Things sure are peaceful if not outright euphoric in the markets out there right now, so let’s continue our “be scared while others are greedy” line of thinking again today and hit on some must-read headlines to help us round out our analysis. First, be sure to check out my new investment book, Everything You […]
Everything You Need to Know About Investing in Gold and Silver
Most people seem to fall into two disparate camps when it comes to gold and silver – 1. Goldbugs, who can cite a litany of well-reasoned and long-held beliefs explaining why gold and silver always have been and always will be a great holder of value. 2. Goldbears, who can cite a litany of well-reasoned […]
Trade Alert – Shiny stuff and six crazy markets you need to think about
What a time and place in these markets, eh? Do you sense that every major market in the world is coiled and about to either crash or spike any day now? Are we already seeing some of these major crashes and spikes presently? Let’s run through the gamut of what’s what right now in the […]
Growing up with civilization’s entire knowledge base at your finger tips
The big news overnight is obviously the Japanese stock market crash following the recent Japanese stock market blow off top. Is the Fed QE the only thing keeping our own stock market up near the recent highs? Deep thought of the day – Every baby in the US is being reared on smartphones and tablets […]
Revolutionomics – Empower or die (Or 1984 is for losers)
In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. – George Orwell A few years ago before I took the job as an anchor on Fox, I was running a hedge fund and […]
Are the big ratings agencies always wrong? Yes.
Facebook’s popping and I’m sitting tight on it for now. Sellside analyst upgraded the stock and his report sounded almost as if he’s a TradingWithCody.com subscriber because it outlined many of our reasons for being long this stock. Those reasons, according to Jordan Rohan at Stifel Nikolas, whom I’ve known for many years, wrote in […]
Feet to fire- where the markets are headed over the next five years
I have to say, despite knowing how “out there” by conventional means much of Marketwatch’s and my own readership is, I am shocked at the results of our poll yesterday in which we asked, “Is the entire stock market (and the system it supports) completely corrupted?”. I take offense to the idea that any of […]
Of politics, markets, immigration and scaredy cat hedge fund managers
Don’t forget this week’s Live Q&A Chat at 2pm EST today. I spent the last week in Washington DC, tourist-ing, taking meetings, and talking to everybody rich or poor, powerful or powerless that I met. I discussed geopolitics, bailouts and economics with immigrants from Ethiopia and Sierra Leone and Mexico and Italy. I ran into […]
In search of other plays on the “Most Disruptive Technology Ever”
What are the major disruptive technologies, ie, Revolution Investment themes, that have made people rich over the last decade? 1) Internet sites – Yes, despite all the dot-com companies that went bankrupt and all the fortunes that were lost gambling on pie-in-the-sky ideas like Pets.com and Webvan, the dominant Internet destinations have become de facto […]
The most disruptive technology in the last thirty years is here
EDITOR’S NOTE: THIS IS A FREE SAMPLE OF CODY WILLARD’S PREMIUM PRODUCT. SIGN UP TO GET BECOME A BETTER INVESTOR TODAY. What is the single most major disruptive technology, ie, Revolution Investment theme, that will make people rich over the next decade? Miniature, democratized computer development market. Hmm, I need a better nomenclature than that. […]
Chart of the day (and headlines, analysis and commentary too)
Oh my goodness, stop the press. Did you hear about the EU debt crisis? Don’t you know that the sovereign debt and banking crisis in the EU is going to derail the US multinational corporate boom and matching bull market? Here’s the Trader’s Chart of the Day, a history of the Google Search Trends for […]
What happens now that the market is in a huge bubble?
First, don’t forget this week’s Live Q&A Chat at 2pm EST at TradingWithCody.com/chat. You can also email me your question to suppport@tradingwithcody.com. It seems everybody’s bullish, the markets are great, and the Federal Reserve says that we’re still in dire need of “emergency measures” like 0% interest rates (ZIRP), QEInfinity, and all kinds of other […]
Apparently EVERYBODY KNOWS the government lies about inflation
Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That’s how it goes Everybody knows Everybody knows that the boat is leaking Everybody knows that the captain lied Everybody got this broken feeling Like their father or their dog just died – Leonard Cohen As the markets continue to rally […]
Google now worth more than Microsoft and other market thoughts
One item I want to mention before I get into it here. I get a lot of questions about how to filter reality and reliable news from propaganda and hype. I have created RevolutioNews.com, a news site totally curated by yours truly, for my readers. You can see my commentary on each news item and then […]
Cody Kiss & Tell: The Law, the banks and market psychology
Here is the transcript to this week’s Live Q&A chat. Join me next Wednesday at 2pm EST at https://tradingwithcody.com/chat or send me an email with your question at support@tradingwithcody.com. Howdy folks. Ask me anything. Q. Cody, I am hearing a lot about a big pullback in May with the last couple years having pullbacks in […]
Trade Alert – First Solar gets too bright as inflation burns
First solar is up big again today, hitting new recent highs and I am going to go ahead and trim a little bit here, about 1/5 of my overall position (see: First Solar is back and tradable). Juniper’s up big today and is now up nearly 10% from our recent big tranche buy level. I am […]
Must-reads: Twitter-flash crash, FDR and gold, and more
Wild action today, with a Twitter account, of all things, driving billions of dollars of intraday gains and losses. I’m not in a rush to trade earnings reports tonight, but feet to fire, I’d rather be long Juniper and Apple than short into the call. Indeed, I think Juniper might even be able to bounce […]
Must-read news, analysis and other links
Let’s run through some big and/or important (not the same thing!) headlines today. One of the key’s to successful long-term investing is to look past what other’s are seeing in the news and staying as objective as you can while you do so. How Twitter is becoming your first source of investment news – My old […]
Trade Alert – Lots of Apple analysis and locking in some profits on the bankster shorts
Do you see the lines out the door for the newest, coolest, and most unbelievably Revolutionary Apple product ever? The iP… Oh, wait, there’s NOT any cool new Apple product out there, much less “Revolutionary” in the way the iPod which begat the iPhone which begat the iPad were. Those products created entirely new markets, […]
Making the hardest trade and remembering some Apple history
Tense morning on Wall Street. And as usual, tense morning on Main Street. Here’s a note from this morning from one of the best, most-seasoned, and steady-as-she-goes money managers I know – “Very strange markets for me. My Restaurant Strategies portfolios are outperforming. My Low Volatility/High Dividend Strategies outperforming. My Equity Growth Strategies are underperforming […]