Did you ever hear something that left you saying WTF, this cannot be true. Today I was told by a Petrobras employee in Brazil that the US government has agreed to give Petrobras 10 Billion dollars. Now, considering the Petrobras just received billions from China in a deal to provide oil for a decade, why on earth would it need to borrow more dollars to fund even more projects? More importantly, what kind of shenanigans is this? Oh, do not worries, we at Alphas Edge will break the news to you! […]

The run up in the stock market had been breath taking, the only close resemblance were those violent rebound during the Great Depression. This alone should send out red flags to all bulls or buy and hold kind of traders. We have recommended getting out of the market at 8,400 simply because at that time, evaluations were already irrational and stocks were priced in for a boom (not a recovery). What we didn’t see coming was the quick devaluation of the dollar to inflate equities. Our advice of going to emerging markets at the time however was on the money! […]