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What Apple into DJIA means and other notes

Markets down hard this Friday afternoon and the DJIA is down 400 points since Monday’s highs. Nasdaq struggling hard since hitting 5k earlier in week. Steady as she goes for me for now, but you know I’ll look to sneak in some tranche buying and/or a trade

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Cody Kiss & Tell: Sentiment, hate, cash, testimonials and more

Q. Cody: As a contrarian, how do you/how should anyone read measures of Sentiment? If one looks at those gauges you cited, (a) how does a contrarian vote in them and (b) can the “reader” assume it’s basically the opinions of non-contrarians? A. I don’t think you

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How to use Sentiment to your advantage (Plus a Google update)

Steady as she goes for now but I suppose I’m gonna have to trim our Google call options a little more if this stock moves much higher from here. It’s up $80 since we added to Google common and call options. Steady for now though. Is it time

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5 Lessons from Nasdaq 5k (Plus markets, cash, Sonic vs Shake Shack and more)

Lots of our stocks are near their all-time highs. Others that we’ve nibbled on recently are up 15%, 20% or more so far this year. The stock markets are at all-time highs and we’re looking back at the last time the Nasdaq hit 5k in today’s report.

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Bet everything on the App Revolution

Websites are dead. Nobody consumes content from the laptop anymore. The only people who spend time on their desktops or even their laptops are those use them to work, hobbies or research. Since the advent of the smartphone, I’ve begged people to get in front of the App Revolution.

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Cody Kiss & Tell: Crashes, AAPL, GOOG, TWTR and a baby pic too

Here’s the transcript to this week’s Live Q&A Chat from TradingWithCody. Q. Seems like a decent time to add some new short ideas with all of the complacency and bullishness oozing…you working on some? FWIW I cut all of my positions back substantially, taking big

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Why I’m Revolution Investing in Solar Energy

First Solar was up 15%+ today on news they are in advanced negotiations to form a joint YieldCo vehicle with SunPower to which they each expect to contribute a portfolio of selected solar generation assets from their existing portfolio of assets. Putting this in simple English, First Solar and SunPower

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Cody Kiss & Tell: Oil vs gold, Apple Pay, Zillow and more

Here’s this week’s Live Q&A Chat transcript from TradingWithCody. Howdy folks, you guys ready to rock? Ask me anything for the next hour. Q. Do you still feel that something like a bankruptcy of a major player is the catalyst for a permanent uptick in oil

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Chat and random thoughts

Don’t forget to join me for this week’s Live Q&A Chat at 2pm EST at https://twc.scutify.com/members/. Stocks soft but flattish, $DJIA -28. Trending: $YNDX +6%, which I’ve mentioned on Scutify as a buy when it was <$15, on fire and

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Cody Kiss & Tell: Investing “morally” is impossible, WFM, GPRO, CSCO and more

All right folks, let’s do this week’s Live Q&A Chat. Ask me anything. Q. Whole Foods is positioned well to dominate the natural food market. Is $WFM a stock you own more for moral issues than financial? A. I probably wouldn’t own a single publicly

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Greece and the EU are a waste of your time

Again no trades for me today. We’ve got some stocks that are moving nicely for us lately and I’m letting our positions do the work. More trades coming soon, so as always, stay tuned! Greece and its financial crisis are all over the news. Again. As usual. It’

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Wearables and other ways to win with Sony

I could almost just copy and paste what I wrote the other day about Sony….”Sony SNE with another nice pop today coming on top of a very strong rally already. This chart might even be considered to be going parabolic.” The company reported strong numbers, in part from growth