I will be evacuating the City of San Francisco upon the completion of this newsletter. The smoke from the wildfires has rendered the air here so thick that it has become unbreathable. It reminds me of the smog in Los Angeles I endured during the 1960s before all the environmental regulation kicked in. All Bay
Global Market Comments November 16, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (RISK CONTROL FOR DUMMIES), (SPY), (AMZN), (TLT), (CRM), (VXX)
Global Market Comments November 15, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (ARE YOU IN THE 1%?), (SNE), (HMC) (DUMPING THE OLD ASSET ALLOCATION RULES)
Global Market Comments November 14, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (DINNER WITH BEN BERNANKE) (TESTIMONIAL)
Dear John, You gave me a profit this year well into six digits which has me so addicted to your service that I'm considering taking out life insurance on you from Lloyd's of London. I admit I get VERY nervous every time you adventure off to climb the Matterhorn or vagabond through the High Sierras
Global Market Comments November 13, 2018 Fiat Lux SPECIAL VETERANS DAY ISSUE Featured Trade: (NO BIWEEKLY STRATEGY WEBINAR FOR WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 14) (A TRIBUTE TO A TRUE VETERAN)
I love doing these webinars. They help crystalize my thoughts and narrow my focus on what’s really happening in the markets and why it’s important. The questions I get through the chat boxes from you are invaluable in providing me market insight, as well as generating ideas on how to improve this service, which is
Global Market Comments November 12, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or IT’S FINALLY OVER), (SPY), (TLT), (AAPL), (ROKU), (USO)
Could it have been the election all along? Did the massive uncertainty created by the midterm elections hold back investors for all of ten months? That’s what it looks like now. In a mere three days, shares made back half of what they lost in October, one of the worst trading months in stock market
Global Market Comments November 9, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (PLAYING THE SHORT SIDE WITH VERTICAL BEAR PUT SPREADS), (TLT) (WHY TECHNICAL ANALYSIS DOESN’T WORK) (FB), (AAPL), (AMZN), (GOOG), (MSFT), (VIX)
Global Market Comments November 7, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (A NOTE ON OPTIONS CALLED AWAY), (SPY), (MSFT) (TESTIMONIAL)
Thank you so much for meeting with us in Portland! I hope I didn't monopolize your time at the expense of everyone else. But how often does one get a chance to pick the brain of the Mad Hedge Fund Trader? You have such an ability to see the big picture on so many
Global Market Comments November 7, 2018 Fiat Lux SPECIAL ELECTION ISSUE Featured Trade: (THROWING RED MEAT TO MY BASE) (RTN), (LMT), (NOC), (HON), (XOM), (CVX), (DVN)
It turned out to be a category two blue wave, not the Category four or five one Democrats had hoped for. The Democrats picked up 28 seats in the House of Representatives but lost two in the Senate. The one-liner here is that the most generous corporate tax cuts in US history are frozen in
Global Market Comments November 6, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (HOW TO EXECUTE A VERTICAL BULL CALL SPREAD), (AAPL) (THANK GOODNESS, I DON’T LIVE IN SWEDEN), (EWD), (PLEASE USE MY FREE DATA BASE SEARCH)
The original purpose of this letter was to build a database of ideas to draw on in the management of my hedge fund. When a certain trade comes into play, I merely type in the symbol, name, currency, or commodity into the search box, and the entire fundamental argument in favor of that position pops
Global Market Comments November 5, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or THE MAD HEDGE FUND TRADER HITS A NEW ALL TIME HIGH), (AAPL), (FB), (RHT), (GE), (VXX), (AMZN), (SPY), (IWM), (CRM)
I used to do a lot of skydiving from 20,000 feet. There’s nothing like a freefall, feeling the wind rip at your jumpsuit as you plunge towards the earth at terminal velocity of 125 miles per hour. In the beginning, the ground looks very far away. Then it suddenly gets very close, very fast. I
“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years, there would be a shortage of sand,” said Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman.
Global Market Comments November 2, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (OCTOBER 31 BIWEEKLY STRATEGY WEBINAR Q&A), (EDIT), (TMO), (OVAS), (GE), (GLD), (AMZN), (SQ), (VIX), (VXX), (GS), (MSFT), (PIN), (UUP), (XRT), (AMD), (TLT)