Featured Trades:  (VNM), (IDX), (JO) iPath Dow Jones-AJG Coffee Total Return Sub-Index ETN 4) Coffee Perks Up.  Coffee prices rocketed to a seven month high last week after the International Coffee Organization published a report predicting a serious decline in global supplies this year. Exports from Vietnam (VNM), the world’s largest supplier of low grade [...]

'A rolling loan gathers no loss,' said Steve Joyce, CEO of Choice Hotels.

The Mad Hedge Fund Trader Interviews Vivian Lewis.

Featured Trades: (YCS) 2) Is This Currency Making a Top? As I am a fundamental guy, I don’t normally pay attention to technical analysis mumbo jumbo, except when the conclusions are screamingly obvious. I may be wrong, but isn’t there a head and shoulder’s top setting up of the yen chart below? If Charles Nenner [...]

Featured Trades: (TOM STANDAGE) 3) A Humorous and Worthwhile Read. I have just finished leisurely reading Tom Standage's book The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century On-Line Pioneers. Standage discusses the creation and development of the telegraph system and how it revolutionized communication in the nineteenth century. The book [...]

Featured Trades: (SHY), (TUZ), (TBT) PIMCO 1-3 Year U.S. Treasury Index Fund ETF ProShares Ultra Short Lehman 20+ Year Treasury ETF 4) Don't Get Sucked Into the Bond Bubble Either. I hate to see retail investors buy bubble tops because they work so hard for their money, it's a pity to see it all disappear [...]

'If you have a need for control, it's very tough to go into the market right now,' said Vivian Lewis, the publisher of Global Investing.

I am feeling pretty good about my New Year call, which I sent to you on January 4, so I am sending them to you again. As long as you kept trailing stops on you longs, you did great. My controversial call on the economy is proving coming to fruition. The big miss was in [...]

Featured Trades: Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF PowerShares QQQ Trust ETF   1) Hedge Funds Crash in May. Hedge funds suffered a disastrous month in May, showing an average 3% decline in net asset values, and some funds like Eddie Lampert’s ESL Investments got clocked for a 15% loss. If you had to describe the [...]

Featured Trades: (GOLD IN EUROS), (GOLD IN YEN) 2) Look at Gold in Yen. This is one of those ‘I told you so’ pieces, so if that sort of thing turns you off, read no further.  On May 26, I recommended that you buy gold against Euros at ¬970 (click here for the call ). [...]

Featured Trades: (UNG), (NATURAL GAS) 3) Don’t Get Sucked Into Natural Gas. When natural gas was trading at $6 at the beginning of the year, I warned readers to stay away because it would take years to discount the discovery of a new 100 year supply through the new ‘fracting’ technology (click here for the [...]

'Caution is cool,' said Michael Farr, president of money manager Farr, Miller & Washington.

Featured Trades: (PLND), (EPOL) Market Vectors Poland ETF iShares MSCI Poland Investable Market ETF 2) Where to Play the Dead Cat Bounce in Europe. The currency is in free fall, and the continent is about to enter a new dark age, as enforced deleveraging brings economic collapse and widespread civil unrest. To me, this all [...]

Featured Trades: (GLD), (SLV), (PPLT), (PALL) SPDR Gold Trust Shares ETF iShares Silver Trust ETF ETFS Physical Platinum Shares ETF ETFS Physical Palladium Shares ETF 3) Gold Crucifies Doubters. Gold (GLD) blasted through to an all time high last night, doubters and naysayers carping all the way up that it was overpriced. The white metals [...]

Featured Trades: (AVA.TO) 4) Fears of Rare Earth Shortages Rise. Fears that Chinese hoarding of rare earths would lead to global shortages hit the market this week. The government has stopped issuing licenses for new exploration until mid 2011. It has also capped production at 892,000 tonnes for this year. This comes in the wake [...]