Featured Trades: (CHARLES NENNER) 1) Catching Up With Charles Nenner. I managed to catch up with my friend, technical analyst to the stars, Charles Nenner, and quiz him about his recent relative silence. It has been many months since he predicted that the yen was going to soar from ?95 to ?80, that you
Featured Trades: (THE TREASURY BOND DILEMMA), (TBT), (IEF) 2) The Treasury Bond Dilemma. There is a very interesting divergence going on in the Treasury bond market which readers should be aware of. The leveraged short ETF for long dated paper, the (TBT), looks like it bottomed in the end of August, indicating that the collapse
Featured Trades: (Q3 GDP) 3) There is Less Than Meets the Eye in Q3 GDP. There was much celebration that the US economy managed a 2.0% growth rate in Q3, sending double dippers to the dust bin of history, where they rightfully belong. Of course, you already knew this was going to happen last January,
Featured Trades: (RARE EARTHS), (REMX), (MCP), (LYSCF), (AVARF) 2) Is the Rare Earth ETF Calling a Market Top? It looks like the Van Eck mutual fund group reads the Diary of the Mad Hedge Fund Trader, because last week they launched the first ETF (REMX) dedicated to rare earth and strategic metals. The move comes
Featured Trades: (JAPANESE YEN), (FXY), (YCS) 3) Pricking the Bubble in the Yen. Analysts have been puzzled by the relentless appreciation of the Japanese yen, which went out at ?80.40 on Friday, and seems poised to break out to the ?70 handle and an all time high. Having written the authoritative tome on the Japanese
Featured Trades: (WORLD SERIES) 1) From Your Mad Hedge Fund Trader Baseball Correspondent. What a game! Burp. The San Francisco Giants trounced the Texas Rangers 11-7 in what had to be one of the most exciting games in World Series History. I spent the pregame completing my Christmas shopping for the year, feverishly buying
Featured Trades: (MUNICIPAL BONDS), (NCP), (NVX) Nuveen California Performance Plus Nuveen California Dividend Advantage Muni Fund II 2) The Fascinating World of Municipal Bonds. I was fortunate to catch the muni bond wave this year with my recommendations to buy the funds in this sector, the (NCP) and the (NVX) (click here for 'California
Featured Trades: (CONTEMPLATIONS ON RISK) 1) Contemplations on Risk. The S&P 500 has risen 11 out of the last 13 trading days. Everything in my portfolio is up 50% in the last four months, except for the rare earth stocks which are up 400%. My call that the global equity markets would launch into
Featured Trades: (PEAK TREASURY BONDS), (TBT), (TMV) ProShares Ultra Short Lehman 20 + Year Treasury ETF Direxion Daily 20 Year Plus Treasury Bear 3X Shares ETF 2) The Fat Lady is Still Singing in the Treasury Market. To say that things have gone well for the Treasury bond market this year would be one of
Featured Trades: (THE WORLD'S LARGEST SOLAR PLANT) 3) The World's Largest Solar Plant. Unfortunately, I know Blythe, California too well. This natural blast furnace is in a God forsaken corner of the state where I hunted jack rabbits as a kid, the Indians survived on Gila monsters for protein, and it regularly reaches 130 degrees
