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vig·i·lant adjective 1. keeping careful watch for possible danger or difficulties. com·pla·cent adjective 1. marked by self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies I caught the pilot episode from the year 2002 of the TV show, Monk, the other day. It’s
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Here’s the transcript to this week’s live video Q&A chat, organized by trends/markets/politics, then strategies and individual stocks. Subscriber: Thanks for all your writing these last number of years. You’re into revolutionary stocks, and also of course stocks that have great business models.
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The markets are gyrating following a path of least resistance lower for now but I wouldn’t necessarily try to bet that these trends continue. On the one hand, the economy has been terrible for a month and is going to get even worse over the next two weeks as
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Here’s the transcript to the wide, wide ranging discussion over video conference I had with the Trading With Cody community on Friday. I’ve organized the questions according to topic, starting with economy/markets (ie, corona-nomics), then strategy/trades and then specific stocks. Be sure to read the last
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I’m going to riff on a bunch of related deep thoughts and than summarize them all up at the end with strategy and trading ideas. (Let’s do a Google talk tomorrow (Friday) at noon for this week’s Live Q&A Chat at 12pm ET. We’re
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The economic underpinnings of our society are based on revenues generated from people doing things, consuming things and being together. We aren’t doing things, we aren’t consuming like we did a month ago and we certainly aren’t being together. The NBA is thinking about not paying player
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Let’s get started early here. Ask me anything for the next hour. Q. Cody, if the USA turn out to be Italy or worse which is probable, I imagine the market will have a bid negative reaction to full hospitals and the terrible stories, no? A. Probably, but it
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Another day, another big move in the markets. At least initially to the higher side. I’m sticking with the game plan, doing a little trimming and reshorting some indices to keep hedged. I’m writing up a bunch of analysis about what we should expect for the economy and
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Up, no, now down! Wait, up and up more. Wait down, it’s a crash. It’s another crash. Wait, it’s a big rally! Can you tell the difference between the up and down days? Well, today brings us just exactly the kind of insane bounce of 10-30% in
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We’re living through a crash. We might have just lived through a crash. But we might still be in the process of living through a crash. The markets hate confusion. The markets can’t discount future cash flows if nobody has any idea what future cash flows will look
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Before the Kurzweil Rate of Change sped things up, here are the generally accepted definitions an economic recession vs. an economic depression: A recession is the contraction phase of the business cycle. The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) describes it this way: ‘A recession is a period of decline
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These markets have been historically crazy for the last month. That’s just a fact. Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat. Q. Some of our stocks are down below our original basis. Wouldn’t it be better for us to trade with the
