I have a new outlook for the US stock markets. The current government's economic policy reminds me a lot about the Marine Corps boot camp. Through harsh treatment and rigorous training, the Marines seek to destroy incoming recruits. They then spend 13 weeks rebuilding a new soldier from scratch who is obedient, respectful, follows orders,
Global Market Comments February 7, 2025 Fiat Lux (A NOTE ON ASSIGNED OPTIONS OR OPTIONS CALLED AWAY) (TLT), (TSLA)
I just received an excited text message from an excited Concierge client. His short position in the (TSLA) February 2025 $540-$550 vertical bear put debit spread had just been called away. That meant he would receive the maximum profit a full 11 trading days before the February 21 option expiration. With the heightened volatility this
Global Market Comments February 6, 2025 Fiat Lux SPECIAL EARLY RETIREMENT ISSUE Featured Trade: (HOW TO JOIN THE EARLY RETIREMENT STAMPEDE)
There is a new social movement taking place which you probably haven’t heard about. Increasing numbers of people, especially Millennials, are engineering their personal finances to make early retirement possible. I’m not talking about hanging it up at 60, 55, or even 50. I’m talking extreme early retirement, like 45, 40, or even 30! I
Global Market Comments February 5, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THEY’RE NOT MAKING AMERICANS ANYMORE)
You can count on a bear market hitting some time in 2038, one falling by at least 25%. Worse, there is almost a guarantee that a financial crisis, severe bear market, and possibly another Great Depression will take place no later than 2058 and would take the major indexes down by 50% or more. No,
Global Market Comments February 4, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (LEARNING THE ART OF RISK CONTROL)
Now that you know how to make money in the market, I’m going to teach you how to hang on to it. There is no point in booking winning trades only to lose money by making careless beginner’s mistakes. So today, I am going to talk about risk control. The first goal of risk control
“In the US, you had ten bad years in a row (during the Great Depression) and it still turned out to be a pretty good century, said Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs.
Global Market Comments February 3, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD or THE TRADE WAR BEGINS) (SPY), ($COMPQ), (TSLA), (VST), (MSFT), (ADBE), (DELL), (NVDA)
As I write this, tariffs are coming into force and confusion reigns supreme at the borders. The worst-case scenario has arrived. In the Marine Corp., they say that a missing 50-cent part can ground a $50 million dollar airplane. It turns out that many of the 50-cent parts are made in Canada and Mexico, which
'There is one peculiarity about mass psychology in that when you are in a bubble, you can't see it. Bubbles are invisible when you are inside the bubble,' said the charming Jim Dines, of The Dines Letter.
Global Market Comments January 31, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (JANUARY 29 BIWEEKLY STRATEGY WEBINAR Q&A), (META), (AMZN), (NVDA), (AMD) (GS), (SPY), (TSLA), (SBUX), (CCJ), (ADBE), (LMT), (GD), (RTX), (NVDA)
Below please find subscribers’ Q&A for the January 29 Mad Hedge Fund Trader Global Strategy Webinar, broadcast from Salt Lake City, UT. Q: Are AI stocks going to crash? A: Some already have, and others haven’t. It’s really about single-stock-picking the chip area and the pure AI plays, which have been enormously overextended. If you
Global Market Comments January 30, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE MAD HEDGE DICTIONARY OF TRADING SLANG)
The Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader is read in 140 counties. About a quarter of our readers run the letter through a Google Translator before reading. That has created a problem. Stock trading is probably the most slang and acronym-ridden profession on the planet, second only to the United States Marine Corps. (Semper
“When asked how he manages the time to be chairman of Microsoft, run the world’s largest charity, and raise three kids, Bill Gates answered, “I don’t mow the lawn.”
Global Market Comments January 29, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (WHY GLOBALIZATION WORKS)
Having been a vociferous supporter of globalization since its dawn, first during a decade spent as a reporter for The Economist magazine, and then as an investor, I can explain how our international trading system works, and especially why it works for the US. While waiting for a flight at Miami Airport, there was a