some protection, xlf short dated put. >> please stop the music. >> still, fade to black. please. >> i'm mellissa lee, see you back here tomorrow, my mission is simple. to make you money. i'm here to level the playing field for all investors. there's all a bull market somewhere. and i promise to help you find it. "mad money" starts now. hey, i'm cramer. welcome to "mad money." welcome to cramerica. other people want to make friends, i'm just trying to make you some money. my job is not just to entertain, but to educate and teach you. let's be honest about washington. it's gone from a fabulous tail wind, to a bitter headwind.

and on days like today, where the dow dipped 7 points, s&p declined 1.4%. it's more like a tornado that you just hope misses, you that's right, washington's back to its old tricks. so it's crime, right now, right here, on cramer's "mad money," had me rethink the whole idea of the trump trade. don't get me wrong. business is in good shape, both here and abroad. i'm not saying the economy is in trouble. it's just that the trump trades of today are very different from the trump trades of four or five months ago, these days more likely to hurt a bull than help. even though so many companies are doing well. for example, what was this morning's donald trump trade? easy, it's the one that came off in tweet from the real donald trump. north korea is looking for real trouble, if china is looking to

help, great, we will solve the problem without them. usa end quote. the trump trade, buy gold, by randgold. that's probably not the trump trade you were expecting, though, huh? if this works and china actually reins in north korea, terrific. but his tweet is do gold. that's a pretty good idea. trump could send two-time apprentice loser dennis rodman to try to rekindle the basketball's star ongoing dialogue with north korean leader jim kim jong-un. the second time he was dumped from the apprentice before winning the prize.

we know rodman's got some street cred with north korea's dictator, he called him awesome, very humble as a man, end quote. there's another trump trade coming up, it's the april 28 deadline to raise the dead celling is rapidly approaching, when you consider that republicans control the house and the senate, what are the odds that they also fail to raise the debt ceiling, resulting in another shutdown, or another s&p downgrade. t in a very short period of time. that was pure partisan bickering and we saw it coming because the republicans hated the democrats so much. the problem now is that the gop has created a monster. we have got republicans hating

each other, and the democrats at the same time. who will shepherd a debt ceiling hike through congress? will we have to rely on house speaker paul ryan, the self styled intellectual that failed to spectacularly on health care? unlike repealing obamacare, raising the debt ceiling could get a lot of votes. so that could be another trump trade, one that causes the averages to pull back as we get closer to the ceiling, who would have thought that it might be worth buying puts on the market, as we get close to that date? i think it might be. we added another ceo white house meeting today, the more ceos trump brings in, the more likely the companies are to hire. the company says that creating good paying jobs is at the top of the agenda. to me it feels less like a promise but more like a warning. a warning to companies not to do

any deals that will cut jobs. they only make sense because the acquirer can fire lots of people to boost profits. so let's be careful of any company that's merging with another has it's ceo invited to the white house, because that might take the sinnynergies offe table. it could mean that some world leaders get blocked. i'm worried that the time warner transaction may not close by year end, because it's a high profile deal the president said he didn't like. maybe you could buy some puts on time-warner, why not? even if it does go through, it will be pardon to get the sin r synergy. even as i highly doubt congress would ever pass a border tax,

heavily indebted changes like jcpenney and sears may not survive a border tax. maybe the president wants to get something done so badly that he embraces the border tax as some sort of larger tax reform package. of course hurting working people to give corporations a tax cut, seems a little bit like political suicide today, hey, i don't know, paul ryan thinks it's smart, but there's not enough votes in the senate. maybe paul ryan will be some ubermeister who gets everything he wants. it's not like they could raise their prices to become the $2 tree, or the $2 general, would you shop there? and if they pass on the costs to consumers, then their customers will just leave them for walmart. other possible trump trades, the more we run this united airlines video, there's more likely that we get a presidential tweet

calling for an investigation into what happened, maybe to stop airlines from double booking, take away double booking and the earnings for the airlines will just get hammered. i recommended buying united a few days after the incident surfaced. finally, do we, don't we, i'm thinking, have to start betting against the automakers? first obviously they no longer have the maneuverability to even threaten their unions by moving to new mexico. second, you have to wonder how they even get any work done. mary barrow the ceo of gm was in to see the president again today as part of a ceo round table, when does she have time to actually run the company s let's hope that ford's mark field getting called into congress tomorrow. it would be nice to see ford in

