Long suffering holders of the volatility ETF (VXX), might be celebrating over the recent price, now trading at $34 compared to $8 the week before. They better take another look. The beleaguered fund just had a four-to-one reverse split. The price may be four times higher now, but owners now have only one-fourth as many [...]

My next global strategy webinar will be held on Wednesday, October 10 at 12:00 noon EST. This webinar will be broadcast from back home in San Francisco, so everything should work. I’ll be giving you my updated outlook on stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, precious metal, and real estate. The goal is to find the cheapest [...]

The most frequent complaint that I get about my market beating Trade Alert Service is that readers get them too late to act upon. Email is anything but a perfect system of communication. Alerts end up in spam filters, get backlogged in local provider servers, or just plain disappear into thin air. When this happens [...]

I am writing this from my table at the Duckhorn Winery in sunny Napa, California. One of the joys of living in the San Francisco Bay area is that I can pop up here on a slow afternoon and pick up members’ bottles from the dozen-or- so wine clubs to which I belong. Duckhorn does [...]