Cody Willard

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Riding the bull: Trade Alert – Taking profits on the Dollar shorts and also on some Sandisk calls

Mornin’ y’all, and welcome back to the rodeo, where the bulls buck hard and only the best of the best can hold on til the buzzer. Our second largest position on the short side of our ledger, Dollar General, reported another round of dismal earnings and outlook and it’

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Working the phones and working on three new trading ideas

In my old age, I’ve gotten to where I just hate talking on the phone. Texting, emailing, writing and face-to-face are my preferred media of communication. But work, analyzing stocks and researching companies, managing people from San Diego to NYC to Las Cruces require working the phones.

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Trades for the week of December 3rd through December 7th

Here are my trades for the week of December 3rd through December 7th: Options: Stock CALL or PUT Action Date Initiated Stock Price Strike Price Exp Date FB-Facebook CALL TRIM 12/3/2012 $27.90 $22.00 13-Mar FB-Facebook CALL TRIM 12/3/2012 $27.90 $22.

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Latest positions (and Trade Alert – A non-emotional bite)

You’re too deep in You can’t get out You’re just a poor girl in a rich man’s house Uh-hoo, uh-hoo-hoo, uh-hoo-hoo-hoo Uh-hoo, uh-hoo-hoo, uh-hoo-hoo-hoo Yeah, baby, I’m crying over you Don’t you

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Where are the momo dodos?

[Latka pays Louie a coin] Louie De Palma: What’s this? Latka Gravas: It’s a kebble. Louie De Palma: What’s a kebble? Latka Gravas: 110 kebble make a lithnitch. Louie De Palma: What’s a lithnich? Latka Gravas: 270 lithnich make a matta. Louie De Palma: What’s

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Cody Kiss & Tell: Sheriffs, iPads, and Complimentary Options Only

Here’s 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. Q. My sheriffs dept is transitioning to the iPad. All detectives are now

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Trade Alert – Two tech scale-ins and a thank you to our troops

A few days ago when Apple was up $70-$80 a share from where we’d most recently bought more AAPL calls, I trimmed some of them and reminded you guys: Remember when Apple was at $700 and I pleaded with you guys to remember how painful a random sell-

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Deep dive in the sea of memory

Commentary:  Demand for more flash is good for Apple margins Like many of my readers, I recently went through the process of purchasing an iPhone 5 as well as an iPad Mini.   One of the first things you notice when shopping for one of Apple’s latest devices is the

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Trade Alert and complete technical analysis for Facebook

Did we just see a blow-off top in Facebook this morning as it spiked another 3% to the highest levels its been in months? The stock has since faded and is up less than 1% as I type this which certainly begs the question of whether that morning rally

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Trades for the week of November 26th through November 30th

Here are my trades for the week of November 26th through November 30th: Options: Stock CALL or PUT Action Date Initiated Stock Price Strike Price Exp Date FB-Facebook CALL TRIM 11/27/2012 $25.90 $20-$22 13-Mar AAPL-Apple CALL TRIM 11/27/2012 $586.61 $650 13-Mar

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Latest positions and Soft-thoughts

Trader’s thoughts of the day – should we have more MSFT puts than we do? Is there any chance the expectations are so low already that the Windows 8 failure is priced in? Is there a chance Windows 8 catches fire in the next few months? Is MSFT too cheap

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Euro-fiscal-debt-cliff-crisis-crisis-crisis

Speaking of the Euro-debt Crisis…oh, wait, nobody’s talking about the Euro-crisis and why you should be panicking out of your stocks because the Euro-debt Crisis is going to crash the world’s economies and markets. Now the mainstream media discussion is focused on the “fiscal