the field rather than chatting at the oval office. let's by the biotechs, let's buy the drug companies, i mean no, no. maybe i look facetious when i said that dennis rodman might intervene in the north korean situation, thank goodness there's no embassy there and he was fired twice. to many washington has become a source of fear rather than optimism. just today trump put up a tweet that might make you bet against some of the bigger eximportanpo china. i explained to china that -- what if they don't solve the north korean problem, are our exportered in trouble. as much as trump likes china's pro business policies, we know the economy is doing better, and that's baked in too. unfortunately, these political negatives that keep popping up,

are more like unknown unknowns, that aren't yet baked into anything. bottom line, it pretty simple, it's come right here, right now, to redefine the trump trade. at this pace, we have got the direction all wrong. the trump trade involves taking down a lot of put options and buying a lot of gold. hey, as long as there's volatility, we can help you make money. while the president's family convinces him to stop using twitter, you might want to get some protection at the stock market, even again as so many u.s. companies are doing so well. mark in the new york, mark. >> caller: good health from east meadow new york. i bought some stocks years ago from a local banks as they went public and kept on buying and reinvesting, ultimately they got bought out by new york amenity

bank corp. since the purchase or the story of federal bank, the share prices got lowered much more than other regionals than other banks in suffolk county. the bank itself is pretty strong. >> oh, yes. >> caller: can you give me an idea and your opinion on why this is going on. >> well, sure, i mean, sir, it's actually -- first of all, thank you for the kind words, but interest rates went down dramatically, this company needs interest rates to go up dramatically. so every time the interest rates went down, this company's stock gets hurt. that does not mean this company itself, the franchise is good, you're right, don't want you to sell it. but understand the earnings per share estimate has to come down at this rate of interest rates going lower. >> pat in illinois, pat? >> caller: i see tractor supply

is down in after hours, in your opinion, is it a buy, sell or hold? >> when you have disappointment like this again and again and again, my suggestion is you wait two quarters before you even think about buying it. this is a major penalty. you know, it's like a ten-minute one, not like a two-minute one. it's just like two red flags in the nfl. right? they're now letting you so you can't even come back on the field. that's how i feel about tractor supply, two quarters before they get back out on the field. "mad money" tonight, i'm breaking down biotech, to see if donald trump's attitude toward drug pricing will have a lasting impact on the sector. and then with news that jit's t growing medical biotics company, but i think it might not be one

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sometimes i really wish more money managers would they can a high school level civics class. because wall street has a tendency to take things that politicians say way too seriously. for much of last year, the -- part of price controls, but it was the narrative and the narratives scared people. then donald trump surprised the world with his victory and the biotechs were pushed higher.

then trump said he wanted to doing? about the high cost of drugs too. the government should do more to negotiate with drugmakers or even go to far as to engage price controls. the republicans control both the house and the senate and the gop prides itself as the party of free enterprise and laze fare technology. instead of spending so much time worrying about washington, we should devote more attention as to how these stocks are doing. that's why tonight, we're going off the charts with explosives options dot net. it's red hot trifecta stocks

newsletters. in order to focus on biotech stocks we could buy, throw in a large bio, large pharma because we can't resist. sage therapeutics, simple sage, it's a company that develops treatments for central nervous system disorders. including mental health problems. lang says this is his favorite chart in the spire space. sage has made a bold pattern, shaped consolidation right there. then a couple of weeks ago, the stock started breaking out to new highs, that's a rarity in the biotech code of late. rising from 64 to 71 on very strong volume. relatively to what's been going on. meanwhile the moving average converges to the mac-d

indicator, that helps investors look forward. nbc made a bullish crossover, where the black line goes above the red one, we're okay there, and that's a very reliably positive indicator. plus sage has given us some positive signs versus the rest of the market. and the stock coming down 1.62. lang is giving you a better entry point. sage, though, it's very speculative, it's an unprofitable development stage biotech, and so how about something a little bit speculative. consider the daily chart of long time uber crimer fame selge. after faltering in january.

when my wang p-- suggests to hi that the stock is something that's biding its time here before the next big move. in fact his consolidation theory may be coming to an end right here. we have to look at the percentage r indicator, that's named after larry williams, we have had some pretty good success with, remember that cosco trade. while celg is -- one celg can march past it's high, lang believes the stock will start breaking out, easily sailing through 130, okay? that's a very significant move. what about long time cramer

gave, alergen. it's got a real good pipeline and language likes the chart very much. so let's go into what he sees, ever since this very sharp move higher in february, allegen has been consolidating in the form of symmetrical trying pattern, but he sees the symmetrical triangle pattern, he likes that. soon we'll reach the end of that triangle, and when that happens, you tend to get a break out to the up side or break down. i fear a breakdown, not him. langua language -- lang -- that would be a massive breakout considering he hasn't been able to get through that line in a long time. finally look at the daily chart of another company, kite pharma.

