Global Market CommentsFebruary 16, 2015Fiat Lux Featured Trade:(FEBRUARY 18 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR),(WHY ARE BOND YIELDS SO LOW?)(TLT), (TBT), (LQD), (MUB), (LINE), (ELD),(QQQ), (UUP), (EEM), (DBA)(BRING BACK THE UPTICK RULE!) iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (TLT)ProShares UltraShort 20+ Year Treasury (TBT)iShares iBoxx $ Invst Grade Crp Bond (LQD)iShares National AMT-Free Muni Bond (MUB)Linn Energy, LLC (LINE)WisdomTree
Investors around the world have been confused, befuddled and surprised by the persistent, ultra low level of long term interest rates in the United States. At today?s close, the 30 year Treasury bond yielded a parsimonious 2.01%, the ten year, 2.62%, and the five year only 1.51%. The ten-year was threatening its all time low
Global Market CommentsFebruary 13, 2015Fiat Lux Featured Trade:(FEBRUARY 18 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR),(THE CASE FOR EUROPE),(FXE), (HEDJ), (RSX), (GREK), (GLD), (TLT), (SPY)(OPTIONS FOR THE BEGINNER) CurrencyShares Euro ETF (FXE)WisdomTree Europe Hedged Equity ETF (HEDJ)Market Vectors Russia ETF (RSX)Global X FTSE Greece 20 ETF (GREK)SPDR Gold Shares (GLD)iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (TLT)SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY)
Global Market CommentsFebruary 12, 2015Fiat Lux Featured Trade:(HITTING TWO HOME RUNS IN ONE DAY),(FXY), (GILD),(THE NEW COLD WAR),(THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY) CurrencyShares Japanese Yen ETF (FXY)Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD)
Those of you who are paid subscribers have the good fortune of waking up to a bounty of riches this morning. Both Gilead Sciences (GILD) and the Japanese yen (FXY) have made gap moves in your favor overnight. Your long position in (GILD) saw a nice little $2 pop to the upside, and your short
Global Market Comments February 11, 2015 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (WHO THE GRAND NICARAGUA CANAL HAS WORRIED), (SCAM OF THE MONTH)
Global Market CommentsFebruary 10, 2015Fiat Lux Featured Trade:(WHY THE JANUARY NONFARM PAYROLL WAS A BIG DEAL),(IWM), (DXJ), (HEDJ), (FXE), (FXY),(THE BIPOLAR ECONOMY),(TESTIMONIAL) iShares Russell 2000 (IWM)WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity ETF (DXJ)WisdomTree Europe Hedged Equity ETF (HEDJ)CurrencyShares Euro ETF (FXE)CurrencyShares Japanese Yen ETF (FXY)
Economists were blown away by the January nonfarm payroll numbers, announced on Friday. Some 257,000 jobs were added the previous month, holding the headline unemployment figure at 5.7%. Far more important were the revisions for earlier months, which saw December increased to a robust 329,000 and November bumped up to a breathtaking 423,000. These numbers
Global Market CommentsFebruary 9, 2015Fiat Lux Featured Trade:(THE 12 NEW TRADING RULES FOR 2015),(AN ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS TAKE ON THE MARKETS),(DBA), (MOO), (PHO), (FIW)(FRIDAY, APRIL 3 HONOLULU, HAWAII STRATEGY LUNCHEON) PowerShares DB Agriculture ETF (DBA)Market Vectors Agribusiness ETF (MOO)PowerShares Water Resources ETF (PHO)First Trust ISE Water ETF (FIW)
1) Dump all hubris, pretentions and stubbornness. It will only cost you money. 2) The market is always right, even if all the prices appear wrong. 3) Only buy the puke outs and sell the euphoria. Do anything in the middle, and you will get whipsawed. 4) Outright calls and puts are offering a better
?Most inventions fail because the timing is wrong. Inventing is a lot like surfing. You have to anticipate and catch the wave just at the right moment,? said computer scientist and futurologist, Ray Kurzweil.
Global Market Comments February 6, 2015 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (SHOPPING FOR A NEW BROKER)
Global Market CommentsFebruary 5, 2015Fiat Lux Featured Trade:(TRADING DEVOID OF THE THOUGHT PROCESS),(SPY), (INDU), (TLT), (USO),(GOING BACK INTO GILEAD SCINECES), (GILD),(ON EXECUTING TRADE ALERTS) SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY)Dow Jones Industrial Average ($INDU)iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (TLT)United States Oil ETF (USO)Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD)
This is a stock that could double by the end of 2015. Buy a great performing stock in the top performing sector on a 10% dip. The stock has over reacted to an earnings report that was fantastic; but carried conservative forward guidance, based on expected future pricing pressure on its blockbuster Hepatitis C drugs,
Global Market CommentsFebruary 4, 2015Fiat Lux Featured Trade:(SOLAR STOCKS GET A JOLT),(SCTY), (SUNE), (SPWR), (TAN),(IS THE REAL ESTATE MARKET CATCHING COLD?),(ITB), (KBE) SolarCity Corporation (SCTY)SunEdison, Inc. (SUNE)SunPower Corporation (SPWR)Guggenheim Solar ETF (TAN)iShares US Home Construction (ITB)SPDR S&P Bank ETF (KBE)
The blockbuster for me in President Obama?s budget speech on Monday was his suggestion that the 30% alternative energy investment tax credit be made permanent. All solar stocks, including front-runners Solar City (SCTY), Sun Edison (SUNE), and SunPower (SPWR), rocketed on the news. Now slated to expire at the end of 2017, the tax break
I used to begin my pieces about residential real estate talking about the broker I found hanging from the showerhead at an open house. That didn?t really happen. But from 2008-2012 conditions were so dire that it could have. That is clearly not the case any more. The market has been on fire for the
Global Market CommentsFebruary 3, 2015Fiat Lux Featured Trade:(FEBRUARY 4 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR),(HOW TO LOSE MONEY),(LINE), (USO),(THE MARKET?S TECHNICAL OUTLOOK IS TERRIBLE),(SPY), (QQQ), (IWM), (T), (AA), (FXY),(TESTIMONIAL) Linn Energy, LLC (LINE)United States Oil ETF (USO)SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY)PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 (QQQ)iShares Russell 2000 (IWM)AT&T, Inc. (T)Alcoa Inc. (AA)CurrencyShares Japanese Yen ETF (FXY)
I?m really glad I watched the Super Bowl yesterday. Not only was it a great warm-up for next year?s championship game, which will be in my hometown of San Francisco. I also witnessed the worst coaching call in football history. The Seattle Seahawks had the game in the bag. All they had to do was
At yesterday morning?s opening bell, we were greeted with the unmistakable evidence the stock market is technically breaking down. The Dow Average has broken its three-year upward sloping trend line. Market leading sectors, like Consumer Discretionary and Financials have all put in eminently convincing ?Head and Shoulders? tops (click here). More distressingly, the head and