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

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Trade Alert: Be cool, maybe cover a little bit

Markets tanking on the latest Trump China Great Trade War headlines. Be cool, perhaps cover a little. I’m covering maybe 20-30% of my SMH short and covering a little bit of my VHC short and even doing a little buying of Google call options 10-15% out of the money dated out to November and December.

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Tesla, Pearl Jam, Jerry Jones, Beyond Meat and more

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat including discussion on medical companies, earnings, Pearl Jam and more. Q. Cody – Would you please give us a position update? A. Yes, coming this week. Q. Cody – In the past (it’s been a while), when you

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Trade Alert: A pulse on a Wall Street vibe

I saw a lot, listened a lot, talked quite a bit and learned a lot in NYC over three days. I tried to get a pulse on the economy there and on the vibe (can you get a pulse on a vibe?) on Wall Street amongst longs, shorts and analysts.

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Trade Alert: TXN pops, semi’s look ready to drop (and a change to my TV schedule)

Texas Instruments, the calculator company — er, the chip company, says business isn’t bad and that’s got most chip stocks rallying hard on top of the big moves they’ve just had the last couple weeks. I think I’d rather sell chips than buy them right now and

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Great Pyrenees cycles, Tesla earnings, Gold stocks and more

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat. Q. Cody. If Fed cut rate 50 points, should we be ready to scale in with some index puts? A. Frankly, I think it’s wise to scale into a few index puts before the next Fed

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Earnings, Fed, China set the market (and I’ll be on Fox News this week)

I’m headed to NYC tomorrow night with my beautiful wife and 5-year old daughter. I’ll be meeting with hedge fund managers, media executives and tech analysts. I’ll even be making my return to Fox with an appearance on Fox News on Wednesday sometime in the 4pm ET

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Trading Discipline, Trump vs Bitcoin, Tesla Talk and more

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat. Q. Any trimming before earnings? A. Yes, I trimmed some TSLA yesterday and have trimmed a few other stocks as noted in the last few weeks. I also added to a few index hedges, as noted too.

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Trade Alert: Tesla reviews underscore how Consumer Reports is biased and hypocritical

Consumer Reports has been bashing Tesla for the last few months, and the lack of rigor in their analysis has made me cynical. So I dug into CR’s supposed objectivity and consumer advocacy. And I didn’t like what I found, as it confirmed my suspicion that CR is

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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

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Sliding puppy, Bitcoin maximalism, Rate cut playbook, Best battery stocks

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat, including a discussion about gene editing technologies, how much cash is too much and much more. Q. I know it depends on your situation, but I’ve been trimming and trimming and not buying anything. Currently about

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Huawei and Samsung issue worrisome guidance

Stocks today seemed to continue what’s bee in a bit of a pause/pullback phase, just about as I’d expected in my recent short-term markets analysis in which I’d written: “As for the playbook here — it’s this. I expect that the path of least resistance for

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Inverse ETFs, Best hedges, Censored independents and more

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat. Q. For those of us who do not do (yet) puts would you recommend to go with inverse ETFs? Say if you sell QQQ puts would SQQQ be similar trade? Should I do it? What is cons?

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