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I got a phone call on my cell this morning from an unknown New Mexico number and when I answered, my senior English teacher, now retired at 72 years old, wanted to know if we could go to lunch to “memorialize the death of Osama Bin Ladan and this great
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Let’s talk Cloud Revolution. Yes, amidst trekking to San Francisco, Dallas, and NYC, trying to close on land in NM, trading my personal account and writing about all of it for you guys on Trading With Cody, I also just finished a brand new investment book that you guys
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I bought some Live Nation puts that are currently slightly out of the money and will expire in a couple quarters. That is the stock needs to fall 10% in the next few months for the puts to get “in the money”, but if the stock doesn’t fall like
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The App/Smartphone/Tablet/Dashboard/PC is the fastest growing marketplace in the history of business. I’ve been saying exactly that for more than a year now and I’ve been dead serious about betting my time, money and reputation on what I call the “App Revolution” for shorthand.
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The headlines read like something out of a case study of runaway success in technology business strategies in a Hal Varian text book. I use Varian’s, now a big shot at Google, seminal book, Information Rules, in my class, and this App Revolution is the kind of thing I’
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And there’s the market’s intraday fade that I was talking about in the post last night about what to expect from the market upon the news of Osama Bin Laden’s death. The morning pop and subsequent reversal weren’t nearly as dramatic as they were the Monday
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It was December 13, 2003, and I was still a wet-behind-the-ears hedge fund manager, just into my fourteenth month in business, when the news that the US had captured Saddam Hussein hit. It was a weekend and the markets weren’t closed, but my cell phone was going crazy with
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Lots of big moves in a lot of our stocks lately, though today we gave a little bit back to the trading gods. And with that, I’m going to call it a week, but I want to ask one thingof you dear subscribers, as our readership base is growing
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I’m pretty sure there hasn’t been a bigger bull on the app/smartphone/tablet/cloud stocks than yours truly. I’ve literally jumped up and down on national TV with Whoopi Goldberg telling her to buy app stocks. And when I quit my TV job and started getting
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A few months ago I wrote an article called “49 app stocks that should go up huge and one that won’t” and the whole article was about how I thought Research-in-Motion was doomed despite being so seemingly well-positioned to benefit from the fastest growing sector in the history of
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We are probably now more than halfway through with the earnings season, though next week will bring another barrage and there are a few laggard reporting schedules after that too. Here’s the earnings dates for all our positions: * aapl – Already Reported on Apr 20th * adtn – Already Reported on Apr
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It’s a flattish open, but the story of the day is the 15% drop, the crushing of RIMM. I’ve kept us out of RIMM and even had it as a short position in the Revolution Investing model portfolio last year before I started trading again where we rode