Global Market Comments November 30, 2015 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (DEFLATION IS ACCELERATING), (USO), (CORN), ($BDI), (THE WORST TRADE OF ALL TIME), (GLD), (GDX)United States Oil (USO) Teucrium Corn ETF (CORN) Baltic Dry Index ($BDI) SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX)
A number of friends have recently approached me asking the best way to refinance their home. Should they be ultra conservative and lock in a historically low 3.9% conventional fixed rate 30-year loan? Or should they throw caution to the wind and be seduced by a 5/1 ARM (adjustable rate mortgage) available for half the
Now that I see gold closing today at a new six year low today I am reminded of one of the worst calls I have seen in my 50 year trading career. Of course, readers of this letter have been avoiding the barbarous relic like the plague since I called the top 4 ? years
Global Market Comments November 27, 2015 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (DECEMBER 2 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR), (SURVIVING THANKSGIVING)
Investors have certainly been beating their brains out in 2015 trying to make money on stocks. You either owned Amazon, or you didn?t, which is up an eye popping 124% since January 1. And to participate, you had to initially pay a nosebleed 1,000 X price earnings multiple for the shares. It really was a
?Brains are the new tonsils. Thanks to the Internet, you don?t have to know anything anymore,? said comedian Paul Riser.
Global Market Comments November 24, 2015 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (BRING BACK QE!), (DXJ), (HEDJ), (UUP), (SPY), (TLT), (FXY), (FXE), (GLD), (USO), (CU), (UNG) (DECODING THE GREEBACK), (WHAT ABOUT ASSET ALLOCATION?) WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity ETF (DXJ) WisdomTree Europe Hedged Equity ETF (HEDJ) PowerShares DB US Dollar Bullish ETF (UUP) SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY)
You wanted clarity in understanding the current state of play in the global financial markets? Here?s your #$%&*#!! clarity. You should expect nothing less for this ridiculously expensive service of mine. But maybe that is the cabin fever talking, now that I have been cooped up in my Tahoe lakefront estate for a week, engaging
Asset allocation is the one question that I get every day, which I absolutely cannot answer.The reason is simple: no two investors are alike. The answer varies whether you are young or old, have $1,000 in the bank or $1 billion, are a sophisticated investor or an average Joe, in the top or the bottom
Global Market Comments November 23, 2015 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE ?INTRODUCTION TO RISK MANAGEMENT? TRAINING VIDEO IS POSTED), (THERE ARE NO GURUS), (THE FUSION IN YOUR FUTURE), (TESTIMONIAL)
Expect to hear a lot about ignition in the next year. No, I don?t mean the rebuilt ignition for the beat up ?68 Cadillac El Dorado up on blocks in your front yard. I?m referring to the inauguration of the National Ignition Facility next door to me at Lawrence Livermore National Labs in Livermore, California.
?We underestimated the negative impact of the slowdown in the housing market, and we may be underestimating the tail wind in its recovery,? said Uwe Mark Ruttke of Merrill Lynch, the top financial advisor in Colorado.
Global Market Comments November 20, 2015 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (TRADING THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION)
Global Market Comments November 19, 2015 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE BUY AND FORGET PORTFOLIO), (SPY), (IXUS), (EEM), (VNQ), (TLT), (TIP) (GRAPES OF WRATH REDUX), (TESTIMONIAL)SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) iShares Core MSCI Total Intl Stk (IXUS) iShares MSCI Emerging Markets (EEM) Vanguard REIT ETF (VNQ) iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (TLT) iShares TIPS Bond
It?s another sign of the times when the weekend fruit picker population has doubled by people hard hit by the economy,?looking to save money on food costs.After driving through miles of undulating brown hills studded with oak trees, passing mile upon mile of horse ranches, rusted out cars, and abandoned mobile homes, you come to
?The market always gets it right,? said Jim O?Neill, the chairman of Goldman Sachs International, who coined the term ?BRIC?.
Global Market Comments November 18, 2015 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (INTRODUCING THE MAD HEDGE FUND TRADER EXECUTIVE SERVICE), (WHY WARREN BUFFETT HATES GOLD), (GLD), (GDX), (ABX)SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) Market Vectors ETF Trust - Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX) Barrick Gold Corporation (ABX)
I am pleased to announce the launch of the Mad Hedge Fund Trader Executive Service, a program that is aimed at our most valuable clients. The goal is to provide high net worth individuals with the extra degree of assistance they may require in managing diversified portfolios. Tax, political, and economic issues will all be
Global Market CommentsNovember 17, 2015Fiat LuxFeatured Trade:(NOVEMBER 18 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR),(THE PARIS ATTACKS AND YOUR PORTFOLIO), (FXE) (EUO)CurrencyShares Euro ETF (FXE)ProShares UltraShort Euro (EUO)
I was on the phone to the Pentagon first thing this morning to get their take on the Friday Paris terrorist attacks. Here is what I learned. Are you wondering how French Mirages flying off an aircraft carrier in the eastern Mediterranean knew where to strike 24 hours after the attacks? The US simply handed
