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Global Market Comments May 21, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (DECODING THE GREENBACK), (BRING BACK THE OLD ASSET ALLOCATION RULES) (TLT), (JNK), (HYG), (REIT), (BKLN)

“Incentive structures work, so you have to be very careful about what you incent people to do because various incentive structures create all sorts of consequences which you can’t anticipate,” said Apple founder Steve Jobs.  

Global Market Comments May 20, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (I HAVE A NEW OPENING FOR THE MAD HEDGE FUND TRADER CONCIERGE SERVICE), (TESTIMONIAL)

"Going to weddings and funerals is part of being a financial advisor," said Theresa Chacopulos of Wells Fargo Private Banking, the top-producing financial advisor in Arizona.  

Global Market Comments May 19, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or FULL SPEED AHEAD TOWARDS THE CLIFF), (FL), (DKS), (UNH), (GLD), (SPY), (MSTR), (AAPL), (QQQ), (TLT)

"I can calculate the motions of heavenly bodies, but never the madness of crowds," said Sir Isaac Newton, the inventor of calculus and discoverer of Newton's Laws who lost his entire fortune in a 17th century investment scam called "the South Sea Bubble."  

Global Market Comments May 16, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (MAY 14 BIWEEKLY STRATEGY WEBINAR Q&A), (TSLA), (BLK), (SPY), (TLT), (WMT), (LLY), (UNH), (KKR), (NVDA), (ABNB), (GLD)

"The future ain't what it used to be," said the former New York Yankees baseball manager, Yogi Berra.  

Global Market Comments May 15, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (HOW TO HANDLE THE FRIDAY, MAY 16 OPTIONS EXPIRATION), (GLD)

"The time to worry about the Fed is not when they go from accommodative to neutral, it is when they go from neutral to tight," said Bill Miller, the legendary former chairman and chief investment officer of Legg Mason Capital Management.  

Global Market Comments May 14, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (A DIFFERENT VIEW OF THE US)

"Kamikaze missions are rarely successful, least of all for the pilots," said Robert Gibbs, former White House Press Secretary.  

Global Market Comments May 13, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (A NOTE ON ASSIGNED OPTIONS, OR OPTIONS CALLED AWAY), (GLD)

"The longer you wait to fire someone, the longer it has been since you should have fired them," said Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors.  

Global Market Comments May 12, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or WAITING FOR THE MISSILES TO HIT) (GLD), (SPY), (MSTR), (NVDA), (AAPL), (TSLA), (QQQ), (TLT), (SH), (MCD), (SVXY)

When I was in Ukraine, the air raid sirens used to go off every night exactly at 2:00 AM. The Russian goal was to deprive the civilian population of sleep and to make their lives miserable. It was also when the country was least able to defend itself. You knew the missiles were on the

“My job is to find 10 problems for every three that exist,” said Jeffrey Gundlach of DoubleLine Capital.  

Global Market Comments May 7, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (PLAYING THE SHORT SIDE WITH VERTICAL BEAR PUT SPREADS), (TLT)

For me, the glass is always half full, not half empty, and it’s usually darkest just before the dawn. After all, over the past 100 years, markets have risen 80% of the time, and that includes the Great Depression. However, every now and then, conditions arise where it is prudent to sell short, or make

“Savers are losers”, said a radio ad for a mortgage broker in Reno, Nevada.