Featured Trades: (TBT), (TMV) ProShares Ultra Short Lehman 20+ Year Treasury ETF Direxion Daily 30 Year Treasury Bear 3X Shares ETF 1) It's Time to Revisit the TBT. Shorting the world's most overvalued asset, the 30 year US Treasury bond, has got to be the big trade from here. The relentless whirring of the
Featured Trades: (NISSAN LEAF), (NSANY), (PGE) 3) Making a New Home for My Nissan Leaf. The electrician from Nissan Motors (NSANY) showed up at my home today to ascertain if it can generate sufficient juice to recharge my new all electric Leaf, which will be delivered in December. The good news is that it does,
Featured Trades: (RAIL TRAFFIC) 1) Is 'Snookie' our New Investment Guru? The ultra bears were sent packing in recent days, thanks to a spate of economic indicators showing some unexpected strength. Take a look at the chart below for rail car loadings showing an unequivocal spike upward. I warned last week that there was
Featured Trades: (UNG), (USO), (CORN), (WEAT), (SOYB) United States Natural Gas Fund ETF United States Oil Fund ETF 2) Raising the Red Flags on Commodity ETF's. The July 26-August 1, 2010 print edition of? Business Week magazine put out a brilliant piece entitled 'Amber Waves of Pain'? detailing how retail investors are getting fleeced when
Featured Trades: (GOOGLE), (IBM), (MSFT), (YHOO), (BIDU) 3) Is it Time to Buy Google on the Cheap? As much as I adore Google products and use their search engine all day long, the stock definitely left something to be desired when it was trading in the $600'S. That's why I steered readers away with my
Featured Trades: (RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE) 1) The Residential Housing Market is Still Burning Down. Today, the Commerce Department reported that June new home sales, at 330,000, were up a blistering 24%. So is the crash in residential real estate over? It's off to the races, right? Wrong! Much of the gains were cancelled out by
Featured Trades: (THE HARSH REALITIES OF TRADING) 3) It's Harder Than it Looks. A recent piece at the underground website, Zero Hedge, by one 'pivotfarm' resonated with me in explaining how hard it actually is making money in the market (click here for the link). It looks deceptively easy from the outside. You buy a
Featured Trades: (EMERGING MARKET DEBT), (PCY) Invesco PowerShares Emerging Market Sovereign Debt ETF 4) Is Emerging Market Debt the New Prime Credit? Last year, I suggested emerging market sovereign debt ETF's as safe, high yielding investments in which to hide out in case the equity markets swoon again. The stock market has looked pretty grizzly
Featured Trades: (EUROPEAN BANK STRESS TESTS), (EURO), (FXE) Currency Shares Euro Trust ETF 1) Give All the European Banks 'A's'. A favorite ploy of poorly managed school districts in California is for the teachers to simply give all their students 'A's'. That way the state and federal money keeps rolling in, and demanding parents can
Featured Trades: (TURKEY), (TUR), (TKC), (TURKISH LIRA) iShares MSCI Turkey Investable Market Index Fund ETF 1) Turkey Is On The Menu. The boarding of a Turkish ship by Israeli commandos and the international brouhaha that it sparked has thrown a searing spotlight on that emerging nation. Several hedge fund friends and now a few
