Global Market Comments June 20, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (JULY 25 PORTOFINO, ITALY STRATEGY LUNCHEON), (MORE OF THE SAME FROM UNCLE BEN), (SPY), (FXY), (YCS), (GLD), (TLT), (TBT), (THE NEW COLD WAR) SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) CurrencyShares Japanese Yen Trust (FXY) ProShares UltraShort Yen (YCS) SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treas
You may have noticed that our website has been down for the past day. We are undertaking a major upgrade to our infrastructure, and I thought completing this while you are all on vacation would be timely. This means that our store is down as well, so you may need to wait until the weekend
Come join John Thomas for lunch at the Mad Hedge Fund Trader's Global Strategy Update, which I will be conducting near Portofino, Italy on the Italian Riviera, on Thursday, July 25, 2013. A three-course lunch will be followed by a PowerPoint presentation and an extended question and answer period. I'll be giving you my up
Ben Bernanke delivered exactly what I expected today, continuing his massively simulative monetary policy as is. The taper went missing in action, and search parties have been already sent out by the bears. In the past this move would have triggered a massive move up in risk assets, and a collapse of the bond market,
My friend, Ian Bremmer of the Eurasia Group, a global risk analyst who I regularly follow, has published an outstanding book entitled The End of the Free Markets: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations. I find this highly depressing, as it takes me as long to read one of Ian's books as it
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open,? said Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone.
Global Market Comments June 19, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (JULY 8 LONDON STRATEGY LUNCHEON), (TRADE ALERT SERVICE RANKS SIXTH AMONG HEDGE FUNDS) (THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY), (THE FUTURE OF CONSUMER SPENDING), (EEM), (PIN), (IDX), (EWC) iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index (EEM) PowerShares India (PIN) Market Vectors Indonesia Index ETF (IDX) iShares MSCI Canada Index
Come join me for lunch for the Mad Hedge Fund Trader's Global Strategy Update, which I will be conducting in London on Monday, July 8, 2013. A three-course lunch will be followed by a PowerPoint presentation and an extended question and answer period. I'll be giving you my up to date view on stocks, bonds,
The Trade Alert service of the Mad Hedge Fund Trader ranked as the sixth top-performing hedge fund in the world, according to statistics compiled by Barron's. The Dow Jones subsidiary tallied results of the top 100 funds from a potential global universe of over 10,000. It then ranked results according to their three-year compound annual
I have just finished leisurely reading Tom Standage's book The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century On-Line Pioneers. Standage discusses the creation and development of the telegraph system and how it revolutionized communication in the nineteenth century. The book claims that Modern Internet users are in many ways the
