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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?

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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

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Market prediction, Gold vs silver vs bitcoin, The Cannabis Bubble of 2018 and more

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat where we hit on what’s next for the stock markets; gold vs silver vs bitcoin; where we are in The Cannabis Bubble of 2018; Disney vs Neflix; Def Leppard vs LL Cool J; and much more.

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Full FB Analysis: Facebook Portal, Facebook Hacking, Facebook Earnings

What do you guys think of the new Facebook Portal hardware products with cameras and microphones for your home? I’m pretty sure that Facebook this is about the worst possible time for Facebook to launch a device with cameras and always-on listening microphones. Facebook will tell you that

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The pullback is here. Some analysis and ideas for this market

For the last few months, I’ve been actively raising more cash and even nibbling some puts dated out into November and December in anticipation of a pullback that’s certainly now here with the markets down 3-4% in the last few days. Yes, the pullback is here. The

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Revolutions galore and what’s changing at Trading With Cody

I need to let all of you TradingWithCody.com subscribers know some news. To be clear from the start, I’ll still be writing about all of my trades and investments, but instead of writing about my own personal investments, starting in the new year I’m going to be

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FB Crisis, Creeping inflation, Crypto crash catalysts, Cannabis craze to crash and more

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat where we cover things like my playbook for trying to find the Amazon of Cannabis, what to do with our Facebook stock, whether Twitter insider selling matters, some crypto talk and much more. Q. Cody – you put

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Starting to get ready for higher inflation

What a week in the news. From the shameless and (finally) explicit partisan-ization of the Supreme Court nomination process to the SEC suing to get Tesla’s Elon Musk barred from being the CEO. I told you guys from the moment I saw Elon’s tweet about taking Tesla

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Facebook hacked: I’m so sick of Facebook and so is everyone else

Facebook, you let hackers into my account? Here, just read what the company has told us and it ain’t good. So let’s pick this sucker apart, because as a shareholder of Facebook and as one of the people’s account was apparently affected since I’m being asked

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Facebook hacked: I’m so sick of Facebook and so is everyone else

Facebook, are you kidding me? Here, just read what the company has told us, which is the only thing anybody knows about it (bold mine): —- By Guy Rosen, [Facebook] VP of Product Management On the afternoon of Tuesday, September 25, our engineering team discovered a security issue affecting almost 50

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Cannabis Bubble Playbook, Instagram Exits, Pearl Jam and lots of stock talk

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat where we cover things like my playbook for The Cannabis Bubble, how Verizon will generate growth from 5G and much more. Q. Shall make use of Cannabis bubble somehow, like we do with crypto? You have said,

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Trade Alert: Taking profits on 3 stocks (one full cover, two trims)

Well, it looks like SiriusXM is going to pay a few billion bucks for Pandora P. And get this, the purchase price could be around half the price at which we shorted P back a couple years ago. Given that P was a short hedge to all of our App