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Bear Market Length, The Great Codini Says, Companies That Become Verbs And More

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Trading With Cody Live Q&A chat. Just an FYI, in the hedge fund, I nibbled some puts on SI, COIN and MSTR today, dated out to the next week or two and at prices both below and a bit above

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Trade Alert: Nibbling Five Stocks Or So

Stop me if you’ve heard this before — it’s still ugly out there. We are now probably to the point where if a company comes out and says something is actually going better than expected (ZM doesn’t count, it was just fine but not a “things are better

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Trade Alert: Selling Three More Names Plus Some Thoughts on Cryptos and Crypto Stocks

One of my hedge fund friends’ traders likes to say that stocks don’t go up until people stop selling. It’s not the buying power that makes stocks go up most of the time, it’s the lack of sellers. The markets are trying to put on a meaningful

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Trade Alert: I’ve Been Wrong About A Lot And Here Are Some Moves I’m Making

I need to get this off my chest. I’ve been wrong about a lot for the last year. Though I definitely got more cautious as I did a “Great Reset” and trimmed several of our positions last year and stayed defensive overall as The Speculative And SPAC Bubble started

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Trade Alert: We’ve Now Lived Through A Major Part Of The Crash

It’s just nasty out there, with stocks down big across the board. Even the S&P 500 is just being taken out to the woodshed, down almost 3% on the day. The speculative stocks are down double digits across the board, ARKK is down almost 9% on the

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Trade Alert: How I’m Buying SKTL Space Tokens Since It Airdropped

Here’s how I am starting to buy the tiniest bit of SKTLs Space Debris-Cleaning cryptocurrency tokens, and you can too even if you didn’t get any of the free airdrop. To be clear, I am only buying the tiniest bit of SKTL tokens using maybe like 0.01%

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The Other Side Of The Bubble: Analysis For Stocks, Crypto And Bonds

I had a very insightful and fun trip to NYC last week. The crypto regulations event that I chaired was full of people who want clarity from the various regulating bodies. It seems clear to me, at least at this point, that the US is definitely, as usual, in the

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Trade Alert: Betting On Indirect Brilliance

One of my best go-to principles of investing is to, as I’ve written about many times in the past, “Always Bet on Brilliance.” I wrote this when we first started buying Tesla back at around $50ish a share three years ago: “I have one name I am adding to

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Fog Of War And Dislocating Prices Are Not Good For The Markets

We’ve mostly made it through the Covid Crisis At Home, as Lyncoln and Lori have both mostly fully recovered while Amaris and I made it through testing negative and without symptoms. Lori’s 79 year-old father is still struggling with symptoms. Let’s talk about the economy and markets

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Trade Alert: Taking Some Profits + Un-Globalizing The Economy, Stocks Vs Real Estate And More

Before I jump into the questions, let me say this — if you were losing sleep or otherwise stressing out about your stock account at the lows late last week, now is the time to readjust your portfolio. Take a little off on your some of your larger positions, especially if

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Trade Alert: The New Global Economic Paradigm Means New Risks (And Eventual Rewards)

I got back from Austin late last night after a very productive and even fun trip so Amaris could do five days of intensive neuromovement therapy. Here’s a shot of her at work learning to sit up on her own and otherwise figure out new movements. Now let’s

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Trading Lessons From Recent Wars Aren’t Applicable This Time (Plus A Trade Alert: Here’s What I’m Buying Today)

I obviously don’t know the end game of the Russian Ukraine crisis, but I do know from history (and most recently from the 83 episodes I’ve listened to so far on the Russian Revolution on the Revolutions Podcast from Mike Duncan) that this is a centuries-old conflict that