Featured Trades: (TREASURY BONDS), (TBT), (TMV) ProShares Ultra Short Lehman 20+ Year Treasury ETF Direxion Daily 30 Year Treasury Bear 3X Shares ETF 1) The Fat Lady Sings Another Bar. The Treasury bond market is certainly doing its best to roll over like the Bismark, the 30 year closing on the lows, 5 ? points
Featured Trades: (JGB), (YCS) 2) The Fat Lady is Also Singing in Japanese. A political slugfest in Japan could also be signaling the end of the great bull market in the JGB market, which I have been pissing on from the greatest possible height (click here for 'Why the JGB Market May be Ready to
(SPECIAL ELECTION ISSUE) Featured Trades: (CVX), (XOM), (COP), (BP), (RIG), (DO), (BTU), (JOYG), (SHAW), (CCJ), (DVN), (CHK), (FSLR), (NOC), (GD), (ZMH), (UNH), (HUM), (PFE), (DV), (STRA), (COCO), (TBT), (TMV) 1) Here's the Winner of the November Election. What has been one of the best performing trades in the world since Obama took office in January,
(SPECIAL ELECTION ISSUE) Featured Trades: (CVX), (XOM), (COP), (BP), (RIG), (DO), (BTU), (JOYG), (SHAW), (CCJ), (DVN), (CHK), (FSLR), (NOC), (GD), (ZMH), (UNH), (HUM), (PFE), (DV), (STRA), (COCO), (TBT), (TMV) 2) My Call on the Election. Like Sherlock Holmes, I like to consider every alternative, and eliminate the obvious. I think that if the Republicans take
(SPECIAL ELECTION ISSUE) Featured Trades: (CVX), (XOM), (COP), (BP), (RIG), (DO), (BTU), (JOYG), (SHAW), (CCJ), (DVN), (CHK), (FSLR), (NOC), (GD), (ZMH), (UNH), (HUM), (PFE), (DV), (STRA), (COCO), (TBT), (TMV) 3) The Republican Portfolio. Let's say I'm all wrong, and the Republicans take everything in November, what will it mean for your portfolio?? This is an
1) Summer is Over. There is no better feeling than sitting by the campfire at night, listening to the coyotes howl, watching the stars twinkle, and feeding my broker research into the flames one page at a time. The research from Goldman Sachs (GS) seemed to burn especially well. Perhaps it is the esteemed firm's
Featured Trades: (GOLD), (GLD), (SILVER), (SLV), (PPLT), (PALL), (TBT), (SPX), (CORN), (FXA) SPDR Gold Trust Shares ETF iShares Silver Trust ETF ETFS Physical Palladaium Shares ETF ETFS Physical Platimum Shares ETF Currency Shares Australian Dollar Trust ETF Teucrium Commodity Trust Corn ETF 2) Everything is Working. So far, the markets are welcoming me back from
Featured Trades:?? (AUGUST NONFARM PAYROLL) 3) The Bad News In the August Non Farm Payroll. One of my favorite math professors always used to tell me that statistics were like bikini bathing suits. What they reveal is fascinating, but what they conceal is essential. If there were ever a chart that showed how the pulse
4) Thanks for the Testimonials. My request for testimonials about the merits of The Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader overwhelmed me with more than 100 responses. Flattering and humbling at the same time, it is a vindication of all the blood, sweat, and tears that I pour into this letter each day. I
Featured Trades: (SOVEREIGN DEBT), (PCY), (LQD) 2) Sovereign Debt Was a Great Place to Hide.? I am constantly asked where to find safe places to park cash by investors understandably unhappy with the risk/reward currently offered by the markets. Any reach for yield now carries substantial principal risk, the kind we saw, oh say, in
