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Trade Alert: MO no mo’, Moronicoin, Gronkoin, Tesla, Google and Gold

Here’s the transcript from this week’s Live Q&A Chat. I’m selling my Altria MO today, more details below. Q. Best guess. When are negative interest rates coming to US? Will that crash the stock market or blow bubble even bigger? A. If the negative interest

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Trade Alert: The wild August market gyrations continue

All it took was yet another tweet tit for a tariff tat to get the markets are worried about The Great Trade War of the 21st Century. Is the trade war going to create a US recession? Can it be resolved before one hits? I’ll write more about this

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Telsa-like intuition, The Roku of Food, Pot might finally be a buy and a Trade Alert

Here’s the transcript for this week’s Live Q&A Chat. Q. When looking to build a core position to hold with conviction for many years please describe your thought process. Is intuition a significant part of that? A. Interesting you should ask that question. I just wrote

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Trade Alert: The algo’s and media suddenly fear Recession

This morning, apparently the “real” yield curve inverted. Not that fake yield curve that inverted a few times already, in which you might have made the mistake of thinking that the 30-year Treasury or the 3-month Treasury might be important. No, apparently, it was only the 10 year and the

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Trade Alert: Trimming into this big rally

I’m getting a bit dizzy with these wild swings in the markets but at least we’ve had some nice success using the swings to our advantage. Just yesterday, I wrote: “It’s been an absolutely wild week and a half of action. Another swift sell-off from the highs

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Trade Alert: Bizarro World Stock Market

Just two trading days ago, I wrote: “It’s been an absolutely wild week of action. Nice bounce from the lows *checks charts* uh, yesterday morning. I’m nibbling a few index puts here, reloading a little bit of protection. Maybe trim a little bit of the names we nibbled

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Trade Alert: SEDG’s up 500%, Reloading puts, A little trimming

It’s been an absolutely wild week of action. Nice bounce from the lows *checks charts* uh, yesterday morning. I’m nibbling a few index puts here, reloading a little bit of protection. Maybe trim a little bit of the names we nibbled on during the panic *checks charts* uh,

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Trade Alert: Taking profits on puts, and a small bet on rates

Here’s what I’m doing today: I trimmed some SPY, IWM puts. I trimmed a little of my bitcoin futures BRR. I think the rush into bonds is overdone and the TLT puts are quite cheap, giving us a decent risk/reward scenario with a tiny bit of capital.

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Trade Alert: Stay tuned, be cool, be opportunistic

Well it’s gotten quite ugly out there the last week. Our SMH short and puts that I highlighted for you guys a couple times right as it was hitting $120 have really kicked in, as have our other shorts. Meanwhile, our longs are also getting slammed today. Here’s

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Trade Alert: Don’t panic into the panic

I’m covering some more shorts selling a few more of our puts into the continued decline in the stock markets today, including 20-50% of my SPY and SMH and IWM shorts and puts. GLUU is being decimated, and I’m covering half of it. I covered a little more

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Trade Alert: Be cool, maybe cover a little bit

Markets tanking on the latest Trump China Great Trade War headlines. Be cool, perhaps cover a little. I’m covering maybe 20-30% of my SMH short and covering a little bit of my VHC short and even doing a little buying of Google call options 10-15% out of the money dated out to November and December.

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Trade Alert: TXN pops, semi’s look ready to drop (and a change to my TV schedule)

Texas Instruments, the calculator company — er, the chip company, says business isn’t bad and that’s got most chip stocks rallying hard on top of the big moves they’ve just had the last couple weeks. I think I’d rather sell chips than buy them right now and