Global Market Comments October 6, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (HOW THE RISK PARITY TRADERS ARE RUINING EVERYTHING!), (VIX), (SPY), (TLT), (TESTIMONIAL)
I received a call from a hedge fund manager on Friday warning me of what was about to hit the market. So much money had poured into "risk parity” strategies that it was starting a long-term secular trend up in market volatility (VIX). It was a classic case of too many people bunching up at one
I am constantly puzzling over what to say in a testimonial for the Mad Hedge Fund Trader. There are so many elements to the service. Traders and fund managers can vary so much in their style and experience. This is my 5th year of MHFT/MDT subscription. After a few ups and downs, making most of
In terms of the stock market, “A vaccine is more important than the stimulus,” said David Kostin, chief equity strategist at Goldman Sachs.
Global Market Comments October 5, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or IS HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF?) (SPY), (INDU), (DIS), (TLT)
In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson traveled to Europe to negotiate the end of WWI and the Versailles Treaty. Midway through the talks, he suffered a major stroke and was hustled back to the US in an American battleship, the USS George Washington. The Spanish Flu pandemic was underway, killing millions, so it was thought best
Global Market Comments October 2, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (SEPTEMBER 30 BIWEEKLY STRATEGY WEBINAR Q&A), (NVDA), (AMD), (JPM), (DIS), (GM), (TSLA), (NKLA), (TLT), (NFLX), (PLTR), (VIX), (PHM), (LEN), (KBH), (FXA), (GLD)
Below please find subscribers’ Q&A for the September 30 Mad Hedge Fund Trader Global Strategy Webinar broadcast from Silicon Valley, CA with my guest and co-host Bill Davis of the Mad Day Trader. Keep those questions coming! Q: Which is a better buy, NVIDIA (NVDA) or Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)? A: NVIDIA is clearly the larger, stronger company in
“The Fed only knows two speeds; too fast, and too slow,” said Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman to me over lunch one day.
Global Market Comments October 1, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (HOW TO RELIABLY PICK A WINNING OPTIONS TRADE)
Global Market Comments September 30, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (INDUSTRIES YOU WILL NEVER HEAR FROM ME ABOUT
Industries You Will Never Hear from Me About. The focus of this letter is to show people how to make money through investing in fast-growing, highly profitable companies which have stiff, long-term macroeconomic and demographic winds at their backs. That means I ignore a large part of the US economy, possibly as much as 80%,
Global Market Comments September 29, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: I HAVE AN OPENING FOR THE MAD HEDGE FUND TRADER CONCIERGE SERVICE), (SOME SAGE ADVICE ON ASSET ALLOCATION)
Global Market Comments September 28, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or DID THE ELECTION OR COVID JUST HIT THE STOCK MARKET?), (SPY), (TLT), (GLD), (TSLA), (UUP)
Did the election finally hit the stock market? It could have been both or neither. Certainly, the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg was worth 1,000 points, and maybe more. It may open the door to a period in politics that is uncertain at best or become violent at worst. But the Coronavirus
“It’s not always the troops that storm the beaches who are the right ones to set up the government,” said Steve Vassallo from Foundation Capital about the resignation of founder Travis Kalanick from Uber.
Global Market Comments September 25, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (HERE’S MY NEXT CHIP TEN BAGGER), (AMD), (INTC), (NVDA), (MU)
I am often asked which semiconductor company to buy. After all, this is not just the high beta play for the stock market as a whole, but the entire economy as well. When times are good, consumers can’t get enough chips to stockpile. When they are bad, they are used as landfill. Semiconductors are the
Global Market Comments September 24, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (ELON’S BATTERY DAY BLOWOUT), (TSLA), (GM), (F)
I have to admit that I have been buying into Elon Musk’s vision since I first met him more than 20 years ago, back in his PayPal days. He could see how the future would unroll for the next 50 years. That has delivered the best investment of my lifetime, with my Tesla shares (TSLA)