge fund a few years ago. No other trades for me today. I’d just raised my first institutional funds, almost doubling the size of my hedge fund and (hopefully) opening the doors to other
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I’ve got two stories full of lessons my hedge fund days that I’ll be telling you today. Both are about markets collapsing, but each has a very different perspective. First one is below with a couple trades I’m doing at the end. Stay tuned for the next
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Here are my trades for the week of May 28th thru June 1st: Common Stock: Stock Long or Short Action Date Initiated Time Initiated Price RVBD – Riverbed Long Sell 5/29/2012 4:00pm $16.90 JNPR – Juniper Networks Long Buy 5/29/2012 4:00pm $17.45 FFIV – F5
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You don’t need me to tell you the markets are down big today. With the naz back down over 2% and any high beta stock down much more than that, it is U-G-L-Y you ain’t got no alibi ugly out there. The playbook remains the same and you
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It’s a down day to start the day, again. Do you remember back when Apple went straight from $500 to $620 just as the first annual Apple Investor Summit hit and how it felt like stocks would never go down again? And now…can you imagine the relief you
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Here’s the transcript of today’s chat. See you next week at 2pm EST at http://tradingwithcody.com/chat for more Q&A where you can ask me anything. Hi guys, let’s rock n roll. Q. When you rate a stock 7 or higher after these 20-30%