Featured Trades: (HAS THE EURO TURNED?), (FXE), (EUO) ProShares Ultra Short Euro ETF Currency Shares Euro Trust 3) Has The Euro Turned? The call that a turn in the dollar was imminent by Brown Brothers Harriman's Mark Chandler is looking more prescient by the day (click here for the call). September and October was all
Featured Trades: (CISCO), (CSCO) 4) The Cisco Shock. When a great company announces a surprise, temporary setback that sends the stock plunging, I am drawn like a starving great white shark to fresh blood in the water. All it took was a matching of earnings expectations for this great technology firm to crater 13% in
Featured Trades: (KARL DENNINGER ON HEDGE FUND RADIO), (ONLY BUY COMPANIES YOU HATE), (SPX), (INDU), (BAC), (C ), (JPM), (WFC), (AAPL), (GOOG), (QQQQ), (BP), (GS), (C), (PFE), (MO) 1) Karl Denninger of Market Ticker on Hedge Fund Radio. Karl Denninger of Market Ticker thinks there is a secondary banking crisis around the corner that
Featured Trades: (ONLY BUY COMPANIES YOU HATE), (SPX), (INDU), (BAC), (C ), (JPM), (WFC), (AAPL), (GOOG), (QQQQ), (BP), (GS), (C), (PFE), (MO) 2) Only Buy Companies You Hate. The Wall Street Journal published one of the funniest investment strategy pieces I have ever read. Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams argues that you should invest in companies
'Parabolic moves end up creating parabolic corrections. This is going to end badly. It's not a matter of if, but when.' said hedge fund manager Mark Fisher of MBF Asset Management.
Featured Trades: (OCTOBER NONFARM PAYROLL) 1) Don't Pop the Champagne on Those October Nonfarm Payroll Figures. Poor Obama. The guy just can't catch a break. A day after the midterm election delivered a 'shellacking' to the once, and possibly future, community organizer from South Chicago, Ben Bernanke announces one of the greatest economic stimulative efforts
Featured Trades: (POLAND), (PLND), (EPOL) 2) Where to Play QEII in Europe. In one of the worst timed ETF launches of the year, Van Eck brought out the Market Vectors Poland ETF (PLND) in November, 2009, just on the eve of the Euro collapse. iShares followed with their MSCI Poland Investable Market ETF (EPOL) at
Featured Trades: (GOLD), (GLD), (ABX) 3) You No Longer Have to Be Crazy to Buy Gold. The good news is that you no longer have to be crazy to buy gold. Until recently, certifiable believers chasing the barbaric relic were driven by a host of urban legends and wild conspiracy theories which frequently appear on
Featured Trades: (EMERGING MARKETS), (EWZ), (RSX), (PIN), (FXI) Brazil iShares ETF Market Vectors Russia ETF PowerShares India ETF iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 ETF 1) It's Off to the Races With Emerging Markets. Ben Bernanke's unprecedented announcement that he is buying $600 billion in medium dated Treasury securities is tantamount to the government ordering you to
Featured Trades: (OIL), (XOM), (OXY), (COP) 2) The Price of Oil is Going Up. The free Ben Bernanke put also applies to the commodities markets. I received another scratchy, crackling cell phone call from my drilling buddy in the Texas natural gas fields today. You could almost choke from the dust on the line. He
