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The markets have tried to squish higher today, but it’s been soggy underneath them. That said, we’ve had a pretty big intraday swing on our own sheet’s P&L, though we are also still in the red on the day. Here’s a few thoughts on
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Shorting gold and silver today. But first — one of our loyal subscribers writes me: “If we are long term, is today not a day to buy a little more across the board?” The answer depends on you and what you’re trying to do with your own portfolio. My mission
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Good morning and welcome to the terror dome. The markets tried to open flattish, but quickly faded lower and it feels, shall we say, “squishy” out there this morning. The markets and individual stocks need to shake out the weak hands and punish the johnny-come-lately-bulls who were late to the
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Painful day for the portfolio and as we head into the close, it’s safe to say “the streak is over”, as in, our portfolio is not up on the day. Indeed, with Cypress and Riverbed both down 3% on the day, there’s some red on the sheets today.
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I recently wrote about how after 14 years of renting, saving and waiting for a real estate market collapse that I finally stepped in and bought some land in my hometown in the beautiful mountains of southeastern New Mexico. Long story short, using a local real estate agent upon my
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Is the streak over? In the midst of more than a week-long run or so of up days, and with many big up days at that, I closed out several posts last week talking about how we needed to “respect the streak“. That is, Jay, one of my mentors who
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Time to start shorting the precious metals? Back in early 2007, I used to write about the “dislocations” that were suddenly showing up with more frequency as I was worried and started selling partly because the stock market was seemingly entering a blow-off top phase. By dislocations, I meant any
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I got a phone call on my cell this morning from an unknown New Mexico number and when I answered, my senior English teacher, now retired at 72 years old, wanted to know if we could go to lunch to “memorialize the death of Osama Bin Ladan and this great
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Let’s talk Cloud Revolution. Yes, amidst trekking to San Francisco, Dallas, and NYC, trying to close on land in NM, trading my personal account and writing about all of it for you guys on Trading With Cody, I also just finished a brand new investment book that you guys
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I bought some Live Nation puts that are currently slightly out of the money and will expire in a couple quarters. That is the stock needs to fall 10% in the next few months for the puts to get “in the money”, but if the stock doesn’t fall like
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The App/Smartphone/Tablet/Dashboard/PC is the fastest growing marketplace in the history of business. I’ve been saying exactly that for more than a year now and I’ve been dead serious about betting my time, money and reputation on what I call the “App Revolution” for shorthand.
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The headlines read like something out of a case study of runaway success in technology business strategies in a Hal Varian text book. I use Varian’s, now a big shot at Google, seminal book, Information Rules, in my class, and this App Revolution is the kind of thing I’