Global Market Comments
January 21, 2014
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(FEBRUARY 12 AUCKLAND NEW ZEALND STRATEGY LUNCH),
(HOW OBAMACARE WILL BOOST YOUR PORTFOLIO),
(XLV), (GILD), (XLS), (XPH), (XBI), (GOOG)
Health Care Select Sector SPDR (XLV)
Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD)
Exelis Inc. (XLS)
SPDR S&P Pharmaceuticals ETF (XPH)
SPDR S&P Biotech ETF (XBI)
Google Inc. (GOOG)
Come join me for lunch at the Mad Hedge Fund Trader?s Global Strategy Update, which I will be conducting in Auckland, New Zealand on Wednesday, February 12, 2014. An excellent meal will be followed by a wide-ranging discussion and question-and-answer period.
I?ll be giving you my up-to-date view on stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities, precious metals, and real estate. I also hope to provide some insight into America?s opaque and confusing political system. And to keep you in suspense, I?ll be throwing a few surprises out there too. Tickets are available for $189.
I?ll be arriving at 11:00 and leaving late in case anyone wants to have a one-on-one discussion, or just sit around and chew the fat about the financial markets. The lunch will be held at a downtown boutique hotel the location of which that will be emailed with your purchase confirmation.
I look forward to meeting you, and thank you for supporting my research. To purchase tickets for the luncheon, please go to my online store.
Global Market Comments
January 17, 2014
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(MAD HEDGE FUND TRADER SURGES AHEAD WITH A 5.78% 2014 PROFIT),
(SPY), (TLT), (XLK), (XLF), (XLE), (AAPL), (SFTBY), (FXY),
(AT&T IS DILAING A WRONG NUMBER),
(T), (VZ), (NFLX), (AMZN)
SPDR S&P 500 (SPY)
iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (TLT)
Technology Select Sector SPDR (XLK)
Financial Select Sector SPDR (XLF)
Energy Select Sector SPDR (XLE)
Apple Inc. (AAPL)
SoftBank Corp. (SFTBY)
CurrencyShares Japanese Yen Trust (FXY)
AT&T, Inc. (T)
Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ)
Netflix, Inc. (NFLX)
Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN)
The red hot performance of the Mad Hedge Fund Trader?s Trade Alert Service has maintained its blistering pace from last year, picking up another 5.73% profit in the first two trading weeks of 2014. The S&P 500 was down during the same period. Since the beginning of 2013, I am up 73.23%.
2013 closed with a total return for followers of 67.45%. Including both open and closed trades, all nine of the Trade Alerts issued so far this year were profitable, a success rate of 100%.
The three-year return is now an eye popping 128.3%, compared to a far more modest increase for the Dow Average during the same period of only 35%. That brings my averaged annualized return up to 41.6%.
This has been the profit since my groundbreaking trade mentoring service was launched in 2010. It all is a matter of the harder I work, the luckier I get.
The hot streak continues. It seems like I can do no wrong, but am avoiding walking under ladders, breaking mirrors, and trading on Friday the 13th.
I held on to every risk on position during the two-week December correction, fully expecting the pause to become the springboard for a new run to all time highs by year-end. That is exactly what happened in the wake of the Federal Reserve?s decision to taper its quantitative easing program by only $10 billion a month, mere sofa change given the size of our bond market.
The rally then came to a dead stop, once the New Year?s celebrations were over. The disappointing December nonfarm payroll of 74,000 didn?t help. But I held on to every ?RISK ON? position. That turned out to be the perfect thing to do.
In the rapid surge that followed this week, I took profits in the Financials Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLF), thanks to the leadership of the big banks. Ditto for my long position in the S&P 500 (SPY).
I also did well with my bets on the Technology Select Sector ETF (XLK). I benefited from a huge run in Apple (AAPL), its deal with China Mobile (CHL) assuring that my call options expired at their maximum value.
My assumption that Obamacare would herald a new golden age for the health care industry proved dead on, with my long in Gilead Sciences (GILD), racing to new highs. My short in the Japanese yen (FXY) provided yet another paycheck, like the ever faithful rich uncle.
Progress in the Geneva peace talks with Iran crush oil and robbed me of some of my profits in my Energy Sector Select SPDR ETF (XLE), but I still closed out positive. I even made a small amount of money in my Treasury bond short, despite a ferocious five point rally against me.
