Markets: I'm Short Junk Bonds

I'm short junk bonds. The yield spread between junk bonds and AAA bonds now is very, very narrow (never been this narrow) and when interest rates go higher and they have already started going higher, junk bonds are going to get killed.

Related trading instruments: 

• SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bond ETF (JNK) 
• iShares iBoxx $ High Yid Corp Bond (ETF) (HYG) 

Eventually The Junk Bond Market Is Going To Collapse

I know that the junk bond market is going to totally disintegrate someday but I'm hopeless in market timing. I know it's going to fall apart someday but in the meantime because my market timing is so hopeless I'm losing money but eventually the junk bond market is going to collapse. (SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bond ETF (JNK), iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corp Bond (ETF) (HYG))

Interest Rates Are Going Much Higher

When interest rates start going up again permanently, when the bull market does come to an end in government bonds, interest rates are going to go very, very high.

In 1981, short-term in America were over 20 percent. Long-term bonds were yielding over 15 percent.

When interest rates go higher the junk bonds are going to get destroyed both by interest rates and by credit defaults. (SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bond ETF (JNK))

Junk Bonds: They Will Get Destroyed When Interest Rates Go Higher

I am not shorting U.S. Government Bonds but I am still short U.S. junk bonds still. We are certainly in the process of making a top, but when the top comes, I do not know. 

 When interest rates go higher permanently, the junk bonds are going to get destroyed by interest rates and by credit defaults because many of them are junk! (SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bond ETF (JNK), iShares iBoxx $ High Yid Corp Bond (ETF)(HYG))

Markets: Junk Bonds, Gold

I am short junk bonds in the United States. I am not adding at the moment. But if the opportunity arises, if junk bonds go up a fair amount I know I will add to that position. And if gold collapses I will add to that position. (SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bond ETF (JNK), iShares iBoxx $ High Yid Corp Bond (ETF) (HYG), SPDR Gold Trust ETF (GLD), Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX))

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.

We Will Have A Sovereign Debt Crisis Before 2024

We are certainly going to have a sovereign debt crisis between now and 2024. Are you kidding? We will have all sorts of crisis maybe even serious war, probably serious war by then as the situation gets worse and worse people will lose confidence in governments. I am more worried about the next 8 years than you are!

(SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bond ETF (JNK), U.S. Government Bonds, Nasdaq 100 Futures, SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY))

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.

The Bond Bull Market: Coming To An End?

The bond bull market has been going on for 35 years. It started, the bottom was on September 1981, so it has been going on for over 34 years now. And yes, it is coming to an end. You may have government bonds go higher for a while just as panic takes place. I am short junk bonds in the United States and you are right, they are going down now, some more than others obviously.

We are making a top in interest rates but that does not mean that if and when the Federal Reserve panics again that interest rates will not go down some more. But we are making the top. Not sure about sovereigns because I expect so much panic that many people will pile into them as they are piling into the U.S. Dollar. (iShares iBoxx $ High Yid Corp Bond (ETF) (HYG), SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bond ETF (JNK))

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.

Long China, Short Junk Bonds & Tech Stocks

I am long China and I am short American junk bonds, I am short some other American stocks, I am short the technology stocks. As you probably know there have been 4, 5 or 9 stocks in America that never go down. I am short those stocks. (iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index ETF (FXI), SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bond ETF (JNK))

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.

Global Markets: Watching, Looking For Opportunities

I am not really putting my money anywhere. I am mainly watching. I am short U.S. stocks and I am long China. I am looking for maybe some more shorts in junk bonds, I would like to short more junk bonds in the United States. And I am looking for opportunities.

(SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bond ETF (JNK), iShares iBoxx $ High Yid Corp Bond (ETF) (HYG), SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY), iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index ETF (FXI))

Jim Rogers is a legendary investor that co-founded the Quantum Fund and retired at age thirty-seven. He is the author of several investing books and also a renowned financial commentator worldwide famous for his contrarian views on financial markets.