Cody Willard

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Trade Alert: Markets update and doing some hedging/trimming

I sat down to write up a market overview to send out along with these Trade Alerts, and thought that doing an update on the “Five things that could end The Relentless Rally of 2019” by seeing if any of the five bullet points have changed. To review, here’s

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5G market anticipation, risky options, where to trim and more

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat, including a discussion on options, country music favorites and a visit with a subscriber in Thailand. Q. Hi Cody, If you wanted to raise your level of cash a bit, where would you trim after this important

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Latest Positions Round Up (and a Trade Alert too)

Here is a list of my latest personal portfolio positions and most of the hedge fund positions with updated commentary and ratings for each position. But first, a Trade Alert noting that I’m going to sell my SNE this week. It’s been a great run, as we’ve

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Trade Alert: Lots of stocks down big out there

The markets have started to trend a bit lower and there are thousands of stocks that were are now down 10-20% or more. Many of which are great companies who had terrific results but were clearly overbought at their recent highs, including, say, PANW which I was adding to earlier

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Trade Alert: PANW, DY Plus chatting about Balance, Price targets for arbitrary timeframes and more

Before we jump in, let’s hit on a couple Trade Alerts. I’m buying more PANW today, a pretty big tranche. The company’s topline and gross margins both look to be accelerating. I’m selling my DY for a loss. We got a nice bounce off the lows

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Trade Alert: What’s causing today’s reversal?

Don’t forget that we’ll do the Live Q&A tomorrow at 9am ET. Join me in the TWC Chat Room or hit reply to this email with your question. Meanwhile, the markets have gotten hit pretty hard on a reversal from their new highs earlier this morning.

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What’s the stock market outlook for March? Survey says…

“Welcome to the new, one-hour, Family Feud Challenge! What’s the top answer to this question: What’s Found in nearly ever refrigerator? The survey says, the number 3 answer is Eggs. The number 2 answer is Butter. What is the number 1 Bullseye answer? You’ll get the answer

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Trade Alert: Earnings, zingers and droppers

Let’s do this week’s Live Q&A Chat tomorrow at noon ET. You can ask me anything obviously. A couple trade alert and updates for you in the meantime. 1. Dycom’s earnings report results weren’t great, but I am quite surprised (and in pain) over

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Trade Alert: Eat this Revolutionary Distribution Network

So, maybe Warren Buffett’s not so smart after all — shifting consumer tastes challenge the Oracle – Chicago Tribune 2/27/2019 Imagine a company that distributes its content in 120 countries around the world. In some of the places where you get get its content, it’s literally the only

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Trade Alert: The hardest trade?

What’s the hardest trade to make right now? Buying more? Shorting into the strength? The permabears keep growling but are they about to finally give up and mark a short term top? We can’t guess when that will finally happen. I’m reprinting my article from last Friday

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Trade Alert: A flexible surprise about JD

I spent some time on the phone with the legendary tech analyst, Gene Munster, Monday afternoon. He’s a Revolutionary kind of thinker who used to cover Apple and other tech stocks for Piper Jaffrey for many years and these days he a VC shop called Loup Ventures. I was

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How much to invest in 5G, crypto getting jiggy, why gold is climbing and more

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat, including ongoing 5G discussions, crypto getting jiggy and why gold is climbing. Q. Cody: Re your trade alert today, can you provide some info on the expiration date and strike prices for the puts you purchased? A.