Cody Willard

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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

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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

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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

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Cody Kiss & Tell: That time I went to Sundance and other answers

Q. This is a nasty day. I’m not sure what’s harder to do here? Stay put? Buy puts? That seems too easy. A. I think sitting on our hands right now, with our heavy cash positions and short hedges along with our remaining longs is probably okay for

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Amazon’s many platforms (and savior of malls?)

Don’t forget this week’s Live Q&A Chat at 2pm ET today at http://twc.scutify.com/members, on the TWC App, or just hit reply to this email and send in your question. Ask me anything at all about the markets, the economy, trading strategies, tech

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A decade of Google analysis

People day trade, draw lines on charts, try to catch a big swing here and there, time the market, read the tape…and they lose sight of what’s important with their portfolios — maximizing our upside potential and minimizing risk. I do that by recognizing Revolutionary Trends and investing early

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Predictions for the Iowa caucuses and market notes

What’s up with you all to get this week started? Anybody nervous or otherwise feeling emotions about your portfolios? Hit reply to this email or join me in the Trading With Cody Chat Room here or in the Trading With Cody app and let me know what’s on