Featured Trades: (FOR PROFIT EDUCATION) 3) The Big Hedge Fund Killing in For Profit Education. Hedge funds have made huge profits this year by shorting the for-profit educational sector. The industry was ripe for the taking. For two decades, for-profit schools have lured gullible students with inflated promises of impressive sounding degrees which they pay
SPECIAL ENERGY ISSUE Featured Trades: (OXY), (BP), (OIL) 1) Take a Look at Occidental Petroleum (OXY). As a follow up to my trade alert for Macro Millionaires to buy the double leveraged oil major ETF (DIG), I thought you'd like to know what my second choice was. There are a lot of belles at
Featured Trades: (SPECIAL BATTERY ISSUE), (XIDE), (BYDFF), (SQM), (SNE), (GM), (XOM) FOR PAID SUBSCRIBERS ONLY 1) The Great Race for Battery Technology. The End is Near for the US - Tesla - Nissan Leaf - Toyota Prius - Meet My New Laptop - I Don't Look 151 Years Old, Do I? - BYD F3 -
Featured Trades: (CISCO SYSTEMS), (CSCO) 3) A Nice Update on Cisco Systems. For those of you who caught my trade alert to buy the Cisco Systems (CSCO) $20-$22 bull call spread last week and where hoping to get it at lower prices can forget about it. I spoke to an analyst today whose outlook for
Featured Trades: (MUSTANGS) 4) The Bull Market in Mustangs. The Western US has found a new wrinkle in the housing collapse, where homeowners are desperately struggling to cut living costs to meet the next doubling of their adjustable rate mortgage payments on their underwater houses. Raising horses can cost more than children, so Nevadans are
Featured Trades: (SPY), (EWJ) Japan iShares ETF 2) Why I'm Avoiding Japan Like the Plague. Now look at the world's worst population pyramid, that for Japan (EWJ). These three graphs show that a nearly perfect pyramid drove a miracle stock market during the fifties and sixties which I remember well, when Japan had your textbook
Featured Trades: (PANIC BUYING OF THE TBT), (TBT) 2) Panic Buying Hits the (TBT). Buy the rumor, sell the news. That is one of the oldest adages one hears on trading desks, and it was never more true than today. Yesterday we learned that the ratings agency, Moody's, is considering a downgrade of US government
SPECIAL COPPER ISSUE Featured Trades: (COPPER), (CU), (JJC), (ECH), (FCX) FOR PAID SUBSCRIBERS ONLY 1) Copper Turns Into Gold. - - Want to Race for Pink Slips? -
Featured Trades: (ECONOMY UPGRADE FEVER), ($SSEC), (SSO), (X), (CU), (COPPER) 1) The Upgrade Fever Pandemic. I knew it, I knew it, I knew it. As soon as Bill Gross at bond giant, PIMCO, announced that it was off to the races with a 1% mark up in his GDP forecast for 2011, upgrade fever would
Featured Trades: (NISSAN LEAF), (NSANY) 2) The Nissan Leaf Roll Out. With great fanfare and celebration, Nissan Motors (NSANY) at long last delivered its first all electric, 100 mile range Leaf to an ecstatic customer at San Francisco city hall today. Long time readers of this letter know that I have been banging the table