I am now 70% in cash, awaiting better entry points in the market on which I can pounce. I am still lugging a long in Softbank (SFTBY) shares at cost, awaiting the Alibaba IPO. I also slapped on a short position I AT&T (T) yesterday, a favorite hedge fund target, capitalizing on an ever weakening cash flow position in the company.
My esteemed colleague, Mad Day Trader Jim Parker, has also been coining it. Since April, his own performance numbers have just come back from the auditors, revealing that he is up a staggering 374%. That is just for an eight month year!
The coming winter promises to deliver a harvest of new trading opportunities. The big driver will be a global synchronized recovery that promises to drive markets into the stratosphere in 2014.
The Trade Alerts should be coming hot and heavy. Please join me on the gravy train. You will never get a better chance than this to make money for your personal account.
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A High Sierra Pass in 1962Global Market Comments
January 16, 2014
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(CASHING IN ON APPLE), (AAPL)
(BECOME MY FACEBOOK FRIEND),
(OIL ISN?T WHAT IT USED TO BE),
(USO), (DIG), (DUG)
United States Oil (USO)
ProShares Ultra Oil & Gas (DIG)
ProShares UltraShort Oil & Gas (DUG)
Global Market Comments
January 15, 2014
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(INVESTORS WILL WIN THE ETF PRICE WAR),
(BIDDING FOR THE STARS), (SPX), (INDU),
(THE DEATH OF THE MUTUAL FUND),
(TESTIMONIAL)
S&P 500 Index (SPX)
Dow Jones Industrial Average Index (INDU)
ETF?s are much more attractive than mutual fund competitors, with their notoriously bloated expenses and spendthrift marketing costs. You can?t miss those glitzy, overproduced, big budget ads on TV for a multitude of mutual fund families. You know, the ones with the senior couple holding hands walking down the beach into the sunset, the raging bulls, etc.? You are the sucker who is paying for these. Sometimes I confuse them for Viagra commercials.
I once did a comprehensive audit on a mutual fund, and a blacker hole you never saw. There were so many conflicts of interest it would have done Bernie Madoff proud. Any trainee assistant trader can tell you that more than 90% of all mutual fund managers reliably underperform the indexes, some grotesquely so.? Published performance is bogus, they show a huge survivor bias, not including the hundreds of mutual funds that close each year. And there?s always that surprise tax bill at the end of the year.
If there was ever an industry crying out for a fundamental restructuring, consolidation, price competition, and ultimately a whopping great downsizing, it is the US mutual fund industry. ETF?s may be the accelerant that ignited this epochal sea change, with the number of mutual funds recently having shrunk from 10,000 to 8,000. It?s still early days, with ETF?s only accounting for 5-6% of trading volume, even though they have been around for a decade.
The Mutual Fund?s Days Are NumberedGlobal Market Comments
January 14, 2014
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(THURSDAY FEBRUARY 20 MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA STRATEGY LUNCH),
(WHY I?M KEEPING MY BOND SHORTS),
(TLT), (TBT), (MUB), (LQD), (JNK), (HYG), (LINE), (ITB),
(TESTIMONIAL)
iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (TLT)
ProShares UltraShort 20+ Year Treasury (TBT)
iShares National AMT-Free Muni Bond (MUB)
iShares iBoxx $ Invst Grade Crp Bond (LQD)
SPDR Barclays High Yield Bond (JNK)
iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bd (HYG)
Linn Energy, LLC (LINE)
iShares US Home Construction (ITB)
Come join me for lunch at the Mad Hedge Fund Trader?s Global Strategy Update, which I will be conducting in Melbourne, Australia on Thursday, February 20, 2014. An excellent meal will be followed by a wide-ranging discussion and question and answer period.
I?ll be giving you my up to date view on stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities, precious metals, and real estate. I also hope to provide some insight into America?s opaque and confusing political system. And to keep you in suspense, I?ll be throwing a few surprises out there too. Tickets are available for $209.
I?ll be arriving at 11:00 and leaving late in case anyone wants to have a one on one discussion, or just sit around and chew the fat about the financial markets.
The lunch will be held at a downtown hotel the details of which will be emailed with your purchase confirmation.
I look forward to meeting you, and thank you for supporting my research. To purchase tickets for the luncheons, please go to my online store.
Global Market Comments
January 13, 2014
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(SATURDAY FEBRUARY 22 BRISBANE AUSTRALIA STRATEGY LUNCH),
(AMERCIA?S DEMOGRAPHIC COLLAPSE AND YOUR STOCK PORTFOLIO)