When John identifies a strategic exit point, he will send you an alert with specific trade information as to what security to sell, when to sell it, and at what price. Most often, it will be to TAKE PROFITS, but, on rare occasions, it will be to exercise a STOP LOSS at a predetermined price to adhere to strict risk management discipline. Read more
When John identifies a strategic exit point, he will send you an alert with specific trade information as to what security to sell, when to sell it, and at what price. Most often, it will be to TAKE PROFITS, but, on rare occasions, it will be to exercise a STOP LOSS at a predetermined price to adhere to strict risk management discipline. Read more
While the Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader focuses on investment over a one week to six-month time frame, Mad Day Trader, provided by Bill Davis, will exploit money-making opportunities over a brief ten minute to three day window. It is ideally suited for day traders, but can also be used by long-term investors to improve market timing for entry and exit points. Read more
Global Market Comments
January 30, 2018
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(JOIN THE MAD HEDGE TECHNOLOGY LETTER PRODUCT LAUNCH)
(THE I-WORD IS BACK WITH A VENGEANCE),
($TNX), (GS), (GLD), (USO), (XLU), (SPG), (TLT),
(BETTER BATTERIES HAVE BECOME BIG DISRUPTERS)
Come join me for the launch of the Mad Hedge Technology Letter, which will take place on Wednesday, January 31 at 12:00 EST.
I will be presenting a broad overview of the entire technology sector, from artificial intelligence to social media.
Technology has become the seminal investment theme of our lifetimes. Since WWII, technology companies have rocketed from 1% of US stock market capitalization to 25%, and they're now on their way to 90%. Eventually all companies will become tech ones, or cease to exist.
Over 50% of retail sales took place online in 2017, with one company, Amazon, accounting for half. The earnings of tech companies are growing 50% faster than non-tech ones. The technology sector has been the top performer since the 2009 stock market bottom.
In view of these developments you would be crazy NOT to invest a major portion of your retirement funds in technology stocks.
I will wrap up the webinar with a listing of the many services provided by the new Mad Hedge Technology Letter. I will also include a one-time only special discount offer for inaugural subscribers only.
Questions will be welcome through a live chat box.
I look forward to seeing you there.
John Thomas
CEO & Publisher
The Mad Hedge Technology Letter
They say a picture is worth a thousand words.
Take a look at the four charts below for the ten-year Treasury bond yield ($TNX), Goldman Sachs (GS), Gold (GLD), and oil (USO), and they explain everything that is going on in financial markets right now. In fact, they could all be the identical chart.
They all show that after building very long multiyear bases they are breaking out to the upside. This almost always heralds successive new highs, if not new all-time highs.
These charts also all have another thing in common. They are all inflation plays. Yes, after a decade long hiatus, the I-word is back.
Of course, we haven't seen runaway price increases throughout the economy yet. Most of the inflation we have seen so far has been in asset prices, both in paper and the hard kind in real estate.
No, the charts are suggesting that while real inflation is not here yet, it may be just round the corner. And they may be right.
Look at the real estate sector of any major newspaper right now and it has shrunk to near invisibility. That's because homeowners have pulled their residences off the market, paring back both the listings and the advertising that go along with them.
They are afraid that if they sell their dwellings in these frenetic markets they won't be able to replace it with another one, except at much higher prices. Real estate has in effect become a one-way market.
I'll tell you where to find another one-way market and that's in stocks. With the Dow average up 7% so far in January, we have seen the most aggressive start to a new year in three decades.
Investors are similarly afraid that if that take profits they will have to buy back in at elevated levels. So they aren't selling.
It isn't just inflation that is driving investors into hard asset and rising interest rate plays. They are buying them purely because they are cheap. As I have said time and again, you should only buy cheap stuff in expensive markets. These are the asset classes that have languished for years.
If you have any quibbles with my logic, take a peek at the inverse stock plays and you will be horrified. This would include the (TLT) itself, REITS (SPG), and utility stocks (XLU), all sectors that suffer from rising interest rates and inflation.
These are some of the best shorts in the market right now. If you own them, better to arrange a going away party as quickly as possible.
While the Global Trading Dispatch focuses on investment over a one week to six-month time frame, Mad Options Trader, provided by Matt Buckley, will focus primarily on the weekly US equity options expirations, with the goal of making profits at all times. Read more
When John identifies a strategic exit point, he will send you an alert with specific trade information as to what security to sell, when to sell it, and at what price. Most often, it will be to TAKE PROFITS, but, on rare occasions, it will be to exercise a STOP LOSS at a predetermined price to adhere to strict risk management discipline. Read more
While the Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader focuses on investment over a one week to six-month time frame, Mad Day Trader, provided by Bill Davis, will exploit money-making opportunities over a brief ten minute to three day window. It is ideally suited for day traders, but can also be used by long-term investors to improve market timing for entry and exit points. Read more
Global Market Comments
January 29, 2018
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or RELIVING 1918),
(SPY), (GLD), (NEM), (TLT), (FCX), (BAC), (CAT),
(THE BIPOLAR ECONOMY),
(TESTIMONIAL)
