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Stock rally on earnings

Before earnings season started, I’d postulated that I thought estimates were low enough that we were likely to rally as the reports started flowing in. And as it happened, this week has seen a lot of rallys strength in the stocks that have reported, even when those reports were

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Cody Kiss & Tell: Why a contrarian?, Tech risks, Apple’s earnings and much 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. Yo! I’m here, sorry for the delayed start. Had a visitor in my

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Two new products for you guys

Big steady intraday buying power underneath this strong market today. Some big moves in a lot of our stocks as the shorts squeeze themselves at least for today. Do any of you actually think the markets can rally to new highs this earnings season? I don’t know anybody who’

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Markets, FB and Today’s Live Chat

Good morning and welcome back to the coffee shop, where the caffeine is strong, but not as strong as the adrenalin of staying on top of your trades. Markets are up with the Nasdaq leading the way. Earnings from INTC weren’t exactly robust, but they were more robust than

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Trade Alert: Shorting the Morgans

Let’s get right to it: I’m add short positions in JP Morgan JPM and Morgan Stanley MS to our Revolution Investing portfolio.  The rot at the banks has finally caught up to them, and I think this is a major historical inflection point.  As I wrote this weekend

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2007 vs 2012: Stick with our playbook

Well, I got up before 6am and was out the door to Roswell (70 miles away) to replace my lost social security card so I can get a local driver’s license but my birth certificate was illegible so I went to the Health Office in Roswell (where I also

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Why the LIBOR-rigging scandal is so important

I’ve got a trade I’m going to put into the portfolio this week based in part on the idea that the banksters are finally about to get some justice. You’ve no doubt read about the LIBOR rigging scandal. You’ve probably seen a lot of pundits and

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Trades for the week of July 9th through July 13th

Here are my trades for the week of July 9th thru July 13th: Common Stock: Stock Action Date Initiated Time Initiated Price DDD – 3D Systems Long 7/10/2012 11:32am $34.00 PCXCQ – Patriot Coal Long 7/10/2012 12:00pm $0.22 DDD – 3D Systems Long 7/11/2012 11:35am $32.12

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Lead Balloons, Clean Dirt, Obvious Black Swans and Easy Portfolio Solutions Don’t Exist

It’s Friday and I’m not slowing down or taking the foot off the gas pedal at all, are you? Here’s the trader’s thought of the day. I get dozens of “Story Idea” pitches from various PR outlets in my inbox everyday. Here’s one I got

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Earnings Calendar

Here’s a complete list of our positions with the date for each of their respective earnings reports. AAPL – Apple July 24th ADSK – Autodesk August 23rd AMZN – Amazon July 23rd APOL – Apollo Already reported June 27th BIDU – Baidu July 23rd BRCM – Broadcom July 24th DDD – 3D Systems July 26th DG

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Thirsty Thursday Markets

Well, it’s thirsty Thursday, where you better drink all the water you can before heading out to the desert. The markets are down, but not in any kind of a panicky way, just a typical down kind of day. That said, the last hour has seen some buying pressure

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Cody Kiss & Tell: Corporate taxes, 3D Printing, Tech’s 4 Horsemen and much more

Here’s the transcript to this week’s Q&A from TradingWithCody.com. We have a cool new feature that we’re trying out this week — a video and sound generated from an edited version of the transcript. My band has been making some music videos using this technology