Cody Willard

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Must-reads for every investor

So let’s dive into some headlines that every investor and trader should be reading. Apple charts signal trouble – I trimmed higher as noted repeatedly here. I bought some back today. Brace for worst earnings since recession’s rebound – I saw about five headlines and articles about this over the

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Trade Alert: Putting a hand on a hot stove

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity. – Albert Einstein Apple’s down 2% on the day which takes it down a full 10% from

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Trade Alert: Upticks, optimism, Apollo and Zynga

Let’s jump right in this morning. First off, let’s hit on my comments about the marked uptick in optimism at yesterday’s UNM Alumni Board meeting. I even asked the new President of the University about his concern that more austerity would further cut the UNM budget, and

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Notable uptick in optimism

I’m at a alumni board meeting for University of New Mexico. Most interestingly, I am almost shocked at the optimistic and economic bullishness from everybody here. They are usually very fearful. I wonder if that is a contrarian indicator or if it is an acceleration of the boom. No

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TITLE: Murphy’s Law forces rescheduling of this week’s Live Q&A Chat

Murphy’s Law states that your website will only go down when you have a live event scheduled. TradingWithCody.com is acting funky this afternoon and I’ve got Bill Fox, my CTO, working with our server provider to get the problem resolved. Let’s reschedule this week’s Live Q&A Chat for Friday at 2pm E

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What it means when the professional money managers lag (And don’t forget today’s chat)

All year I’ve been writing about how most of my contacts who are professional money managers have been very bearish and pessimistic about the markets all year and how that, technically-speaking, is a contrarian indicator. Here are three articles about just how badly the pro’s are performing

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Europe’s endless negative feedback loop

It’s still a flattish, range bound market. Here’s the Nasdaq over the last month, pretty much when we started selling down and hedging: It’s been flat and/or trying to peak here. And here’s the Nasdaq for the last year: Up 33% over the last year.

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“How much cash should we raise?”

Emailer asks what a lot of people are thinking: Hi Cody, any suggestions on how to be allocated at this time?  Especially, how much should be in cash? There’s never an easy answer to the question about “how much to be in cash?” It all depends on how much

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Don’t get complacent

Good morning and welcome back to the terrordome, where you better wear plated armor. The markets are all basically at multi-year highs. Apple and Google, our long-time two largest positions, are up huge and we’ve even juiced those gains with our strategy of buying long-dated call

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Trades for the week of September 24th through September 28th

No trades made this week. As you know, I’m in a patient holding pattern.

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Latest positions and market thoughts

You’ll see I’ve lowered the ratings of several longs and I upped the ratings of several shorts. I’m not bearish overall by any stretch of the imagination, as I think we are still headed into an even bigger equity bubble before this is over, but I don’

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Where’s my money?

I had to be at the dentist for a checkup and cleaning at 7:45am yesterday and I couldn’t find my wallet. We were sure we’d seen the wallet on the table by the door, but it was nowhere to be found. I finally thought — I wonder if