After weeks of turning a blind eye, poo-pooing, and wishfully ignoring the global Coronavirus pandemic, traders are finally getting a wake-up call. It turns out that the prospect of a substantial portion of the world’s population dying over the next few months cannot be offset by quantitative easing after all. At least for the short
"Getting information off the Internet is akin to trying to sweep back the ocean with a broom," said Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google.
Global Market Comments February 21, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (ON EXECUTING MY TRADE ALERTS), (TEN REASONS WHY STOCKS CAN’T SELL-OFF BIG TIME), (SPY)
From time to time, I receive emails from a subscribers telling me that they are unable to get executions on trade alerts that are as good as the ones I get. There are several possible reasons for this: 1) Markets move, sometimes quite dramatically so. That’s why I include a screenshot of my personal trading
Global Market Comments February 20, 2020 Fiat Lux SPECIAL FANG ISSUE Featured Trade: (FINDING A NEW FANG), (FB), (AAPL), (NFLX), (GOOGL), (TSLA), (BABA)
We all love our FANGS. Not only have Facebook (FB), Apple (AAPL), Netflix (NFLX), and Alphabet (GOOGL) been at the core of our investment performance for the past decade years, we also gobble up their products and services like kids eating their candy stash the day after Halloween. Three of the FANGs have already won
Global Market Comments February 19, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (HOW TO HEDGE YOUR CURRENCY RISK), (FXA), (FXE), (FXC), (FXB), (UUP)
Global Market Comments February 18, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or THE TRADE ALERT DROUGHT) (SPY), (TLT), (MSFT), (BA), (TSLA), (MGM)
Like it or not, we have a trade alert drought on our hands. I just ran the numbers on 200 potential trades in stocks, bonds, foreign exchange, commodities, precious metals, and real estate, and there was not a single one that was worth executing. They all had one thing in common: for taking huge risks,
Global Market Comments February 14, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (FEBRUARY 12 BIWEEKLY STRATEGY WEBINAR Q&A) (SQ), (TSLA), (FB), (GILD), (BA), (CRSP), (CSCO), (GLD) (FEYE), (VIX), (VXX), (USO), (LYFT), (UBER)
Below please find subscribers’ Q&A for the Mad Hedge Fund Trader February 12 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: What do you think about Facebook (FB) here? We’ve just had a big dip. A: We got the dip because of
Global Market Comments February 13, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (I HAVE AN OPENING FOR THE MAD HEDGE FUND TRADER CONCIERGE SERVICE), (MAD HEDGE FUND TRADER CELEBRATES ITS 12-YEAR ANNIVERSARY)
The Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader is now celebrating its 12th year of publication. During this time, I have religiously pumped out 1,500 words a day, or eight double-space typed pages of original, independent-minded, hard-hitting, and often wickedly funny research. I’ve been covering stocks, bonds, commodities, energy, precious metals, real estate, and agricultural
Global Market Comments February 10, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (LEARN MORE ABOUT ME THAN YOU PROBABLY WANT TO KNOW), (GOOG), (AMZN), (AMGN) (WHO SAYS THERE AREN’T ANY GOOD JOBS?), (TESTIMONIAL)
As you may imagine, the most interesting man in the world is impossible to shop for when it comes to Christmas and birthdays. So, it was no surprise when I opened a box and found a DNA testing kit from 23 and Me. So, I spit into a small test tube to humor the kids,
I've been reading your blog for a while and found it a helpful beacon in a sea of confusing and contradictory information as I try and make sense of the world (and try and make money from sense!). Kind regards, Toby London, England
"The Obamacare website had technical issues all week because of too much web traffic. You can't campaign on the fact that too many people don't have health care, and then be surprised that millions don't have health care. That's like 1-800-FLOWERS being caught off guard by Valentine's Day," said a comedian on Saturday Night Live.
“The bubble is in the bond market, not the stock market,” said Leon Cooperman, CEO of Omega Advisors, an original investor in my 1990s hedge fund.
Global Market Comments February 10, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE MAD HEDGE FUND TRADER’S FAVORITE ONLINE BROKER)
Global Market Comments February 10, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or BATTLING THE CORONAVIRUS), (SPY), (CCL), (RCL), (WYNN), (DAL), (VIX), (VXX)