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?If you are going to be bearish and against this market, you are betting against the three richest people on the earth, Yellen, Draghi, and Kuroda,? said market strategist, Ed Yardeni.

Global Market Comments October 13, 2016 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE DRUG BATTLE COMING TO A NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR YOU), (PFE), (LLY), (MRK), (CVS), (UNH), (ANTM), (WHY WARREN BUFFETT HATES GOLD), (GLD), (GDX), (ABX), (SIGN UP NOW FOR TEXT MESSAGING OF TRADE ALERTS) Pfizer Inc. (PFE) Eli Lilly and Company (LLY) Merck & Co., Inc. (MRK)

No, I?m not talking about warring Latin American drug gangs. I?m not even referring to the legalization of marijuana, which looks like a done deal in California?s November 8th election. No, I?m talking about the Golden State?s latest attempt to regulate drug prices. What?s at stake here is a bifurcation of the entire US health

The Armageddon crowd must be slitting their wrists today watching gold hit a new four month low in the wake of the global interest rate rally. No flight to safety here. The Armageddon crowd are the guys who are perennially predicting the collapse of the dollar, the default of the US government, hyperinflation, and the

Global Market Comments October 12, 2016 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (GOING BACK INTO THE GOLD TRADE), (GLD), (GDX), (ABX), (NEW), (CALLING THE TOP IN OIL), (USO), (XLE), (XOM), (TRADING FOR THE NON-TRADER), (ROM), (UXI), (UCC), (UYG) SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX) Barrick Gold Corporation (ABX) Newmont Mining Corporation (NEM) United

Let me tell you what is happening with the price of gold. The barbarous relic snapped out of a five-year bear market in January, delivering a very smart 31.68% rally during the first half of 2016. The big driver was the sudden collapse of European and Japanese interest rates to hugely negative levels, some to

I?m calling the top in oil right here, but only for this month. Longer term, we are headed upwards. But that is more of a 2017 story. If you can?t do options, buy the ProShares Ultra Short Bloomberg Crude Oil ETF (SCO) for a quick trade. The concept behind this trade is really very simple.

I like to start out my day by calling subscribers on the US east coast and Europe, asking how they like the service, are there any ways I can improve it, and what topics would they like me to write about. After all, at 5:00 AM Pacific time, they are the only ones awake. You?d

?It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.? said the Pulitzer Price winning author, Upton Sinclair.

Global Market Comments October 11, 2016 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (DON'T MISS THE OCTOBER 12th LIVE GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR), (UPGRADE TO MAD OPTIONS TRADER NOW TO BEAT THE PRICE INCREASE), (WELCOME TO THE EIGHT-WEEK YEAR), (SPY), (QQQ), (IWM), (TLT), (BAC), (GS) SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) PowerShares QQQ ETF (QQQ) iShares Russell 2000 (IWM) iShares

The $64,000 answer. That was the reply I received from Mad Options Trader, Matt Buckley, known to his fellow traders as ?Whiz,? regarding my question about his two-month performance. That is how much traders have made since the August 1 free trial started for our new Mad Options Trader service for each $100,000 of invested

Both the major stock and bond indexes are up about 6% on the year. Those who left on January 1st to sail a yacht around the world, engage in a research project in Antarctica, or meditate at an Ashram in India, will return today and discovery that 2016 effectively didn?t happen, at least as far

Global Market Comments October 10, 2016 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE COMING WEEK), (SPY), (TLT), (TNX), (FXB), (WHY DOCTORS MAKE TERRIBLE TRADERS) SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (TLT) CBOE Interest Rate 10 Year T No (^TNX) CurrencyShares British Pound Ster ETF (FXB)

On Friday, another nail was driven into the coffin for the December Fed rate rise. That is the undeniable conclusion derived from the tepid September Non Farm Payroll Report at 156,000. The headline unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 5.0%. The Fed tells us every day that it is data driven, and this number certainly

At my Global Strategy Luncheon in Incline Village, Nevada last week, I had the pleasure of sitting next to an anesthesiologist who was a long time reader of my research.As much as he loved my service, he confided in me that his trading results were awful.I told him I knew why.Doctors, scientists, aircraft pilots, and

Global Market Comments October 7, 2016 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (OCTOBER 12th LIVE GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR), (THE INCREDIBLE FUTURE OF THE AUTOMOBILE), (TSLA), (GM), (F), (TM), (TESTIMONIAL) Tesla Motors, Inc. (TSLA) General Motors Company (GM) Ford Motor Co. (F) Toyota Motor Corporation (TM)

It was the kind of dinner invitation I couldn?t turn down. What I learned was amazing. I usually prefer to spend my evenings at home catching up on my research, calling subscribers, and plotting my next Trade Alert. So it takes a lot to get me out of my cozy digs, especially during an evening

Global Market Comments October 6, 2016 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (OCTOBER 21ST SAN FRANCISCO, CA GLOBAL STRATEGY LUNCHEON), (THE TRUMP INSURANCE TRADE), (SPY), ($INDU), (VIX), (INTRODUCING THE MAD HEDGE FUND TRADER EXECUTIVE CONCIERGE SERVICE) SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDU) VOLATILITY S&P 500 (^VIX)

Come join me for lunch at the Mad Hedge Fund Trader?s Global Strategy Update, which I will be conducting in San Francisco, CA on Friday, October 21, 2016. An excellent meal will be followed by a wide ranging discussion and an extended question and answer period.I?ll be giving you my up to date view on

I have spent a lifetime analyzing risk for major hedge funds, and what I can always rely on is that firms staffed by the smartest people in the industry never fail to underestimate the threats to their business. Often, they are totally ignorant of the biggest risks of all. My friend, mathematician Nassim Taleb, explained