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Cody Kiss & Tell: Bailouts, Fed playbook, market direction & more

Q. Cody, is there any chance for banks or any too-big-to-fail corporations defaulting on oil loans and begging government for bailout ? A. I was just talking about this idea when I had a drink with John Carney from the WSJ and also when I had coffee with

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Rescheduling today’s Q&A and update from Cody’s NYC trip

I am jam-packed in New York City including meeting up with Todd Harrison and a few other names I am sure you would recognize. I won’t be able to make the Q&A chat today. Let’s reschedule it for 2:00 p.m. EST this Friday,

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Fitbit earnings report analysis

Fit reported a very strong quarter and guided the 2016 full year to be about inline with analyst estimates. But the guidance for next quarter was quite light. Revenues came in $711.6MM (vs. the St $648MM).  Earnings per share was 0.35 (vs. the St 0.25).  EBITDA $125.

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NYC Trip, Why I’m not buying DVN and other notes

I’m going to be on the road next week in NYC speaking at The Traders Expo, being interviewed here and there, taking a few meetings and seeing old friends, so don’t expect too many lengthy filings, though I will be trading as usual and will send out a

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Everything You Need to Know About Negative Interest Rates

Here’s the full new report “Everything You Need to Know About Negative Interest Rates” that I’ve been working on for the last week. If you’d like a PDF version of this report, just email us at support@tradingwithcody.com and we’ll send it to you. NIRP,

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Cody Kiss & Tell: Market cap meanings, tech earnings patterns, etc

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat. Join me in the chat room anytime or email your questions anytime. I’m always happy to hear from you dear Trading With Cody subscribers. Q. I work for a $40B global corporation with a stellar track

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Trade Alert: More profits from NFLX and AMZN calls

If you were freaking out and/or panicky at last Wednesday’s lows when the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) was at 15,500 and the S&P 500 was at new 2 year lows — now is the time to lighten up a little bit. If you were panicking

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Trade Alert: AMZN profits, Zen, best brokers and more

The markets just barely broke through the two year lows on the S&P 500 yesterday upon which time they immediately had a big bounce into the close and that rally continues today. We don’t have to catch the exact bottom in the markets even as we stealthily

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Heading home with lots of new insights

I’m about to board a flight from Dallas back to Roswell from where I will have a 90 minute drive home. I learned a lot last night moderating the panel with , last night at the CFA-DFW event. Most surprising was how bullish most everyone I spoke to and

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Trade Alert: Fed speaks, markets rally, we trim calls

I am in Dallas for the CFA event, to which I was invited by a reader of mine with whom I had been trading emails for more than ten years. I am very excited about moderating a panel with Jeremy Siegel, Professor, Wharton School, University of  Pennsylvania, William H. Eigen,

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Trade Alert – Partial profits on KNDI puts PLUS Chat Room

As I mention below, I’ve raised cash, reduced the size of our longs, cut our number of longs in half and put on some more shorts in the last year. I certainly wish I’d gone almost all to cash and loaded up on shorts back when I wrote

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Cody’s Latest Positions

Here is a list of latest positions with updated commentary and ratings for each position. I note that I’ve lowered five of my long positions to one notch and raised two short positions one notch, which underscores the fact that I’m just not seeing any reason to be