Global Market Comments
September 20, 2018
Fiat Lux
SPECIAL VOLATILITY ISSUE
Featured Trade:
(SHOPPING FOR FIRE INSURANCE IN A HURRICANE),
(VIX), (VXX), (XIV),
(THE ABC’s OF THE VIX),
(VIX), (VXX), (SVXY)
Global Market Comments
September 20, 2018
Fiat Lux
SPECIAL VOLATILITY ISSUE
Featured Trade:
(SHOPPING FOR FIRE INSURANCE IN A HURRICANE),
(VIX), (VXX), (XIV),
(THE ABC’s OF THE VIX),
(VIX), (VXX), (SVXY)
Mad Hedge Hot Tips
The Five Most Important Things That Happened Today
(and what to do about them)
September 19, 2018
Fiat Lux
1) Meet the Mad Hedge Fund Trader in Miami on October 16. Touch him, shake his hand, and see if he is real. Join John Thomas for a global all asset class review and get a great lunch as well by clicking here.
2) UPS to Hire 100,000 for Christmas deliveries. They are expecting one heck of a holiday season. Should you too? Click here.
3) New China Trade Tariffs Trigger Monster Stock Rally. So, cutting off only two of your fingers instead of 2 ½ is good news? What a strange world we live in! The resulting $20 billion in new taxes are coming out of YOUR pocket! Click here.
4) But They Also Trigger Massive Chinese Selling of US Treasury Bonds (TLT), taking the market down a gut punching two points. Suddenly, the Chinese have gone off all things American. I wonder why? Click here.
5) What is the Worst Performing Major Stock This Year? It is China’s Tencent Holdings (TCTZF), down a heart throbbing 27%, which has been slapped around by Chinese government regulation and a trade war with the US. Click here.
Published today in the Mad Hedge Global Trading Dispatch and Mad Hedge Technology Letter:
(THE QUANTUM COMPUTER IN YOUR FUTURE),
(AMZN), (GOOG),
(WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 17 HOUSTON STRATEGY LUNCHEON INVITATION)
(IBM’S SELF DESTRUCT),
(IBM), (BIDU), (BABA), (AAPL), (INTC), (AMD), (AMZN), (MSFT), (ORCL)
Global Market Comments
September 19, 2018
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(THE QUANTUM COMPUTER IN YOUR FUTURE),
(AMZN), (GOOG),
(WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2018, HOUSTON
GLOBAL STRATEGY LUNCHEON)
Mad Hedge Hot Tips
September 18, 2018
Fiat Lux
The Five Most Important Things That Happened Today
(and what to do about them)
1) Mad Hedge Kills It with a Bond Short (TLT). Sold at the highs in August and covered at the Friday lows for a $1,444, or 14% profit. Thank you, Mr. Market! Don’t forget to sell the next bond rally. Click here.
2) China Hits Back With $60 Billion in Tariffs. It’s why the stock market can’t sustain any rallies. Now it’s our turn to hit them again. Stockpile fortune cookies? Click here.
3) But the Big Story Today is a Falling Dollar (UUP), which has hit a seven-week low. The entire “trade peace” sector that I have been blathering about catches a bid. A hint of more to come? Pay for that European vacation early. Click here.
4) Netflix Tops Emmys, Tying HBO. It helps a lot when an AI algorithm and big data tells them what people want to watch next year. Click here.
5) Elon Musk’s Space X to Fly a Japanese Billionaire Around the Moon, and eight artists are coming along for company. No kidding! I would have gone first, but I didn’t have $20 million to blow. Always looking for another exotic logbook entry. My record is 90,000 feet in a MiG-25. Click here.
Published today in the Mad Hedge Global Trading Dispatch and Mad Hedge Technology Letter:
(DON’T MISS THE SEPTEMBER 19 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR),
(COFFEE WITH RAY KURZWEIL), (GOOG).
(THE DANGERS OF PLAYING TECH SMALL FRY),
(FIT), (AAPL), (CRM), (FTNT), (SQ), (SNAP), (BBY)
Global Market Comments
September 18, 2018
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(DON’T MISS THE SEPTEMBER 19 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR),
(COFFEE WITH RAY KURZWEIL), (GOOG)
“You are the average of the last five people you spend the most time with,” said Peter Diamandis, the founder of the Singularity University.
Mad Hedge Hot Tips
September 17, 2018
Fiat Lux
The Five Most Important Things That Happened Today
(and what to do about them)
1) Trump Ramps Up the Trade War with China, adding 10% import duties on $200 billion worth of goods in the run-up to Christmas. Some 80% of the focus this time will be on consumer goods. Beat the Grinch and shop early! Click here.
2) Risks Are Rising for Apple. Once the Chinese run out of trade goods to retaliate against, services are next. An iPhone can only be made in the U.S. for $2,000. Click here.
3) The Volatility Handle (VIX) Hits the $12 Handle Again. Get ready to load up once again now that we are in “BUY” territory. Positioning for an October surprise? Click here.
4) Wall Street Salaries Reach a Decade High. At an average $422,500, this is what they looked like in 2008. Then they got laid off in 2009. I’m just sayin’… Click here.
5) Coca Cola (KO) in Talks to Buy Canada’s Aurora Cannabis, in an effort to enter the pot market. They started out in the 1800s with cocaine, so it makes sense, doesn’t it? Click here.
Published today in the Mad Hedge Global Trading Dispatch and Mad Hedge Technology Letter:
(THE MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD),
(AAPL), (CBS), (EEM), (BABA), (UUP),
(MSFT), (VIX), (VXX), (TLT),
(TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2018, MIAMI, FL,
GLOBAL STRATEGY LUNCHEON),
(APPLE RAMPS UP ITS GAME),
(AAPL)
Global Market Comments
September 17, 2018
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(THE MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD),
(AAPL), (CBS), (EEM), (BABA), (UUP), (MSFT), (VIX), (VXX), (TLT),
(TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2018, MIAMI, FL, GLOBAL STRATEGY LUNCHEON)
“When the stock goes up 30% in a month don’t think you’re 30% smarter, because when it falls 30% in a month you’ll look 30% dumber,” said Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man.
Mad Hedge Hot Tips
September 14, 2018
Fiat Lux
The Five Most Important Things That Happened Today
(and what to do about them)
1) We Nailed it With Microsoft (MSFT). Took profits on my long and will double up on the next dip. The stock has another double in it. Clocking a $1,033 gain in 12 days works for me! Click here.
2) Retail Sales Rose by only 0.1% in August, the lowest in six months. Looks like they spent a lot in July but no so much in August. Another nail in the recovery’s coffin, but it will take another thousand like this to call the next recession. Have they run out of money? Click here.
3) Ten-Year Treasury Yields Hit 3.0%, and the banks could care less when they are supposed to rise. Both a September and December 25 basis point rate hikes are now in the can, and March has risen to a 50% probability. Click here.
4) Stocks Open Up Slightly, with trade wars still a major overhang. No one wants to stay long over a weekend in this world, and risk is high. It’s all about Hurricane Florence today anyway. Click here.
5) Target to Hire 120,000 for the Christmas Rush. And you thought the lines were bad now! Call it “Peak Christmas,” and maybe they won’t hack my credit card this time. Click here.
Published today in the Mad Hedge Global Trading Dispatch:
(SOME GOOD NEWS FROM TESLA), (TSLA),
(SOME SAGE ADVICE ABOUT ASSET ALLOCATION)
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