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The un-Trade Alert

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Trade Alert: Puts on a new name and taking profits elsewhere

Time to lock in some more profits on our Netflix and Amazon call options that we’d bought right near the bottom back a month ago today (See Trade Alert: Panicky action, buying call options and Trade Alert: More NFLX and AMZN options). I didn’t catch the exact bottom

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Trade Alert: Market / Fed playbook and a tranche buy

Interesting from Rev Shark and old friend Brian Reynolds: “‘A normal day in February would see investors buy $4-5 billion of new corporate bonds. Yesterday, they bought over $19 billion. That activity pushed new purchases of corporates over the quarter-trillion level for only the sixth time in the first two

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Trade Alert: More profits from NFLX and AMZN calls

If you were freaking out and/or panicky at last Wednesday’s lows when the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) was at 15,500 and the S&P 500 was at new 2 year lows — now is the time to lighten up a little bit. If you were panicking

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Trade Alert: Fed speaks, markets rally, we trim calls

I am in Dallas for the CFA event, to which I was invited by a reader of mine with whom I had been trading emails for more than ten years. I am very excited about moderating a panel with Jeremy Siegel, Professor, Wharton School, University of  Pennsylvania, William H. Eigen,

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Trade Alert – Partial profits on KNDI puts PLUS Chat Room

As I mention below, I’ve raised cash, reduced the size of our longs, cut our number of longs in half and put on some more shorts in the last year. I certainly wish I’d gone almost all to cash and loaded up on shorts back when I wrote

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Trade Alert: Nibbling NFLX and AMZN call options, covering 1/3 GWPH

Well, it’s an ugly open here this morning to the new week, following up last week’s ugly action and the ugly close on Friday. U-G-L-Y is the theme out there. To review, I remain a bit bearish on the broader markets and remain high on cash and mostly

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Trade Alert: Panicky action, buying call options on two stocks

Okay, I’m sensing some panic into the close here and I’m going to take a shot at nibbling at some longs here. I’m buying some Amazon call options, dated out to May with $540 or $545 or so strikes on them. And I’m buying some Netflix

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Trade Alert: Taking some profits on our Sony call options

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Trade Alert: Locking in profits from last week’s options buys

Stocks up early. Oil +7% to almost $35. I’d mentioned I’d bought some $UA and $FB earnings into those panicky lows last Wednesday and both of those companies reported blowout earnings. We caught both of the two largest movers in the earnings reports today with our call options

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Trade Alert: Economic analysis, stock market set-up, shorting IBB

In the Trading With Cody Chat Room this weekend, @jakef1111 wrote to me: “Your mindset doesn’t seem the same as when you were as bullish and shrugging off crisis after crisis like Greece, Cyprus, EU, Middle East tension, Russia/Ukraine etc… Do you see us having another leg down?

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Trade Alert: Doing some buying as the bulls panic

I’ve been saying we probably need a down -800 day on the $DJIA to wash out this market. That said, looking at the carnage out there, I sense there’s some panic in the air today already. Finally. Here’s a sampling of random names getting killed this morning: