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Thoughts on allocation percentages

Good value-add discussion from the Side Bar Chat on TradingWithCody.com that all of you have access to: calmdaw1April 13, 2012 – 10:56 am@Cody – how big would you be willing to let AAPL get as a percentage of an overall portfolio? I have inherited shares with cost basis

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Googlessons: You can’t game randomness

Well, as I’d worried might happen, the markets are not rewarding Google’s quarter and the subsequent analyst number bumps with a rally. We got the analyst notes we were looking for. This is from one of the morning notes that came across my desk about Google today: JPM

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Google and other earnings (and check out AAPLTrader.com)

Listened to a bunch of earnings calls tonights. The economy, at least for corporate America, sounds like it’s surprising some of the executives to the upside — that is the earnings report and guidance have been good and the commentary hasn’t been full of hyperbole. Google came in “better

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Trader Alert: Buying calls but don’t be thunderstruck

I was caught in the middle of a railroad track (Thunder) I looked round and I knew there was no turning back (Thunder) My mind raced and I thought what could I do (Thunder) And I knew there was no help, no help from you (Thunder) Sound of the drums,

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Chat Transcript for Apr 11, 2012: JNPR, GOOG, FIO, Apple suppliers 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. Let’s rock n roll! Ask me anything. Q. Dear Cody, I read your latest book with lot of

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Don’t try to catch the Nokia knife as it falls…and falls

Don’t try to catch a bottom in Nokia. Nokia at $4.50 is probably a lot like RIMM was at $45. Just multiply Nokia’s stock price by 10 every time you’re tempted to buy it. Or go look at a Lucent chart. That’s probably Nokia’s

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Brave enough to make the hardest trade?

“Ms. Calhoun, I can’t let you make such a sacrifice from a loyal southern girl. You must think of your country.” “I am thinking of it. I know you’re an enemy and a spy. But you’re a man and I just can’t send you to your

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Pep talk: Keep your head up even when you’re down from the highs

And if it’s bad Don’t let it get you down, you can take it And if it hurts Don’t let them see you cry, you can take it Hold your head up, hold your head up Hold your head up, hold your head high – Argent Muddy Souls

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Trade Alert: One aggressive buy and two sells

***THE BUY*** FIO’s down 3% again today, just as it seems like it has been nearly every day for the last couple weeks. Time to buy some FIO. I’m buying some calls dated out into September with strike prices up to $30. The stock is right now at

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Six Ways To Invest In Facebook Before The IPO

Facebook recently disallowed the trading of its stock on secondary markets like Sharespost and Liquidnet. And with the news that they have chosen to continue the tech tradition of listing on the Nasdaq instead of the NYSE, the IPO is probably less than two months out. With all this hype

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How Apple gets to $350 by the end of the year redux

Re·dux /rēˈdəks/ Adjective: Brought back; revived: “the 1980s were more than the 50’s redux”. This one billionaire friend of mine made most of his money by selling a big .com to a big tech company at the peak in 2000 and before that had taken a semiconductor company

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Earnings, paired trades and other stuff

The future will soon be a thing of the past. What year did Jesus think it was? Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster is a maniac? “One thing leads to another”? Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing.

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