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By The Mad Hedge Fund Trader |
April 20, 2012
After spending all of this year ignoring the fiscal disaster that the US is facing at the end of 2012, markets are finally taking off the blinders. That might explain why the S&P 500 has dropped 4.3% from its April 1 peak and may have more to come.
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By Jon Nadler |
March 16, 2012
This morning’s New York trading action started off on the downside once again for the metals. Gold practically erased yesterday’s gains and dipped to near the $1,640 per ounce while silver also retreated from last night’s closing values and dropped to near $32.20 the ounce.
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By Jon Nadler |
March 9, 2012
Whereas gold had opened in New York right around the pivotal $1,700 mark, Labor Department data sent the yellow metal some $20-25 lower, and to a low of $1,675 per ounce, within the first hour after the figures were released.
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By The Mad Hedge Fund Trader |
February 24, 2012
I am following this movement closely because it has the potential to turn the election upside down this year. This could be the Tea Party of 2012, with a similarly large impact on the election results.
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By JT Long |
November 28, 2011
A $3,000/ounce gold spike could boost equity valuation and the, editor of Kaiser Research Online, shares the catalysts that could propel gold and silver stock prices higher in 2012.
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By The Mad Hedge Fund Trader |
November 18, 2011
One cannot underestimate the impact of the bankruptcy of MF Global, which has deprived the market of $600 million of trading capital. It is particularly serious in the metals and energies, where MF was particularly active. Hence the gut churning moves.
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By JT Long |
November 9, 2011
The Kaiser Research Online editor handicaps the players on the end-user, producer and investor side-believe it or not, China may have the largest stake in developing sources outside its borders.
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By The Mad Hedge Fund Trader |
November 1, 2011
This flock of black swans absolutely has not been discounted by the market, and has a much higher probability than the market's many armchair strategists, pundits, and seers realize. Personally, I put the odds of all this unfolding at one in three.
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By The Mad Hedge Fund Trader |
November 1, 2011
I found the group amazingly well informed, with a majority holding undergraduate and graduate degrees. Almost everyone could accurately describe the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which separates investment and commercial banking functions.
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By The Mad Hedge Fund Trader |
October 7, 2011
I am bailing on my long position in the Caterpillar (CAT) January, 2012, $110 calls. I think there is a snowball's chance in hell that the stock will make it back above $110 or more by the Jan. 21 expiration.
