Mad Hedge Hot Tips for January 23, 2019

Mad Hedge Hot Tips
January 23, 2019
Fiat Lux

The Five Most Important Things That Happened Today
(and what to do about them)

1) Activist Investor Takes a Run at eBay, causing the shares to pop 4%. Elliot Management wants them to dump Stub Hub and its classified ads business. Another one of the Mad Hedge favorite tech stocks gets its 15 minutes of fame. Click here.

2) Existing Home Sales Down a Disastrous 6.4%, in December and 10% YOY, the worst read since 2012. The government shutdown is making closing impossible. Click here.

3) The Worst Hit States from the Government Shutdown are All Red, with Iowa, South Dakota, Alabama, Wyoming, Montana, Alabama, and Alaska taking the lead. Don’t expect the Democrats to be in a hurry to cave. This will last longer than anyone expects. Click here.

4) No, There’s No Progress on the Trade War….Yes, There Is. That explains yesterday’s nearly 500-point plunge in the Dow followed by a brief 150-point rally when White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow said the aforementioned was not true. Do you think the stock market is sensitive to trade? Click here.

5) IBM Lights the Market on Fire. The world may be going to hell in a handbasket but the earnings are still coming through. Click here.

Published today in the Mad Hedge Global Trading Dispatch and Mad Hedge Technology Letter:

(PLAYING THE SHORT SIDE WITH VERTICAL BEAR PUT SPREADS), (TLT)

(WHY TECHNICAL ANALYSIS DOESN’T WORK)

(FB), (AAPL), (AMZN), (GOOG), (MSFT), (VIX)
(WHY TECH IS FLEEING SILICON VALLEY),

(AAPL), (CRM), (MSFT), (FB), (AMZN), (GOOGL)

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