Cody Willard

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Everything You Need to Know About Negative Interest Rates

Here’s the full new report “Everything You Need to Know About Negative Interest Rates” that I’ve been working on for the last week. If you’d like a PDF version of this report, just email us at support@tradingwithcody.com and we’ll send it to you. NIRP,

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Cody Kiss & Tell: Market cap meanings, tech earnings patterns, etc

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat. Join me in the chat room anytime or email your questions anytime. I’m always happy to hear from you dear Trading With Cody subscribers. Q. I work for a $40B global corporation with a stellar track

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Trade Alert: More profits from NFLX and AMZN calls

If you were freaking out and/or panicky at last Wednesday’s lows when the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) was at 15,500 and the S&P 500 was at new 2 year lows — now is the time to lighten up a little bit. If you were panicking

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Trade Alert: AMZN profits, Zen, best brokers and more

The markets just barely broke through the two year lows on the S&P 500 yesterday upon which time they immediately had a big bounce into the close and that rally continues today. We don’t have to catch the exact bottom in the markets even as we stealthily

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Heading home with lots of new insights

I’m about to board a flight from Dallas back to Roswell from where I will have a 90 minute drive home. I learned a lot last night moderating the panel with , last night at the CFA-DFW event. Most surprising was how bullish most everyone I spoke to and all

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Trade Alert: Fed speaks, markets rally, we trim calls

I am in Dallas for the CFA event, to which I was invited by a reader of mine with whom I had been trading emails for more than ten years. I am very excited about moderating a panel with Jeremy Siegel, Professor, Wharton School, University of  Pennsylvania, William H. Eigen,

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Trade Alert – Partial profits on KNDI puts PLUS Chat Room

As I mention below, I’ve raised cash, reduced the size of our longs, cut our number of longs in half and put on some more shorts in the last year. I certainly wish I’d gone almost all to cash and loaded up on shorts back when I wrote

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Cody’s Latest Positions

Here is a list of latest positions with updated commentary and ratings for each position. I note that I’ve lowered five of my long positions to one notch and raised two short positions one notch, which underscores the fact that I’m just not seeing any reason to be

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Trade Alert: Nibbling NFLX and AMZN call options, covering 1/3 GWPH

Well, it’s an ugly open here this morning to the new week, following up last week’s ugly action and the ugly close on Friday. U-G-L-Y is the theme out there. To review, I remain a bit bearish on the broader markets and remain high on cash and mostly

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Trade Alert: Panicky action, buying call options on two stocks

Okay, I’m sensing some panic into the close here and I’m going to take a shot at nibbling at some longs here. I’m buying some Amazon call options, dated out to May with $540 or $545 or so strikes on them. And I’m buying some Netflix

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The App Bubble is dead; Long live the App Revolution

Is the App Bubble that we rode from 2010 — when I left TV and came back to investing and trading in the markets — to the end of last year finally over? Has the App Bubble popped? Well, in a word, the answer is simply: yes. The energy and commodity crash

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Morning notes plus Zika Virus analysis and playbook

Employment and jobs numbers come in about as expected — some strength but not really strong. I think most data points and analysis point to the Fed still going back and cutting rates and/or creating new forms of QE this year and I don’t find that set -up very