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No trades for me today. Remember to trim a little bit and raise some cash when stock markets are at all-time highs. The S&P 500 is indeed at an all-time high as I type this. Easy does it as we scale in and trim in tranches to spread
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“You hear the sound, you wait around and get the word, You see the picture changing everything…” Neil Young – Change Your Mind I’ve built up my Twitter position to about half where I want it to be, so I’ll probably do a little more scaling in next week
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Howdy doodie time. Let’s rock. Ask away. Q. Cody: an investing 101 question. What are your thoughts on WEEKLY options — when would one use those instead of the standard monthlies? When a near-term move/event is expected? (Then why is that better than doing the monthly and just bailing
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On Thursday, November 20, 2011, from 10:30 am – 11:30 am I will be giving a presentation called “10,000 Days: The Shocking Concept That Will Change the Way You Trade and Invest Forever” FREE Entry/Registration. Come by and watch it if you can. Nobody wants to be
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Tough night on the earnings front. Facebook just said on its conference call that “Total revenue in Q4 is expected to grow 40% to 47%.” That’s still huge growth, but the market is knocking 10% off FB after hours on that guidance. Steady as she goes for me and
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Stocks up nicely again this week and now up pretty huge from those panicky Ebola lows a couple weeks ago. Have you trimmed anything? Should you? Now’s the time — sell when you can, not when you have to. Yelp took a 15% hit last week, after they guided for
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Feels like the markets coiling before its next phase of volatility. Do you remember just a few trading days ago that the DJIA dipped back below 16,000? Are you prepared for wherever the near-term market might take us, including a potential near-term weakness towards the 16,000 level again.
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Stocks thru the roof again today, wild volatility remains the theme. Still no trades for me today. Now onto today’s report. I always call it “gambling” when I trade around earnings. Trying to game earnings reports is one of the hardest and most volatile ways of trading. In fact,
Howdy folks, let’s ride. Q. When a company announces their earnings for the quarter and they announce a dividend with it. Like when Apple announced, “The dividend is payable on November 13, 2014, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on November 10, 2014.” If I
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Mr. Market woke up this morning and says that he’s willing to sell his investment in YELP for 12% less than he was yesterday after YELP says next quarter will be a couple million less than the analysts had expected but that full year guidance might even be better
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Into the depths of the declines last week, I stepped up and did several rounds of buying. Recall these posts: It’s time for another fresh round of tranche buying of a little more GOOG and FSLR common stocks and I’m also going to add a couple call options
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Markets are straight up this morning and I want to peel off the last of my SPY call options that we bought during the panic last week. We have about 1/3 remaining after taking profits on some of them last week and I’m going to sell the rest