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Call this the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde market. On the up days, we see the kindly ministrations of Dr. Jekyll. On the down days, we suffer from the evil hand of Mr. Hyde. To say that traders are confused would be an understatement. Many seasoned pros have told me that this is one of

“Never fight the Fed, even when the Fed’s mission is to destroy the stock market,” said Jim Bianco of Bianco Research.  

Global Market Comments February 24, 2023 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (FEBRUARY 22 BIWEEKLY STRATEGY WEBINAR Q&A) (SPY), (BA), (CCI), (HD), (TLT), (TSLA), (PPLT), (PALL), (JPM), (NVDA), (AAPL), (GOOGL), (META), (AMZN)   CLICK HERE to download today's position sheet.

Below please find the subscribers’ Q&A for the February 22 Mad Hedge Fund Trader Global Strategy Webinar broadcast from Silicon Valley in California.   Q: Will Russia use nuclear weapons on Ukraine? A: No, they won’t. If you’re trying to take over a country, you don’t exactly want to drop atomic bombs on it first

“If you’re not making money while you sleep, you work until you die,” said Oracle of Omaha Warren Buffet.  

Global Market Comments February 23, 2023 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (LOOKING AT THE LARGE NUMBERS) (TLT), (TBT) (BITCOIN), (MSTR), (BLOK), (HUT)   CLICK HERE to download today's position sheet.

Global Market Comments February 22, 2023 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (TESTIMONIAL), (TEN MORE TRENDS TO BET THE RANCH ON), (AAPL), (AMZN), (GOOGL), (TSLA), (CRSP), (EDIT), (NTLA)   CLICK HERE to download today's position sheet.

Hello John, I love your emails!  They are refreshing and they put things in proper perspective. You are never rattled and have a steady hand. You instill confidence and have a wonderful perspective, and your pictures are quite something.  They reveal your zest for life and are window openers for your readers.  Arrogance and haughtiness

I believe that the pandemic and hyper-accelerating technology is bringing forward the future at an astonishing rate. More applications will be created in the next year than over the last 40, some 500,000. The sum total of human knowledge is now doubling every year. The profits spun off and investment opportunities will be incredible, which

“Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from making bad judgments,” said US Army general Simon Bolivar Buckner, the most senior Army officer to die in WWII.  

Global Market Comments February 21, 2023 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (WATCH THE JOHN THOMAS LIBRARY OF CONGRESS INTERVIEW) (PLEASE USE MY FREE DATA BASE SEARCH)   CLICK HERE to download today's position sheet.

Global Market Comments February 17, 2023 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (SOME BASIC TRICKS FOR TRADING OPTIONS)   CLICK HERE to download today's position sheet.

“It’s not always the troops that storm the beaches who are the right ones to set up the government,” said Steve Vassallo from Foundation Capital about the resignation of founder Travis Kalanick from Uber.  

Global Market Comments February 16, 2023 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (IS AIRBNB YOUR NEXT TEN BAGGER?), (ABNB), (WYNN), (H), (GOOG), (PYPL)   CLICK HERE to download today's position sheet.

Last summer, I stayed at an Airbnb in Long Beach, CA in order to pick up my kids from the Boy Scout Camp on Catalina Island. It was billed as a vintage 1920s residence with all the period finishes, was two blocks from the beach, and was a short drive to the Cataline ferry, so

Global Market Comments February 15, 2023 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (LAST CHANCE TO ATTEND THE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2023 HONOLULU, HAWAII STRATEGY LUNCHEON) (HOW TO FIND A GREAT OPTIONS TRADE)   CLICK HERE to download today's position sheet.

Come join me for lunch at the Mad Hedge Fund Trader’s Global Strategy Update, which I will be conducting in Honolulu, Hawaii on Friday, February 17, 2023. 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, bonds, currencies, commodities, precious

Global Market Comments February 14, 2023 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (WHERE THE ECONOMIST “BIG MAC” INDEX FINDS CURRENCY VALUE TODAY), (UUP), (FXE), (FXY), (CYB)   CLICK HERE to download today's position sheet.

My former employer, The Economist, once the ever-tolerant editor of my flabby, disjointed, and juvenile prose (Thanks to Peter Martin and Marjorie Deane!), has just released its "Big Mac" index of relative international currency valuations. Although initially launched as a joke five decades ago, I have followed it religiously and found it an amazingly accurate

“I’ve drunk to your health in company. I drank to your health alone. I’ve drunk to your health so many times that I’ve damn near ruined my own, said WWII Admiral “Bull” Halsey.