Below please find subscribers Q&A for the Mad Hedge Fund Trader February 28 Global Strategy Webinar. As usual, every asset class long and short was covered. You are certainly an inquisitive lot! Q: Will we retest the 200-day moving average? A: No, we won't. With the last test of the 200-day, we didn't even get
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Global Market Comments February 28, 2018 Fiat Lux SPECIAL BERKSHIRE HATHWAY ISSUE Featured Trade: (ON WARREN BUFFET'S 2017 LETTER TO SHAREHOLDERS), (BRK/A), (AAPL), (IBM), (AXP), (KO), (WFC), (BAC), (BNSF), (BHE), (WMT) ??
I have been reading Warren Buffet's annual letter to his Berkshire Hathaway (BRK/B) shareholders for 41 years. During this time, I can't recall reading a single page that did not improve my own trading and investment skills. This years was no different. Of course, it helps that Warren was a founding subscriber to my own
Global Market Comments February 27, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (FEBRUARY 28 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR), (THE UNITED STATES OF DEBT), (TESTIMONIAL) ??
"You make the most money when things go from terrible to only bad." said Tim Seymour of emerging market hedge fund, Triogem Asset Management.
Global Market Comments February 26, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or THE PHONY WAR (SPY), (AMZN), (MSFT), (NFLX), (VIX), (TLT), (USING MOMENTUM STOCKS TO CALL THE MARKET), (MTUM)
Armchair historians will recall the beginning of WWII in 1939, where Germany, Britain, and France had declared war against each other, but no shots were fired for eight months. It was called the Phony War. It ended when Germany invaded Belgium, and then France. We have a Phony War of our own in the markets
Global Market Comments February 23, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (FEBRUARY 28 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR), (AMERICA'S DEMOGRAPHIC TIME BOMB), (EEM), (CYB), (ON EXECUTING TRADE ALERTS), (SCAM OF THE MONTH CLUB) ??
Global Market Comments February 22, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (WHO WILL BE THE NEXT FANG?) (FB), (AMZN), (NFLX), (GOOGL), (AAPL), (BABA), (TSLA), (WMT), (MSFT), (IBM), (VZ), (T), (CMCSA), (TWX) ??
Global Market Comments February 21, 2018 Fiat Lux SPECIAL FANG ISSUE Featured Trade: (FINDING A NEW FANG), (FB), (AAPL), (NFLX), (GOOGL), (TSLA), (BABA)
Global Market Comments February 20, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or GOING WHERE THE MONEY IS), (SPY), (AAPL), (MU), (FB), (CRM), (AMZN), (T), (THE REBIRTH OF THE MASTER LIMITED PARTNERSHIP), (USO), (AMLP), (FPL), (MLPS), (MLPX)
Things have changed. That is about the only conclusion one can reach after the three most violent weeks in stock market history. The historic average length of time for a 10% correction is 64 days, or more than two months. This time we did it in nine. However, we all learned important things from the
Global Market Comments February 16, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (FEBRUARY 14 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR Q&A), (VIX), (VXX), (FCX), (BAC), (GS), (JPM), (HEDJ), (SPG), (HEDJ), (IT???S TIME TO PULL THOSE OLD INFLATION PLAYS OUT OF THE DRAWER), (TIP), (TIPZ), (TIPX), (GLD), (SLV)
Q: How much more will interest rates rise and how will that affect equities? A: We've essentially discounted all the negative effects of rising interest rates for the rest of the year with this correction, so I don't believe we'll have much interest rate impact from here. I'm looking for 3.25% on the 10 year
Global Market Comments February 15, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE NEW CASE FOR EUROPE), (FXE), (DXJ), (RSX), (FXE), (EUO), (WHY ARE BOND YIELDS STILL SO LOW?), (TLT), (TBT), (JNK), (LQD), (MUB)
It is time to revisit this once troubled continent. The reality is that the European economy is now growing substantially faster than the US, with a better stock market performance to match. Not only that, the Euro has been rising, thanks to America’s exploding budget deficits. Rising markets and rising currencies create an upward hockey
"It is impossible to compete with a big company that doesn't want to make money," said J. Crew founder Mickey Drexler about Amazon.
Global Market Comments February 14, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (AUTONOMOUS SELF-DRIVING CARS ARE COMING SOONER THAN YOU THINK), (TSLA), (GM), (F), (GOOG), (INDIA IS CATCHING UP WITH CHINA), (PIN), (TTM), (EPI), (INP)