This is the historical record of all posts Cody Willard has published.

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Trade Alert: Locking in profits from last week’s options buys

Stocks up early. Oil +7% to almost $35. I’d mentioned I’d bought some $UA and $FB earnings into those panicky lows last Wednesday and both of those companies reported blowout earnings. We caught both of the two largest movers in the earnings reports today with our call options

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Cody Kiss & Tell: Fed decision & the market, cash v. stock ratio & stock talk

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat. You can always find Cody in the Chat Room on the newly updated Trading With Cody iPhone App, the Trading With Cody Android App or at http://twc.scutify.com. If you have any questions about how

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Apple earnings and longer-term analysis

Don’t forget this week’s Live Q&A Chat at 2pm ET today at http://twc.scutify.com/members, on the TWC App, or just hit reply to this email and send in your question. Ask me anything at all about the markets, the economy, trading strategies, tech

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Trade Alert: Economic analysis, stock market set-up, shorting IBB

In the Trading With Cody Chat Room this weekend, @jakef1111 wrote to me: “Your mindset doesn’t seem the same as when you were as bullish and shrugging off crisis after crisis like Greece, Cyprus, EU, Middle East tension, Russia/Ukraine etc… Do you see us having another leg down?

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Wild week review, looking at AXP, avoiding energy

What a wild week it was and what a year it has been already. The markets have put in at least a short-term bottom at Wednesday’s lows, just almost exactly the same time as the time stamp as when I sent out that Trade Alert on Wednesday as I

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Cody’s Trades of the Week for January 18-22, 2016

TRADES FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 18-22, 2016 On Tuesday, January 19th, I sold a couple of shares to raise yet more cash: * $SIMO-Silicon Motion: I removed the remainder of this position. * $SYNA-Synaptics: I removed the remainder of this position. On Wednesday, January 20th, I used a tiny bit of

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Cody Kiss & Tell: Market turn, indicators to buy, lots of stocks

Live Q&A Chat at 2pm ET on the newly updated Trading With Cody iPhone App, the Trading With Cody Android App or at http://twc.scutify.com. If you have any questions about how to log in, just email us at support@tradingwithcody.com Q. Which strike prices

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Trade Alert: Doing some buying as the bulls panic

I’ve been saying we probably need a down -800 day on the $DJIA to wash out this market. That said, looking at the carnage out there, I sense there’s some panic in the air today already. Finally. Here’s a sampling of random names getting killed this morning:

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Trade Alert: Cycle analysis as I sell two more stocks

Markets cycle. Here’s a video from my Fox Business TV show back in July 2008, in which I outline that: “I used to poke fun all the time at the permabears for not being able to recognize the boom times for what they were, say from 2003 to 2007.

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Latest Positions and new ratings

Here is a list of latest positions with updated commentary and ratings for each position. I note that I’ve lowered five of my long positions to one notch and raised two short positions one notch, which underscores the fact that I’m just not seeing any reason to be

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Keeping our powder dry

Well, it’s just a blood bath out there again today, as has been the theme since the calendar turned. We’re not even halfway through the trading day either, and it’s quite possible that we’ll see some acceleration to this sell-off into the close as nobody wants

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Trade Alert: Selling the IBB puts

Turns out the IBB puts have been a pretty decent hedge after all. I bought January IBB puts back in October to help hedge the portfolio against a major market sell-off and they have kicked in as the markets have tanked so far this year. They expire tomorrow and with

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