Global Market Comments October 23, 2015 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE COAST IS CLEAR), (SPY), (XLI), (XLY), (HOW TO EXECUTE A VERTICAL BULL CALL SPREAD) (AAPL), (TESTIMONIAL) SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) Industrial Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLI) Consumer Discret Sel Sect SPDR ETF (XLY) Apple Inc. (AAPL)
Sometimes I hate being so right. I was almost alone in the desert last August, when I asserted that the dramatic sell off in share prices was nothing more than a stock market event (click here for ?The Volatility Peak is In?. The economy was fine, there were no geopolitical events of importance, and prices
Global Market Comments October 22, 2015 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30 SAN FRANCISCO STRATEGY LUNCHEON) (SWITCHING FROM GROWTH TO VALUE), (GE), (BAC), (C), (GS), (HD), (DIS), (AAPL), (MSFT), (UUP), (FXE), (FXY), (YCS), (CYB), (FXA), (FXC) General Electric Company (GE) Bank of America Corporation (BAC) Citigroup Inc. (C) The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (GS)
All good things must come to an end. For most of 2015, growth stocks far and away have been the outstanding performers in the US stock market. Almost daily, I delighted in sending you trade alerts to buy winners, like Palo Alto Networks (PANW), Tesla (TSLA), and the Russell 2000 (IWM). And so they delivered.
?They ring a bell at the bottom, and right now the bell is ringing,? said Robert Reynolds, a manager at Putnam Investment Fund.
Global Market Comments October 21, 2015 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (EL NINO IS CLOSING IN ON YOUR PORTFOLIO), (CORN), (SOYB), (DBA), (MOO), (TEN TIPS FOR SURVIVING A DAY OFF WITH ME) Teucrium Corn ETF (CORN) Teucrium Soybean ETF (SOYB) PowerShares DB Agriculture ETF (DBA) Market Vectors Agribusiness ETF (MOO)
I came up to my Tahoe lakefront mansion in Nevada this week so I could get in some serious mountain climbing after the markets closed every day. What did I get? Three days of torrential downpours. The rain was hitting the roof so hard last night that it kept me awake. Flash floods are wreaking
Global Market Comments October 20, 2015 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (LAST CHANCE TO ATTEND THE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23 INCLINE VILLAGE, NEVADA STRATEGY LUNCHEON), (OCTOBER 21 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR), (ARE YOU IN THE 1%?), (SNE), (HMC) Sony Corporation (SNE) Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (HMC)
Come join me for lunch at the Mad Hedge Fund Trader?s Global Strategy Update, which I will be conducting in Incline Village, Nevada on Friday, October 23, 2015. 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
Global Market Comments October 19, 2015 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (DINNER WITH BEN BERNANKE)
You would never guess Dr. Ben Bernanke was once one of the most powerful men in the world, indeed in all of human history. There he sat across the table from me in a popular San Francisco Italian restaurant wearing a poorly made grey suit and a cheap pair of shoes, with rubber soles. Only
Global Market Comments October 16, 2015 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (OCTOBER 21 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR), (FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23 INCLINE VILLAGE, NEVADA STRATEGY LUNCHEON), (THE FINAL WORD ON THE TAX ?WASH SALE RULE?), (TESTIMONIAL)
Global Market Comments October 15, 2015 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30 SAN FRANCISCO STRATEGY LUNCHEON) (MY STOCK MARKET CALL FOR THE REST OF 2015), (SPY), (VIX), (XIV), (TESTIMONIAL) SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) VOLATILITY S&P 500 (^VIX) VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX ST ETN (XIV)
Readers who attend my Global Strategy Luncheons always ask me to be careful when pursuing my many adventures around the world. After all, they would hate to lose their favorite source of trading and investment advice if I fell to my death in a mountain climbing tragedy, froze to death in an avalanche, or crashed
Global Market Comments October 14, 2015 Fiat Lux SPECIAL RAILROAD ISSUE Featured Trade: (THE ROALROADS ARE MAKING A COMEBACK), (UNP), (CSX), (NSC), (CP), (KSU), (FCX), (LINE) Union Pacific Corporation (UNP) CSX Corp. (CSX) Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC) Canadian Pacific Railway Limited (CP) Kansas City Southern (KSU) Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (FCX) Linn Energy, LLC (LINE)
Global Market Comments October 13, 2015 Fiat Lux SPECIAL OIL ISSUE Featured Trade: (IS THE BEAR MARKET IN OIL OVER), (USO), (XOM), (COP), OXY), (TESTIMONIAL)United States Oil (USO) Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM) ConocoPhillips (COP) Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY)
With the spectacular collapse in oil prices (USO), down a whopping 63% in just 18 months, I am starting to get a lot of emails from followers looking for Trade Alerts to buy the energy companies. After all, energy is one of my three core industries in which to invest over the next two decades.
?If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand,? said Nobel Prize winning economist, Milton Friedman
Global Market Comments October 12, 2015 Fiat Lux ANOTHER SPECIAL SOLAR ISSUE Featured Trade: (LET THE SUNSHINE IN!), (SCTY), (FSLR), (TAN), (SUNE), (SPWR)SolarCity Corporation (SCTY) First Solar, Inc. (FSLR) Guggenheim Solar ETF (TAN) SunEdison, Inc. (SUNE) SunPower Corporation (SPWR)
Let the Sunshine In! I?ll never forget those immortal words for the hit musical Hair, where I took my senior prom date in 1970. I had no idea that the entire cast would drop their clothes off at the end of the first act, standing there stark naked. I remember that they guy sitting in