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Just bought about 10% of what I’d consider a full position in Riverbed. The stock’s triple from where it was when I first put it into the Revolution Investing portfolio, but I think it will be headed higher in coming years, so I pay up for it today.
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Its a flattish open and the Japanese nuclear disasters are dominating the news once again. My biggest fear both as an investor and as a human being is that the government is downplaying the damage already being done to our planet. I remember mocking the five to six thousand barrel
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And the contra-hour was a strong one today, with the DJIA rallying more than a hundred points from its intraday lows and cutting its daily loss in half. I’ll continue to step up the buying into any coming weakness. I’m walking around with butterflies in my stomach as
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I did a nice bit of buying this morning as noted earlier and am now watching the stocks try to lift into the close. The action, given the Japanese nuclear disaster layered on top of the recent pullbacks that we were in the midst of anyway, seems to point towards
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I’ve bought some common stock in Celestica, Cypress and Nokia, as planned. I’m as nervous as any other trader about the downside possibilities if this Japan nuclear crisis gets any more extreme than it already has — if you even believe that the governments aren’t downplaying the contamination
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Yesterday after the market close I said that if we had had a down 2% day I probably would have bought more stocks yesterday. Well we have that 2% close down day this morning as the world wakes up two more nuclear headlines out of Japan. I am indeed looking
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Nuclear fears are back. But unlike in the Cold War, it’s natural disasters and not the fear of man-made catastrophe that’s the driver of those fears today. Japan’s tragedy remains the primary catalyst and focus of these markets, and until we get some lock down on the
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Take a look at this 5-day DJIA chart and you’ll see we’re just about the same levels we were late last week when I stepped up and bought a double tranche in some of my longs. I get asked all the time how a new subscriber to Revolution
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In a general sense, my mission is always to find the best companies in the fastest growing sectors and invest in their stocks when they are cheap and to find the worst companies in declining sectors and short them when they are way overvalued. More specifically for the last year,
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Nice intraday rally continues as the emotions and worries over Japan’s disaster today start to fade and traders look to position themselves into the weekend. The shorts have had a huge week, and are feeling great about double digit gains in many of their most-hated positions. And that propels
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I’m personally starting to buy some of these app revolution stocks back using both common and some longer-dated call options. If you’d like to see the details behind what stocks and options I am purchasing for my own account, please sign up at http://tradingwithcody.com. You guys
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I expect to get up to about 15-20 total positions in this portfolio with about 2/3 of the picks longs and 1/3 shorts by the time I’m done building in this set up. That 2/3 longs vs 1/3 short set up is in large part
