Traders have been watching in complete awe the rapid decent of the price of gold, which is emerging as the most despised asset class of 2013. But it is becoming increasingly apparent that the collapse of prices for the barbarous relic is part of a much larger, longer-term macro trend. It isn?t just the yellow
Global Market Comments May 20, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (INTRODUCING THE MAD DAY TRADER), (A SPECIAL NOTE TO TRADE ALERT FOLLOWERS) (REVISITING THE FIRST SILVER BUBBLE), (SLV) iShares Silver Trust (SLV)
I am pleased to announce the introduction of my first major upgrade, The Mad Day Trader. While the Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader focuses on investment over a one week to six-month time frame, Mad Day Trader will exploit money-making opportunities over a ten minute to three day window. It is ideally suited
As of today, we will be sending out two types of Trader Alerts, medium term ones from the Mad Hedge Fund Trader, and short term ones from the new Mad Day Trader service. Please be careful not to confuse the two. We have done what we can to distinguish the two, using different logos, colors,
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 May 17, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (HANGING OUT WITH CONGRESSMAN BARNEY FRANK), (THE MOST FUNCTIONAL WORD IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE), (AN EVENING WITH NOBEL PRIZE WINNER MICHAEL SPENCE) (EEM),(EWZ), (EWY), (EWT), (EWS), (EWH),(TF), (IDX), (EWM), (FXI), (EWJ) iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index (EEM) iShares MSCI Brazil Capped Index (EWZ) iShares MSCI
One of the highlights of last week?s SkyBridge Alternatives Conference was the blowout party on Wednesday night (click here for the blow by blow description). Seeking refuge from a band that was blasting my ears out, and fleeing the nubile young bodies that kept bumping up against me and spilling my margaritas, I sought out
Passed on by a friend with my apologies: Well, it's shit... That's right, shit! Shit may just be the most functional word in the English language. You can smoke shit, buy shit, sell shit, lose shit, find shit, forget shit, and tell others to eat shit. Some people know their shit, while others can't tell
Global Market Comments May 16, 2013 Fiat Lux SPECIAL TESLA EDITION Featured Trade: (ONE THE TESLA MELT UP), (TSLA), (F), (FIATY), (PEUGY), (SCTY), (BBRY), (HLF), (NFLX), (FSLR) Tesla Motors, Inc. (TSLA) Ford Motor Co. (F) Fiat S.p.A. (FIATY) Peugeot S.A. (PEUGY) SolarCity Corporation (SCTY) Research In Motion Limited (BBRY) Herbalife Ltd. (HLF) Netflix, Inc. (NFLX)
This was the short squeeze that was begging to happen. Five guys owned 50% of the company, including the visionary founder, Elon Musk. Of the remaining float, 45% had been borrowed and sold short by hedge funds. All that was needed to ignite a rally was for someone to say ?Boo.? That is exactly what
Global Market Comments May 15, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (JULY 19 FRANKFURT, GERMANY STRATEGY LUNCHEON), (TESTIMONIAL), (MY FAVORITE SECRET ECONOMIC INDICATOR), (RUNNING THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY TO BREAKERS)
Come join me for lunch at the Mad Hedge Fund Trader?s Global Strategy Update, which I will be conducting in Frankfurt, Germany on Friday, July 19, 2013. A three-course lunch will be followed by a PowerPoint presentation and an extended question and answer period. I?ll be giving you my up to date view on stocks,
I suffer earthquakes, forest fires, floods, dubious neighbors, high taxes, corrupt politicians, and a bankrupt state government to live in California. It is all worth it just to run the Bay to Breakers every year, a five mile run from the San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean, which has evolved into the world?s most
It was with an enormous sense of pride and relief that I watched the last of my kids graduate from the University of California at Berkeley. Clutching his hard fought degree in political economics in hand, Robert posed for photos among friends, with thousands of beaming parents looking on. His mother died ten years ago,
Global Market Comments May 14, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (REPORT ON THE SKYBRIDGE ALTERNATIVES CONFERENCE) (REPORT FROM LAS VEGAS)
I am writing to you from the poolside cabana number B-2 at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. It is an unseasonably cool 70 degrees in the shade and the air is bone- dry, so I?m on my third banana daiquiri for the day. The days when I risked getting my hands broken with a
As with all of my visits to Sin City, I made a beeline to my inside guy ? a blackjack dealer at Caesar?s Palace. It?s been a slow summer and an even slower fall. With global warming delivering the hottest summer in history, the last place tourists wanted to visit was the desert. Midwesterners have
Global Market Comments May 13, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MAY 15 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR), (JAPAN IS JUST GETTING STARTED), (THE PASSING OF A GREAT MAN)
Constantly chained to my MacBook Pro at home writing this letter, it is not often that I am in the room when a major market-moving event occurs. That is what happened at the SkyBridge Alternatives Asset Conference (SALT) in Las Vegas on Thursday (click here for the link at http://www.saltconference.com/). I was listening to one
Global Market Comments May 10, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE REAL ESTATE MARKET IN 2030) (BREAKFAST WITH FED GOVERNOR BOB MCTEER), (TAKE A RIDE IN THE NEW SHORT JUNK ETF), (SJB), (JNK), (CORN) ProShares Short High Yield (SJB) SPDR Barclays High Yield Bond (JNK) Teucrium Corn (CORN)