Cody Willard

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Trade Alert: Bizarro World Stock Market

Just two trading days ago, I wrote: “It’s been an absolutely wild week of action. Nice bounce from the lows *checks charts* uh, yesterday morning. I’m nibbling a few index puts here, reloading a little bit of protection. Maybe trim a little bit of the names we nibbled

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Trade Alert: SEDG’s up 500%, Reloading puts, A little trimming

It’s been an absolutely wild week of action. Nice bounce from the lows *checks charts* uh, yesterday morning. I’m nibbling a few index puts here, reloading a little bit of protection. Maybe trim a little bit of the names we nibbled on during the panic *checks charts* uh,

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Trade Alert: Taking profits on puts, and a small bet on rates

Here’s what I’m doing today: I trimmed some SPY, IWM puts. I trimmed a little of my bitcoin futures BRR. I think the rush into bonds is overdone and the TLT puts are quite cheap, giving us a decent risk/reward scenario with a tiny bit of capital.

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Puts, Futures, Hong Kong, Energy, Cleveland Browns and more

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A. Q. Cody, do you ever sell puts to enter or add to a stock at lower price or pocket some premium? A. I don’t do it often but for a stock like TSLA or other highly volatile

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Is the Bubble-Blowing Bull Market over?

The stock markets were down big today because: Trump China Trade War, tariffs, Yuan devaluation, suspension of Chinese imports of US agriculture, Hong Kong societal meltdown, Yield curve inversion, the Fed didn’t only cut 25 bps, negative interest rates in Germany, Asian stocks collapsing, Japan South Korea trade war,

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Trade Alert: Stay tuned, be cool, be opportunistic

Well it’s gotten quite ugly out there the last week. Our SMH short and puts that I highlighted for you guys a couple times right as it was hitting $120 have really kicked in, as have our other shorts. Meanwhile, our longs are also getting slammed today. Here’s

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Trade Alert: Don’t panic into the panic

I’m covering some more shorts selling a few more of our puts into the continued decline in the stock markets today, including 20-50% of my SPY and SMH and IWM shorts and puts. GLUU is being decimated, and I’m covering half of it. I covered a little more

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Trade Alert: Be cool, maybe cover a little bit

Markets tanking on the latest Trump China Great Trade War headlines. Be cool, perhaps cover a little. I’m covering maybe 20-30% of my SMH short and covering a little bit of my VHC short and even doing a little buying of Google call options 10-15% out of the money dated out to November and December.

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Tesla, Pearl Jam, Jerry Jones, Beyond Meat and more

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat including discussion on medical companies, earnings, Pearl Jam and more. Q. Cody – Would you please give us a position update? A. Yes, coming this week. Q. Cody – In the past (it’s been a while), when you

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Trade Alert: A pulse on a Wall Street vibe

I saw a lot, listened a lot, talked quite a bit and learned a lot in NYC over three days. I tried to get a pulse on the economy there and on the vibe (can you get a pulse on a vibe?) on Wall Street amongst longs, shorts and analysts.

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Trade Alert: TXN pops, semi’s look ready to drop (and a change to my TV schedule)

Texas Instruments, the calculator company — er, the chip company, says business isn’t bad and that’s got most chip stocks rallying hard on top of the big moves they’ve just had the last couple weeks. I think I’d rather sell chips than buy them right now and

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Great Pyrenees cycles, Tesla earnings, Gold stocks and more

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat. Q. Cody. If Fed cut rate 50 points, should we be ready to scale in with some index puts? A. Frankly, I think it’s wise to scale into a few index puts before the next Fed