The U.S. Treasury market has been out of investors’ favor this year, piling up heavy losses.

For well over three years now the TLT has been building out what looks like a massive H&S top with the top of the right shoulder now in play.

The price relationship to the long-term trendline has been very shaky all year long, and it seems to me the strong pillar of uptrend support has a lot of splinters in it.

Our nation is over $20 trillion in debt, and this fantasy that we’re somehow going to pay for it is a pipe dream. Interest rates are going to roll higher as the months and years proceed, destroying debt-holders.

TLT and GLD have been moving together pretty consistently over the last year or so.

The overall market continues to trend higher and my current long positions continue to rack up the gains since their initial signals.

In this article, you will see a variety of trades which I have taken the past year that have worked very well and continue to work very well. I am hoping for much more from these.

Investors who assumed their investments in conservative bonds and bond funds were safe from losses are learning otherwise.

The markets have been very volatile the past two years and this is why I am long so many positions. The ideal situation would be 5 stocks 20% of my account capital in each.

For ETF investors who are bearish on the bond market for the near term, here are some ETFs for your portfolio: TMV, TTT, TBT and TBF.

June E-mini S&Ps (ESM14 +0.08%) this morning are down -0.04% as prices consolidate gains following Wednesday's rally to a record high.