A Trading with Cody "Trade Alert" went out on March 8, 2024, with a full writeup, when it was at $83. It closed on May 13 at $132.
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I only got filled on about 1/3 of how much I wanted to buy to even build up what would have been about a 1/3 first tranche of GTAT at around 90 cents, hoping I would build the rest near 80 cents or lower, but the stock didn’
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Wow, I don’t recall the last time I saw a relatively-developed economy’s stock market spike 8% in a single day, but Brazil indeed has. Markets here are volatile. Be careful for the near-term. Use weakness in the stocks you want to own to slowly scale in. But don’
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Darn it all, that’s how you know I’m sending you these trades out in real-time as I’m trying to act on them. Turns out that FEXPX isn’t an ETF but a mutual fund and there ain’t no shorting a mutual fund. I would look at
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Google Glass supplier Himax HIMX up again, and starting to get parabolic. The HIMX chart is starting to remind me of GoPro supplier AMBA Ambarella’s chart frankly. Probably need to take a 1/5 profit on each to be disciplined. So that’s what I’m going to do
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STOCKS TODAY The markets have no juice and have been rather volatile and down lately. But interestingly, some of our biggest positions are more than weathering the storm. Facebook, Ambarella, and HiMax are all up and at new highs, FB and AMBA both setting new all-time highs today. FB is
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The Nasdaq and tech are getting crushed today, down 1.5% plus. Invensense is down again, in a downgrade. Read this and explain to me the logic….Invensense has just been proven to be in the new iPhone that will sell 100 million units in the next year…but they
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Troops on the ground, war escalating, currency wars in full fog, and the markets keep chugging right along. Steady as she goes til she stops, I guess. I’m looking to scale into some of my long positions that I’m still slowly building. The bulls are scared while the
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Let’s run through some of our positions to update our analysis. Barnes & Nobles (Short) – I have a soft stop-loss in my head at about $24 in this short that has gone against us from the start this go around. Barnes & Nobles knows it can’t be a
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The trade I am slowly putting out some offers to sell about 1/5 of my JRJC puts. I never was able to borrow any shares to short on JRJC but I did get filled on my some my puts from a couple weeks ago when I’d written: “Here’
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No Live Q&A Chat this week. Sorry. I’m at the Dallas Airport on my way to NYC to speak at the All-Stars of Options Trading Expo. My speech is: Friday, Sep 12, 201411:15 AM – 12:15 PM:Educational PresentationA Straightforward Approach to Using Options in Your
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$AAPL now up 3%+ at day’s highs as news of of Apple Pay confirmed and the pricing of the new iPhones hits. Mobile payments service will be called Apple Pay. Apple iPhone 6 costs $199-$399, 6 Plus $299-$499 with contract. iPhone 6, 6 Plus will include Secure
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I told you recently that I’m on the lookout for Bubbled Lousy Stocks to short. Here’s one I’m trying to short right now and am bidding on some puts dated in October and January 2015 with strike prices ranging from $12.50 to down to $10s — JRJC.