Cody Willard - Trading with Cody (Page 222)

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ZZ Top and Hondo Valley: Why you should never buy a small-cap penny stock

In general, the rule to investing and trading penny stocks (any stock trading at less than $5 is typically consider a “penny stock”) is: Don’t invest or trade penny stocks. Because they usually have such small market caps and so few shares outstanding in the markets, they are easily

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Trade Alert: Nasdaq 3k and buying common stock in this flash maker

And there you have it — Nasdaq 3K. I’d written a few times in the last week that it seemed like the Nasdaq was being almost magnetically pulled to 3k, despite how arbitrary and meaningless such a round number actually is. Boy, it just barely made it: NASDAQ Composite (^IXIC)

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United States of Apple

I guess I’ll make the compulsory mention of Greece and the endless euro crisis to start this week’s letter. But let’s take a different tack this week. Comparing market capitalization to GDP is apples to oranges (please forgive me for that one) but as I pointed out

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Trade Alert: Update and strategy for our homerun Apollo trade

It really bugged me once when I was still in middle school and I saw Duke coach, Mike Krzyzewski say after his player made a last second shot to beat North Carolina and my favorite player Michael Jordan, say, “Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good.” But then

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The anti-Warren Buffett backlash and other must-reads for today

Here’s part of what every investor and trader should be thinking about today. Notes on the 2011 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Report, Part 1 and Warren Buffett, Mercenary and Matt Stoller: Warren Buffett Says “Hormones” Will Fix the Housing Crisis Talk about some backlash. Man, I’ve been pointing out

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Latest positions with ratings for each stock

Good Monday morning to ya. Stocks are down fractionally from the multi-year highs they reached last week but are trying to turn green as the morning wears on. I added to the Apollo puts last week and I’m looking to add to my Sandisk position, either using just common

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Diversifying your puts and an important reality check for an emailer

Two answers to two subscriber questions: Cody, I have APOL May 50 puts @ 4.45, down 54% now. Is it better to double down on these or buy another strike of ITM May puts? Thanks, love the service. The short answer to your question (pun intended, get it? “Short” answer

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Trade Alert: Nasdaq 3K Magnet and Buying some APOL puts

Boy that Nasdaq wants to get to 3k, doesn’t it? It’s just 1% away, and it’s just an arbitrary number, but it sure seems like a magnet for now. Trying to game the next 1% move in an index full of thousands of stocks isn’t a

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Apollo Group looks ready to crack and lots of must-reads for today

Did you breathlessly hop out of your bed this morning to check on the latest developments from Greece and the Euro-crisis? No? Me neither. I’m not looking to force anything here, but I am considering adding to my Apollo Group put position. Will let you guys know any details

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Chat Transcript for Feb 22, 2012: Options, takeovers, oil and much more

Here’s the transcript of today’s chat. See you next week at 2pm EST at http://tradingwithcody.com/chat for more Q&A where you can ask me anything. Q. How often are you planning to change the rating system? daily? weekly? on an event by event basis?

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Trade like a calf roper (and taking profits on the Dell trade)

Good morning and welcome back to the rodeo, where you have to hang on for more than 8 seconds. The markets are down a little bit to start the day. Let’s see what the mainstream media is blaming it on today: Stocks Fall on Global Manufacturing Data Ah, that

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Avoid the “easy money, no risk” pitches; And a brand new earnings trading idea

A good friend and business associate I know and admire sent me this email last night. And, as I get a lot of questions from you guys about random “incredible investment opportunities” and “easy money trades” that are very similar in theme to this, I thought I’d write up

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