Global Market Comments March 22, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (BUY EVERY BLACK SWAN), (SPY), (QQQ), (IWM), (AAPL), (UAL) (REVISITING CHENIERE ENERGY), (LNG), (UNG), (USO), (DVN), (CHK) SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) PowerShares QQQ (QQQ) iShares Russell 2000 Index (IWM) Apple Inc. (AAPL) United Continental Holdings, Inc. (UAL) Cheniere Energy, Inc. (LNG) United States Natural Gas
At least that?s what Ben Bernanke thinks. He said as much in his press conference yesterday in the wake of the latest Fed statement. He might as well have waved a red Flag at a bull. The central bank took the opportunity to downgrade its US growth forecasts going forward as a result of sequestration
Occasionally, I so totally knock the ball out of the park that I qualify for a place in the stock picker?s Hall of Fame. That was the case when I put out a recommendation to buy LNG exporter, Cheniere Energy (LNG), a year ago (click here? for Take a Look at Cheniere Energy (LNG). Since
Global Market Comments March 21, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (TRADE ALERT SERVICE SEIZES 31.8% GAIN IN 2013), (SPY), (FXY), (IWM, (BAC), (AIG), (FCX), (FXE), (FXB), (GLD), (USO), (THE BULL CASE FOR BANK OF AMERICA), (BAC), (WHEN STERILIZATION IS NOT A FORM OF BIRTH CONTROL), (TLT), (PCY), (MUB), (JNK), (TESTIMONIAL) SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) CurrencyShares
The Trade Alert Service of the Mad Hedge Fund Trader has posted a 31.8% profit year to date, taking it to another new all time high. The 27-month total return has punched through to an awesome 86.9%, compared to a miserable 18.5% return for the Dow average during the same period. That raises the average
I?ll give you the quick and dirty argument behind buying Bank of America. For the past four years, the main argument for avoiding this stock like the plague was the hidden book of bad home loans it was hiding on its back bookshelf, thought to be in the tens of billions of dollars. This is
I received a flurry of inquires the other day when Ben Bernanke mentioned the word ?sterilization? in his recent congressional testimony. And he wasn?t giving advice to the country?s wayward teenaged girls, either. Sterilization refers to a specific style of monetary policy. Sterilized policies seek to manipulate the money markets without changing the overall money
Global Market Comments March 20, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE RECEPTIONS THE STARS FELL UPON), (NLR), (CCJ), (CORN), (WEAT), (SOYB), (DBA), (BECOME MY FACEBOOK FRIEND), (OIL ISN?T WHAT IT USED TO BE), (USO), (DIG), (DUG) Market Vectors Uranium+Nuclear Enrgy ETF (NLR) Cameco Corporation (CCJ) Teucrium Corn (CORN) Teucrium Wheat (WEAT) Teucrium Soybean (SOYB) PowerShares
My friend was having a hard time finding someone to attend a reception who was knowledgeable about financial markets, White House intrigue, international politics, and nuclear weapons. I asked who was coming. She said Reagan?s Treasury Secretary George Shultz, Clinton?s Defense Secretary William Perry, and former Senate Armed Services Chairman Sam Nunn. I said I?d
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Virtually every analyst has been puzzled by the seeming immunity of stock markets to soaring oil prices (USO), (DIG), (DUG) this year. In fact, stocks and crude have been tracking almost one to one on the upside. The charts below a friend at JP Morgan sent me go a long way towards explaining this apparent
Global Market Comments March 19, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (BUY STOCKS ON THE CYPRUS DIP), (SPX), (SPY), (INVESTORS WILL WIN THE ETF PRICE WAR), (BIDDING FOR THE STARTS), (THE DEATH OF THE MUTUAL FUND) S&P 500 Large Cap Index (SPX) SPDR S&P 500 (SPY)
I?ll never forget the last time I was in Cyprus. I landed my twin Cessna 340 and asked for a fill up, hoping to make it back to Rome in one hop. An hour later, a truck dumped three 45-gallon drums of 100LL avgas on the tarmac with a hand pump, and asked to be
Many hedge fund traders are unhappy about the current near monopoly enjoyed by the top three ETF issuers, Black Rock, State Street, and Vanguard, which control 80% of the market. At last count more than 1,300 ETF?s were capitalized at more than $1.4 trillion. The result has been grasping management fees, exorbitant expense ratios, and
A few years ago, I went to a charity fund raiser at San Francisco?s priciest jewelry store, Shreve & Co., where the well-heeled men bid for dates with the local high society beauties, dripping in diamonds and Channel No. 5. Well fueled with champagne, I jumped into a spirited bidding war over one of the
ETF?s are much more attractive than mutual fund competitors, with their notoriously bloated expenses and spendthrift marketing costs. You can?t miss those glitzy, overproduced, big budget ads on TV for a multitude of mutual fund families. You know, the ones with the senior couple holding hands walking down the beach into the sunset, the raging
Global Market Comments March 18, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MARCH 20 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR), (HAS APPLE BOTTOMED?), (AAPL), (TESTIMONIAL), (SOVEREIGN DEBT WAS A GREAT PLACE TO HIDE), ?(PCY), (LQD) Apple Inc. (AAPL) PowerShares Emerging Mkts Sovereign Debt (PCY) iShares iBoxx $ Invest Grade Corp Bond (LQD)
No one has suffered more than I from my slavish devotion to Apple?s products, its performance, and, oops?. it?s stock. A long position in Steve Jobs? creation remains my only losing position of 2013 (remember the January $525-$575 call spread?). Without the hit I took on that, my Trade Alert Service would be up 33.3%
I am constantly asked where to find safe places to park cash by investors understandably unhappy with the risk/reward currently offered by the markets. Any reach for yield now carries substantial principal risk, the kind we saw, oh say, in the summer of 2007. I have had great luck steering people into the Invesco PowerShares
Global Market Comments March 15, 2013 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (TAKING PROFITS ON STOCKS), (SPY), (TAKING A BITE OUT OF STEALTH INFLATION), (TESTIMONIAL) SPDR S&P 500 (SPY)
