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Apple Thoughts, Water Links and a special offer for TradingWithCody subscribers

Good morning and welcome back to the fireworks show, where it ends up smelling like burnt phosphorous no matter where you sit. Had a helluva a big rally into the close on Friday and Apple’s up another $8 today which means it’s now up $30 since I wrote

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Trades for the week of June 25th through June 29th

Here are my trades for the week of June 25th thru June 29th: Common Stock: Stock Long or Short Action Date Initiated Time Initiated Price CSCO – Cisco Long Sell 6/26/2012 12:30pm $16.86 DG – Dollar General Short Buy 6/26/2012 12:30pm $54.44 DLTR – Dollar

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Trade Alert: A is for Apple iPad, J is for Jack

It’s time to buy Apple AAPL again. I’ve been saying that Apple is going to $1000 by 2015 since more than three years now, since the stock was a small fraction of its current quote. A little bit of the reasoning to refresh your memory: The stock’s

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Trade Alert: Increasing the size of winners and cutting a loser

“Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.” – Bill Tilden “Losing doesn’t eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.” – Troy Aikman We’ve had a couple of really nice trades play out

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Cody Kiss & Tell: The best Q&A we’ve ever had

All rightie folks, let’s meet for our weekly 1-hour Q&A. Ask me anything. Q. Hi Cody, can you recommend any investment/trading conferences and shows you like. I signed up for optionMonster conference July 26-27 in Chicago. Looking for other ideas. Thanks! A. Good question,

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Google’s past illuminates Facebook’s future

Don’t forget to meet me at 2pm EST today for this week’s Live Chat at http://tradingwithcody.com/Chat where you can ask me anything. Good morning and welcome back to the field of dreams, where you have to pay for all the overbuilt retail bank branches that

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Trade Alert: Short the dollars (not the dollar)

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” – William Shakespeare (Hamlet), Act 3, scene 2 One of the Bill Shakespeare’s most frequently misquoted lines is the one that best captures Frau Merkel. Here’s Angela on Greek bailouts in 2009: “I will not allow Germany to participate in any speculation.

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Reading the charts Cody-style

Today’s markets are U-G-L-Y. Tech especially. Let’s get some perspective about where these markets have been in order to get a better idea of the relative place of markets past. An intraday chart here is flatlining at the lows of the day. And the last

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Full markets analysis and updates on the FB and Apollo trades

Kyle: Well, you know, after junior high school, I decided to get a PhD. Mack: You got a PhD? Kyle: Yeah, man. A pimpin’ hoes degree. — SNL 1998 Good morning and thank you all for understanding my need to take some time off last week to deal with the ramifications,

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Trade Alert: Short this euro education company

Thanks for all the well-wishes that keep pouring in after last week’s inferno scorched my land. My dog, my woman, my house and my guitar are all safe, so I’m pretty damn thankful. This week Greece didn’t give markets the Sunday Smackdown everyone was worried about.

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Taking a week to recover from the Little Bear Fire

As some of you dear readers have rightfully pointed out, I need to take some time to focus on my family and my property, 60% of which has burned from the Little Bear Fire, some of it scorched. My house survived and frankly, the 40% of the property that didn’

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Latest positions + update on Facebook + the best summary of the EU crisis ever

Facebook continues its anti-hate rally for now. It’s up more than 10% from where we stepped in to buy it, trading above $29 earlier this morning. Doesn’t mean that we’ve seen the bottom, but I’m holding my common and calls in it for now too.

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