DISRUPT YOUR OWN FUTURE “Master disruption to own your future” from Pontus Siren at Innosight was the title of one of the most fascinating presentations that I sat in on at SALT Abu Dhabi. The talk was all about how you have to see disruption before the data tells you it’s happening if you want […]
Latest Positions: FANG(D), Defensive names, Space Revolution, Shorts (and Trade Alert: NFLX trim)
Here is Part 3 of 3 of my latest personal portfolio positions and most of the hedge fund positions with updated commentary and ratings for each position. Happy Thanksgiving to you all and I thank you all for reading. The ratings for each stock go from 1 to 10, 1 being “Get out of this […]
Latest Positions: Analysis, ratings, graphs and more
I got back from NYC and to Ruidoso NM at about 3am Saturday morning — The Tesla sure makes the 170 mile drive from the airport in Albuquerque easier than it used to be. Lots of interesting meetings and experiences on the trip and I’ll be writing about all of it this week. But in […]
Guest Writer Vitaliy Katsenelson: Tesla, Elon Musk and the EV Revolution
My old friend Vitality Katsenelson is a very smart money manager and value investor who thought my Trading With Cody subscribers might enjoy seeing his analysis on The EV Revolution (Vitaliy has been a long, long time subscriber). Vitaliy is the guy who puts on the value investment ideas conference in Vail where I presented […]
Singularity, Hedging, Bailouts for college kids, Slack, Bitcoin & more
Here’s the transcript from this week’s wide-ranging chat. Man, things be changing quickly round here… “Everyday it’s a-getting closer, Going faster than a rollercoaster, Love like yours will surely come my way, A-hey, a-hey-hey, Everyday it’s a-getting faster, Everyone said, “Go ahead and ask her,” Love like yours will surely come my way, A-hey, a-hey-hey.” […]
Latest Positions with quotes from Nikola Tesla
“There is something frightening about the universe when we consider that only our senses of sound and sight make it beautiful. Just think, the universe is darker than the darkest ink; colder than the coldest ice and more silent than a silent tomb with all the bodies rushing through it at terrific speeds. What an […]
A look at both sides of the markets, sentiment, valuations and more
On the one hand, Jesse Livermore is famous for trading stocks. On the other hand, among other quotes from Jesse Livermore, are these two: “Money is made by sitting, not trading.” and “It takes time to make money.” On the one hand, the S&P 500, Nasdaq and the DJIA are all at all-time highs. On […]
Trade Alert: Latest Positions with flashbacks (and quite a few trims)
Don’t forget this week’s Live Q&A Chat tomorrow morning at 7am ET in the TWC Chat Room or just email us your question to support@tradingwithcody.com. 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. You’ll notice there are several trades (marked […]
Trade War outcomes, FANG Anti-trust, Inflation, Crowdfunding and more
Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat including discussion on the trade war and antitrust issues. Q. If the US’s capitalism is built on Ayn Rand philosophy and China controls all of their companies with political board positions, etc. and encourages their companies to steal IP then financially backs them, a trade deal […]
Trade Alert and Latest Positions: Analysis, ratings plus other ideas
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. Can I just say, sometimes I feel a lot of pressure to deliver. I do my best guys, but I will make mistakes and be wrong sometimes, of course. A […]
2007 vs 2019: What’s changed, what’s the same, and what’s next?
I found a batch of old emails last week and stumbled across an article I’d written for The Street a dozen years ago, back in August 2007. My economic and market analysis from the time made me think a lot about these days and the current market set-up. I covered a lot of topics that […]
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 run in the first months of the year? Where […]
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 ridden Sony for three and a half years […]
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 this week. Two others were […]
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 content that you can get there. Now imagine that […]
Trade Alert: Flip the market psychology script
What do you know, a down day in the markets in 2019? Who’da thunk stocks could go down? I’m doing a little nibbling in the hedge fund on some of the existing names in the portfolio, including Twitter, Verizon, Facebook, Google and Amazon. No rush, just nibbling and what not around the edges. Here’s a […]
Latest Positions, including a few Trade Alert updates
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. I’ve broken the list into Longs and Shorts. I’ve further broken the list down in order of highest-rated to lowest-rated (I’m no longer going to break down down each list […]
Latest Positions: What a difference 90 days and a 20% pullback in the stock markets make
Last time I did a Latest Positions Update, in late September, I wrote this: “There’s a lot of momentum in this and other long-held Revolution Investments of ours, which is a function of how well they’ve performed in the last few months and years. Momentum money will rotate away from these names eventually, if only […]
FB, AMZN, NVDA in five years + Crypto questions galore + Oil + more
Despite the bounce yesterday, I’d still be careful out there in trying to catch a bottom and I wouldn’t chase these stocks this morning. Here’s the transcript for this week’s Live Q&A Chat. Q. Feet go fire where are FB and AMZN trading in 5 years. A. FB could grow topline 20% per year for […]
Most stocks still aren’t cheap yet, Pot stocks are still bubbled, We’ll be opportunistic
In the middle of October’s stock market tanking (as I started to take some profits on the put hedges we’d been buying when the markets had been making new all-time highs in September), I wrote that “the very stretched and bubblicious valuations that are rampant from a bottom up perspective (bottom up meaning that we’re looking at individual company valuations […]