While trading one market is hard enough, two is almost more than one can bear. In fact, we have all been trading two markets since 2025 began. On the up days, it appears that the indexes are about to break out of a tediously narrow trading range. The market’s inability to go down is proof
Global Market Comments February 14, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (FEBRUARY 12 BIWEEKLY STRATEGY WEBINAR Q&A), (MCD), (FSLR), (META), (GOOG), (AMZN), (JNK), (HYG), (F), (GM), (NVDA), (PLTR), (INTC)
Below, please find subscribers’ Q&A for the February 12 Mad Hedge Fund Trader Global Strategy Webinar, broadcast from Incline Village, NV. Q: Can Nvidia (NVDA) go to $200 in the next three years? A: I would imagine probably, yes. They still have a fabulous business—enormous orders and record profits. But it's not going to happen
"Bull markets go everywhere from 1-2 years to five years after the Fed begins tightening. We've got a long way to go before we have to worry about bonds competing against stocks," said Professor Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School of Business
Global Market Comments February 13, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (REVISITING THE GREAT DEPRESSION), (EXPLORING MY NEW YORK ROOTS)
When I first arrived on Wall Street during the early 1980s, some of the old veterans who worked through the 1929 stock market crash were just retiring and passed their stories on to me before they left. One was my old friend, Sir John Templeton, founder of the Templeton funds, who often hosted me for
While in New York waiting to board Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 to sail for Southampton, England, a few years ago, I decided to check out the Bay Ridge address near the Verrazano Bridge where my father grew up. I took a limo over to Brooklyn and knocked on the front door. I told the owner
“Lower yields, for longer, and lingering. I don’t think we’re going to get to an end for some period of time. The money that has been pumped into the system is going to keep equities high,” said Mark Grant, managing director of Hilltop Securities.
Global Market Comments February 12, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE ABC’s OF THE VIX), (VIX), (VXX), (SVXY)
“It’s easier to get out of Cuba than to get out of Facebook,” said a market analyst.
Global Market Comments February 11, 2025 Fiat Lux SPECIAL VOLATILITY ISSUE Featured Trade: (TESTIMONIAL) (MAKING VOLATILITY YOUR FRIEND), (VIX), (VXX), (XIV)
Global Market Comments February 10, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD or BACK TO BOOT CAMP) (SPY), (EWG), (EWU), (TSLA), (NVDA), (VST)
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)
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