Featured Trades: (HOW'S THAT RISK OFF TRADE WORKING?), (SPX), (SDS), (GLD), (USO), (DUG), (TLT), (TBT), (FCX), (CU) 3) How's That 'RISK OFF' Trade Working? Take a look at the chart below since I made my watershed call to put on a 'RISK OFF' portfolio on April 25 (click here for the link). Almost all
Featured Trades: (MACRO MILLIONAIRE TOPS 40%) 1) Macro Millionaire Portfolio Clocks a 40% Gain YTD. After posting one of the best days of the year yesterday, up 5%, the Macro Millionaire model trading portfolio year to date performance topped 40%. This compares to a gain of only 11% for the S&P 500 since November 29,
Featured Trades: (QE3 HAS ALREADY STARTED) 2) QE3 Has Already Started. Most analysts have missed the fact that QE3 has already started in earnest. Of course, it would have been easy to miss. Ben Bernanke has not made any grand pronouncements. He hasn't done some public thinking out loud, as he did among friends
Featured Trades: (THE S&P 500 IN 2020) 2) The S&P 500 in 2020. Dr. Robert Shiller certainly knows which end of a PE multiple to hold up. He is one of the few economists out there who has produced the sort of long term historical and mathematical analysis of financial valuations that is rare
Featured Trades: (THE BEAR CASE FOR OIL), (USO), (DUG) 3) The Bear Case for Oil. Let's do some out of the box thinking here. Let's say that the global economy is really slowing down. The demand for oil will fall. Let's say that China continues to raise interest rates, slowing its economy further. Then
Featured Trades: (THE GLENCORE EFFECT), (BLK), (RENN), (LNKD) 3) The Glencore Effect. One of the greatest indicators that the music has stopped playing, the fat lady is singing, and it is time to get out of Dodge City, is the level of insider selling. Given the recent hyperactivity of the IPO calendar, it's looking
'We live in a nominal world right now. Inflation is going up modestly, so the dollars we are making are nominal dollars, not real dollars,' said legendary value investor, Leon Cooperman, of Omega Advisors.
Featured Trades: (ELIOT WAVE'S GRIM MESSAGE), (SPX) 3) Eliot Wave's Grim Message. Regular readers are well aware that I rely on John Murphy and Arthur Hill at StockCharts .com for top drawer technical analysis of the financial markets. Lately they have been knocking the ball out of the park, pumping out indicators that global
Featured Trades: (THEY'RE SHOOTING ALL THE GENERALS), (GS), (AAPL), (FCX), (GOOG) 1) They're Shooting All the Generals. Those looking for guidance on the medium term trend in the market better take a look at the best of breed, benchmark stocks for the leading sectors; the companies traders call 'the generals'. I am talking about Goldman
Featured Trades: (TAKING AIM AT SMALL CAPS) 2) Taking Aim at the Small Caps. One of the cardinal rules of any hedge fund manager is to buy the cheapest assets in the world, and go short the most expensive assets against them. In a perfect world your longs go up, your shorts go down,
