Cody Willard

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Trade Alert: Get More Defensive in a Fog of War

I’m back from NYC, but tomorrow I’m headed out to Vail, CO for a small conference where hedge fund managers like me will trade their best ideas, both long and short. When I told the host that I’d like to do a presentation on Tesla, he was

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Trade War outcomes, FANG Anti-trust, Inflation, Crowdfunding and more

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat including discussion on the trade war and antitrust issues. Q. If the US’s capitalism is built on Ayn Rand philosophy and China controls all of their companies with political board positions, etc. and encourages their companies

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Trade Alert: A little nibbling into the fear, but just a little

Markets swings cause emotional swings which causes market swings which causes… There’s a lot of emotion out there today led by fear. I’m not doing much nibbling, but I did nibble on a tiny bit of FB, AMZN and GOOG as the markets freak out about new anti-trust

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Trade Alert: Full Trade War and stock market analysis

The Great Trade War of the 21st Century is just about the only thing that matters to the markets right now. And even though I always try to look past the headlines (and try to anticipate them before they happen), the fact is that the market is right to be

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Startup opportunities (and a NYC trip next week)

I’d mentioned a couple weeks ago that my hedge fund is going to do some tiny investments in early-stage private startups to help create a diversified portfolio and am getting started doing so on Republic, a crowdfunding platform built from the ground up to be SEC-compliant. Thirteen startups and

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Markets, Tesla, SQ, BIDU, and lots of other stocks

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat. Q. We’ve been quite optimistic in May buying some May call options on favourite stocks, as you recommended. Now it is upside down and one of the worst May’s in years. Any comments? Sell in

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Trade Alert: Adding more put hedges

Morning all. We’ll do this week’s Live Q&A Chat at 2pm ET today in the TWC Chat Room or just email us your question to support@tradingwithcody.com. For the first time since the hedge fund launched, I took a day off — and not just one,

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Trade Alert: Whipsaws, fear, two nibbles, one sell

Whipsaws and fear are prevalent in the market today. I did a little nibbling on QCOM. Yes, the company has been anti-competitive, but most of what the judge was upset about is exactly what Qualcomm’s new deal with Apple addressed. Meanwhile, this remains a very cheap stock, trading at

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The Tech Cold War, Gold or bitcoin?, Flying iPhones, T-Mobile 5G and more

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat including discussion on the Tesla, who might dominate 5G and who will be affected by the Huawei ban. Q. Thanks for your missive on the Tech Cold War. Not sure why the flip in Trump’s decision

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Trade Alert: China Trade War opens opportunities

With the banning of Huawei, The Great Trade War of the 21st Century has gone from being mostly a distraction for the markets to perhaps something more ominous. Or maybe not. Trump’s tariffs haven’t really mattered much to the markets or the economy, as I’ve predicted from

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Preparing to invest in some crowdfunding start ups

My new hedge fund is going to be concentrated mostly in publicly-traded equites with a little bit of cryptocurrencies and even some investments in early-stage private startups to create a diversified portfolio. I plan to make my early-stage private startup investments via Republic, the first and only crowdfunding platform built

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Preparing to invest in some crowdfunding start ups

My new hedge fund is going to be concentrated mostly in publicly-traded equites with a little bit of cryptocurrencies and even some investments in some crowdfunded start ups. I’ll be buying crowdfunding assets starting on Republic.co, the first and only crowdfunding platform built from the ground up to