Portfolio: U.S. Dollars, Chinese Shares, Agriculture, Russian Bonds

I own U.S. Dollars, I own the Chinese Renminbi, I own Chinese shares and I am short U.S. stocks. I am long Agriculture, I bought recently some Russian short term Russian bonds denominated in Rubles. I own some gold and silver, which I owned for years, I haven`t bought any recently. Basically off the top of my head its where my investments are.

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.

Markets & Economy: Worse Times Than We Had In Our Lifetimes

We are certainly going to have worse times than we had in our lifetimes. How bad? I expect it to be worse than anything we had in our lifetimes because the debt is like nothing that has ever been in recorded history. America is now the largest debtor nation in the history of the world!

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.

An Important Top For U.S. Equities

If you actually look at the stock market, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) for instance, only one third of the stocks went up last year, twice as many went down. If you look at the breath, the stocks advancing and declining, it peaked out in 2014 and the breath has been going down ever since.

So people may think that the stock market is up but those who own stocks are finding out that it is not the case. (SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (DIA), SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY), Nasdaq 100 Futures, Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLE), Health Care SPDR ETF (XLV), iShares NASDAQ Biotechnology Index ETF (IBB))

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.

Natural Gas: Low Prices Will Eventually Lead To Much Higher Prices

As we know from history, low prices lead to higher prices. The solution to low prices is low prices and exploration is being cut dramatically everywhere and that is going to eventually cause much higher prices for Natural Gas and energy in general. (United States Natural Gas Fund, LP (UNG), United States Oil Fund LP ETF (USO))

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.

Some Parts Of The Chinese Economy Continue To Boom

Some parts of the Chinese economy continue to boom. If you are in pollution clean up, Oh my God!, you are making so much money that you cannot even count it because there are many problems that need to be fixed in China. (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.

Next Move: Shorting European Indexes

I would like to short Europe on this rally. I am going to short some Europe in this rally. That is probably the next action I will take.

Related market indexes: DAX Index, CAC 40 Index, FTSE 100 Index, IBEX 35 Index, EuroStoxx 50 index

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.

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.