“Banks have turned into gigantic gambling institutions. You never know what you own. I wouldn't touch them if you pointed a gun to my head,” said legendary hedge fund manager Bill Fleckenstein on Hedge Fund Radio.
Global Market Comments March 24, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD or THE SPECIAL NO CONFIDENCE ISSUE) (GM), (SH), (TSLA), (NVDA), (GLD), (TLT), (LMT), (BA), (NVDA), (GOOGL), (AAPL), (META), (AMZN), (PANW), (ZS), (CYBR), (FTNT), (COST) (AMGN), (ABBV), (BMY), (TSLA), GM), (GLD), (BYDDF)
It’s official: Absolutely no one is confident in their long-term economic forecasts right now. I heard it from none other than the chairman of the Federal Reserve himself. The investment rule book has been run through the shredder. It has in fact been deleted. That explains a lot about how markets have been trading this
“Getting information off the Internet is akin to trying to sweep back the ocean with a broom,” said Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google.
Global Market Comments March 21, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE MAD HEDGE MARCH TRADERS & INVESTORS SUMMIT REPLAYS ARE UP) (MARCH 19 BIWEEKLY STRATEGY WEBINAR Q&A), (SH), (SDS), (COST), (PANW), (FTNT), (ZS), (MSFT), (GOOGL), (NVDA), (GLD), (AMZN), (BAIDU), (BABA), (LNG), (FXA), (FXE), (FXC), (FXB)
Below please find subscribers’ Q&A for the March 19 Mad Hedge Fund Trader Global Strategy Webinar, broadcast from Incline Village, NV. Q: I tried to get into ProShares Short S&P500 (SH), it seems pretty illiquid. How did you get in? A: Well, before I actually sent out the trade alert, I tested the liquidity of
“Day to day, the stock market is a voting machine; in the long term, it’s a weighing machine,” said the legendary stock analyst Benjamin Graham.
Global Market Comments March 20, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (PLEASE USE MY FREE DATABASE SEARCH)
The original purpose of this letter was to build a database of ideas to draw on in the management of my hedge fund. When a certain trade comes into play, I merely type in the symbol, name, currency, or commodity into the search box, and the entire fundamental argument in favor of that position pops
When asked about the urban legend that the vaults at Fort Knox are empty, and that the Fed has no gold, former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke responded, "I've been to the basement of the New York Fed. The gold is there. I've seen it."
Global Market Comments March 19, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (PROFITING FROM AMERICA'S DEMOGRAPHIC COLLAPSE)
Demographics is destiny. If you ignore it as an investor, you will be constantly behind the curve wondering why your performance is so bad. Get ahead of it, and people will think you are a genius. I figured all this out when I was about 20. I realized then, back in 1972, that if I
"Everybody talks about the Volatility Index (VIX), but the new fear gauge is the 10-year Treasury bond," said Art Cashin of UBS Financial Services.
Global Market Comments March 18, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (HOW TO HANDLE THE FRIDAY, MARCH 21 OPTIONS EXPIRATION)
Followers of the Mad Hedge Fund Trader alert service have the good fortune to own four in-the-money options positions that expire on Friday, March 21, and I just want to explain to the newbies how to best maximize their profits. These involve the: Risk On (NVDA) 3/$88-$90 call spread
"A fool learns from experience. A wise man learns from the experience of others," said Otto von Bismarck, the first Chancellor of Modern Germany.
Global Market Comments March 17, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or SELL FIRST AND ASK QUESTIONS LATER), (SPY), (TLT), (IBKR), (GM), (TSLA), (NVDA), (SH)
I have been learning a new language over the past few weeks (I already speak six). And like learning any new language, it has been a bumpy road. I remember a family dinner I had in Tuscany in 1968. The dessert was chocolate cake. I didn’t know how to say “cake” in Italian, so I
Global Market Comments March 14, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (REMEMBERING THE OLD DAYS AT MORGAN STANLEY), (MS), (GS), (GLD)
It’s a good thing that the #MeToo movement wasn’t around 40 years ago. For if it was, Morgan Stanley would have been publicly humiliated in the press daily. The firm was an “old boy” network on steroids. Employees with skirts definitely worked overtime in those prehistoric days. However, firms evolve over the vast expanse of