First and foremost, thank you for what you do. The small cost of this newsletter pays for itself a thousand times over. My returns mimic those of your portfolio for the year and for that I am grateful. The only suggestion I would offer is to keep doing what you are doing. It is people
Global Market Comments December 26, 2018 Featured Trades: (A CHRISTMAS STORY), (THE U-HAUL INDICATOR)
Global Market Comments December 24, 2018 Fiat Lux SPECIAL END OF YEAR ISSUE Featured Trade: (THANK YOU FROM THE MAD HEDGE FUND TRADER), (MY LAST RESEARCH PIECE OF THE YEAR)
You are in safe hands now with your trading portfolios up nearly 23% on the year if you had followed every one of my Trade Alerts to the letter. I know a lot of you made much more. I would have delivered a much higher return in 2018 if I had taken off a week
“If the Fed brings a lump of coal in 2019, then they better bring some candy canes for the kids as well,” said Bill Gross, former CEO of bond giant, PIMCO.
Global Market Comments December 21, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (WHY CASH IS THE BEST HEDGE) (INDU) (PRINT YOUR OWN CAR), (TESTIMONIAL)
Over the decades, I have been besieged by suggestions by various market players over how to hedge their downside risk in the stock market. I have analyzed most of these, experimented with them, and even tried out a few. These range from buying equity put options to selling call options, investing in bear ETFs, and
I am ever on the lookout for disruptive technologies that lead to great investment opportunities. Sitting here next door to Silicon Valley, that is not hard to do. So I watched my TV with utter amazement the other day when I saw a 3-D printer create an entire car from scratch. It took ten hours
I can't tell you how much I enjoy your blog. It is the first place I go every morning and I miss you on the weekends. I stumbled upon your site about 4 months ago and have been addicted to it since day one. I really appreciate not only your insight into the markets but
Global Market Comments December 20, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE GLASS HALF EMPTY MARKET) ($INDU), (SPY) (HOW TO EXECUTE A VERTICAL BULL CALL SPREAD), (AAPL)
Dovish, but not dovish enough. That seems to be the judgment of the markets today in the wake of the Fed’s decision to raise interest rates by 25 basis points. The overnight range for Fed funds is now 2.25%-2.50%. The Dow Average soared by 350 points going into the decision. Then it plunged by 900
Global Market Comments December 19, 2018 Fiat Lux SPECIAL INFLATION ISSUE Featured Trade: (THE GREAT INFLATION HEDGE YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF)
So, what am I talking about here? Blue chip growth stocks? Diamonds? Residential real estate? Gold? No, I am talking about grand pianos manufactured by Steinway & Sons of Queens, New York. Did you say pianos? Yup, the kind with which you sit down and play “As Time Goes By.” (Casablanca). During the 19th century,
Global Market Comments December 18, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade:(THE CHRISTMAS RALLY GOT STOPPED AT THE BORDER) (TLT), (TSLA), (AAPL) (THE PASSIVE/AGGRESSIVE PORTFOLIO), (ROM), (UYG), (UCC), (DIG), (BIB), (UGL), (UCD), (TBT)
On Sunday, I spent 30 minutes driving around looking for a parking space at Target. Once there, I waited for another half hour while the people in front of me paid for their entire Christmas shopping for the year. You can’t get a restaurant reservation anywhere. With economic conditions this strong, you would think the
What if you want to be a little more aggressive, say twice as aggressive? What if markets don’t deliver any year on year change as they have done many times in the past? Then you need a little more juice in your portfolio, and some extra leverage to earn your crust of bread and secure
“Excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake. To be precise it was my mistake. Humans are underrated.” - Said Elon Musk, CEO at Tesla
Global Market Comments December 17, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or THERE’S NO SANTA CLAUS IN CHINA) ($INDU), (SPY), (TLT), (AAPL), (AMZN), (NVDA), (PYPL), (NFLX)
On Friday, five serious hedge fund managers separately called me out of the blue and all had the same thing to say. They had never seen the market so negative before in the wake of the worst quarter in seven years. Therefore, it had to be a “BUY”. I, on the other hand, am a
Global Market Comments December 14, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (DECEMBER 12 BIWEEKLY STRATEGY WEBINAR Q&A), (SPX), (MU), (PYPL), (SPOT), (FXE), (FXY), (XLF), (MSFT), (AMZN), (TSLA), (XOM), (SIGN UP NOW FOR TEXT MESSAGING OF TRADE ALERTS)