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I’m going to run out to some meetings with some technology resellers (vendors of Cisco, Oracle, Riverbed, VMWare, etc). Salespeople are some of the best information resources for sales and technology trends as they play out over years. Executives are usually too focused on quarterly numbers, but sales folks
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S&P negative on U.S. debt Standard & Poor’s cuts its ratings outlook on the U.S. to negative from stable, keeping its Triple-A rating on the world’s largest economy. Stocks decline even as Treasury Department mounts defense. • Text of S&P’s downgrade of
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They say one of the things that separates the great NFL quarterbacks from the the lesser ones is the amount of time the Peytons and Bradys put in watching film. They go back and watch the replays of their best and worst moves so they learn from experience. Great traders
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A little bit of lift this morning in the broader stock markets to counter yesterday’s deflating action. Quarterly earnings reports are indeed catalyzing some big moves. Oh, including Riverbed. Nice 15% pop after the company reported a better than expected quarter and guided higher for next. I bought more
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Once again it looks like we will muddle through the day as we have barely gotten to the tip of the earnings iceberg. Riverbed is down more than a buck fifty…sort of like a two-by-four across the forehead with your morning coffee. As you know, I am trying to
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Wow, it got ugly into the close. The shorts we’ve been scaling into save the daily profit and loss on the sheets, but we’re still down on the day. I got the follow question after my last post about Riverbed: Portfolio amount was great. Don’t know what
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I threw a tiny bit of capital at some Riverbed calls at strike prices in the low $30s that will expire over the next few months. Any capital put into such a trade needs to be able to be written off completely as there’s 100% downside if the stock
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Had a long trip home, but I got a great night’s sleep and have been cranking since early this morning. A well-rested trader is one who thinks more lucidly. Most of our positions are still less than half of what I want them to be, but I’m mostly
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We’re greeted with a rather listless open to start the trading week. We’ve had some wild up and down action in the four weeks since I started Trading With Cody. Just a couple days into the trading, Japan’s quake and resulting nuclear nightmare hit the markets hard,
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Obviously the big mover in our portfolio today is Riverbed. Unfortunately, its a big mover in the wrong direction. Some analyst on the street thinks that Riverbed’s competitor FFIV will miss its quarter. I would agree that its a possibility, after all FFIV missed its quarter last time. Riverbed
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It’s a flattish open as we remain catalyst-less until we fully enter earnings season in the next couple weeks. Here’s a list of my longs and shorts so far: Longs- 1. Apple 2. Ciena 3. Celestica 4. Cisco 5. Cypress 6. DBA 7. Corning 8. Google 9. Microsoft
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Pretty steady betty open today as the market needs more of a catalyst than a meaningless S&P downgrade of some irrelevant country in Europe that speaks Portugese. One of the things we have to do as traders is deal with missed opportunities. I’ve been all over the
