Category Archives: Diary

Trade Alert – (PANW) – BUY LEAPS

BUY the Palo Alto Networks (PANW) January 21, 2028 $185-$190 deep out-of-the-money vertical Bull Call spread LEAPS at $2.00 or best    Opening Trade     2-20-2026    expiration date: January 21, 2028    Number of Contracts = 1 contract      During the software share meltdown of the past six months, some deserved the punishment while others did not. Palo Alto Networks (PANW) is definitely in the latter category. If anything, the demand for the company’s services as […]

They’re Not Making Americans Anymore

You can count on a bear market hitting sometime in 2038, one falling by at least 25%. Worse, there is almost a guarantee that a financial crisis, severe bear market, and possibly another Great Depression will take place no later than 2058, which would take the major indexes down by 50% or more. No, I […]

The New Offshore Center: America

Officials in South Dakota have figured out how to make up for the complete collapse of their oil fracking industry. They are morphing the Peace Garden State into a major offshore banking center. South Dakota is not alone. Some 200,000 corporations. Limited liability companies and family trusts are registered in remote Stateline, Nevada, on the […]

Sign Up Now for Text Messaging of Trade Alerts

Yahoo is occasionally down in various parts of the country. AWeber, the service provider we use to send out the Trade Alerts by email, sometimes goes completely down for hours and initially denies that the problem was at their end. They blamed a surge in Internet traffic (probably another battle in the ongoing cyber war […]

February 17, 2026

Global Market Comments February 17, 2026 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or ABANDON SHIP!), (SPY), (EEM), (EWZ), (XLP), (XLU), (XLRE), (XLE), (XHB), (XLB, (CRM), (XLF), (LSTR), (JBHT), (XLY), (JNJ), (CL), (O), (NEE), (SCHD)