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”Float like a butterfly. Sting like a bee. Your hands can’t hit what your eyes can’t see.” – Muhammad Ali Ebb and flow. Bob and duck. Jab and dance. That’s what everybody wants to do right now. Nobody wants to let these stocks play out. Nobody wants to
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The best tech trader I know is probably the one and only Jay Somaney of TSG Capital Partners who writes at WallStreetAllStars.com. Yesterday, he wrote an article called, “Adding To Techland Holdings” and I about fell out of my chair when I saw the headline and read the article
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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, I remember you writing some time ago on MarketWatch that Intel will go to the moon, recommending
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I’m doing a special “Stock questions only” chat with you guys today at 2pm EST at http://tradingwithcody.com/chat. Come by today if you’d like to ask me to analyze a specific stock for you today. I’ll give each stock I analyze a Revolution Investment rating on a scale from 1 to 10. See you there!
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Another day, another donut, right? The markets are up slightly, with the Nasdaq leading the way up almost 3/4%. How many times have I written “Sandisk is up nicely” in the last week, even as the markets have been trading within a handful of percentage points of their lows?
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I got a lot of great feedback about my “Revolution Investing Must-Reads” links column on Monday, so I’m going to start doing these links-with-Cody-commentary columns more often. Here’s what I’m reading today and a few thoughts about each headline: Bicycle Stability Versus Table Stability – My old friend
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So yeah, like I said in the last post, I’m proudly sitting on my hands right now and letting our positions play out as we wait for our next set of pitches. That doesn’t mean that I don’t have a playbook and expectations about how this market
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With one breath, with one flow, You will know Synchronicity A sleep trance, a dream dance, A shared romance, Synchronicity A connecting principle, Linked to the invisible Almost imperceptible, Something inexpressible Science insusceptible, Logic so inflexible Causally connectible, Yet nothing is invincible — The Police The markets and most stocks in
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In the last few months, we’ve risked some capital on some quick trades, especially around earnings reports. Indeed, we traded the following stocks to the long side using call options before their respective reports: Apple Google Sandisk Marvell Ciena And we got pretty lucky on all of them, having
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Quite a power move higher in the markets and most individual stocks this afternoon. Indeed, that’s the kind of stealth rally that can make the bears quiver in their boots. Someone’s quivering in their boots anyway: The calls in the portfolio continued to kick in again today, as
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Here’s a list of my positions, both longs and shorts in approximate size from biggest to smallest: Longs – * Sandisk * Google * Apple * Riverbed * Cisco * Nuance * Microsoft * Cypress * Marvell * Autodesk * Ciena * DBA * Corning * Visteon * Adtran Shorts – * LPS * Wells Fargo * Cablevision * Live Nation * SLV As for the markets, well, so much for
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The markets were down and down big to open the day. But the selling pressure lifted almost immediately and the Nasdaq even got itself green for a bit here. Sandisk tried to get back through $40, but got slapped down at $39.99. I’ve got a lot of that