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Chat Transcript for Feb 22, 2012: Options, takeovers, oil 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. Q. How often are you planning to change the rating system? daily? weekly? on an event by event basis?

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Trade like a calf roper (and taking profits on the Dell trade)

Good morning and welcome back to the rodeo, where you have to hang on for more than 8 seconds. The markets are down a little bit to start the day. Let’s see what the mainstream media is blaming it on today: Stocks Fall on Global Manufacturing Data Ah, that

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Avoid the “easy money, no risk” pitches; And a brand new earnings trading idea

A good friend and business associate I know and admire sent me this email last night. And, as I get a lot of questions from you guys about random “incredible investment opportunities” and “easy money trades” that are very similar in theme to this, I thought I’d write up

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Making some moves with my MSFT position

If you’re reading a paper, or watching TV or seeing the tweets roll in, you’ve no doubt heard the big news this morning: Rihanna recorded a song with her ex-boyfriend. Also, the European Union has some kind of agreement on Greece. Both are equally ephemera-licious.  They don’t

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appleconomics.com and full analysis on Apple’s current set up for traders and investors

As I’d noted last week, I’m going to be giving a speech at the “Apple Investor Summit” in LA in mid March. You can go here for more details. I’ve also recently built appleconomics.com (tagline: Everything you need to know about Apple and its impact on

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Trade like NPH: Latest positions (with a new ratings system)

You mock my pain. – Buttercup Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. — Man in Black Well, the UNM Alumni Board meetings on Friday turned out to be rather intense (fun too) and I’m now back from ABQ and hitting the pavement full speed today. It’

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Apple and the markets disconnect. Or do they?

Two days out from that “wild Apple reversal” that seemingly freaked out everybody and their dog as the markets reversed and sold off hard on Wednesday…well, nobody hardly remembers it.That said, you do realize that Apple has rallied 10% and fallen 7% and then rallied back 3%…in

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LPS: Letting the Dust Settle

I am rightfully getting a lot of questions about what is going on with LPS. To be frank, I don’t have much to add to what I wrote about LPS yesterday: Q. What are your thoughts on LPS earnings report? I wasn’t impressed but the stock has gone

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Meet me in LA for the Apple Investor Summit in March (And a few thoughts about the stock’s action lately too)

Remember that big reversal in the markets yesterday and how it had everybody on edge coming in today? So what does the market do, but barely move to start the day. Everybody’s talking about the Apple reversal yesterday and whether “it was significant”.  I’ve read and heard about

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Chat Transcript: Strategies, definitions and explanations for all your questions

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. Q. Cody: do you recommend leaps on some of your favorites e.g. FIO or do you prefer common?

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Who’s more scared right now?

This question was just posed in the Daily Chat area on TradingWithCody.com, and I’ve been getting variations of this question all week: Everyone I know and here as well seems to be bullish .. even me. A thought comes to mind if we need to hedge portfolio. I would

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What to expect from your subscription to TradingWithCody

Folks, my support staff got a little overwhelmed with all the Valentine’s Day Special signups we’ve received. Bear with them as they work through all the requests for help — we will get to each and every one of you before the end of today. No trades for me