Unfortunately, I know Blythe, California too well. This natural blast furnace is in a God-forsaken corner of the state where I hunted jack rabbits as a kid, the Indians survived on Gila monsters for protein, and it regularly reaches 130 degrees in the shade. It is also where Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper crossed the [...]

I wanted to get the lowdown on clean coal to see how clean it really is, so I visited some friends at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The modern-day descendant of the Atomic Energy Commission (where I had a student job in the seventies), the leading researcher on laser-induced nuclear fission, and the administrator of our [...]

Global Market Comments November 7, 2012 Fiat Lux Featured Trades: (JANUARY 4, 2013 CHICAGO STRATEGY LUNCH), (ELECTIONS IN DAYS GONE PAST), (SPY), (IWM), (AAPL), (FXY), (FXE), (GLD), (JPM), (BAC), (ATTEND MY OPTIONS SCHOOL) S&P 500 SPDRs Russell 2000 iShares Apple, Inc. Currency Shares Japanese Yen Trust Currency Shares Euro Trust SPDR Gold Trust Shares J.P. [...]

I am headed for the airport shortly and wanted to dash off a quick note. On Wednesday, I am hosting my Houston strategy luncheon, and Thursday I am conducting my options school in Tampa, Florida (see below). On Friday, I am the keynote speaker at the HS Dent Network conference. So it will be a [...]

Sometimes market moves call for options, and I’ve used a lot of them recently. Can options be profitable? The proof is in the pudding as my strategies have paid off handsomely. However, I do get a lot of questions about option strategies and how best to place trades. In an effort to help my readers [...]

Global Market Comments November 6, 2012 Fiat Lux Featured Trades: (FAREWARE TO THE 2012 ELECTION), (AAPL), (GOOG), (SPY), (IWM), (FXE), (FXY), (TRICK-OR-TREATING IN CALIFORNIA) Apple, Inc. Google, Inc. S&P 500 SPDR’s Russell 2000 iShares ETF Currency Shares Euro Trust ETF Currency Shares Japanese Yen Trust

One of the great joys of every October is my trick-or-treat duty on Halloween night. Time for an evening with a young leopard and a go-go girl from the eighties. This year, as kids ran across front lawns to their next victims, they stumbled across campaign posters for Obama, Romney, and a myriad of other [...]

Since this is such an important development for investors on the calendar, I thought I would repeat this piece from a few weeks ago. After all, we need every edge we can get! If I had a nickel for every time that I heard the term “Sell in May and go away” this year, I [...]

It was just a matter of time before the dreadful long-term fundamentals of the Japanese economy finally fed through to their currency. It appears that the much better-than-expected October US jobs data has at last done the deed. The logic of the foreign exchange market is quite simple. A stronger-than-expected US economy means that there [...]