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Opening statement

The markets are down about a percentage point across the board here in the early going, but our hedges along with the Sandisk calls are kicking in and keeping the portfolios mostly in the green. For now at least. I wouldn’t be shocked to see this market do some

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Another small trade

Another small trade. LPS is up about 7% today on no real news. The stock is finally giving us a bounce and I’ve been saying for a long time that I’d like to add to my puts on any LPS bounce. I’m doing so again today, bidding

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Today’s trading outlook

Greece is gonna go with the EU fix (that isn’t a fix at all) after all. Or at least that’s what the media is telling us this morning. What a waste. As for trading, well, we’ve got some 20-50% gains over night in our FIO call

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Today’s chat: MRVL, RIMM, SNDK, and Whole Foods

Here’s the transcript of today’s chat. We broke the questions and answers down into two sections as usual — Economy/markets/trading/strategy and Stocks. See you next week at 2pm EST at http://tradingwithcody.com/chat for more Q&A where you can ask me anything. Economy/

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Small trade, just getting a toe in the water

Small trade, just getting a toe in the water. FIO’s in a great position with the cloud and Apple’s initiatives therein and could really be a great stock for the next five years. Here’s how I’d suggest playing FIO into earnings tonight. Unfortunately, the stock has

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Today’s Must-Reads

Don’t forget to come to TradingWithCody.com/Chat at 2pm to meet me for this week’s live anything-goes Q&A. Here’s what I was reading and thinking about when I wasn’t trying unsuccessfully to get my dog out of his bed before the sun

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It’s not a death race, so catch your breath

Good morning and welcome back to the race track, where most of the traders forget to take a pit stop. Greece is broke, Greece is saved, Greece is broke, Greece is saved, Greece is…and other than freaking out investor sentiment near-term, is anybody sure that the EU is

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A playbook for the trading/investing/economic ramifications that are coming from Occupy Wall Street

What’s the next catalyst for the markets? Is it more Greece, Italy, Euro crisis? Probably. Like I wrote last week when the markets were in celebratory mode, we’re going to be in endless crisis until we stop these games of new huge wealth transfers from the taxpayers around

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How to trade the new Greek panic

But, wait..they said Greece’s problems and therefore the entirety of the EU was fine. Less than a handful of trading days ago, here were the headlines, straight from last Tuesday’s “Must-reads” column right here on these pages: Rekindled Optimism In Europe – I’ve got Europe crisis

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Buying more puts on two names

Today’s action is very much a reverse correlation of the recent action’s directions for most of the markets stocks. That is, the stocks that have run the most of late, like Sandisk and Goldman, both of which we were selling late last week, are down bigger than the

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RevolutioNews.com and other must-reads

It’s amazing how much you learn about the different content creation/content distribution strategies of the major players like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Comcast/GE, Disney, and the rest of them when you’re building a couple content creation/content distribution companies. In addition to running and adding all

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Strategy for driving the length of the field: my latest positions

Good morning and welcome back to the football field, where it’s better to go for long drives with lots of first downs and not just throwing long bombs. The markets are giving back a full percentage point plus from the big gains last week and October looks destined to

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