Here’s the transcript from this week’s Trading With Cody Live Q&A chat. Q. You mention in write ups that you’ve been positioning us to be defensive over the past year. Is that true? I feel like all we’ve been doing is buying/nibbling all the way down. A. Here’s some of the many samples from the […]
Latest Positions: A No BS Market PLUS Semis And Other Names
This remains the “No BS Market” as any whiff of bullsh*t gets sold. Promises of future growth are starting to be considered folly. That’s part of the process of bottoming. We need some of the most speculative and especially some of the fraudulent companies that came public in the last year or two to go […]
Positions: Social, Trillions And Buying A Tranche of NFLX
Here is a Part 2 of the list my latest personal portfolio positions and most of the hedge fund positions with updated commentary and ratings for each position. The ratings for each stock go from 1 to 10, 1 being “Get out of this position now!” and 10 being “Sell the farm, I’ve found a […]
Inflation/Deflation, War, ARKK And More
Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat. I’ll be in Austin with Amaris and my family for a few days for Amaris physical therapy and unless something crazy in the markets happens, I probably won’t be able to write up and send out anything while I’m there. Q. @ Cody, I had asked […]
Trading Lessons From Recent Wars Aren’t Applicable This Time (Plus A Trade Alert: Here’s What I’m Buying Today)
I obviously don’t know the end game of the Russian Ukraine crisis, but I do know from history (and most recently from the 83 episodes I’ve listened to so far on the Russian Revolution on the Revolutions Podcast from Mike Duncan) that this is a centuries-old conflict that is currently re-flaring up. The West doesn’t […]
Trade Alert: Cleaning Out A Few Names Here On The Other Side Of The Bubble
The Bubble-Blowing Bull Market got crazy in 2020 and in February 2021, it got so crazy that I did “The Great Reset“. Resets never stop in the market though and I want to look back in order to look forward so let’s start with something I wrote for my hedge fund partners recently: ‘One of […]
Trade Alert: ETH, BTC + Growth Stock Pains, Blow Off Top Rubble, EV Plays, More
Here’s the transcript from this week’s Trading With Cody Live Q&A chat. Q. Over the past year, we’ve seen breadth narrow in the number of stocks making gains. At the same time, many of our growth picks have gotten hammered as institutions rotate out of growth and into more defensive sectors. Isn’t this indicative of […]
Year Review And Predictions For 2022 (+ Trade Alert: Basket Of Beaten Downs)
Over the past week, I’ve started a basket of some beaten-up names that I think look like they could bounce here into year-end and/or into next year. I’m keeping it small but I did nibble some of the following names for this high-beta/high-risk Basket Of Beaten Downs: CGC, KD, IONQ, ORGN. I’ll write up a […]
Big Cap vs Small, Drums vs Guitar, Helium And More
Here’s the transcript from this week’s Trading With Cody Live Q&A chat. Q. Market is upset. Any thoughts Cody? A. In the hedge fund, I did a little bit of covering some short hedges and selling some of my index puts, and I also nibbled a little BKSY for the first time in a long […]
Trade Alert: Selling JMIA, Market Froth, Tapering And More
Here’s the transcript from this week’s Trading With Cody Live Q&A Chat. Q. The economy and markets seem quite frothy to me here. There is so much spending going on for non-essentials (boats, ATVs, expensive vehicles with aftermarket everything parts on them, etc.) along with seemingly ridiculous real estate prices and associated price wars all […]
Analysis on Markets, Cryptos, Where I’d Buy More Of Each Stock, Etc
Here’s the lightly edited transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Zoom Chat. Here’s a link to watch the video replay. Cody: Welcome everyone to a Zoom version of the Trading With Cody weekly chat. We haven’t done this in several months. I am excited to get back together and have the different vibe and lengthier […]
Taxing The Rich, Resetting, EV Self Driving, GLD, Crowdfunding And More
Here’s this week’s Trading With Cody Live Q&A Chat. Q. Cody, what do you think are the chances Bidens cap gain proposal passes? If it does, what do you see as net effect on the markets? Do you encourage selling or discourage selling to avoid realizing gains? Thanks. A. There’s close to 0% chance the […]
Getting A Wee Bit Longer
I’m making some minor moves in the hedge fund today (mostly just covering some short hedges and trimming some puts) but despite the pullback in many names I like, I’m still not making any nibbles in my personal account. Tesla’s got the double whammy of bitcoin getting sold off hard along with the news of […]
Treasury Yields, The Fed’s Against You, VR, Cryptos and More
Here’s the transcript from this weeks Trading With Cody Live Q&A Chat. Q. Cody, Feet-to-fire, what’s the next 5% move? A. We had that rip-the-shorts-face-off contra-rally that I’d talked about early last week and now it’s been a path-of-least-resistance downward since then. I think that’s probably the most likely scenario here for now — more […]
Stocks Fall As Higher Rates And Inflation Make Traders Golf In The Cold
That was some ugly stock market action today. I hope that you were not in a position where it was too painful or that you’ll lose sleep over your stock portfolio tonight. If you do, you might need to trim a little bit of your largest positions on the next rally. I’ll remind you. Otherwise, […]
Trade Alert: Adding To Qualcomm, Trimming SPCE, Best VR Games, More
Howdy folks. AMA. Q. Cody – I was curious your thoughts on trimming and locking in gains during this bubble blowing bull market. We spoke on the phone once briefly while you were golfing. I am 40 years old, never married and no kids, make a base salary of 300k with bonus potential to get […]
Bad Social Media Vs Pinterest, Bad Cryptos Vs Bitcoin, Welcome To Space, Etc
Here’s the transcript from Friday’s Live Q&A Chat which we did live over Zoom. You can watch the video here: Cody: Welcome to another edition of the Trading with Cody live Q&A chat Zoom version. I come to you live from Ruidoso, New Mexico today as usual since the pandemic. The coronavirus kicked in and […]
Hear Me Speak, Democrats Love Bubbles Too, Tesla Trillion, Sell Some Bitcoin, And More
I was interviewed by Aaron Task and Stephen Alpher for a podcast earlier this week: A bubble-blowing, bull market, blow-off top phase – Cody Willard joins Alpha Trader You can also hear me talk to Sean Bill of MacroCrunch on his podcast. This interview actually took place over a year ago when I was in […]
Trade Alert: This Virtual Reality Platform Will Change Reality
We’ve added quite a few new subscribers to Trading With Cody in the past few weeks, so here’s some analysis from a book I wrote a few years ago. I think it’s a good way to start today’s report as so much of it still applies and I want to talk about virtual reality because […]
Trade Alert: Dell (Plus Suggested Readings For Bubbled and Troubled Times)
Here are a few books to read while the stock charts remain mostly parabolic and we are probably somewhere in the midst of a blow-off top Bubble Books we bought. A Short History of Financial Euphoria (Penguin Business) by Galbraith, John Kenneth Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Ahamed, Liaquat Technological […]