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Markets, FB and Today’s Live Chat

Good morning and welcome back to the coffee shop, where the caffeine is strong, but not as strong as the adrenalin of staying on top of your trades. Markets are up with the Nasdaq leading the way. Earnings from INTC weren’t exactly robust, but they were more robust than

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2007 vs 2012: Stick with our playbook

Well, I got up before 6am and was out the door to Roswell (70 miles away) to replace my lost social security card so I can get a local driver’s license but my birth certificate was illegible so I went to the Health Office in Roswell (where I also

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Why the LIBOR-rigging scandal is so important

I’ve got a trade I’m going to put into the portfolio this week based in part on the idea that the banksters are finally about to get some justice. You’ve no doubt read about the LIBOR rigging scandal. You’ve probably seen a lot of pundits and

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Trades for the week of July 9th through July 13th

Here are my trades for the week of July 9th thru July 13th: Common Stock: Stock Action Date Initiated Time Initiated Price DDD – 3D Systems Long 7/10/2012 11:32am $34.00 PCXCQ – Patriot Coal Long 7/10/2012 12:00pm $0.22 DDD – 3D Systems Long 7/11/2012 11:35am $32.12

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Lead Balloons, Clean Dirt, Obvious Black Swans and Easy Portfolio Solutions Don’t Exist

It’s Friday and I’m not slowing down or taking the foot off the gas pedal at all, are you? Here’s the trader’s thought of the day. I get dozens of “Story Idea” pitches from various PR outlets in my inbox everyday. Here’s one I got

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Earnings Calendar

Here’s a complete list of our positions with the date for each of their respective earnings reports. AAPL – Apple July 24th ADSK – Autodesk August 23rd AMZN – Amazon July 23rd APOL – Apollo Already reported June 27th BIDU – Baidu July 23rd BRCM – Broadcom July 24th DDD – 3D Systems July 26th DG

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Thirsty Thursday Markets

Well, it’s thirsty Thursday, where you better drink all the water you can before heading out to the desert. The markets are down, but not in any kind of a panicky way, just a typical down kind of day. That said, the last hour has seen some buying pressure

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Cody Kiss & Tell: Corporate taxes, 3D Printing, Tech’s 4 Horsemen and much more

Here’s the transcript to this week’s Q&A from TradingWithCody.com. We have a cool new feature that we’re trying out this week — a video and sound generated from an edited version of the transcript. My band has been making some music videos using this technology

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Live Chat at 2pm EST today

Don’t forget the live chat today at 2pm EST at http://tradingwithcody.com/Chat. Last week’s live Q&A was the best we ever had, but let’s see if we can raise the bar further. Meet me there and ask me anything, especially about trading strategies

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The bulls are terrified

Good morning and welcome back to the funny farm, where it’s best not to take the pills they’re trying to give you. On Monday I’d asked you guys to answer my poll question of who’s more scared, the bulls or the bears. The results were surprising

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How to find Patriot

Patriot Coal is trading under either PCX or more likely today you’ll find it under PCXCQ. It’s currently trading at about 22 cents a share or so and that’s just about my cost basis after two small tranches of buying. I’ll buy more if it gets

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A brief history of a decade’s worth of buying Apple (and why it matters today)

The emails have been flooding in from you guys who bought Apple before its most recent breakout, and many of you used options, magnifying the move.  Here’s what I wrote just a few short days ago: Here comes the Apple breakout July 1, 2012, 1:49 PM It’s