Watching the market melt down today, I have been hurriedly compiling a shopping list of stocks to buy, and writing the Trade Alerts in advance for readers to execute. If I am right about interest rates remaining flat or rising for the rest of the year, then financials have to be at the absolute top
Global Market Comments September 25, 2014 Fiat Lux SPECIAL TESLA ISSUE Featured Trade: (PLUNGING BACK INTO TESLA), (TSLA) Tesla Motors, Inc. (TSLA)
During last month?s Concourse d? Elegance vintage car show at Pebble Beach, California, I managed to catch up with Tesla?s senior management. All lights were flashing green, and it was full speed ahead. The new Gigafactory being built outside Reno, Nevada will pave the way for the firm?s entry into the mass market. The big
Global Market CommentsSeptember 24, 2014Fiat Lux Featured Trade:(TIME TO BAIL ON THE SMALL CAPS),(IWM), (RWM), (TZA), (TSLA), (SPY),(A VERY BRIGHT SPOT IN REAL ESTATE),(THE POPULATION BOMB ECHOES),?(POT), (MOS), (AGU), (WEAT), (CORN), (SOYB), (DE) iShares Russell 2000 (IWM)ProShares Short Russell2000 (RWM)Direxion Daily Small Cap Bear 3X ETF (TZA)Tesla Motors, Inc. (TSLA)SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY)Potash Corp.
It now appears that the ?Alibaba? correction (BABA) is at hand. I warned you, pleaded with you, and begged you about this yesterday, and on May 8 (click here for ?Will Alibaba Blow Up the Market?). The longer the company postponed the mother of all IPO?s, the higher the prices flew, until we finally got
Global Market CommentsSeptember 23, 2014Fiat Lux Featured Trade:(DON?T BUY ALIBABA),(BABA), (YHOO), (SFTBY), (AMZN), (EBAY)(A SHORT HISTORY OF HEDGE FUNDS),(A DIFFERENT VIEW OF THE US) Alibaba Group Holding Limited (BABA)Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO)SoftBank Corp. (SFTBY)Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN)eBay Inc. (EBAY)
Global Market Comments September 22, 2014 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (FRIDAY OCTOBER 24 SAN FRANCISCO STRATEGY LUNCHEON), (WHY I?M CHASING THE EURO), (FXE), (EUO), (SEPTEMBER 24 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR) CurrencyShares Euro ETF (FXE) ProShares UltraShort Euro (EUO)
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 CommentsSeptember 19, 2014Fiat Lux Featured Trade:(THE DEATH OF GOLD),(GLD), (ABX), (GDX),(THE STRUCTURAL BEAR CASE FOR TREASURY BONDS),(TLT), (TBT) SPDR Gold Shares (GLD)Barrick Gold Corporation (ABX)Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX)iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (TLT)ProShares UltraShort 20+ Year Treasury (TBT)
If you want to delve into the case against the long-term future of US Treasury bonds in all their darkness, consider these arguments. The US has not had a history of excessive debt since the Revolutionary War, except during WWII, when it briefly exceeded 100% of GDP. That abruptly changed in 2001, when George W.
Global Market CommentsSeptember 18, 2014Fiat Lux Featured Trade:(SHE SPEAKS!),(SPY), (FXE), (EUO), (FXY), (YCS), (GLD), (SLV), (TLT), (TBT),(THE RECEPTION THAT THE STARS FELL UPON) SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY)CurrencyShares Euro ETF (FXE)ProShares UltraShort Euro (EUO)CurrencyShares Japanese Yen ETF (FXY)ProShares UltraShort Yen (YCS)SPDR Gold Shares (GLD)iShares Silver Trust (SLV)iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (TLT)ProShares UltraShort 20+ Year
Like a deer frozen in a car?s onrushing headlights, markets have been comatose awaiting Federal Reserve governor Janet Yellen?s decision on monetary policy and interest rates. Interest rates are unchanged. Quantitative easing gets cut by $15 billion next month, and then goes to zero. Most importantly the key ?considerable period? language stayed in the FOMC
Global Market CommentsSeptember 17, 2014Fiat Lux Featured Trade:(THURSDAY OCTOBER 9 INCLINE VILLAGE, NEVADA STRATEGY LUNCHEON),(WHY I HAVE NO POSITIONS),(TLT), (TBT), (AAPL), (XLE), (XLV),?(IBB), (BIDU), (FXE), (FXY), (YCS),(TAKING A BITE OUT OF STEALTH INFLATION), (SGG), (WEAT) iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (TLT)ProShares UltraShort 20+ Year Treasury (TBT)Apple Inc. (AAPL)Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLE)Health Care Select
For the first time in three years, the model trading portfolio of my Trade Alert service has no positions. It is 100% in cash. I took a small profit on my last remaining position on Friday, a long in the ProShares Ultra Short 20+ Year Treasury ETF (TBT), a bet that Treasury bond prices would
Global Market CommentsSeptember 16, 2014Fiat Lux Featured Trade:(THE BULL MARKET IS ALIVE AND WELL),(SPY), (NFLX), (TSLA), (GOOG), (TLT), (BAC),?(JPM), (AAPL), (COP), (OXY), (IBB)(IS THIS THE BIG TRADE OF 2015?),(JJC), (DBA), (CORN), (CU), (USO), (KOL),(TESTIMONIAL) SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY)Netflix, Inc. (NFLX)Tesla Motors, Inc. (TSLA)Google Inc. (GOOG)iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (TLT)Bank of America Corporation (BAC)JPMorgan
Global Market CommentsSeptember 15, 2014Fiat Lux Featured Trade:(RAILROADS ARE BREAKING OUT ALL OVER),(UNP), (CSX), (NSC), (CP), (ACI),(TESTIMONIAL) Union Pacific Corporation (UNP)CSX Corp. (CSX)Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC)Canadian Pacific Railway Limited (CP)Arch Coal Inc. (ACI)
Global Market CommentsSeptember 12, 2014Fiat Lux Featured Trade:(MAD HEDGE FUND TRADER TOPS 30% GAIN IN 2014),(AAPL), (SPY), (TLT), (TBT), (FXE), (EUO),(THE BIPOLAR ECONOMY),(AAPL), (IBM), (INTC), (ORCL), (CAT) Apple Inc. (AAPL)SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY)iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (TLT)ProShares UltraShort 20+ Year Treasury (TBT)CurrencyShares Euro ETF (FXE)ProShares UltraShort Euro (EUO)International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)Intel Corporation
Global Market Comments September 11, 2014 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THURSDAY OCTOBER 9 INCLINE VILLAGE, NEVADA STRATEGY LUNCHEON), (IS THE 30-YEAR MORTGAGE AN ENDANGERED SPECIES?), (HANGING OUT WITH THE WOZ), (AAPL), Apple Inc. (AAPL)
Global Market CommentsSeptember 10, 2014Fiat Lux Featured Trade:(FRIDAY OCTOBER 24 SAN FRANCISCO STRATEGY LUNCHEON)(THE BOND CRASH HAS ONLY JUST STARTED),($TNX), (TLT), (TBT) 10 Year Tresury Note Yield INDX ($TNX)iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (TLT)ProShares UltraShort 20+ Year Treasury (TBT)
?2014 will be the fifth year of living dangerously,? said Ed Yardeni of Yardeni Research.