it's one of the immunotherapy plays that's been all over the map. kite's stock roared 50% higher in just three days, nice. since then it's been trading sideways. he thinks it's important to note that once again we have got a stock that's building a base at a higher level. he loves that. lang says you're getting a low risk entry point and that floor of support has already been tested and held twice, boom, boom. if kite can break above $85, which is a few bucks above here, $7, lang believes it's a straight shot to $100. here's the bottom line, sometimes political worries are simply a smoke screen to scare

you out of high quality stock. i think it's a political red herring, and the charts charts. we have a food fight heating up in the market, is there enough room in the market for whole foods and it's new organic and natural competitors. and the worldwide market for spinal surgical robots are expected to move over 2 billion by 2022. with rumblings of more big deals to come. could there be an unintended consequence. stick with cramer. think again.

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model be in tgrocery, what does investor action mean for the future of whole foods? >> we all knew someone someday would come for whole foods, there's way the stock of such a well known profitable brand could stay at $30 as longs it did before activists finally got involved. we heard that jana partners along with associates have taken an 8% stake in the stock of whole foods, it shouldn't have been all that shocking. it gave back almost 2% in profit taking today. the heavy weight activist fund was in the end a pretty likely occurrence, given the long history of supermarkets attracting activists and given the constant moving of this stock. it's happened for ages. what do you do with stock of whole foods if you own it?

the company has had flat earnings for four years, it hasn't been able to keep up to date with all the competition. do you bet that something happens good? or do you ring the register, and maybe take some profits here and now? i think taking profits is pretty tempting even after today when you consider the current natural and organic landscape. whether it's sprouts or the inexpensive cost end with costco or walmart. they're all coming for whole foods. and if you want a cheap knockoff with an incredibly rich parent, you go to trader joes, to buy this stuff that seems like it's being sold below cost? and why not. with about 460 stores, whole foods isn't big enough to box anyone out. it's formula of natural organic

isn't so novel, it's everywhere. and now it has inexpensive products made by treehouse food. you knew that whole foods was cornered when you could start wandering through the aisles of a kroger that has 2,000 plus locations and see natural and organic goods all over the store, particularly the private label stuff. it's all side by side with the regular brands, but cheaper because kroger makes it in house. cheaper is almost never associated with whole foods. walmart and target who have been oblivious for so long are catching up. in massachusetts i asked for rice cakes, i was sent to the rice crispy aisle, you know, the candy? now they have aisles of the stuff.

it's not like whole foods hasn't tried to differentiate itself since it came under assault. it's competitive, and it has fabulous prepared food. it's a great place to shop, if you can afford it. but it's got an expensive reputation, especially when it comes to those prepared foods. where is its fabulous loyalty program at the now acquired panera? where is it's convenient delivery program? plus whole foods wants to put stores up in inner cities and other difficult locations to negotiate where the payoff might be long-term, but we're in a very short-term society. whole foods is a great member of the community, but it didn't matter to these short-termers. i love it. but their goods are mightily expensive. oh, it's a pleasure to go there

with it's breezy aisles and rooftop garden. but millennials don't want to stop on the top floor and have a craft beer when they're shopping, they hate shopping, they're very frugal. they want to get in and get out, cheaply. can jana's representatives make a difference then? let's see, i say that this guy glen murry rr rphy has listen with turning around gap. has gap turned around? you know the reason i don't like the stock of kroger so much, it's because there was so much low hanging fruit. the former chief operating officer of safe way is joining the slate. i always thought that safeway could learn a thing or two from whole foods. but at this point, i don't know if anyone can make a difference,

not with that competition, so the question is what does jana really want? what do they think they can do? they don't just want whole foods to buy back its stock. now with it's various regional heads and overt decentralization, whole foods does have tremendous overhead. but that could change. the company's goal for ages has been to double the store count. and then out of nowhere they said triple it. but none of that matters since the same store isn't it increasing. they unveiled a cheaper version of whole foods three years ago. whole foods has set out to become much more in touch with his customers, but i don't know what happened to that initiative. he left the company with little explanation, or even kindness.

it would have been better for whole foods to invest all that money in better technology, i don't even know if it matters now. the issue for me is, has whole foods just been passed by? who would want it now? the goal of everyone in the food business is to kill this company. i don't suspect that the wildly independent chuck macke is going to give up the reins very easily. so me all this means one thing, it's a great idea to try to get whole foods into making its more profitable. the best hope, perhaps the one jana has kept on, perhaps maybe a farm buyer wants to take on trader joes. in other words you've likely already missed the big move here unless jana has someone lined up to buy the darn thing. i don't they own enough stock to do a trick for a business that's being eaten alive by everyone else in the food store universe.

