Cody Willard

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Trade Alert: Ugh, WDC

I need to let you know what I’m going to do with our loser, WDC. Long story short, I feel completely misled by management there and I am astonished at how badly they’ve mismanaged things in just the last 90 days. You guys know I’m a long-term

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ETFs, The Big One(?), Nvidia, Axogen, Under Armour and more

Markets bounced. Have to see if it sticks though. I got filled on some of the puts I was bidding on with lower strike prices than the ones we sold. Facebook reported strong earnings after hours. I’ll have much more tomorrow. Here’s the transcript from this week’s

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Who’s more scared, the bulls or the bears (or the elk)?

There’s palatable fear out there finally, and unlike last week, I doubt that tomorrow’s Live Q&A Chat at 9am ET will be full of people looking for stocks to buy. In a contrarian way, that’s a bullish thing and since most near-term market turns come

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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