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115 years of inflation, highest rated stock picks right now and other notes

It’s an early close at the stock markets today, but stocks are indeed trading and the prices they quote today are as real as on any other day. The Shanghai Composite Index SHCOMP fell 5.5% to 3,436 wiping out Shanghai’s gains this month. Chinese stock markets

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Cody Kiss & Tell: Markets, cycles, Expedia, YELP, Apollo and more

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat. have a great Thanksgiving, everyone. Q. Only a handful of stocks that carry this market, i.e. the Nifty Ten. Are you concerned this will end badly like many times before? A. I’m quite positive that

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On being thankful and other highlights

Morning folks, happy T-eve day. Stock markets are flattish, oil down, gold flat. Volume and attention paid to the paid to the markets this week will be low. I’m thankful for a lot of things, like my family. And for: *the miraculous healing and growing that my youngest daughter

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Notes and analysis from NYC

I was in NYC for three days and met with many of my old contacts, friends, colleagues and several people who wanted to talk about their businesses and mine. I stopped by and had my sesame seed bagel with cream cheese, large coffee with milk and a bottle of fresh

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Cody Kiss & Tell: Thoughts on Apple, Gold, Netflix, Alibaba and more

Q. Wondering your thoughts on gold over the next few months? A. Feet to fire gold action guess: Gold to stagnate around $1100 into year-end. Gold to fall closer to $1000 in a panicky sell-off if and when the Fed finally raises rates a bit. Gold to hit$2000 sometime

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Random thoughts, good reads and other notes

Don’t forget to join me for this week’s Live Q&A Chat at 2pm ET today at http://twc.scutify.com/members or on the Trading With Cody app. Some random thoughts, good reads and other notes in the meantime: Drone Revolution quietly bubbling ahead – A new

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Cody Kiss & Tell: Time to trim?, markets at year-end, portfolio performers

Here’s the transcript to this week’s Live Q&A Chat. You can also find me most of time during the trading day in the Trading With Cody chat room. Q. How is Amaris doing? Are you getting enough sleep to handle this market? A. Amaris is doing

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Chat and an update on gold and gold miners

Don’t forget to join me for this week’s Live Q&A Chat at 2pm ET today at http://twc.scutify.com/members or on the Trading With Cody app. I’d recently noted on these pages that gold’s near-term rally was looking tired and that I

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Notes on the markets, crashes, First Solar and other positions

Are the bulls finally growing complacent this 10% rally in the broader markets in October and those panicky August lows are now far in the rearview mirror? Should we paste a reminder on our screens that “Crashes in the rearview mirror are closer than they appear.” Let’s not be

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Cody Kiss & Tell: Apple, Twitter, GoPro, SPY and much more

Here’s the transcript to this week’s Live Q&A Chat. Q.  $AAPL seems to represent a positive future for us these days. See any options plays on it? Would you counsel adding to common at today’s level? A. I’d rather wait until the next time

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Cody Kiss & Tell: Market direction, tranche explained and lots of stock analysis

Q. Do you think this is the market bottom or it may go lower from here? I have 30% cash in 401k, would like to deploy it. A. Tough to try to time a market bottom short-term. I do think the markets are likely headed higher into year-end and next

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Trump in the Bubble-Blowing Bull Market and other notes

I spend about 1/2 an hour on the road each morning and night as I commute to my office and sometimes in the morning I flip around the SiriusXM stations to listen to CNBC or Fox Business. On Fox Biz this morning I heard Donald Trump on the phone