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There’s a time and place to be aggressively long. And there’s a time and place to let the markets play themselves out after a huge run. Over the last few years, the markets have, despite most professional money managers fighting it every step of the way, been on
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Let’s run through some big and/or important (not the same thing!) headlines today. One of the key’s to successful long-term investing is to look past what other’s are seeing in the news and staying as objective as you can while you do so. How Twitter is
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Gold is up again, now up 8% from the lows where we were buying GLD last week. I also went with my parents to local coin dealer here in Ruidoso, NM, and we bought some gold and silver coins, just as I’d told you I would. Interestingly, we had
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Do you see the lines out the door for the newest, coolest, and most unbelievably Revolutionary Apple product ever? The iP… Oh, wait, there’s NOT any cool new Apple product out there, much less “Revolutionary” in the way the iPod which begat the iPhone which begat the iPad were.
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Apple has, as we all know, been a painful stock to own, look at and discuss. Seven short (or rather seven long) months ago it was the toast of the town, best performer in our portfolio and something to be cherished. Yet taking a look back you can see that
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Here is the transcript to this week’s Live Q&A chat. Join me next Wednesday at 2pm EST at http://tradingwithcody.com/chat or send me an email with your question at support@tradingwithcody.com. Let’s rock n roll. Q. Hi Cody, I have a question regarding
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Tense morning on Wall Street. And as usual, tense morning on Main Street. Here’s a note from this morning from one of the best, most-seasoned, and steady-as-she-goes money managers I know – “Very strange markets for me. My Restaurant Strategies portfolios are outperforming. My Low Volatility/High Dividend Strategies outperforming.
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“When advertising is involved, the user is the product.” – Whatsapp CEO, Jan Koum, on wanting to build a biz without advertising Let’s talk the future, because being a successful trader or investor ultimately is about maximizing your returns while getting your money in front of the future moves more
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The markets, pretty much all of them — stocks, gold, bonds — are all wound tight. There’s pressure on both the bulls and the bears right here. There’s pressure on holding cash. There’s pressure buying real estate. There’s pressure to hold your job in this high-unemployment market. There’
The market showed us something very odd yesterday. It repealed all the good tech positioning from last week that just began to inch its way into something we could have called a rotation. Did a fund who owns more than just Gold, who borrows so much more, just blow up
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Watching these images of the Boston Marathon explosions is heart-wrenching and sickening. I can tell you from having lived firsthand through 9/11 from Ground Zero itself, that all of the news and reports you are getting out of the mainstream media and news sites are PR at best, as
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Maybe all the goldbugs are selling their gold to buy BitCoins! Just kidding. But what I’m obviously not kidding about is that gold has crashed today. A few weeks ago, I started trying to find a reputable local physical gold dealer (and no, I didn’t need a prescription,
