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As a potentially profitable opportunity presents itself, John will send you an alert with specific trade information as to what should be bought, when to buy it, and at what price. Read more
As a potentially profitable opportunity presents itself, John will send you an alert with specific trade information as to what should be bought, when to buy it, and at what price. This is your chance to ?look over? John Thomas? shoulder as he gives you unparalleled insight on major world financial trends BEFORE they happen. 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
September 18, 2015
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(SEPTEMBER 23 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR)
(THANK YOU JANET YELLEN!),
(SPY), (TLT),
(WHY I?M CHASING THE EURO),
(FXE), (EUO)
SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY)
iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (TLT)
CurrencyShares Euro ETF (FXE)
ProShares UltraShort Euro (EUO)
Email sent to Federal Reserve Governor Janet Yellen, 9-17-2015 2:30 PM EST:
Dear Janet,
A great big thank you to you!
All is forgiven!
I apologize for those snarky questions I used to ask at your San Francisco Fed press conferences years ago.
And I don?t regret for a second all those times I walked you to your car after your night economics class at UC Berkeley because you were afraid you would get mugged.
The insights I gained to your thinking have been worth their weight in gold.
A few minutes before your interest rate decision, I placed bets with some hedge fund friends of mine.
I went for NO INCREASE, citing your insistence to me on many occasions that you needed to ?see the whites of inflation?s eyes? before you?d make a move.
I am also averse to betting against nine year long trends.
So, I won! BIG TIME!
It?s clear that you have subscribed to Verizon?s new international dialing plan. It?s such a great deal, as I found myself traveling last summer in Europe.
That would explain your newly heightened sensitivity to economic conditions abroad, with a weak Europe and a China slowdown.
A strong dollar was also clearly in your thinking, as it is a big drag on the earnings of large US multinationals.
And the massive collapses in oil and commodity prices obviously indicate that inflation is nowhere to be seen.
So being the central banker to the 50 United States is not enough? You want to take on the world?
If anything, deflation is accelerating. So why rush to head off non-existent inflation?
I suspected as much.
That?s why I went into your meeting with no positions whatsoever. That is very rare for a person like me who has to be making money all the time. The risk/reward was just lousy.
What you have done is set up one of the greatest ?BUY THE RUMOR AND SELL THE NEWS? markets in recent memory.
In a few days, once the smoke clears, we should go back down and retest the recent lows, even if we don?t get very close.
That will give me the entry point for me and my many new followers to buy stocks once again.
If you really do need to see inflation before you raise interest rates, you might not raise them for three more years!
What we now have to look forward to is three more months of uncertainty, speculation, and prognostication about a December rate rise. I can?t imagine a more ideal trading environment.
But you have to go into this with dry powder, which I, with a 100% cash position, have plenty of.
While I have your attention, let me tell you about this neat little trade I discovered in the Velocity Shares Daily Inverse VIX Short Term ETN (XIV), which is a bet that S&P 500 volatility will fall.
I made two round trips on this baby in the past two weeks, getting followers in as low as $23.20. It hit $32.40 after the announcement, an unbelievable two week gain of 39.66%.
A few more trades like this, Janet, and you will more than make up for the pitiful pension that the government pays former Federal Reserve governors.
You won?t have to do any TV gigs at all!
Just let me know and I?ll get you set up. You see, I know this broker?
So once again, thank you Janet. The box of See?s candy is in the mail.


Dear Janet?
I?m not a person inclined to chase winning positions. Making money on one trade is certainly no guarantee that you will repeat the win on the next. Lightening doesn?t strikes twice in the same place.
Well, actually it does sometimes, especially when it comes to selling short the Currency Shares Euro Trust (FXE). Selling short the Euro (EUO) has been one of my most consistently winning trades for all of 2015.
It?s like suddenly being adopted by a generous rich uncle, a continental one that drinks espresso, eats croissants, and smokes Galois cigarettes.
Given the European Central Bank?s dramatic action weeks ago to implement an aggressive program of quantitative easing, the entire world has been trying to sell short the beleaguered continental currency.
This means running the Euro printing presses non-stop, much like the Federal Reserve started doing five years ago.You saw the results here.
Overnight Euro interest rates have already been chopped to negative numbers. Even my cleaning lady, Cecelia, knows she should be unloading her Euros.
The trouble is that the currency has already plunged 37 cents, or almost 27% since its mid 2014 top. In the currency world, this is a big move, and puts China's piddling 4.4% move in the Yuan to shame.
However, we needed an event, or an uncertainty removed, before we could go back in on the short side.
We got that yesterday with Janet's move on interest rates.
You have to go to the weekly charts to find the next support levels, but its clear that $1.00, and then $0.90 eventually beckons one.
We live in a world of chase now. All asset classes, from stocks to bonds, currencies, precious metals, oil, and even food, are at the extended end of very large one-way moves. So pickings on the trading front are becoming increasingly thin.
Think of it as buying the US stock market in 2009. I?d rather sell the (FXE) at the beginning of a five year move, than buy in the middle of a 10 year appreciation, which is what we are seeing in US stocks now.
This is also a play on the US bond market. Any fall in Treasury bond prices and rise in yields, a pretty safe bet over the medium term. This will be happening while Euro interest rates are falling, giving a huge yield advantage to the greenback.
As regular readers of this letter know, INTEREST RATES DIFFERENTIALS ARE THE LARGEST DRIVER OF CHANGES IN FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES.
It's as simple as that.
If you need a third argument for this position, it is a bet on the continued virility of the US fracking industry.
Every additional barrel we produce in America means one less imported from the Middle East, and (as of today) $47 less sold in the foreign exchange markets.
Frackers have already cut our import bill from $400 billion to $200 billion in the past five years, prompting a staggering decline in our dollar outflows.
They are also eliminating our country?s need to maintain expensive ground forces there to protect oil supplies. Every fracking job created in the windswept planes of North Dakota means one less soldier stationed abroad.
This savings will eventually eliminate the government?s present $400 billion budget deficit.
Our newest war in the bleak sands of Syria and Iraq, fought with F-16?s, drones, and Special Forces for targeting, will cost pennies on the dollar when compared to previous conflicts.
I may not be selling short the Euro this second, today, or this week. But I will continue to smack substantial rallies. I might also pick up some Wisdom Tree Europe Hedged Equity ETF (HEDJ), which benefits mightily from a weak continental currency.
Call me old fashioned, but I like to sell high and buy low.



Run Those Printing Presses, Mario!
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
September 17, 2015
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30 SAN FRANCISCO STRATEGY LUNCHEON)
(THE RECEPTION THAT THE STARS FELL UPON)
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