Global Market Comments October 31, 2024 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (ORDER EXECUTION 101)
Given the recent difficulty in placing orders in this violent, illiquid market, I have been inundated with requests for how to execute orders. So, I thought I’d take some time today to expound on the basics of order execution 101. There are three basic ways to intelligently get an order into the market: 1) The
“All we need to know about crude right now is that we have it coming out of our ears, both here and in the Middle East, and that’s why it’s headed to $60,” said Scott Nations, president of the options trading firm, NationsShares.
Global Market Comments October 30, 2024 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (TAKE A LEAP INTO LEAPS)
How would you like to make 15 or 20 cents on every dollar invested? That is what we have been doing many times a month all year, and in fact, since Mad Hedge started 16 years ago. Would you like to make better than that, say 100% a year? How about 1,000% a year? Such
“You can reduce discretionary spending down to zero and it won’t have much impact on our fiscal problems because it’s such a small proportion of the total,” said Ben Bernanke, former chairman of the Federal Reserve.
Global Market Comments October 29, 2024 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (RIGHT SIZING YOUR TRADING)
Global Market Comments October 28, 2024 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or HERE IS YOUR POST-ELECTION PORTFOLIO plus THE LAST SILVER BUBBLE) (NVDA), (META), (CRM), (TLT), (JNK), (CCI), (DHI), (LEN), (PHM), (GLD), (SLV), (NEM), (FXE), (FXB), (FXA), (TSLA), (JPM), (BAC), (GS)
Remember Y2K? The world was supposed to end at midnight on December 31, 1999 because computers would be unable to cope with the turnover of the new millennium. I remember making presentations to big hedge funds, predicting that Y2K was a big nothing burger and, worst case, somebody’s toaster wouldn’t work. I spent that New
Global Market Comments October 25, 2024 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (OCTOBER 23 BIWEEKLY STRATEGY WEBINAR Q&A), (TLT), (JNK), (CCJ), (VST), (BRK/B), (AGQ), (FCX), (TM), (BLK), (NVDA), (TSLA), (T), (SLV), (GLD), (MO), (PM)
Below, please find subscribers’ Q&A for the October 23 Mad Hedge Fund Trader Global Strategy Webinar, broadcast from Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Q: What the heck is happening with the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT)? It keeps dropping even though interest rates are dropping. It seems to be an anomaly. A: It is. What’s
Global Market Comments October 24, 2024 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (I HAVE A NEW OPENING FOR THE MAD HEDGE FUND TRADER CONCIERGE SERVICE), (TESTIMONIAL)
Global Market Comments October 23, 2024 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE CODER BOOM), (THERE ARE NO GURUS)
There is a new boom going on in Northern California. It is not another gold rush, even though this winter’s heavy rains have flushed out a new supply of the yellow metal in High Sierra rivers and streams. And I am not referring to the marijuana boom triggered by growing anticipation of the legalization of
If there was ever an argument that you should rely on independent newsletters for guidance about financial markets, such as The Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader, and not traditional brokerage houses, take a look at the chart below from JP Morgan. It shows that despite all of the reforms passed after the dotcom
Global Market Comments October 21, 2024 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD or COMPLACENSE IS RUNNING RAMPANT) (JPM), (TSLA), (AMZN), (FXA), (FXE), (FXB), (FXY), (NEM), (DHI), (NFLX), (AAPL), (GLD), (AGQ), (SLV), (AAPL), (NVDA), (MS), (CCJ). (VST), (AVGO), (ASML), (MU), (LRCX), (DHI), (PHM), (LEN), (CCJ), (VST), (CEG), (BWXT), (OKLO)
We are now nearly three months into an almost straight-up move in the stock market, and money managers everywhere are scratching their heads. We are now only 136 points or 2.32% from my yearend (SPX) target of 6,000, which is starting to look pretty conservative. The price-earnings multiple for the S&P 500 is now 21X,
“Market players are starting to become desensitized to the Armageddon, end-of-the-world stories,” said Jim Paulsen, chief investment strategist at Wells Capital Management.
Global Market Comments October 18, 2024 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (HOW TO FIND A GREAT OPTIONS TRADE)
You’ve spent vast amounts of time, money, and effort to become an options trading expert. You know the difference between bids and offers, puts and calls, exercise prices, and expiration days. And you still can’t make any money. Now What? Where do you apply your newfound expertise? How do you maximize your reward while minimizing