Trade Alert - Trading with Cody (Page 43)

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Trade Alert: Hedging my fruit and a new way to think about your money

I am looking at my largest position, Apple, and wondering if I should nibble a couple put options to hedge it a little bit. There’s a lot of love flowing towards Apple these days, and very little bearishness. Recall that we’d added AAPL call options back when it

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Trade Alert: Portfolio maintenance and a complete run-down of Cody’s Latest Positions

I’ll run through all the positions in my entire portfolio with new ratings for each one. But first a few trades that I’ll be doing this week in the name of portfolio maintenance. I’m closing my positions in: DLTR, IEF, CREE and FEYE. I’ve had many

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Trade Alert: A few small tranche buys and searching for the next tech stock to crash

First a couple updates: 1. I’m going to go back in and nibble a small tranche in several of the names, I’ve recently added to the portfolio and that I’ve been slowly but surely building. Today’s round of buying is what I’m calling a “small

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Trade Alert – Patience is a virtue

Travel can be tough anyway, but on Sunday afternoon in Baltimore, when I’d gotten to the airport, boarded the plane and then been ordered off as the flight got canceled, I lost a day of work and that’s why you didn’t hear from me til late last

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Trade Alert: Correction but trade stands

Well, that’s what I get for going off memory this morning and not checking my facts. My mistake – Himax reported earnings this morning already. I’m already bidding for the options I’d mentioned earlier, the HIMX December 2014 with $6-8 strike prices, and I’m going to let

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Trade Alert: A first strike at a new wearable play (and my speaking schedule for the Money Show)

Himax makes the eye piece in the Google Glass wearable that I’ve been raving about. The company reports earnings tonight, and I want to take a small gamble on a few Himax call options. I’m going to use the the HIMX December 2014 expirations with strike price of

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Trade Alert – Selling two stocks and noting the markets new path of least resistance

It’s starting to feel sloppy out there, especially amongst the momentum highflying stocks, including some of our own. For the last couple weeks, I’ve been saying that I wouldn’t want to chase these stocks up here, and I still wouldn’t. We entered most of these positions

Trade Alert: Trimming more TWTR and Cody Kiss & Tell Transcript

One housekeeping item: I’m trimming one-fourth of my remaining $TWTR call options, locking in more profits. Will likely trim all of them and be out of the trade if it gets near $44 or $45 or so. Onto the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat.

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Trade Alert: Trimming several recent big winners

Today is the greatest day I’ve ever known Can’t live for tomorrow, tomorrow’s much too long I’ll burn my eyes out Before I get out – Smashing Pumpkins “Today” The broader stock markets have been hitting new all-time highs all year. Corporate profits and corporate profit margins

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Trade Alert: Reading the writing on the wall at BKS

Nook is dead. BKS to follow. I told you I’d continue looking for the next opportunity and I think I’ve found one for us. I think we’ve been handed a terrific opportunity to short Barnes & Noble BKS. The stock has rallied big over the last few

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How the Drone Revolution will impact every kind of travel (and Trade Alert: Taking profits on half the Apple calls)

One trade to mention this morning. I am locking in a 250% gain as I am selling half my Apple call options from back in March. I paid about $20 each for ’em and they’re now going for more than $70 a pop. I’d explained why I bought

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Trade Alert: How I launched a hedge fund (and learned to balance my portfolio)

A few days or so after 9/11, I’d returned to Ground Zero where I had lived and been during that fateful day. I’d actually taken my cat with me when I’d run from the collapsing buildings on 9/11, but I wanted to go home to

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