?WE are in the seventh year of an expansion and the seventh year of a bull market. Investors are at a crossroads now, whether to hold cash or stocks,? said Tom Lee, founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors.
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Come join me for the Mad Hedge Fund Trader?s Global Strategy Luncheon, which I will be conducting in Chicago on Monday, April 25th.A three course lunch will be followed by an extended question and answer period.I?ll be giving you my up to date view on stocks, bonds, foreign currencies, commodities, precious metals, and real estate.
We have a couple of options positions that expire on Friday, April 15 and I just want to explain to the newbies how to best maximize their profits. These include: The S&P 500 SPDRs ETF (SPY) April 15, 2016 $182 puts The? SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) April 15, 2016 $109-$112 vertical bull call spread My
?Forget what you know about buying fair businesses at wonderful prices. Instead, buy wonderful business at fair prices,? said Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett.
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Come join me for the Mad Hedge Fund Trader?s Global Strategy Luncheon, which we will be conducting in New York, NY on Friday, April 22, 2016. An excellent three course lunch will be provided. A wide ranging discussion will be followed by an extended question and answer period. I?ll be giving you my up to
If I get one question more than any other, it is what factors I take into consideration when making a market call. It's a tough call because I keep track of hundreds of financial markets and data releases, from The Baltic Dry Index to the Japanese quarterly tankan. Long-term followers have already subscribed to my
It is the world?s largest company.It is the planet?s most widely owned stock.Of the 200 million Americans who possess financial assets, probably all of them own Apple (AAPL), either directly through a trading account, or indirectly though an ETF (it is a massive 11.67% of the PowerShares QQQ), public or private pension fund.So to say
?If you?re early on in your career, and they give you a choice between a great mentor or higher pay, take the mentor every time. It?s not even close. And don?t even think about leaving that mentor until your learning curve peaks,? said legendary hedge fund trader Paul Tudor Jones.
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Come join me for the Mad Hedge Fund Trader?s Global Strategy Luncheon, which I will be conducting in Boston, Massachusetts on Thursday, April 21, 2016. A three-course lunch will be followed by an extended question and answer period. I?ll be giving you my up to date view on stocks, bonds, foreign currencies, commodities, precious metals,
Everyone who has been reading this letter for the past eight years (yes, there are quite a few of you), know that I am a fundamentalist first and a technician second.Of course you need to use both, as those who mistakenly leave one tool in the bag reliably underperform indexes.The one liner here is that
?There is one thing that doesn?t diminish, and that is unintended consequences,? said legendary hedge fund trader Paul Tudor Jones.
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Come join me for the Mad Hedge Fund Trader?s Global Strategy Luncheon which I will be conducting in Washington DC on Wednesday, April 20, 2016. A three-course lunch will be followed by an extended question and answer period. I?ll be giving you my up to date view on stocks, bonds, foreign currencies, commodities, precious metals,
My former employer, The Economist, once the ever tolerant editor of my flabby, disjointed, and juvenile prose (Thanks Peter and Marjorie), has released its ?Big Mac? index of international currency valuations.Although initially launched by an imaginative journalist as a joke three decades ago, I have followed it religiously and found it an amazingly accurate predictor
Until the 19th century, children used to provide income and security for their parents as they worked on the family farm. That dynamic continued when industrialization brought families into the cities and kids into the factories.Since then, children have been a great short.A hundred years of state mandated education and child labor laws increased the
I have done many things in my life: hedge fund manager, pilot, cowboy, journalist, stockbroker, mountain climber, translator, guide, etc, etc. etc.Now add technical consultant to Hollywood to the list.According to the New York Times, Simon Baker, star of the TV show ?The Mentalist?, is using the Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader as
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