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

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News that matters: Headlines, charts, analysis and playbook

We’ll do 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. For this report tonight, I’m going to run through a few headlines and add some commentary to get

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Risks of downturn, Bitcoin knockoffs, Gold spike and more

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat. Q. Cody, I know you have said that the market is a better sell when rates are going down than a buy. But the market rallied in 1998 and 1995 when the Fed cut, and December 1999

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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

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Trade Alert: More puts, Silver vs Gold, FB’s crypto vs Bitcoin and Bernice the Great Pyrenees

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat including discussion on my Tesla presentation, the market’s rally today and the new FB crypto. Q. Does it look like the Fed cuts 25 points in July and the market moves higher? A. The fact that

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The Vail Trip: A Den of Tesla Bears (and a note about the markets)

I’m back from Vail and am headfirst into catching up on emails, homework and loose ends. I was in Vail for an “ideas conference” where a bunch of hedge fund/money managers spend three days giving presentations about their best investment ideas. We couldn’t make it logistically work

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Cloud highs, the Tesla’s first long road trip and more

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat including discussion on options, my upcoming trip in the Tesla and Durant’s injury. Q. You are using your TESLA to take a 10 hr road trip; I would like to know how you manage charging your

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Trade Alert: Get More Defensive in a Fog of War

I’m back from NYC, but tomorrow I’m headed out to Vail, CO for a small conference where hedge fund managers like me will trade their best ideas, both long and short. When I told the host that I’d like to do a presentation on Tesla, he was

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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

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Trade Alert: A little nibbling into the fear, but just a little

Markets swings cause emotional swings which causes market swings which causes… There’s a lot of emotion out there today led by fear. I’m not doing much nibbling, but I did nibble on a tiny bit of FB, AMZN and GOOG as the markets freak out about new anti-trust

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Trade Alert: Full Trade War and stock market analysis

The Great Trade War of the 21st Century is just about the only thing that matters to the markets right now. And even though I always try to look past the headlines (and try to anticipate them before they happen), the fact is that the market is right to be

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Startup opportunities (and a NYC trip next week)

I’d mentioned a couple weeks ago that my hedge fund is going to do some tiny investments in early-stage private startups to help create a diversified portfolio and am getting started doing so on Republic, a crowdfunding platform built from the ground up to be SEC-compliant. Thirteen startups and

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Markets, Tesla, SQ, BIDU, and lots of other stocks

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat. Q. We’ve been quite optimistic in May buying some May call options on favourite stocks, as you recommended. Now it is upside down and one of the worst May’s in years. Any comments? Sell in

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