My next global strategy webinar will be held on Wednesday, March 20 at 12:00 noon EST. This one will be open to the public, so login in early to get a space. I’ll be giving you my updated outlook on stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, precious metal, and real estate. The goal is to find the [...]

I am constantly asked where to find safe places to park cash by investors understandably unhappy with the risk/reward currently offered by the markets. Any reach for yield now carries substantial principal risk, the kind we saw, oh say, in the summer of 2007. I have had great luck steering people into the Invesco PowerShares [...]

Global Market Comments March 15, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (TAKING PROFITS ON STOCKS), (SPY), (TAKING A BITE OUT OF STEALTH INFLATION), (TESTIMONIAL) SPDR S&P 500 (SPY)

With the (SPY) approaching an all time high, there are just a few pennies to go, I am going to take the money and run on my position in the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) April, 2013 $145-$150 deep in-the-money bull call spread. At $4.97, there is only 3 cents left in potential profit, and I [...]

When I visited the local Safeway over the weekend, I was snared by some uniformed pre-teens, backed by beaming mothers behind a card table selling Girl Scout cookies. I was a pushover. I walked away with a bag of Thin Mints, Lemon Chalet Creams, Do-Si-Dos, and Tagalongs. I have to confess a lifetime addiction to [...]

Global Market Comments March 14, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (2013 STRATEGY LUNCHEON SCHEDULE), (THE ELTON JOHN MARKET), (SPY), (RAMPANT WAGE INFLATION STRIKES CHINA), (FXI), (CYB) SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) iShares FTSE China 25 Index Fund (FXI) WisdomTree Chinese Yuan (CYB)

Come join me for lunch at the Mad Hedge Fund Trader’s Global Strategy Luncheons, which I will be conducting throughout the US and Europe over the next five months. An excellent meal will be followed by a wide-ranging discussion and an extended question and answer period. I’ll be giving you my up to date view [...]

I rely on hundreds of ‘moles’ around the world whose job it is to watch a single, but important indicator for the world economy. One of them checks for me the want ads in the manufacturing mega city of Shenzhen, China, and what he told me last week was alarming. Wage demands by Chinese workers [...]

Global Market Comments March 13, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (APRIL 12 SAN FRANCISCO STRATEGY LUNCHEON), (BLACK SWANS ARE CIRCLING), (SPX), (A COW BASED ECONOMICS LESSON) S&P 500 Large Cap Index (SPX)

Come join me for lunch at the Mad Hedge Fund Trader’s Global Strategy Update, which I will be conducting in San Francisco on Friday, April 12, 2013. An excellent meal will be followed by a wide-ranging discussion and an extended question and answer period. I’ll be giving you my up to date view on stocks, [...]

SOCIALISM You have 2 cows. You give one to your neighbor. COMMUNISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk. FASCISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sells you some milk. NAZISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and shoots you. BUREAUCRATISM You have 2 [...]

Global Market Comments March 12, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (TRADE ALERT SERVICE ROCKETS TO 30% GAIN IN 2013), (SPY), (IWM), (F), (AIG), (FCX), (FXY), (YCS),  (FXB), (FXE), (EUO), (VIX) (LOAD THE BOAT WITH THE CHINESE YUAN), (CYB), (HOW TO AVOID THE PONZI SCHEME TRAP), (TESTIMONIAL) SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) iShares Russell 2000 Index (IWM) [...]