Global Market Comments April 14, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD or REARRANGING THE DECKCHAIRS ON THE TITANIC), (SPY), (GLD), (NFLX), (NVDA), (TLT), (MSTR), (SVXY), ($VIX) (AMZN), (AAPL), (GOOGL), (PANW), (NFLX), (CORN), (WEAT), (SOYB)
Back in 1987, I flew my Cessna 340 twin from London to Rome to visit Morgan Stanley’s high-end Italian clients. Held over by meetings, I got a late start, and I didn’t get as far as the French Champagne country until midnight. Right then, at 20,000 feet, the gyroscope suddenly blew up with a great
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have,” said Thomas Jefferson, the second US president and the man on the $2 and $10 bill.
Global Market Comments April 11, 2025 Fiat Lux SPECIAL VOLATILITY ISSUE Featured Trade: (TESTIMONIAL) (MAKING VOLATILITY YOUR FRIEND), (VIX), (VXX), (XIV), (THE ABC’s OF THE VIX), (VIX), (VXX), (SVXY)
I am one of those cheapskates who buy Christmas ornaments by the bucket load from Costco in January for ten cents on the dollar because my 11-month theoretical return on capital comes close to 1,000%. I also like buying flood insurance in the middle of the summer drought, when the forecast in California is for
Global Market Comments April 9, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (TECH SHARES RECOVER ON MACRO NEWS) (FXI), ($COMPQ)
Global Market Comments April 8, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (A REFRESHER COURSE AT SHORT SELLING SCHOOL), (SH), (SDS), (PSQ), (DOG), (RWM), (SPXU), (AAPL), (TSLA), (VIX), (VXX), (IPO), (MTUM), (SPHB), (HDGE)
Global Market Comments April 7, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or TRUMP DECLARES WAR ON THE WORLD), (SPY), (TLT), (META), (GOOGL), (MSFT), (CRM), (COST), (NVDA), (NFLX), (NVDA), (TSLA), (GLD)
I often get asked why I am still working after 55 years in the stock market. With five customers calling me this morning to thank me for saving their retirement funds, you might understand why. It is now clear that in retrospect and with the wisdom of 20/20 hindsight, corporate America flipped the switch on
Global Market Comments April 4, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (APRIL 4 BIWEEKLY STRATEGY WEBINAR Q&A), (DAL), (LCID), (RIVN), (MSTR), (PLTR), (AAPL), (GLD), (TSLA), (SLV), (SPY)
Below please find subscribers’ Q&A for the April 2 Mad Hedge Fund Trader Global Strategy Webinar, broadcast from Incline Village, NV. Q: Why are there days when both bonds and interest rates are going up? A: Well, there is a tug-of-war going on in the bond market. When recession fears are the dominant theme of
Global Market Comments April 3, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (A NOTE ON OPTIONS ASSIGNED OR CALLED AWAY) (NVDA), (COST), (TSLA)
I just received an excited text message from an excited Concierge client. His long position in the (NVDA) April 17 2025 $90-$95 vertical bull call debit spread had just been called away. That meant he would receive the maximum profit a full 10 trading days before the April 17 option expiration. Whoever called away the
“Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau,” said economist Irving Fisher….just before the 1929 stock market crash.
Global Market Comments April 1, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (REVISITING THE FIRST SILVER BUBBLE), (SLV), (SLW)
Global Market Comments March 31, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or STAGFLATION IS ON!) (COST), (BRK/B), (GS), (MS), (NVDA), (AMZN), (TLT), (GLD), (GM), (TSLA)
There is no doubt that the data released out on Friday were a complete disaster for stock investors. The Dow Average futures posted a 1,000-point swing, from up 200 in the overnight markets to down 800 intraday. Specifically, the Consumer Price Index came in at a hot 0.4%, which is 4.8% annualized. Five-year Inflation Expectations,
“Life is too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful,” said Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.
Global Market Comments March 27, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (HOW TO GAIN AN ADVANTAGE WITH PARALLEL TRADING), (GM), (F), (TM), (NSANY), (DDAIF), BMW (BMWYY), (VWAPY), (PALL), (GS), (EZA), (CAT), (CMI), (KMTUY), (KODK), (SLV), (AAPL)
One of the most fascinating things I learned when I first joined the equity trading desk at Morgan Stanley during the early 1980s was how to parallel trade. A customer order would come in to buy a million shares of General Motors (GM), and what did the in-house proprietary trading book do immediately? It loaded