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 this week. Two others were […]
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. Why? Probably, as I’d outlined on February 15: “Will the relentless rally […]
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 a bit shocked when he said […]
Trade Alert: And The 5G Revolution, Trillion dollar market caps and more
Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat, including discussions about NVDA, the budget impasse’s effect on the markets and The 5G Revolution. A couple trades to alert you about. I nibbled some AAOI this morning. I trimmed a little bit of my DELL call options. Closed out the APHA short. Q. Cody – […]
Trade Alert: One nibble, one trim, one sell
A few earnings updates and trades to alert you about. VIAV results were very strong, guidance looks pretty fine. 5G is the growth engine there and the stock remains cheap if the 5G growth continues to accelerate as I expect it will. I’m adding another tranche of this one today today and probably a little […]
Trade Alert: Hospital, hedge fund, rallies and emotions
My gosh, it’s been a wild month and two days. I woke my wife up at 4am on December 27 because Amaris wasn’t breathing quite right and she went into the hospital 170 miles away that day. She’s still in there and today they told it would be at least another two weeks before we […]
Trade Alerts: A couple 5G plays, a trim and two shorts
Amaris is such a princess warrior and the doctors say we should be able to bring her back home next week. She’s off the ventilator and feeling much better. Here are most of the trades I’ve made lately in the hedge fund with a bit of commentary on each. (In alphabetical order.) Longs: I bought […]
Trade Alert: Moves from the hedge fund (with commentary)
Amaris has been on the mend but she remains in ICU on a ventilator. Here are most of the trades I’ve made lately in the hedge fund — this time with at least a sentence or two of explanation. Longs: I bought a starter position in AAOI. The stock’s down big, is now trading at […]
Trade Alert: More longs and shorts + Market analysis
What a time to launch a new hedge fund! Markets getting pounded and I’ve been putting a little more money to work both long and short today. I do apologize for not writing with more details right now, but between the launch and my daughter being in the hospital and taking care of my family […]
Trade Alert: More longs and shorts + Market analysis
What a time to launch a new hedge fund! Markets getting pounded and I’ve been putting a little more money to work both long and short today. I do apologize for not writing with more details right now, but between the launch and my daughter being in the hospital and taking care of my family […]
Trade Alert: Here some some trades I’m making today
The hedge fund is off and running. I’ll write up more analysis and details later but here are most of the trades I’ve put on so far this morning. I’ve bought some common and/or call options (in alphabetical order): AAPL AMZN GOOG PANW SEDG SNAP SQ VZ I’ve shorted and/or bought some put options on […]
Trade Alert: Taking profits on some index puts
It’s sure gotten a bit panicky out there today as the Russell 2000 small cap index makes new lows today. The Nasdaq, S&P 500 and the DJIA are all just about 1-3% away from their intraday lows in October. There are probably a lot of algorithms and traders out there waiting to sell and/or short […]
Trade Alert: One more tiny AAPL options tranche
If there’s another whoosh down today, I’ll likely do a little trimming of my index put hedges and I might do a little more buying. For now, I’m going to do a one more small trade this morning. I’m buying another TINY tranche of AAPL call options with strike prices around $200 that expire in […]
Trade Alert: Apple options trade
I’m going to be opportunistic again here this morning and nibble some AAPL call options dated out into February with strike prices around $200. The stock is down a bunch since we trimmed some near its all-time highs a few weeks ago and is probably a bit oversold. I’ll just nibble a TINY bit. And […]
Trade Alert: Locking in more profits on these puts as the markets open
Interestingly, even as the Nasdaq is opening this morning down 10% from its recent all-time highs and was down more than than 4% in one day yesterday, there’s absolutely no panic amongst Trading With Cody community. And that’s probably because of how we’ve all been preparing for this downturn by raising cash, getting cautious and […]
Trade Alert: What history and some feet-to-fire say about AMD and the markets now
Last Tuesday, I wrote: “Feet-to-fire (F2F) guess for the markets for the next 1-2 months: Markets go up another 3% from here, fall 5-7% in a mini-crash, then trade sideways into year-end. I wouldn’t try to profit with that feet-to-fire market guess I just laid out though!” On Friday, I updated that by writing: “Sentiment […]
Trade Alert: Two trades to avoid whistling past Turkey’s collapse
Is nobody here worried about Turkey currency crisis and the potential fallout/ramifications thereof? Stocks got hit on Friday but bounced back this morning before flattening again here now as I write this around 10am MT in Ruidoso NM. Most of the headlines, punditry and commentary around this shockingly quick decline in Turkey’s currency are all […]
Trade Alert: Everybody’s amazed at Amazon but that makes me worried
Quite a morning for our long-held Revolutionary Investments. Intel, which we bought a few months ago when it was in the $30s, reported nearly 50% growth in the cloud business. Amazon’s cloud revenues were through the roof too. Microsoft, which we don’t own, also saw explosive cloud growth. Do you know anybody who wrote a […]
Trade Alert: Nibbling some puts again
We’ve all heard and read the supposed pros and cons of Trump’s threatened steel and aluminum tariffs for the past few days. The positives of tariffs on steel and aluminum pretty much belong to steel and aluminum companies and to Trump’s cronies like Wilbur Ross, who has made billions in the steel industry over the […]
Trade Alert: More Axogen profits (plus my speech “The Great Cryptocurrency Crash”)
We’ll do this week’s Live Q&A Chat at 2pm ET today. I’m going to keep it to about a half hour, so get your questions in early. (You can just hit reply on this email to submit your question.) Back in October of 2015, when we bought Axogen, I explained that, “You guys know that I’m […]