Global Market Comments September 2, 2014 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (TACKLING THE INFLATION MYTH), (AAPL), (GOOG), (TWTR), (FB), (THE BULL MARKET IN AMERICAN COLLEGE DEGREES) Apple Inc. (AAPL) Google Inc. (GOOG) Twitter, Inc. (TWTR) Facebook, Inc. (FB)
Global Market Comments September 1, 2014 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (SALUTING THE ?OLD BREED?) (WHERE THE ECONOMIST ?BIG MAC? INDEX FINDS CURRENCY VALUE), (MCD), (FXE), (YCS), (FXF), (CYB) (TESTIMONIAL) McDonald's Corp. (MCD) CurrencyShares Euro ETF (FXE)
It was with a mixture of nostalgia and awe that I attended the reunion luncheon celebrating the 72nd anniversary of America?s invasion of Guadalcanal. The event was hosted by my former division commander in Desert Storm, Major General Mike Myatt, at the Marines Memorial Association in San Francisco. I was there to represent the family.
Global Market Comments August 29, 2014 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MAKING HAY WITH THE EAGLE FORD SHALE), (USO), (UNG), (XOM), (CVX), (LNG), (CHK), (HAL) (THE PASSING OF A GREAT MAN) United States Oil (USO) United States Natural Gas (UNG) Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM) Chevron Corporation (CVX) Cheniere Energy, Inc. (LNG) Chesapeake Energy Corporation (CHK) Halliburton
Sell the shovels to the gold miners. That was the lesson of the 1849 California gold rush. How many individual gold miners can you name today? How about none, unless you are an expert on the obscure street names of San Francisco. And the companies that sold supplies and services to them? Try Wells Fargo
Global Market Comments August 28, 2014 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (TAKING A LOOK AT SOLAR CITY), (SCTY), (TSLA), (PCG) (SAN FRANCISCO?S SUFFERING RENTERS TAKE ANOTHER HIT) SolarCity Corporation (SCTY) Tesla Motors, Inc. (TSLA) PG&E Corporation (PCG)
In recent weeks, I couldn?t help but notice the green and white vans of Solar City (SCTY) visiting my neighbors. My trader?s radar went up, so I thought there might be an opportunity here. With my second Tesla (TSLA) about to be delivered, the Model X SUV, it was time for me to review my
Global Market Comments August 27, 2014 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (WHAT TO DO ABOUT APPLE?), (AAPL), (THE PARTY IS JUST GETTING STARTED WITH THE JAPANESE YEN), (FXY), (YCS), (DXJ) Apple Inc. (AAPL) CurrencyShares Japanese Yen ETF (FXY) ProShares UltraShort Yen (YCS) WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity ETF (DXJ)
Those who followed my advice to buy Apple a year ago are now drowning in riches (click here for ?Buy Apple on the Dip?). Since the July, 2013 bottom, the shares have risen by a meteoric 92%. It is the largest company in the world once again. As a result, I have heard of my
?Oh, how I despise the yen, let me count the ways.? I?m sure Shakespeare would have come up with a line of iambic pentameter similar to this if he were a foreign exchange trader. I firmly believe that a short position in the yen should be at the core of any hedged portfolio for the
Global Market Comments August 26, 2014 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (AUGUST 27 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR), (WHY I?M COVERING SOME EURO SHORTS), (FXE), (EUO), (THAT WAS SOME SHAKER!) CurrencyShares Euro ETF (FXE) ProShares UltraShort Euro (EUO)
We have snatched 92% of the potential profit in the Currency Shares Euro Trust (FXE) September, 2014 $133-$135 in-the-money bear put spread, riding the Euro (FXE) down on the short side, from $1.33 down to $1.30. The risk/reward of continuing with such a large position is no longer justified. So I am going to reduce
Wow! There is nothing like being tossed out of bed at 3:20 AM by a massive earthquake! It really gets the juices flowing. I was really praying that the wooden roof creaking and groaning above was not about to land on my head. After hurriedly getting dressed, I grabbed a flashlight and ran downstairs to
Global Market Comments August 25, 2014 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MY END 2014 STOCK MARKET FORECAST), (SPY), (ALL I WANT TO DO IS RETIRE), (TAKE A LOOK AT OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM), (OXY), (BP), (OIL), (UNG),? (NSANY), (XOM) SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY) BP plc (BP) iPath S&P GSCI Crude Oil TR ETN (OIL)
If anyone had any doubts about the future direction of stocks this year, you better take a look at the chart below for the S&P 500. It shows a very convincing trend upward at almost a perfect 45-degree angle going back for the past year. The range is 100 points wide. It?s almost as if
There are a lot of belles at the ball, but you can?t dance with all of them. While a student at UCLA in the early seventies, I took a World Politics course, which required me to pick a country, analyze its economy, and make recommendations for its economic development. I chose Algeria, a country where
Global Market Comments August 22, 2014 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (AUGUST 27 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR), (MIXING WITH THE 1% AT THE PEBBLE BEACH CONCOURSE D? ELEGANCE)
Global Market Comments August 21, 2014 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (WHY US STOCKS ARE DIRT CHEAP), (SPY), (IWM), (QQQ), (TSLA) SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) iShares Russell 2000 (IWM) PowerShares QQQ (QQQ) Tesla Motors, Inc. (TSLA)
Many commentators are warning of a top, a bubble and Armageddon to come in the stock market. There has not been a 10% correction in the indexes since the debt ceiling crisis three years ago. But I think that we are just getting started. Share prices have the rocket fuel for the Dow average to
Global Market Comments August 20, 2014 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE EURO BREAKS DOWN), (FXE), (EUO), (TLT), (APPLE BREAKS $100), (AAPL) CurrencyShares Euro ETF (FXE) ProShares UltraShort Euro (EUO) iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (TLT) Apple Inc. (AAPL)