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Trade Alert: And a playbook for into year-end

Remember a couple days ago when the DJIA bounced 500 points and I’d mentioned that if you’d been losing sleep when stocks had been crushed down in a straight line last week that you probably should lighten up? Well, today the DJIA was down 500 points and the

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Trade Alert: Selling more puts into the panic

Just a handful of weeks ago, which now seems like a lifetime ago, do you remember all the daytraders and momentum lovers all highfiving and joking about all the money they were making? I wrote about it thusly: Highflying stocks: Nemesis for the hubristic coming sooner rather than later August

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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

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Trade Alert: Snap? Yeah, Snap. Here’s the analysis and strategy

It’s certainly gotten a bit uglier out there in the stock markets this week, hasn’t it? I’m still mostly sitting on the higher cash levels I’d raised this year and holding my hedges, which have really started to kick in (and I might trim some of

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Trade Alert: Taking profits on 3 stocks (one full cover, two trims)

Well, it looks like SiriusXM is going to pay a few billion bucks for Pandora P. And get this, the purchase price could be around half the price at which we shorted P back a couple years ago. Given that P was a short hedge to all of our App

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Trade Alert: Economic analysis, trumpets, cannons and gold

The economy is booming, unemployment is at levels not seen in generations, wages finally started creeping up: — and most importantly to investors, corporate earnings are through the roof. The Federal Reserve, The Republicans, The Democrats, the whole Republican Democrat Regime will try to take credit for the economic boom — but

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Trade Alert: Trimming some big winners near all-time highs

Let’s just do a little trimming here, following the playbook, locking in some profits on some very long-held and very profitable longs. I’m going to trim 5% of my Apple AAPL. I’m going to trim 5% of my Amazon. I’m going to trim 5% of my

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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,

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Trade Alert: Selling when Wall Street buys and vice versa

Sometimes I can’t hardly believe how poetic the buys and sells of being contrarian can be. We bought Nvidia back two years ago when most Wall Street analysts hated the stock. For the last two years, I’ve repeatedly explained how Nvidia has been uniquely positioned to benefit from

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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

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Trade Alert: Eight years ago, I predicted Apple’s $1 trillion market cap

Apple is officially worth a trillion dollars today. Want to know who predicted that Apple would be the first trillion dollar company years ago, long before anybody? From the LA Times back in 2011 when Apple was at less than $40 per share: “MarketWatch’s Cody Willard was about four

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Trade Alert: Battlefield Environment / Mea Culpa on First Solar

Our own holdings of Intel and First Solar are joining Twitter and Facebook in getting hit this week. As you Trading With Cody subscribers know, I’ve been thinking about selling my First Solar after last quarter’s disappointing results and guidance but I’d mentioned that I wanted to