Cody Willard

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Trade Alert: Taking profits on our puts, buying some cheaper puts too

After a brief morning respite, the stock markets are falling again this afternoon and I’m going to make a few moves that will lock in some profits on our existing put hedges and roll our puts down a bit to balance the portfolio out a little. In other words,

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Opportunities? I’m on it! Complete markets and economic analysis

That was a pretty crazy week in the markets for me to be on the road! I had an incredibly productive (and fun) three days in NYC, as I set up my new office, attended a conference, met with my attorneys, had dinner, lunch and drinks with various friends, drove

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Trade Alert: Taking most of the profits on the AMD puts

I’m in NYC for a plethora of meetings so this will be a brief note here this morning. AMD is down almost 50% from its high just a couple weeks ago and our puts are going to be kicking in nicely with gains today. I’ll sell about 3/

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Best time to buy is when…and other topics

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat. Lots of of our subscribers looking at this sell-off as a buying opportunity. That’s good that people aren’t fearful and have been prepared for it. But contrarian-wise, that’s bad because as I note in

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Facebook’s either desperate or still really hacked or both (but I’m still holding the stock)

I’m headed to NYC with my wife and 4-year-old daughter tomorrow night on a redeye flight for a series of 8 meetings and a half-day hedge fund conference. I expect I’ll get a lot of insights, ideas and analysis on the trip, so look for that next week.

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Trade Alert: And a playbook for into year-end

Remember a couple days ago when the DJIA bounced 500 points and I’d mentioned that if you’d been losing sleep when stocks had been crushed down in a straight line last week that you probably should lighten up? Well, today the DJIA was down 500 points and the

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Cannabis Bubble Redux, 1987 Crash, Chinese Stocks, Earnings and more

The major stock market indices are up about 3% from their recent bottoms and as usual after a post-panic bounce, I’ll remind you that if you were freaking out, losing sleep or just wishing you’d had trimmed more and raised a little cash when stocks were higher, that

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Learn from history, but don’t fight the last war

Let’s do this week’s Trading With Cody Live Q&A Chat tomorrow (Tuesday) morning at 9am ET. I’ll also take questions over the phone on our conference call line (Dial-in: 641-715-0700 Access Code: 709981) or just hit reply on this email to send us your question.

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Trade Alert: Selling more puts into the panic

Just a handful of weeks ago, which now seems like a lifetime ago, do you remember all the daytraders and momentum lovers all highfiving and joking about all the money they were making? I wrote about it thusly: Highflying stocks: Nemesis for the hubristic coming sooner rather than later August

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Trade Alert: Locking in more profits on these puts as the markets open

Interestingly, even as the Nasdaq is opening this morning down 10% from its recent all-time highs and was down more than than 4% in one day yesterday, there’s absolutely no panic amongst Trading With Cody community. And that’s probably because of how we’ve all been preparing for

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Trade Alert: Trimming some puts

“Capitulate and fade, Resurrect and break” — Smashing Pumpkins The DJIA is down 550 points and stocks across the board are being sold hard. I’m not sure I’d call it a full-on capitulation day, but it’s certainly getting to be capitulative. Why isn’t “capitulative” a word? How

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Trade Alert: Snap? Yeah, Snap. Here’s the analysis and strategy

It’s certainly gotten a bit uglier out there in the stock markets this week, hasn’t it? I’m still mostly sitting on the higher cash levels I’d raised this year and holding my hedges, which have really started to kick in (and I might trim some of