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
Global Market Comments October 18, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (OCTOBER 23 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR), (THE SHUTDOWN IS OVER?FOR NOW), (SPY), (EUROPEAN STYLE HOMELAND SECURITY), (TESTIMONIAL) SPDR S&P 500 (SPY)
After 16 days of high drama, bluster, and handwringing, the Great Washington Shutdown of 2013 is finally over. President Obama held fast and won. The Republicans kept changing their goals by the day and lost. But what we got was anything but a resolution. The next shutdown is now scheduled for January 15, and the
The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent events in Libya, and have therefore raised their security level from ?Miffed? to ?Peeved.? Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to ?Irritated? or even ?A Bit Cross.? The English have not been ?A Bit Cross? since the blitz in 1940, when tea
Global Market Comments October 17, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (DOGS OF THE DOW REVISTED) (XME), (XLB), (DBB), (JJG), (MOO), (DBA), (GLD), (SLV), (PLEASE USE MY FREE DATA BASE SEARCH) SPDR S&P Metals & Mining (XME) Materials Select Sector SPDR (XLB) PowerShares DB Base Metals (DBB) iPath DJ-UBS Grains TR Sub-Idx ETN (JJG) Market Vectors
Sitting at my lakefront estate at Lake Tahoe?s Incline Village, I began to cogitate on what my trading portfolio for 2014 should look like. Then I thought, ?Why wait?? Better to get the message out now than wait two and a half more months. The entry point for risk assets is better now than it
