Cody Willard

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Trade Alert: Market prediction, neural networks and a joyous heart

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat including discussion on the Market melt-up, where to trim and AI. Q. Feet to fire prediction for next 3 months. A. F2F guess for next 3mos is: Market falls 3.2% this week and next, consolidates quickly

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Trade Alert: Tesla Car Review

Since I was in Austin on a business trip, my wife received her Tesla Model 3 with the Full Self Driving computer Tuesday morning without me. She drove it to work and lunch and gave her mother and father and colleagues a ride in it on one of the main

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Tesla strategy, reflections and TSLA in 2019 to FB in 2012 parallels (EA, QCOM and other updates too)

Things got really interesting in the Trading With Cody Chat Room today as worries and even anger about Tesla going down a few days after we started buying it and I have been calling it my favorite buy right now — and that’s got some people upset. Here’s most

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Twitter earnings, Gold, Tesla, Qualcomm and more

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat, including more discussion on Tesla, portfolio positions, and a bit more 5G. Q. Hi Cody, we have been closing out many short positions since 2019, are you OK with the very long portfolio? Need some hedges? A.

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Read this, you’ll buy TSLA and a Tesla

I’ve spent the last few weeks doing a deep dive analysis of Tesla. I’ve many investment bank research reports (great data and information, sometimes helpful analysis), Seeking Alpha research reports (great data and info but the analysis is almost always wildly negative and short-slanted), Elon Musk interviews, blogs,

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Trade Alert: Portfolio rebalancing and more on the big QCOM win

A few more trades to update you on. I trimmed a little bit of AAPL. I am selling most of my EA for a loss. Mea culpa. I covered some of my GLUU short. I  nibbled some more JD. I nibbled some SPLK. I nibbled some ZEN. I’m covering

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Trade Alert: What I’m doing with our QCOM common and call options now

Well, this move in Qualcomm’s been pretty amazing. If you happened to have to bought some of the QCOM call options that I’d written about twice this year, you’ve likely got 15-20 baggers on them now. That said, recall that I’d mentioned I’d bought long-dated

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Tesla’s computers on wheels, Cryptos, Cable vs Streaming, NBA and more

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat, including a discussion on the future of cable, Tesla’s potential and upcoming earnings. Q. Here is a “way too early” question for you, although it kind of isn’t. Say Bernie Sanders is next President, do

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Trade Alert: Several moves in the portfolio

Let’s hit on a few items here to start the week, starting with a couple Trade Alerts. I’ve been continuing to build the TSLA long position, including today. If you can find 30 minutes, you should listen/watch this interview on YouTube from this weekend with Elon, all

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Why earnings could make markets could really really rally (and a PA on Bitcoin)

If I read one more analyst or pundit explaining to me how earnings are going to be bad and therefore the market is likely headed lower this earnings season, my hair might light on fire. Here’s the set up as I see it here: Most analysts are expecting earnings

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Top 10 positions, Crypto ETF, PANW vs SPLK, Jim Brown lacrosse and much more

Here’s the transcript from this week’s remarkably wide-ranging Live Q&A Chat, including custodial and regulatory issues for crypto, my top 10 in the hedge fund and a discussion on the USD. Q. Biggest investing mistake and what you learned from it? I know, very open ended

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The Fed’s likely juicing things again already (and more about bitcoin futures)

Into the weekend we go and a couple notes for you. First, a correction and some additional commentary about my BRR Bitcoin futures trade. BRR is on the CME, not the CBOE. If you can’t figure out how to buy the BRR bitcoin futures in your stock brokerage account,