Cody Willard

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Trade Alert: Trimming down two tech longs

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. – Winston Churchill Is the market waking up and deciding stocks are ugly? Apple had another of of its own little mini-flash-crashes again today and the stock’s been unable

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Guts, Tablets, Predictions, Rumors and other things every investor needs to know

Here are some important links and stories that every investor and trader should ponder today. My Gut Feeling for Today, March 5, 2012 and Monday Morning Musings – Market’s down this morning, but is trying to bounce back from the lows. Path of least resistance is probably lower, at least

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Trade like Ty Murray

You guys notice how trying to hold onto FIO and not allow it to buck you off sure is hard? I’ve explained from the beginning that this Fusion-IO, being a start up and trying to revolutionize the server business, is going to be wildly volatile. And it has

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Facebook as a short candidate and other must-reads

Here are some very provocative articles that every investor and trader should be thinking about today. Can Apple Continue Its Parabolic Rise? and my Time to panic about Apple’s parabolic chart? – Apple’s AAPL been my biggest position for a long time but I do think I’m probably

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Trade Alert: Betting against this glittery stuff

Good morning and welcome back to the fairgrounds, where you should know before you lay your money down that most of the games are rigged. The markets are up a bit and tech sans-Apple is finally starting to lead.  Someone asked me yesterday about shorting gold here and it

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Chat Transcript for Feb 29, 2012: My dad’s advice about gift horses, strategies for AAPL, APOL, 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. Cody, after reading your united states of Apple piece, I would like to buy more AAPL calls…what

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Don’t forget to join me for this week’s chat session

Don’t forget to join me for this week’s chat session at 2pm EST today at http://tradingwithcody.com/chat.The markets pulled back after the Nazz3K, but have since stablized. No other trades for me today yet. Quiet before the storm? Will the storm take us higher or

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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