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The analysis behind my latest trades

Contrary to what you are being led to believe the market doesn’t run on a calendar. I hate using the word “countless” because it’s my job to count but the number of I’ve times I’ve heard that a meeting or week or date is “crucial” is

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Morning musings

Good morning and welcome back to the weight room, where you better make sure you have a good spotter before you start to trade. The markets are up a bit this morning and all eyes on the Apple conference today. Apple.com is down which they always do when they’

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Trade Alert: One sell, one brand new short

I’ll have much more about both of these and some market/economic analysis coming up in just a bit. But in the meantime, here are the two trades I’m looking at doing next. First, I’m going to sell my Visteon (VC) for a small loss. I’ve

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Don’t try to trade like the Carnac the Magnificent

A: Clean air, a virgin and a gas station open on Sunday. Q: Name three things you won’t find in Los Angeles. — The Great Carnac (and Ed McMahon) Yesterday, I wrote this: Market’s down this morning, but is trying to bounce back from the lows. Path of least

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Trade Alert: Trimming down two tech longs

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. – Winston Churchill Is the market waking up and deciding stocks are ugly? Apple had another of of its own little mini-flash-crashes again today and the stock’s been unable to find

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Guts, Tablets, Predictions, Rumors and other things every investor needs to know

Here are some important links and stories that every investor and trader should ponder today. My Gut Feeling for Today, March 5, 2012 and Monday Morning Musings – Market’s down this morning, but is trying to bounce back from the lows. Path of least resistance is probably lower, at least

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Trade like Ty Murray

You guys notice how trying to hold onto FIO and not allow it to buck you off sure is hard? I’ve explained from the beginning that this Fusion-IO, being a start up and trying to revolutionize the server business, is going to be wildly volatile. And it has been.

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Facebook as a short candidate and other must-reads

Here are some very provocative articles that every investor and trader should be thinking about today. Can Apple Continue Its Parabolic Rise? and my Time to panic about Apple’s parabolic chart? – Apple’s AAPL been my biggest position for a long time but I do think I’m probably

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Trade Alert: Betting against this glittery stuff

Good morning and welcome back to the fairgrounds, where you should know before you lay your money down that most of the games are rigged. The markets are up a bit and tech sans-Apple is finally starting to lead. Someone asked me yesterday about shorting gold here and it was

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Chat Transcript for Feb 29, 2012: My dad’s advice about gift horses, strategies for AAPL, APOL, and much more

Here’s the transcript of today’s chat. See you next week at 2pm EST at http://tradingwithcody.com/chat for more Q&A where you can ask me anything. Q. Cody, after reading your united states of Apple piece, I would like to buy more AAPL calls…what

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Don’t forget to join me for this week’s chat session

Don’t forget to join me for this week’s chat session at 2pm EST today at http://tradingwithcody.com/chat.The markets pulled back after the Nazz3K, but have since stablized. No other trades for me today yet. Quiet before the storm? Will the storm take us higher or

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ZZ Top and Hondo Valley: Why you should never buy a small-cap penny stock

In general, the rule to investing and trading penny stocks (any stock trading at less than $5 is typically consider a “penny stock”) is: Don’t invest or trade penny stocks. Because they usually have such small market caps and so few shares outstanding in the markets, they are easily

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