Global Market Comments May 20, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (INTRODUCING THE MAD DAY TRADER), (A SPECIAL NOTE TO TRADE ALERT FOLLOWERS) (REVISITING THE FIRST SILVER BUBBLE), (SLV) iShares Silver Trust (SLV)

As of today, we will be sending out two types of Trader Alerts, medium term ones from the Mad Hedge Fund Trader, and short term ones from the new Mad Day Trader service. Please be careful not to confuse the two. We have done what we can to distinguish the two, using different logos, colors, [...]

With smoke still rising from the ruins of the recent silver crash, I thought I’d touch base with a wizened and grizzled old veteran who still remembers the last time a bubble popped for the white metal. That would be Mike Robertson, who runs Robertson Wealth Management, one of the largest and most successful registered [...]

Global Market Comments May 17, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (HANGING OUT WITH CONGRESSMAN BARNEY FRANK), (THE MOST FUNCTIONAL WORD IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE), (AN EVENING WITH NOBEL PRIZE WINNER MICHAEL SPENCE) (EEM),(EWZ), (EWY), (EWT), (EWS), (EWH),(TF), (IDX), (EWM), (FXI), (EWJ) iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index (EEM) iShares MSCI Brazil Capped Index (EWZ) iShares MSCI [...]

One of the highlights of last week’s SkyBridge Alternatives Conference was the blowout party on Wednesday night (click here for the blow by blow description). Seeking refuge from a band that was blasting my ears out, and fleeing the nubile young bodies that kept bumping up against me and spilling my margaritas, I sought out [...]

Passed on by a friend with my apologies: Well, it’s shit… That’s right, shit! Shit may just be the most functional word in the English language. You can smoke shit, buy shit, sell shit, lose shit, find shit, forget shit, and tell others to eat shit. Some people know their shit, while others can’t tell [...]

I have always been a sucker for a visiting Nobel Prize winner in economics. So when I heard that Dr. Michael Spence was passing through town, I was on the next BART train. Michael was here to promote his latest book, The Next Convergence; The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World. Michael believes [...]

Global Market Comments May 16, 2013 Fiat Lux SPECIAL TESLA EDITION Featured Trade: (ONE THE TESLA MELT UP), (TSLA), (F), (FIATY), (PEUGY), (SCTY), (BBRY), (HLF), (NFLX), (FSLR) Tesla Motors, Inc. (TSLA) Ford Motor Co. (F) Fiat S.p.A. (FIATY) Peugeot S.A. (PEUGY) SolarCity Corporation (SCTY) Research In Motion Limited (BBRY) Herbalife Ltd. (HLF) Netflix, Inc. (NFLX) [...]