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As a potentially profitable opportunity presents itself, John will send you an alert with specific trade information as to what should be bought, when to buy it, and at what price. Read more
As a potentially profitable opportunity presents itself, John will send you an alert with specific trade information as to what should be bought, when to buy it, and at what price. Read more
Global Market Comments
November 21, 2013
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(CASHING IN ON OBAMACARE),
(XLV), (GILD), (AET), (WPT),
(THE FLASH CRASH RISK IS RISING), (SPX), ($INDU),
(TESTIMONIAL)
Health Care Select Sector SPDR (XLV)
Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD)
Aetna Inc. (AET)
World Point Terminals, LP (WPT)
S&P 500 Index (SPX)
Dow Jones Industrial Average ($INDU)
Not a day, an hour, or a minute goes by without the media blasting at me about how terrible Obamacare is. I wondered, how terrible can it be? There?s got to be a trade in there somewhere.
After intensively researching several industries I concluded that the investment opportunities created by the president?s signature legislative accomplishment are absolutely massive. The health care industry is about to get 30 million new customers with government guaranteed payments. Ten?s of millions more are being driven into the arms of the private health insurers as well. It?s almost the same gravy train that the defense industry has been living off of for the past 75 years.
The stock market has been screaming as much at us all year. Take a look at the Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLV), which has been rocketing for the past three years. Its ascent accelerated on October 1, when Obamacare officially kicked in.
You will also find the same windfall is showering upon the health insurance industry. The shares of the second largest company in the country, WellPoint (WLP) have soared by 68% this year, while the fourth biggest (AET) is up an impressive 40%.
The speeches claiming that Obamacare is a failure were written in September, before the program ever started. Not, September, 2013, but September, 1936, when Republicans fought tooth and nail against Social Security. The speeches are almost identical, word for word. I?m not kidding!
In fact, insurance exchanges are one of the oldest forms of commerce, dating back to London in the 1600?s. Lloyds of London has been around since 1871, and makes a profit in most years.
It will take Obamacare a decade to become fully operational and actuarially sound. After that it should cost the government almost nothing, just a few hundred million dollars a year for administration of the exchanges. Americans are the smartest people in the world, so there is no reason for this not to work, except political ones. In fact, ours should be better than those in Europe and Asia.
The political obstacles will fade as well. Hillary Clinton is the overwhelming front-runner for the 2016 presidential election. If elected, the earliest Republicans could repeal Obamacare would be 2025. There will probably be a liberal majority on the Supreme Court by then as well. With a 12-year track record, it is unlikely that any political party will try to repeal government-sponsored health insurance at that stage.
The stock market is also telling you that Obamacare is here to stay. Believe in the wisdom of crowds. They are usually right.
This is why the shares of entire health care and insurance industries are melting up now. This is why I want to buy into the industry now.
The easiest way to participate is through Health Care Select Sector SPDR (XLV), a basket of companies in the health care industry with a 1.71% dividend yield. Please note that a basket of stocks is going to deliver half the volatility of single stocks.
Therefore, we have to be more aggressive with the positioning to make any money, picking strikes that are closer to the money. Johnson and Johnson (JJ) is the largest holding in this fund, with a 12.8% weighting, while Gilead Sciences (GILD) is the fourth, with a 5.1% share. For a list of the largest components of this ETF, please click here https://www.spdrs.com/product/fund.seam?ticker=XLV .
As soon as the current correction ends, I?ll shoot out a Trade Alert to you as fast as the speed of light.
Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLV)
I Think I Hear a Trading Opportunity
Those who lived through the cataclysmic ?flash crash? that occurred precisely at 2:45 pm EST on May 6, 2010, have been dreading a replay ever since. Their worst nightmares may soon be realized.
That is when the Dow Index (INDU) dropped a gob smacking 650 points in minutes, wiping out nearly $1 trillion in market capitalization. On that day, some ETF?s saw intraday declines of an eye popping 75% before recovering. A flurry of litigation ensued where many sought to break trades as much as 99% down from the last indication, some successfully.
The true reasons for the crash are still a matter of contentious debate. Many see a smoking gun in the hands of the high frequency traders who account for so much of the daily trading volume. But I happen to know that many of these guys pulled the plugs on their machines and went flat as soon as the big move started.
I think that it was the obvious result of too many people following similar models in markets with declining liquidity. The ease of instant execution through the Internet was another contributing factor. It also could be a symptom of no growth economies and lost decades in the stock market. The increasing short-term orientation of many money managers also played a hand.
Mathematicians who follow chaos theory and ?long tail events? known as ?black swans? argue that the flash crash was not only inevitable, it was predictable. They are also saying that the next one could be far worse.
Since then we have suffered several mini flash crashes. These include the recent $200 collapse in gold, a $5 plunge in silver, a five-cent gyration in the Euro, and a ten-cent gap in the Swiss franc. Notice that these ?flash? events only happen on the downside, and that we don?t have flash melt ups.
In many respects, traders and portfolio managers dodged a bullet on that fateful day. What if it had happened going into the close? Then assets would have been marked to market less $1 trillion, and the Asian openings that followed hours later would have been horrific. This could have triggered a series of rolling flash crashes around the world from time zone to time zone that would have caused several trillion more in losses. Those losses eventually did happen, but they were spread over several more months at a liquidation rate that could be absorbed by the markets.
Regulators claim that they have reduced the risks of a flash crash through the enforcement of daily trading limits across a broader range of financial instruments. I am not so sure. During a real panic, preventing people from unloading risk is almost an impossible feat. I know because I have lived through many of them.
In the meantime, the S&P 500 continues its inexorable rise well above the exact point at which the last flash crash started, at 1,160. We are now 55% above that last flash point. Avoid, like the plague, shorting leveraged naked puts on anything. It is the best way to wipe out your entire equity that I know of.
Like me, you are probably too old to start life over again with a job at McDonald?s, and they probably would take you anyway.
I have had an incredibly amazing first year with you John. The return you made for us is outstanding. After receiving one year of your education I got that feeling of being ahead of the market and especially of the Private Banking guys. What a nice feeling it is. I hope you will keep your Trade Alert program open at least the next five years.
Thanks!
P. Engelbrecht
Denmark
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While the Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader focuses on investment over a one week to six-month time frame, Mad Day Trader, provided by Jim Parker, will exploit money-making opportunities over a brief ten minute to three day window. It is ideally suited for day traders, but can also be used by long-term investors to improve market timing for entry and exit points.
While the Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader focuses on investment over a one week to six-month time frame, Mad Day Trader, provided by Jim Parker, will exploit money-making opportunities over a brief ten minute to three day window. It is ideally suited for day traders, but can also be used by long-term investors to improve market timing for entry and exit points.