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Specifics on the FB trade

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

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Trade Alert: Buying an Apple supplier and a recent IPO that will shock you

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

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Lessons from one of the times I nailed the market bottom

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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Trade Alert: The last time the market broke my heart

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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Trades for the week of May 28th through June 1st

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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Trade Alert: My latest positions

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

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Trade Alert: Now is not the time to panic

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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Chat Transcript for May 30, 2012: Option strategies explained, how big traders are shorting Facebook and much more…

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-

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Trade Alert: Buying calls in a networker

I’m buying some Juniper calls dated out into January of 2014 — 18 months away with strike prices starting at $20. For this trade to work out, I’d need Juniper to rally above $23 a share over the next year and a half — and I think we’ll see

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Flip It: Getting a clue about chart reading

Good morning and welcome back to the hit parade, where many of the DJs are paid to put the songs they play on rotation. All right, I’m back from marrying off my brother in Austin this weekend to a lovely bride. I used to tell my TV show viewers

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Letting Riverbed float, picking some Juniper berries

The market is finally coming around to what we have known for months, that the euro bailout was a failure before it began. Just look at how the euro has sunk against the Dollar since Greece forced bondholders to take a haircut back on March 9th. We’re probably due

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Our official playbook is still the way to go

Markets are rocking already. Brand new week. We get 20% less trading this week than in most weeks which can often lead to volatile markets. The nasdaq is now up almost 100 points since last Monday’s panicky open when I finally agreed with the panicky assessment. That means the

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