Global Market Comments August 16, 2019 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (DON’T MISS THE AUGUST 21 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR), (WHY CRASHING YIELDS COULD BE SIGNALING AN END TO THE STOCK SELLOFF), (TLT), (QQQ), (DBA), (EEM), (UUP)
I believe that the entire leg down in the stock market we have seen since July has been driven by a global collapse in bonds yields, a reliable predictor of recessions. In three weeks, ten-year US Treasury yields have collapsed from 2.15% to 1.46%, ten-year German bunds from -0.20% to -0.72, and Japanese ten-year government
Global Market Comments August 15, 2019 Fiat Lux EMERGENCY NOTICE ON MACY’S PUT OPTIONS CALLED AWAY
I have received emails today from several followers indicating that their short position in the Macy’s August 16 $23 put options have been called away. These are one leg of the Macys (M) August 2019 $23-$25 in-the-money vertical BEAR PUT spread which I recommended on August 6. I am responding with an EMERGENCY ALERT because
Global Market Comments August 15, 2019 Fiat Lux SPECIAL AMAZON ISSUE Featured Trade: (WHY I’M LOOKING AT AMAZON), (AMZN)
There’s noting like buying quality at a discount, and there is no better opportunity to do so now than to buy Amazon (AMZN). I believe there is a good chance that this creation of Jeff Bezos will see its shares double over the next five years. Amazon is, in effect, taking over the world. Jeff
Global Market Comments August 14, 2019 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (HOW TO HANDLE THE FRIDAY, AUGUST 16 OPTIONS EXPIRATION), (CRM), (FB), (M), (VIX) (SILICON VALLEY REAL ESTATE SAYS THE BULL MARKET IN TECH CONTINUES)
Followers of the Mad Hedge Technology Letter have the good fortune to own three deep in-the-money options position that expires on Friday, August 16, and I just want to explain to the newbies how to best maximize their profits. This involves the: the Salesforce (CRM) August 2019 $125-$130 in-the-money vertical BULL CALL spread at $4.50
The shares of FANGs will continue to rocket if Silicon Valley commercial real estate is any indication of the future growth rates. The group is gobbling up office space at such a prodigious rate that only a vast expansion of their business would justify these massive long-term commitments. Commercial real estate commitments are one of
Global Market Comments August 13, 2019 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE TRADE OF THE CENTURY IS SETTING UP), (TLT), (HOW TO BUY A SOLAR SYSTEM), (SCTY), (SPWR), (TSLA)
Global Market Comments August 12, 2019 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or (CYB), (FXE), (TLT), (FXY), (COPX), (USO), (GLD), (VIX), (FXB), (IWM0, (DIS), (CRB), (FB) (A COW BASED ECONOMICS LESSON)
So, this is what the best trading week looks like. Investors panicked. The hot money fled in droves. Predictions of escalating trade wars, recessions, and depressions abounded. The bottom line for followers of the Mad Hedge Fund Trader? We picked up 4.4% on the week, as may make as much next week. A number of
Global Market Comments August 9, 2019 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (AUGUST 7 BIWEEKLY STRATEGY WEBINAR Q&A), (SPY), (XLK), (GLD), (DIS), (TLT), (FXA), (FXY), (VIX), (VXX), (UNG), (USO)
Below please find subscribers’ Q&A for the Mad Hedge Fund Trader August 7 Global Strategy Webinar with my guest and co-host Bill Davis of the Mad Day Trader. Keep those questions coming! Q: Are we headed for a worldwide depression with today’s crash and interest rates? A: No, I think the interest rates are more of an anomaly
Global Market Comments August 8, 2019 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (HOW TO KNOW IF THE BULL MARKET IS WELL AND TRULY OVER), (THE TALE OF TWO ECONOMIES), (FB), (AAPL), (AMZN)
I have lately been besieged with emails from followers 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
I’m looking at my screens this morning and virtually every stock sold short by the Dairy of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader cratered to new six-month lows. Call it lucky, call it fortuitous. All I know is that the harder I work the luckier I get. If you are in the right economy, that of
“The rule book on how things are done and how they will play out you can just throw away right now,” said Scott Minerd of Guggenheim Partners.
Global Market Comments August 7, 2019 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (WHY I SOLD SHORT MACYS’), (AMZN), (WMT), (M), (JWN), (KOL) (TESTIMONIAL)
Sorry, the Trade Alert to sell short Macys’ (M) went out late yesterday. I was speaking to a retail expert and his list of things wrong with the marquee name was so long that I couldn't get off the phone. New Yorkers are going to have to find something else to do on Thanksgiving Day