Global Market Comments February 9, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (FEBRUARY 14 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR), (SHORT SELLING SCHOOL 101), (SH), (SDS), (PSQ), (DOG), (RWM), (SPXU), (AAPL), (VIX), (VXX), (IPO), (MTUM), (SPHB), (HDGE)
With the stock market falling for the next few weeks, or even months, it's time to rehash how to profit from falling markets one more time. There is nothing worse than closing the barn door after the horses have bolted. No doubt, you will receive a wealth of short selling and hedging ideas from your
"Every recession sows the seeds for the next business recovery, and every recovery sows the seeds of the next recession." said hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman of Omega Advisors.
Global Market Comments February 8, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MAD HEDGE MARKET TIMING INDEX SHOWING "EXTREME BUY"), (SPY), (TLT), (VIX) (A NOTE ON OPTIONS CALLED AWAY), (AAPL), (TLT)
I found a new great way to predict the stock market. Launch a new technology research and trade mentoring newsletter and it will crash within days. It works 100% of the time. It is often said that that the stock market has discounted 11 out of the last five recessions. This is one of those
"The bubble is in the bond market, not the stock market" said Leon Cooperman, CEO of Omega Advisors, an original investor in my 1990's hedge fund.
Global Market Comments February 7, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (HOW CREDIT SUISSE BLEW UP THE (XIV) (VIX), (XIV), (ZIV), (SVXY) (MAD HEDGE FUND TRADER CELEBRATES ITS TEN-YEAR ANNIVERSARY)
I feel like I have been robbed, and then robbed again. I received notice today from Credit Suisse, the issuer of the Velocity Shares Daily Inverse VIX Short term ETN (XIV), that it is resorting to a forced liquidation of the fund (see note from the company below). All investors will receive cash value for
The Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader is now celebrating its tenth year of publication. During this time, I have religiously pumped out 1,500 words a day, or eight double spaced typed pages, of original, independent minded, hard hitting, and often wickedly funny research. I've been covering stocks, bonds, commodities, energy, precious metals, real
Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? I thought I'd never see a 1987 crash again. But my problem is that I lived too long. Welcome to the first flash crash of 2018, and probably not the last. And here's the really good news. It's not over! As I write this, the Volatility
Global Market Comments February 5, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (STOCK TRADERS DISCOVER INTEREST RATES), (SPY), (TLT), (GLD), (AMZN), (AAPL), (MSFT), (THE NASCENT BULL MARKET IN GOLD), (GLD), (GDX), (ABX)
Finally, finally, the stock market noticed that interest rates are rising, although they have been doing so unrelentingly since July. Call stock traders slow learners. All I can say is that no one here at the Mad Hedge Fund Trader is surprised, not even the furniture. At the peak today, the ten-year Treasury yield (TLT)
Long-term gold bugs have at last been handed a new reason to love their favorite metal. The recently passed tax cut bill. If the new President's tax cutting and deregulating policies become law, risk assets will take off like a scalded chimp. If he proves unable to navigate the tricky byways of the Washington swamp,
Global Market Comments February 2, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MORGAN STANLEY TAKES THE LEAD), (MS), (GS), (GLD), (FCX), (FXE), (FXY), (REVISITING THE FIRST SILVER BUBBLE), (SLV), (SLW)
It's a good thing that the #MeToo movement wasn't around 35 years ago. For if it was, Morgan Stanley would have been publicly humiliated in the press daily. The firm was an "old boy" network on steroids. Employees with skirts definitely worked overtime in those prehistoric days. However firms evolve over the vast expanse of
Global Market Comments February 1, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE DEATH OF THE HIGH YIELD INVESTMENT), (TIPS), (HYG), (JNK), (TLT), (AJX), (CIM), (BAB), (EPD), (MMP), (NS), (KMI), (OKE), (WHF), OKE), (TESTIMONIAL)
Interest rates have been going down for so long that you have to be as old as I am (66) to remember what interest rate??risk is. Despite more than $200 billion worth of inflows into bond funds in 2017, most delivered total returns of near zero. Now get ready for the shocker: 2018 will be
Global Market Comments January 31, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (WHO THE GRAND NICARAGUA CANAL HAS WORRIED), (SCAM OF THE MONTH)
Global Market Comments January 30, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (JOIN THE MAD HEDGE TECHNOLOGY LETTER PRODUCT LAUNCH) (THE I-WORD IS BACK WITH A VENGEANCE), ($TNX), (GS), (GLD), (USO), (XLU), (SPG), (TLT), (BETTER BATTERIES HAVE BECOME BIG DISRUPTERS)
Come join me for the launch of the Mad Hedge Technology Letter, which will take place on Wednesday, January 31 at 12:00 EST. I will be presenting a broad overview of the entire technology sector, from artificial intelligence to social media. Technology has become the seminal investment theme of our lifetimes. Since WWII, technology companies
