All good things must come to an end, and it is time for me to bid adieu to the Wealth Insider Alliance. There is no doubt that this innovative and aggressive online marketing firm played a major role in placing the Mad Hedge Fund Trader on the map in the virtual world. They acted as
Long term readers are well aware of my antipathy towards natural gas, which has been in your worst nightmare of a bear market for the past three years. Well, the simple molecule finally got some good news last week. First, major producer, Chesapeake Energy (CHK) announced that it was cutting its natural gas production by
Favorite headline of the day: ?Greece Offers to Pay Back Debt With Giant Horse.?
The street is chattering today over the prospect of an enormous payday with the imminent IPO for the social media company, Facebook. Price talk is valuing the company as high as $100 billion, making it the largest such floatation in history. Could the mega deal spell the end of the current bull market? Look at
?People are investing with a rear view mirror. Last year, you had people legitimately scared out of the market. Unfortunately, you are losing a generation of investors at a time when they ?out to be thinking about buying high quality stocks,? said Hersh Cohen of Clearbridge Advisors.
?Oh, how I despise the yen, let me count the ways.? I?m sure Shakespeare would have come up with a line of iambic pentameter similar to this if he were a foreign exchange trader. I firmly believe that a short position in the yen should be at the core of any hedged portfolio for the
?The next big story in credit is going to come from Asia and that will be in Japan,? said Tres Knippa of Kenai Capital Management.
Well, they didn?t really say that, but they could have, and perhaps should have, and the bond market wholeheartedly agrees with them. That is my takeaway from the Fed minutes released yesterday indicating that the Federal Reserve intends to extend its hyper accommodative policies for at least another 6-9 months to ?late 2012.? It also
I am writing this letter at a table in the alcove of the Polo Lounge at the legendary Beverly Hills Hotel. They did not disappoint on the movie star front, with more than an ample supply. At the table on my right, John Hamm, who plays the predatory ad man Don Draper in AMC?s Mad
?China has been doing everything right for the last ten years. Our government is made up of 'C' students that were political science majors, whereas, the Chinese government is made up of PhD's that were educated at Cambridge and Harvard,' said one Washington observer.