Global Market Comments April 23, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or HERE COMES THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE), (SPY), (GOOGL), (TLT), (GLD), (AAPL), (VIX), (VXX), (C), (JPM), (HOW TO AVOID PONZI SCHEMES), (TESTIMONIAL)
Have you liked 2018 so far? Good. Because if you are an index player, you get to do it all over again. For the major stock indexes are now unchanged on the year. In effect, it is January 1 once more. Unless of course you are a follower of the Mad Hedge Fund Trader. In
My financial advisory clients, by and large, have expressed a desire to be kept in the loop once a quarter and when it matters in between, but don't want to hear from me on an ongoing constant basis. I know because I've asked. They are mostly retired, conservative by nature, and want to enjoy life
Global Market Comments April 20, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (DON'T MISS THE APRIL 25 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR), (AN EVENING WITH BILL GATES, SR.), (TESTIMONIAL)
My next global strategy webinar will be held live from Silicon Valley on Wednesday, April 25, at 12:00 PM EST. Co-hosting the show will my friend, options expert Mike Pisani. I'll be giving you my updated outlook on stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, precious metal, and real estate. The goal is to find the cheapest assets
I had a chat with Bill Gates, Sr. recently, co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest private philanthropic organization. There, a staff of 800 help him manage $36.8 billion. The foundation will give away $3.5 billion this year, a 10% increase over last year. Some $1.5 billion will go to emerging
Nice work! You do great analysis and execution. I got a 100% overnight profit on the (UVXY) calls! Zev Potomac, Maryland
Global Market Comments April 19, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (DIVING BACK INTO THE VIX), (VIX), (VXX), (SPX), (THE GREAT AMERICAN JOBS MISMATCH)
I think we are only days, at the most weeks, away from the next crisis coming out of Washington. It can come for any of a dozen different reasons. Wars with Syria, Iran or North Korea. The next escalation of the trade war with China. The failure of the NAFTA renegotiation. Another sex scandal. The
With the Weekly Jobless Claims bouncing around a new 43-year low at 220,000, it's time to review the state of the US labor market. Yes, I know this research piece isn't going to generate an instant Trade Alert for you. But it is essential in your understanding of the big picture. There are also thousands
Global Market Comments April 18, 2018 Fiat Lux Special Residential Real Estate Issue Featured Trade: (WHY THE HOMEBUILDERS ARE NOT DEAD YET), (DHI), (TOL), (LEN), (ITB), (KBH)
It was as if someone had turned out the lights. The homebuilders, after delivering one of the most prolific investment performance of any sector until the end of January, suddenly collapsed. Since then, they have been dead as a door knob, flat on their backs, barely exhibiting a breath of life. While most of the
Global Market Comments April 17, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (HAS THE RECESSION ALREADY STARTED?) (WHERE THE ECONOMIST "BIG MAC" INDEX FINDS CURRENCY VALUE), (FXF), (FXE), (CYB)
It started with a slow drip. Then it became a trickle. Now it is an undeniable torrent. Negative economic data reports, once as rare as hen's teeth, have suddenly become as common as NRA bumper stickers at a Trump rally. The economic data flow has definitely turned sour. Is this a growth scare? Or is
My former employer, The Economist, once the ever-tolerant editor of my flabby, disjointed, and juvenile prose (Thanks Peter and Marjorie), has released its "Big Mac" index of international currency valuations. Although initially launched as a joke three decades ago, I have followed it religiously and found it an amazingly accurate predictor of future economic success.
Global Market Comments April 16, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or THE WEEK THAT NOTHING HAPPENED), (TLT), (GLD), (SPY), (QQQ), (USO), (UUP), (VXX), (GOOGL), (JPM), (AAPL), (HOW TO HANDLE THE FRIDAY, APRIL 20 OPTIONS EXPIRATION), (TLT), (VXX), (GOOGL), (JPM)
This was the week that American missiles were supposed to rain down upon war-torn Syria, embroiling Russia in the process. It didn't happen. This was the week that the president was supposed to fire special prosecutor Robert Mueller, who with his personal lawyer is currently reading his private correspondence for the past decade with great
Global Market Comments April 13, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (ANNOUNCING THE MAD HEDGE LAKE TAHOE, NEVADA, CONFERENCE, OCTOBER 26-27, 2018), (APRIL 11 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR Q&A), (TLT), (TBT), (GOOGL), (MU), (LRCX), (NVDA) (IBM), (GLD), (AMZN), (MSFT), (XOM), (SPY), (QQQ)
We all had so much fun last year at the Mad Hedge Lake Tahoe Conference that we unanimously voted to meet a year later. That time is now approaching, and the dates have been set for Friday and Saturday, October 26-27. Come learn from the greatest trading minds in the markets for a day of
Below please find subscribers' Q&A for the Mad Hedge Fund Trader April Global Strategy Webinar with my guest co-host Bill Davis of the Mad Day Trader. As usual, every asset class long and short was covered. You are certainly an inquisitive lot, and keep those questions coming! Q: Many of your April positions are now