Global Market Comments December 13, 2016 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: ? (A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE MAD HEDGE FUND TRADER), (SPY), (TLT), (TBT), (FXE), ?(GLD), (GDX), (USO), (NVDA), (GM), (XOM) SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (TLT) ProShares UltraShort 20+ Year Treasury (TBT) CurrencyShares Euro ETF (FXE) SPDR Gold
Diary Entry for Monday, December 12, 2016 Dear Diary, 4:30 PM Sunday-the day before- Thought I?d check my Bloomberg to see how the Asian markets were opening. Yikes! Oil is up another 4%! Looks like it is going to be a ?RISK ON? day for the umpteenth day in a row. Better fasten my seat
?Over the long term, all of the fiat currencies of the world are involved in a competitive devaluation. The structural stresses in most of the western economies are such that centrals banks will attempt to continue to substitute liquidity for solvency.? said Rick Rule, chairman of Sprott US Holdings, a precious metals specialist.
Global Market Comments December 12, 2016 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 12TH AKA TRADE THE TWEET), (BA), (WYNN), (TLT), (TBT), (TESTIMONIAL),(SIGN UP NOW FOR TEXT MESSAGING OF TRADE ALERTS) The Boeing Company (BA) Wynn Resorts, Limited (WYNN) iShares Trust - iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) ProShares UltraShort
Trade the Tweet. That seems to be the new strategy adopted by traders who are still groping in the dark trying to figure out how to make money in the brave new world. So, when the President-elect says something idiotic and knocks a stock down 10% in seconds, you buy it. When sanity returns and
I am one of your MDT subscribers in Tasmania Australia (currently 16 hours ahead of NY). I have a regular day job, and am unable to day trade US markets and an unable to participate in the bi-weekly webinars. And although a MDT subscriber for nearly three years now it is only that last six
?Confidence is the cheapest form of stimulus.? said former Clinton Treasury Secretary, Larry Summers.
Global Market Comments December 9, 2016 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (TECHNOLOGY OR TOILET PAPER?), (KMB), (AAPL), (UTX), (TLT), (UUP), (WYNN), (THE 1% HIT IN THE BOND MARKET), (TLT), ($TYX), (LQD), (MUB), (ELD) Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KMB) Apple Inc. (AAPL) United Technologies Corporation (UTX) iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) Powershares DB US Dollar Index Bullish
The world?s largest maker of toilet paper, Kimberly-Clark (KMB) currently earns a net profit margin of 5.45% and trades at a price earnings multiple of 20.68X. Apple (AAPL), the world?s largest technology company, earns a net profit margin of 22.3% and trades at a price earnings multiple of 13.51X. These numbers suggest that making toilet
It has been a month now since the presidential election, and who has been hurt the most? No, it is not liberals, unions, Planned Parenthood, or environmentalists. It is the 1%. That is because the 1% have the overwhelming share of their wealth parked in the bond market, and it has been heading in a
Global Market Comments December 8, 2016 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (WHAT TO DO ABOUT MUNICIPAL BONDS), (MUB), (TBT), (THE MARKETS ARE NOT RIGGED) iShares National Muni Bond (MUB) ProShares UltraShort 20+ Year Treasury (TBT)
While the entire fixed income space is getting decimated by Trump?s plans to vastly expand government deficit spending, there is one particular sector that is coming in for extra abuse. That would be tax-free municipal bonds. This is a big deal, because about one third of the readers of the Diary of a Mad Hedge
I recently read? ?Flash Boys?, Michael Lewis?s bestseller about high frequency trading. In it, Lewis claims the markets are ?rigged? for the ordinary investor, and they are getting ripped off, in effect, paying a giant ?tax? to Wall Street to get their trades done. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have known Michael
?The best thing in life is to have a piece of work worth doing, and then to do it well.? said America?s 23rd president, Theodore Roosevelt.
Global Market Comments December 7, 2016 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE DECLINING AMERICA MYTH), (AAPL), (MSFT), (BA), (WMT), (MCD), (GM), (F) Apple Inc. (AAPL) Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) The Boeing Company (BA) Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (WMT) McDonald's Corporation (MCD) General Motors Company (GM) Ford Motor Company (F)
Seems it has become fashionable to bash America these days. As I travel around the country hosting my strategy luncheons, I hear a lament that has become all too familiar.America has peaked as a civilization, the story goes, and will follow the British, French, Roman, and even the Egyptian empires into the dustbin of history.?
?We?re all just one trade away from humility, Bud.? said a stockbroker in the classic film, Wall Street.
Global Market Comments December 6, 2016 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (DECEMBER 7TH LIVE GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR), (THE ONE STOCK YOU HAVE TO ABSOLUTELY BEG, BORROW, OR STEAL), (NVDA), (TESTIMONIAL) NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA)
Nvidia (NVDA) is a stock that you should beg, borrow, or steal your way into any way you can. Fortunately for you, the recent presidential election just gave you an opportunity to steal it. By making instant pariahs out of the technology sector, and their globalization-based models, the? President-Elect is forcing portfolio managers to throw
Thanks for your very informative daily updates and stories. I subscribe to four daily investment advisors and yours are the only one I always read and almost always follow.I followed your trades to the letter and most were successful. The problem was I was not trading live (always at least half a day late and
