Exactly 84 years ago from yesterday, the Great 1929 stock market crash occurred. The Dow Average plunged a stunning 30 points to 230, a one-day decline of 12%. The ticker tape lagged the market by two hours, and the newly bankrupt were jumping out of downtown windows. I remember it like it was yesterday. Well
Have you ever wanted to spend your summers basking in the sunlight at your mountain top Tuscan villa, surveying the manicured vineyards which produce your own estate bottled wine? Are you drawn by the cachet of claiming George Clooney as a celebrity neighbor on the model strewn shores of Lake Como? How about a luxury
Global Market Comments October 29, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MAD DAY TRADER EDUCATIONAL WEBINAR), (THE RUN IN BONDS IS OVER), (TLT), (JNK), (HYG), (MUB), (ELD), (LINE), (AUSTERITY HITS WALL STREET) iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) SPDR Barclays High Yield Bond (JNK) iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bd (HYG) iShares National AMT-Free
This is a bet that the ten-year Treasury bonds, now trading at a 2.50% yield, don?t fall below 2.40% over the next 14 trading days. It has to make this move on top of an unbelievable decline in yields from 3.0% to 2.50% since September. And it has to do it quickly. The Federal Reserve
Global Market Comments October 28, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (LAST CHANCE TO ATTEND THE NOVEMBER 1 SAN FRANCISCO STRATEGY LUNCHEON), (WHY US STOCKS ARE DIRT CHEAP), (SPY), (IWM), (QQQ), (TSLA) SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) iShares Russell 2000 ETF (IWM) PowerShares QQQ (QQQ) Tesla Motors, Inc. (TSLA)
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, November 1, 2013. 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 Comments October 25, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (FEEL LIKE INVESTING IN A STATE SPONSOR OF TERRORISM?), (GAF), (AFK), (EZA), (WHO SAYS THERE AREN?T ANY JOBS?), (WILL GOLD SUFFER THE FATE OF THE $10,000 BILL?) (GLD), (GDX) (THE TWELVE DAY YEAR) SPDR S&P Emerging Middle East & Africa (GAF) Market Vectors Africa Index
How about buying shares in a country whose leaders have stolen $400 billion in the last decade and have seen 300 foreign workers kidnapped? Another country lost four wars in the last 40 years. Still interested? How about a country that suffers one of the world's highest AIDs rates, endures regular insurrections where all of
Global Market Comments October 24, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE CASE AGAINST TREASURY BONDS), (TBT), (TLT), (MY PERSONAL LEADING ECONMIC INDICATOR), (HMC), (NSANY), (DXJ) (A FILM REVIEW OF ?MARGIN CALL?) ProShares UltraShort 20+ Year Treasury (TBT) iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (HMC) Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (NSANY) WisdomTree
Now it?s time for some cultural edification. I first became aware of ?Margin Call? as a pre-production project four years ago when news leaked out that the principal actors, Kevin Stacey, Demi Moore, Stanley Tucci, and Jeremy Irons, were reading The Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader to learn about the industry and get
Global Market Comments October 23, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE WORST IS YET TO COME), (SPY), (MY OLD PAL, LEONARDO FIBONACCI), (TESTIMONIAL) SPDR S&P 500 (SPY)
I was not surprised to see the belated September nonfarm payroll come in at a miserable 148,000. It clearly shows that companies were already hunkering down with their overheads in the run-up to the recent DC slugfest. The figure had been delayed by the Washington shutdown, which froze all government data releases. In fact, the
I remember the 12th century like it was yesterday. In those days, the leading intellectuals used to get together and drink wine by the gallon, which then was really little more than rotten grape juice. The problem was that we all used to pass out before anybody came up with a great idea. Then someone
Global Market Comments October 22, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (LAST CHANCE TO ATTEND THE INVEST LIKE A MONSTER SAN FRANCISCO TRADING CONFERENCE) (WHAT TO DO NOW?), (SPY), (TESTIMONIAL) SPDR S&P 500 (SPY)
I am pleased to announce that I will be participating in the Invest like a Monster Trading Conference in San Francisco during October 25-26. The two-day event brings together experts from across the financial landscape that will improve your understanding of markets by a quantum leap and measurably boost your own personal trading performance. Tickets
I am completing one of the best trading years of my 45-year career in the stock market. The Trade Alert service is up by a stunning 41.5% so far in 2013 and by 96.55% since inception 35 months ago. Pretty much every forecast I made for the year came true (click here for ?My 2013
Global Market Comments October 21, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (NOVEMBER 1 SAN FRANCISCO STRATEGY LUNCHEON), (SEND ME YOUR IDEAS), (REVISITING THE FIRST SILVER BUBBLE), (SLV), (SLW) iShares Silver Trust (SLV) Silver Wheaton Corp. (SLW)
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, November 1, 2013. 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,
The Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader is now approaching its seventh year of publication. During this time, I have religiously been pumping out 1,500 words a day, or eight double spaced typed pages, of original, independent minded, hard hitting, and often wickedly funny research. I?ve been covering stocks, bonds, commodities, precious metals, real
With smoke still rising from the ruins of the recent silver crash, I thought I'd touch base with a wizened and grizzled old veteran who still remembers the last time a bubble popped for the white metal. That would be Mike Robertson, who runs Robertson Wealth Management, one of the largest and most successful registered