July 16, 2010 - Quote of the Day
'You have the watches, and we have the time,' said a Taliban prisoner to US forces.
Entries by Mad Hedge Fund Trader
July 15, 2010 - Technical Analyst Charles Nenner Shows Where to Play in a Bear Market
Featured Trades: (ING), (TM), (LEN), (CRB), (AA), (AGU), (IBM), (XOM), (COP), (BBY) 1) Technical Analyst Charles Nenner Shows Where to Play in a Bear Market. Yesterday, I was commiserating with my buddy, Charles Nenner, of the Charles Nenner Research Center in Amsterdam, about his team's miserable performance in the World Cup, which lost 0-1 in
July 15, 2010 - Why the World's Worst Economy Has the Strongest Currency
Featured Trades: (FXJ), (YCS) Currency Shares Japanese Yen Trust ETF ProSharesUltraShort Yen ETF 2) Why the World's Worst Economy Has the Strongest Currency. Global currency traders remain puzzled by the continuing strength of the yen (FXY), (YCS), which broke out of a ?90- ?95 range a few weeks ago and insists on levitating around the
July 15, 2010 - Quote of the Day
'America has become a second rate power. It's fiscal and trade deficits are at nightmare proportions. In the days of the free market when our country was a top industrial power, there was accountability to the stockholder. The Carnegies, the Mellons, and the men who built this great empire made sure of it because it
July 13, 2010 - Why I'm Not Buying the US Stock Rally
Featured Trades: (SPX) S&P 500 SPDR's ETF 2) Why I'm Not Buying the US Stock Rally. Tempt me all you want, you seductive vixen, but I'm not buying into last week's 6% rally in the US stock market. You can whisper sweet nothings into my ear all you want about the trillions of dollars sitting
July 13, 2010 - How to Become One of the Rich Who Are Getting Richer
Featured Trades: (ROB) Claymore/Robb Report Global Luxury Index ETF 4) How to Become One of the Rich Who Are Getting Richer. One of the great certainties in our economy is that the rich are getting richer, no matter who is running the country. Despite the worst business conditions in 80 years, there was a 17%
July 13, 2010 - Quote of the Day
'I don't think the solution for Europe is going to end up being determined in the board rooms or the finance ministries of the EMU. I think it's going to be on the streets of Athens, Lisbon, Madrid, and elsewhere,' said former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan.
July 12, 2010 - How China's Economy is Already Bigger Than the US
ANOTHER SPECIAL CHINA ISSUE Featured Trades: (USO), (VALE), (BTU), (FCX), (CAT), (FXI), (EWA), (EWC), (FXA), (FXC), (CORN), (SOYB), (WEAT) Currency Shares Canadian Dollar Trust ETF Currency Shares Australia Dollar Trust ETF Australia iShares ETF Canada iShares ETF iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 ETF 1) How China's Economy is Already Bigger Than the US. China has
July 12, 2010 - Who's Been Buying All Those Japanese Bonds?
ANOTHER SPECIAL CHINA ISSUE 2) Who's Been Buying All Those Japanese Bonds? International bond and foreign currency markets were stunned last week when figures were released showing that the Chinese had bought record amounts of Japanese government bonds in May. The move was no doubt the impetus behind the big rally that took Japanese ten
July 12, 2010 - The Grains Take Off
ANOTHER SPECIAL CHINA ISSUE Featured Trades: (SOYBEANS), (SOYBEAN MEAL), (CORN), (WEAT), (SOYB) Teucrium Agricultural Trust Corn Fund Teucrium Agricultural Trust Soybean Fund Teucrium Agricultural Trust Wheat Fund 3) The Grains Take Off. It turns out that perfection doesn't continue forever, after all. That was the bet I was more than happy to make three weeks