“If you’re a retail CEO and the tariff announcement comes, you’re on your front porch looking for a cloud of locusts,” said Charlie O’Shea, a retail debt analyst at Moody’s.
Global Market Comments May 20, 2021 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (A COW-BASED ECONOMICS LESSON) (ON THE AIR WITH CASEY STUBBS - THE LINK IS NOW WORKING)
Global Market Comments May 19, 2021 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (NINE SURPRISES THAT COULD KILL OFF THIS BULL MARKET),
I have lately been besieged with emails from readers asking if they should sell everything, put all their money into cash, and if the great bull market is well and truly over. My answer is the same to all. If a full-throated and affirmative “NOT YET”. Things may look scary now, but they could get
Global Market Comments May 18, 2021 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (ON THE AIR WITH CASEY STUBBS), (HOW TO HANDLE THE FRIDAY, MAY 21 OPTIONS EXPIRATION), (UNP), (TLT)
I managed to catch up with my buddy, Casey Stubbs, the other day. Casey assembles trading talent from all over the country with his “How to Trade It” podcasts, and my turn was up. Am I the most interesting person Casey ever met? Over 30 minutes, we discussed some of my favorite trading tips, investment
Followers of the Mad Hedge Fund Trader alert service have the good fortune to own TWO deep-in-the-money options positions that expire on Friday, May 21, and I just want to explain to the newbies how to best maximize their profits. These involve the: (TLT) 5/$143-$146 put spread 10.00% (UNP) 5/$200-$210 call spread 10.00%
Global Market Comments May 17, 2021 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or WHY HISTORY RHYMES), (TLT), (SPY), (FCX), (MSFT), (DAL), (QQQ), (VIX), (DAL), (UUP)
The 19th century humorist and writer, Mark Twain, said, “History never repeats itself, but it rhymes.” This is certainly one of those rhyming times. Remember back in 2011 when the Dow hit a short-term peak at $12,300 in May of 2011? The Cassandras had a heyday. The bull market was over, stocks were imminently going
Global Market Comments May 14, 2021 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MAY 12 BIWEEKLY STRATEGY WEBINAR Q&A), (FCX), (QQQ), (JWN), (DAL), (MSFT), (PLTR), (V), (MA), (AXP), (UUP), (FXA), (SPWR), (FSLR), (TSLA), (ARKK), (CLX), (NIO), (EPEV), (SOX), (VIX), (USO), (XLE)
Below please find subscribers’ Q&A for the May 12 Mad Hedge Fund Trader Global Strategy Webinar broadcast from Lake Tahoe, NV. Q: Is it too risky to run a double position on the US Treasury Bond Fund (TLT)? A: Absolutely not, if anything it’s now risky enough. You need to be running triple and quadruple short positions in
“Send us your freaks,” said an Amazon human resources executive to a temp agency during its early days.
Global Market Comments May 13, 2021 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (LEVERAGING UP WITH THE “COPPER SHOCK”) (FCX), ($COPPER)
If you’re wondering what to buy on this dip, take a very hard look at Freeport McMoRan (FCX) LEAPS. We are getting to the point where great equity trades with potentially huge returns are becoming few and far between. At the very least, they are only a fraction of the opportunities we saw a year
“If massive government spending was the secret to economic success, then Venezuela would be ruling the world. Massive government spending is no indicator of economic success,” said Charles Bobrinksoy of Ariel Investments.
Global Market Comments May 11, 2021 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE NEXT TRADE OF THE CENTURY IS HERE!), (TLT), (TBT), $TNX)
We are getting to the point where great equity trades with potential huge returns are becoming few and far between. At the very least, they are only a fraction of the opportunities we saw a year ago, which was a once-in-a-century event. So, when your trade of the century runs out, what do you do?
“The market is untradable now. We are one tweet away from a new all-time high, or a 10% correction,” said a hedge fund friend of mine.
Global Market Comments May 10, 2021 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or THE SUSHI HITS THE FAN), (SPY), (TLT), (TBT), (V), (UNP), (DAL), (MSFT), (GS), (JPM), (FCX)
During my senior year in High School, I had the good fortune to date the daughter of Richard Knerr, the founder of Wham-O, the inventor of Hula Hoops, Silly Putty, Super Balls, Frisbee’s, and Slip & Slides (click here). At six feet, she was the tallest girl in the school, and at 6’4” I was