Global Market Comments April 2, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or GOODBYE THE QUARTER FROM HELL), (SPY), (INTC), (AMZN), (CSCO), (MONDAY, JUNE 11, FORT WORTH, TEXAS, GLOBAL STRATEGY LUNCHEON), (THE HARD/SOFT DATA CONUNDRUM)
Well, that was some quarter! Call it the quarter from hell. For as long as most traders and investors can remember, they are losing money so far this year. And they promised us such a rose garden! The S&P 500 made a valiant, and so far successful effort to hold at the 200-day moving average
It is the greatest conundrum facing traders, investors, and financial advisors today. The recent "soft" economic data says the economy is booming, animal spirits are roaring, and the Trump trade is alive and well. The "hard" data indicates that the economy is fading, fear and uncertainty are rampant, and you should sell everything immediately. It
Global Market Comments March 29, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (IS IT ALL OVER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?), (GOOGL), (TSLA), (NVDA), (LRCX), (AMD), (BOTZ), (CHINA'S COMING DEMOGRAPHIC NIGHTMARE)
Take a look at the worst performing stocks of the past two weeks and they all have one theme in common: artificial intelligence. You can trace the beginning of the move back to the Arizona crash by an Uber AI autonomous driven car that killed a pedestrian. As all those who have studied chaos theory
Thanks to China's "one child only" policy adopted 30 years ago, and a cultural preference for children who grow up to become family safety nets, there are now 32 million more boys under the age of 20 than there are girls. Large-scale interference with the natural male:female ratio has been tracked with some fascination by
Global Market Comments March 28, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (FRIDAY, APRIL 6, INCLINE VILLAGE, NEVADA, STRATEGY LUNCHEON) (FROM THE FRONT LINES OF THE TRADE WAR), (AAPL), (AVGO), (QCOM), (TLT), (HOW THE MAD HEDGE MARKET TIMING ALGORITHM TRIPLED MY PERFORMANCE)
Poke your hand into a hornet's nest and you can count on an extreme reaction, a quite painful one. As California is the growth engine for the entire US economy, accounting for 20% of US GDP, it is no surprise that it has become the primary target of Chinese retaliation in the new trade war.
I couldn't believe my eyes. Upon analyzing my performance data for the past year, it couldn't be clearer. After a year of battle testing, the algorithm has earned its stripes. I started posting it at the top of every newsletter and Trade Alert, and will continue to do so in the future. Once I implemented
Global Market Comments March 27, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (DON'T MISS THE MARCH 28 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR), (TEN MORE UGLY MESSAGES FROM THE BOND MARKET), (TLT), (TBT), (USO), (GLD), (GS), (SPY) (FRIENDS WHO WILL EXECUTE MY TRADE ALERTS FOR YOU)
My next global strategy webinar will be held live from Silicon Valley on Wednesday, March 28, at 12:00 PM EST. Co-hosting the show will be my friend Bill Davis of Mad Day Trader. I'll be giving you my updated outlook on stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, precious metal, and real estate. The goal is to find
Practically every day, I get emails from readers asking me to take over management of their retirement funds so I can execute my Trade Alerts for them. With an 80% success rate and average annualized return of 34%, why wouldn't they? Unfortunately, I have to turn these invitations down. Watching the market, doing the research
Global Market Comments March 26, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or THE WEEK THAT WASHINGTON FINALLY MATTERED), (THE IRS LETTER YOU SHOULD DREAD), (PANW), (CSCO), (FEYE), (CYBR), (CHKP), (HACK), (SNE) (TESTIMONIAL)
After ignoring the constant chaos in Washington for 17 months, it finally mattered to the stock market. Guess what was at the top of the list of retaliatory Chinese import duties announced last week? California wine! The great irony here is that half of the Napa Valley wineries are now owned by Chinese investors looking
Global Market Comments March 23, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (DON'T MISS THE MARCH 28 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR), (FRIDAY, APRIL 6, INCLINE VILLAGE, NEVADA, STRATEGY LUNCHEON) (WHY US BONDS LOVE CHINESE TARIFFS), (TLT), (TBT), (SOYB), (BA), (GM)
My next global strategy webinar will be held live from Silicon Valley on Wednesday, March 28, at 12:00 PM EST. Co-hosting the show will be my friend Jim Kenny from Option Professor. I'll be giving you my updated outlook on stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, precious metal, and real estate. The goal is to find the
Global Market Comments March 22, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE FED SIGNALS HALF SPEED AHEAD), (TLT), (UUP), (FXE), (FXY), (FB), (WHY YOU WILL LOSE YOUR JOB IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT)
OK, the number is out! The Fed just raised interest rates by 25 basis points, taking the cost of overnight money for the big banks to a 1.50%-1.75% range. The boiling frog analogy comes to mind. Keep raising the temperature so slowly you don't notice it until your portfolio eventually gets cooked. I believe we
Global Market Comments March 21, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE VALUE CASE FOR FACEBOOK), (FB), (AAPL), (WHAT ALMONDS SAY ABOUT THE GLOBAL ECONOMY)
When it rains, it pours. That is how Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg must feel after suffering two black swans in two days. First came the disclosures that a client, Cambridge Analytica, used the information from 50 million Facebook users to help the Russians influence the 2016 presidential election. Today, we learned that the company is
