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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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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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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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Trade Alert: Profits on P and scaling into more QCOM

I’d been saying for the last few days that I’d likely do some more buying if we had a -400 day on the DJIA and here are down big on the day. I’m going to take the opportunity to do open up a little more long exposure

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Trade Alert: Trimming some IBB puts

The markets have faded lower all day, and I’m still waiting for another whoosh down before getting aggressive in my buying. Still heavy on cash, still being patient as we scale into some more long exposure and today I’m scaling out of a little bit of short exposure.

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Trade Alert: New name for the portfolio

I’ve spent a lot of time pouring over the 77 different stocks that people requested me to analyze. I’m almost done writing the analysis out for each stock for the upcoming “Stocks Requested for 2016: Cody Willard analyzes your stock picks” ebook that I’ll share with you

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Trade Alert: AAPL options, FFIV, and reviewing the playbook

Well, many stocks, including (especially?) technology stocks have been smashed in the last few days. Let’s look at some charts for some perspective. Looking back over the last, say, three months, you can see that some of our biggest long positions have been up nicely, while I’ve also

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Trade Alert: Nibbling two names as fear rises

Stocks getting hit hard early after a 7% sell-off in China stocks and a broad sell-off throughout Europe and Asia. Any fear out there? With the DJIA down -400 and the trading year not even 0.001% over*, I think it’s a great time to do our poll. Who’

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Trade Alert: In search of new names and an Apple round trip

Most hedge funds and lots of other money managers and most retail investors have had a down year this year, as small caps and energy and the average stock is down too. Robert Marcin, a good friend, stock mentor and the best value stock picker I’ve ever known rightly

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Trade Alert: Taking profits on AMAT as stock market risks rise

I still think we want to be mostly long and that the market backdrop is positive for stocks. I also like the idea of outright bullishness right now if only because it’s rather unique to hear someone outright bullish right now. Is it most contrarian to be outright bullish

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Trade Alert: New short for this “No BS” market

We’ve been slowly but surely cutting the number of long positions in our portfolio and raising cash by trimming some of our biggest winners too. Let’s stick with our long select Revolutionary growth tech stocks, stay away from energy, avoid gold miners, run from overleveraged balance sheets, and