Come join me for lunch at the Mad Hedge Fund Trader?s Global Strategy Update, which I will be conducting in San Francisco on Friday, October 24, 2014. 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 stocks,
Global Market CommentsOctober 16, 2014Fiat Lux SPECIAL AIRLINE ISSUE Featured Trade:(DELTA AIRLINES IS CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF),(DAL), (UAL), (AAL), LUV), (USO), (TLT) Delta Air Lines, Inc. (DAL)United Continental Holdings, Inc. (UAL)American Airlines Group Inc. (AAL)Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV)United States Oil ETF (USO)iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (TLT)
When I was a young, clueless investment banker at Morgan Stanley 30 years ago, the head of equity sales took me aside to give me some fatherly advice. Never touch the airlines. The profitability of this industry was totally dependent on fuel costs, interest rates and the state of the economy, and management hadn't the
Global Market CommentsOctober 15, 2014Fiat Lux Featured Trade:(KEEP AMERICAN EXPRESS ON YOUR SHORT LIST),(AXP), (V),(BECOME MY FACEBOOK FRIEND),(OIL ISN?T WHAT IT USED TO BE),(USO), (DIG), (DUG) American Express Company (AXP)Visa Inc. (V)United States Oil ETF (USO)ProShares Ultra Oil & Gas (DIG)ProShares UltraShort Oil & Gas (DUG)
With the International Energy Agency cutting global consumption by 200,000 barrels a day in 2014 and 300,000 barrels a day in 2015, all eyes were on the oil market today. I had to slap myself when I saw the $81 handle for West Texas intermediate, it had gotten so cheap so fast. Virtually every stock
Global Market CommentsOctober 14, 2014Fiat Lux Featured Trade:(10 REASONS WHY THE BULL MARKET IS STILL ALIVE),(SPY), (TLT), (TSLA), (IWM),(BIDDING FOR THE STARS), (SPX), (INDU),(TESTIMONIAL) SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY)iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (TLT)Tesla Motors, Inc. (TSLA)iShares Russell 2000 (IWM)S&P 500 Large Cap Index (SPX)Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI)
Well, so much for the 200 day moving average! It?s like that girlfriend who has been ferociously loyal for the last year, and suddenly she is busy every weekend and never returns phone calls. Not that this ever happens to me. Ahem. I knew there would be trouble when the perma bulls on TV told
Global Market Comments October 13, 2014 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (FRIDAY OCTOBER 24 SAN FRANCISCO STRATEGY LUNCHEON) (AMERCIA?S DEMOGRAPHIC COLLAPSE AND YOUR STOCK PORTFOLIO)
Global Market CommentsOctober 10, 2014Fiat Lux Featured Trade:(10 REASONS WHY I?M WRONG ON BOND),(TLT), (TBT), (LQD), (MUB), (ELD), (LINE),(A SPECIAL NOTE ON EXERCISED OCTOBER OPTIONS) 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)WisdomTree Emerging Markets Lcl Dbt ETF (ELD)Linn Energy,
Global Market Comments October 9, 2014 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (HOW TO EXECUTE A VERTICAL BULL CALL SPREAD) (AAPL) (TEN TIPS FOR SURVIVING A DAY OFF WITH ME) Apple Inc. (AAPL)
For those readers looking to improve their trading results and create the unfair advantage they deserve, I have just posted a new training video on How to Execute a Vertical Bull Call Spread. This is a pair of positions in the options market that will be profitable when the underlying security goes up, sideways, or
Global Market CommentsOctober 8, 2014Fiat Lux SPECIAL ENERGY ISSUE Featured Trade:(HOW LOW IS LOW FOR OIL?),(USO), (XOM), (COP), (OXY) United States Oil ETF (USO)Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM)ConocoPhillips (COP)Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY)
With the recent collapse in oil prices, down a whopping $20 in just four 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. Why
Global Market Comments October 7, 2014 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (LAST CHANCE TO ATTEND THE THURSDAY OCTOBER 9 INCLINE VILLAGE, NEVADA STRATEGY LUNCHEON) (SEPTEMBER 10 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR), (AN UPDATE ON GILEAD SCIENCES), (GILD) ? Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD)
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 Thursday, October, 2014. 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 stocks,
I spoke to a friend of mine the other day who works for a health care venture capital firm, and I thought I?d pass through a few tidbits. Gilead Sciences (GILD) is basking in the glow of the most profitable drug launch in history. Its blockbuster Sofobuvir treatment for hepatitis C, launched in 2013, inhibits
Global Market CommentsOctober 6, 2014Fiat Lux Featured Trade:(THE CORRECTION IS OVER),(SPY), (TSLA), (BAC),(TESTIMONIAL) SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY)Tesla Motors, Inc. (TSLA)Bank of America Corporation (BAC)
5%. A lousy 5%. That?s all we managed to clock in the latest correction in the greatest bull market of all time. It?s not the 6% hickey we had to endure in February, nor as modest as the 4% setback in August. Call it a middling type correction, a kind of correction light. The buyers
Global Market CommentsOctober 3, 2014Fiat Lux Featured Trade:(MAD HEDGE FUND TRADER TOPS 35% GAIN IN 2014),(SPY), (IWM), (TLT), (TBT), (TSLA), (BAC), (FXE),(OCTOBER 8 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR),(A COW BASED ECONOMICS LESSON) SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY)iShares Russell 2000 (IWM)iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (TLT)ProShares UltraShort 20+ Year Treasury (TBT)Tesla Motors, Inc. (TSLA)Bank of America Corporation (BAC)CurrencyShares
It looks we are going to have to start watching the appalling Zombie shows on TV and in the movies. That is so we can gain tips on how to survive the coming Apocalypse that will unfold when the Ebola virus escapes Texas and spreads nationally. I?m not worried. I?m actually pretty good with a