Featured Trades: (IAN BREMMER OF THE EURASIA GROUP), (GOOG), (SPX), (EZU), (FXI), (FXE), (EWA), (EWC), (EWY), (EWT), (THD), (IDX), (EWS), (EWZ), (ECH), (EWW), (RSX) 4) The Big MarketView From 30,000 Feet. There is a new war underway between two forms of capitalism. The traditional type is driven by the big global multinationals we all know [...]

Featured Trades: (SAN FRANCISCO STRATEGY LUNCHEON)   1) Last Chance to Meet the Mad Hedge Fund Trader at the San Francisco Strategy Luncheon. Last April, I predicted that a huge demographic push would send the prices of commodities soaring, that the economy would threaten a double dip, but not actually do it, and that emerging [...]

Featured Trades: (CHINA), (SHANGHAI), (FXI), ($SSEC) iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index ETF South Korea iShares Index ETF Thai Capital Fund, Inc. Singapore iShares ETF iShares MSCI Turkey Investable Market Index Fund ETF iShares MSCI Chile Investable Market Index Fund ETF Brazil iShares ETF PowerShares India Portfolio ETF Market Vectors Russia ETF Trust ETF 2) Time [...]

Featured Trades: (INDONESIA), (IDX), (EIDO) Market Vectors Indonesia Index ETF iShares MSCI Indonesia Investable Market Index ETF 3) Indonesia is On Fire. Who said quantitative easing wouldn’t work? The only problem is that you have to speak Bahasa, eat nasi goreng, and live South of the equator, to take full advantage of Uncle Ben’s munificence. [...]

Featured Trades: (CALIFORNIA’S SOLAR ENERGY BOOM), (FSLR), (SIRE), (HOKU), (TSL) 1) The Solar Boom in California. There is a gold rush of a different kind going on in California, the solar variety. There is a stampede by 49 alternative energy projects, including nine solar ones, to get final approval from the California Energy Commission before [...]

Featured Trades: (DEMOGRPHIC INVESTING) 2) Beating the Market With Demographics. Regular readers of this letter know that I rely on long term demographic trends to predict the direction of the global financial markets. Let me approach this topic from a different angle, measuring the number of retirees a population must support versus the anticipated burden [...]

Featured Trades: (AAPL) 3) Apple Blasts Through $300, Next Stop: $1,000. When I took a young, cocky, long haired, Levis wearing Steve Jobs around to meet Morgan Stanley's institutional investors to pitch an Apple share offering 28 years ago, I vowed never to buy anything from the man. He was such a great salesman, and [...]

Featured Trades: (SHORT POSITIONS), (FXY), (YCS), (TBT), (TMV) 1) Why My Shorts Are Missing. I have always been an aviation enthusiast, flying every rare, antique plane I could get my hands on. My adventures have taken me from flying a 1929 Norwegian spruce and Irish linen constructed Belgian Stampe to a MIG-25 Soviet fighter to [...]

Featured Trades: (CORN), (DBA) 2) The Frenzy to Buy Corn. I have managed to catch a few limit up moves in my career, but never two consecutive back to back moves. That is what we got yesterday when panic buying swamped traders in the wake of Friday’s USDA report showing that corn yields plunged from [...]

Featured Trades: (GS) 3) Goldman Sachs Bursts Out of the Penalty Box. Let’s say that quantitative easing ensues, the global financial system is flooded with money, and the price of everything rises in unison. What is the one company that would benefit most from this scenario, whose hand on the pulse beat of the market [...]

Featured Trades: (RTP), (IRON ORE), (DIAMONDS) 2) Rio Tinto (RTP) is Firing on all 16 Cylinders. I managed to catch an interesting interview on TV the other day with Tom Albanese of Rio Tinto (RTP), the planet’s second largest producer of iron ore. It is one of the companies at the nexus of the global [...]

Featured Trades: (THE SEPTEMBER HEDGE FUND KILLING) 3) The Big Hedge Fund Killing in September. I was not alone in posting spectacular results in September. Those who foresaw Ben Bernanke’s quantitative easing and its implications for all assets posted huge returns for the month, pushing many into positive territory for the first time this year. [...]

Featured Trades: (THE MEANINGLESS NONFARM PAYROLL) 1) Why the Nonfarm Payroll Figures are Meaningless. Let me warn you that reading this analysis about the September nonfarm payroll is a complete waste of your precious time. But since it's a holiday, and you don't feel like mowing the lawn, raking the leaves, or washing the car, [...]

Featured Trades: (THE GRAIN TRAIN), (CORN), (WHEAT), (SOYBEANS), (MOS), (AGU) Teucrium Commodity Trust Corn Fund ETF 2)  Run Over by the Grain Train. The US Department of Agriculture released a shocking report on Friday that triggered rare limit up moves in all three major grains simultaneously, corn, (CORN), wheat, and soybeans, and sent the prices [...]