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Global Market Comments February 12, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (THE ABC’s OF THE VIX), (VIX), (VXX), (SVXY)

“It’s easier to get out of Cuba than to get out of Facebook,” said a market analyst.  

Global Market Comments February 11, 2025 Fiat Lux SPECIAL VOLATILITY ISSUE   Featured Trade: (TESTIMONIAL) (MAKING VOLATILITY YOUR FRIEND), (VIX), (VXX), (XIV)

Global Market Comments February 10, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD or BACK TO BOOT CAMP) (SPY), (EWG), (EWU), (TSLA), (NVDA), (VST)

I have a new outlook for the US stock markets. The current government's economic policy reminds me a lot about the Marine Corps boot camp. Through harsh treatment and rigorous training, the Marines seek to destroy incoming recruits. They then spend 13 weeks rebuilding a new soldier from scratch who is obedient,  respectful, follows orders,

Global Market Comments February 7, 2025 Fiat Lux   (A NOTE ON ASSIGNED OPTIONS OR OPTIONS CALLED AWAY) (TLT), (TSLA)

I just received an excited text message from an excited Concierge client. His short position in the (TSLA) February 2025 $540-$550 vertical bear put debit spread had just been called away. That meant he would receive the maximum profit a full 11 trading days before the February 21 option expiration. With the heightened volatility this

Global Market Comments February 6, 2025 Fiat Lux   SPECIAL EARLY RETIREMENT ISSUE Featured Trade: (HOW TO JOIN THE EARLY RETIREMENT STAMPEDE)

Global Market Comments February 5, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (THEY’RE NOT MAKING AMERICANS ANYMORE)

You can count on a bear market hitting some time in 2038, one falling by at least 25%. Worse, there is almost a guarantee that a financial crisis, severe bear market, and possibly another Great Depression will take place no later than 2058 and would take the major indexes down by 50% or more. No,

Global Market Comments February 4, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (LEARNING THE ART OF RISK CONTROL)

Now that you know how to make money in the market, I’m going to teach you how to hang on to it. There is no point in booking winning trades only to lose money by making careless beginner’s mistakes. So today, I am going to talk about risk control. The first goal of risk control

Global Market Comments February 3, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD or THE TRADE WAR BEGINS) (SPY), ($COMPQ), (TSLA), (VST), (MSFT), (ADBE), (DELL), (NVDA)

As I write this, tariffs are coming into force and confusion reigns supreme at the borders. The worst-case scenario has arrived. In the Marine Corp., they say that a missing 50-cent part can ground a $50 million dollar airplane. It turns out that many of the 50-cent parts are made in Canada and Mexico, which

'There is one peculiarity about mass psychology in that when you are in a bubble, you can't see it. Bubbles are invisible when you are inside the bubble,' said the charming Jim Dines, of The Dines Letter.

Global Market Comments January 31, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (JANUARY 29 BIWEEKLY STRATEGY WEBINAR Q&A), (META), (AMZN), (NVDA), (AMD)  (GS), (SPY), (TSLA), (SBUX), (CCJ), (ADBE), (LMT), (GD), (RTX), (NVDA)

Below please find subscribers’ Q&A for the January 29 Mad Hedge Fund Trader Global Strategy Webinar, broadcast from Salt Lake City, UT. Q: Are AI stocks going to crash? A: Some already have, and others haven’t. It’s really about single-stock-picking the chip area and the pure AI plays, which have been enormously overextended. If you

Global Market Comments January 30, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (THE MAD HEDGE DICTIONARY OF TRADING SLANG)

Global Market Comments January 29, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (WHY GLOBALIZATION WORKS)

Having been a vociferous supporter of globalization since its dawn, first during a decade spent as a reporter for The Economist magazine, and then as an investor, I can explain how our international trading system works, and especially why it works for the US. While waiting for a flight at Miami Airport, there was a