Featured Trades: (TREASURY BONDS), (TBT), (TMV)   1) Have Treasury Bonds Had It? You are probably tired of my yammering on about how close we are to a multigenerational peak in Treasury bond prices by now. If you missed my last three pieces on the topic, click here for ‘The Great Bond Market Crash of [...]

Featured Trades: (CHINESE SOLAR INDUSTRY), (STP), (YGE), (FSLR) 2) China's Long and Winding Road. I spent the evening speaking to Gao Jie, a Beijing civil judge who left the bench to join China's growing environmental movement when her kids came home from school one day coughing and wheezing. You only have to inhale in the [...]

Featured Trades: (CHINESE SOLAR INDUSTRY), (STP), (YGE), (FSLR) 3) Darwinian Downsizing in the Solar Industry. The solar industry is suffering some 19th century Darwinian style competition, with Chinese manufacturers Suntech (STP) and Yingli Green Energy Holding (YGE) clearly dumping panels in the US and Europe below cost to gain market share. You may laugh, but [...]

Featured Trades: (AFRICA), (EZW), (AFK), (GAF) 2) Some Feedback on South Africa. The great thing about the Internet is that sometimes it gives you back more than you put into it. In response to my piece on South Africa (EZW) a few days ago and my other work on Africa generally (AFK), (GAF) (click here [...]

Featured Trades: (COPPER), (ECH), (DBB), (FCX), (JJC) iPath Dow Jones-UBS Copper Sub Index Total Return ETN PowerShares DB Multi Sector Commodity Trust Metals iShares MSCI Chile Index ETF 3) Is Copper the New Red Gold? Federal detention centers in the San Francisco Bay area are slowly filling up with a new type of criminals. Illegal [...]

Featured Trades: (ZHOU XIAOCHUAN), (FXI), ($SSEC), (TUR), (EPOL), (EWY) iShares FTSE/Xhinhua China 25 ETF iShares MSCI Turkey Investable Market Index ETF iShares MSCI Poland Investable Market Index ETF South Korea iShares ETF 1) China's Central Bank Governor Defects to the US. The fiber optic cable that makes up the Chinese Internet is absolutely burning up [...]

Featured Trades: (CORN), (WHEAT), (SOYBEANS) Teucrium Commodity Trust Corn ETF   2) Time to Add some Corn to Your Diet.  I have been waiting for a substantial dip in the grains to add to a position in corn, and it is clear from the chart below that we are just not getting it. While the [...]

Featured Trades: (SPX) S&P 500 Large Cap Index ETF 3) My Equity Scenario for the Rest of 2010. Not a day goes by when I don’t fall down on my knees and thank the heavens that I avoided equities for much of this year (click here for ‘I’d Rather Get a Poke in the Eye [...]

  4) Another Admiring E-Mail. I get about 500 emails a day, but occasionally, I get one so choice that I have to pass it on to you. To the thousands of students, job seekers, and soon to be cashiered veterans who read this letter every day online, take heart! ‘Dear Mad Hedge Fund Trader,’ [...]

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