bottom line, legend of whole paycheck with a reputation that only the rich can afford to go there. sure, food inflation does come back and that is a possibility, costco said. jana might be becaailed out, bu every dollar up here reflects that. only a sale can make this go higher, so unless jana has a buyer lined up, i'm going to bet you sold whole foods if it gets back to that 43$434, $435 level. >> caller: i bought elp or poll

loco. do you think it's going to go anywhere? >> it had one of the best quarters of any of the restaurants. it was only the company that reported that day, i read through it line for line, i think pollo loco is a good one. jana, here's some advice, go get a buyer to buy whole foods, otherwise i don't think anything you do will make a difference. 78 million people worldwide suffer from chronic back pain, i'm buying one company that's helping potential patients. and rapid fire in tonight's edition of "the lightning round." so stick with cramer.

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after spending the bulk of last year worrying, many of the medical device stocks have cooled in 2017. but there is at least one red hot medical technology play that you probably never ahead of. it's called mazo robotics, and mzdr, a stock that i got asked about on twitter. mazo robotics is an israeli surgical guide system that performs all kinds of surgeries on spines. and the stock has rallied over 150% over the last 12 months, including a 30% gain year to date. what's been driving this impressive move? and more important for you can

it continue? maybe it's just not worth chasing. mazo robotics is like a smaller less well known version of isrg, another maker of surgical robots. mazo's machines are all about spinal surgery, big market. and there's another difference, the company's flagship product, the renaissance guidance system, you have a robot performing the surgery that's guided by the surgeon. with mazo's system, it's more like the surgeon is guided by the robot. the machine helps them with incredibly complicated procedures, much simpler. how good is this machine? how about this, hospitals are

willing to pay anywhere from $800,000 to $100,000 a pop for one of these devices. on the big picture side of things, ever since the affordable care act went into effect, hospitals have become more accountable for patient outcomes and they have become responsible for their employees, which means they share risk. even if it makes spinal surgeries a little less profitable in the short term. as the nation gets fatter, there's more likely that people get back problems. and mazor get -- that agreed to purchase 15 of mazor's new machines. then last july, mazor unveiled

it's robot that included imaging tools that allowed it to automatically recognize a patient's spinal anatomy. there's been a ton of interest from doctors because of this new twist. in fact when you drill down into the specifics, it's a fact that mazor robotics has done incredibly well. plus there's still a lot of room to run and to expand here. less than 2% of spinal surgeries are performed with mechanical systems from robotics, mazor was the first mover here. those 21 orders in the fourth quarter, translated into 59% revenue growth, and even though the company is not profitable, it getting close to break in. we did get some very positive commentary when mazor reported in early february. they said they have been having trouble marketing the co-p

co-partnersh co-partnership. on top of that the company is adding sales reps and more and more clinical trial data. last week mazor announced some pretty excellent numbers, reporting 80% revenue growth, substantially better than what the managers were looking for. of course some very real issues here that make me feel a little less confident about embracing the stock, first there's the question of competition. when a medical device company starts to create new business, it tends to be the kiss of death to mazor's profit margin. and being the only machine that's approved for spinal procedures. m medtronic and j & j global is in there.

the other problem, mazor still needs to raise awareness and convince doctors and hospitals that it's systems are worth buying. it's hard to say how they're doing this. but i have to admit that it concerns me that mazor has so few of its machines in teaching hospitals. the first thing they should do is get them into teaching hospitals because that's how you reach the largest number of physicians, especially the young ones who represent the future of the industry, what else? once a hospital buys one of mazor's machine's, they set for years, right now the install base for these things is very small, so at the moment the vast majority of mazor's profits come from revenue base. plus mazor is not yet profitable, even though the company sales keep rising, so is it's marketing spending, it's up 30% last year. that's money well spent. we still don't know when mazor

will turn a profit. if by some miracle, republicans do manage to repeal obamacare, hard to see what that happening, that may make hospitals less willing to buy these machines. where does this leave us? on the one hand, mazor robotics has carved out a unique niche for himself. mazor's platform helps to cut down on complications on spine m surgery, it saves them time and reduces their stress level and it even cuts down on costs. that said, the stock has more than doubled over the past year, and i got to wonder if they can keep delivering. the question now is whether they have the marketing chops to sell enough of these systems to justify the stock's valuation. my view? there's some real risks here that i have fully outlined.

i these mazor has what it takes. let me give you the bottom line here, sure mazor robotics has been on a tear, but that doesn't mean the party needs to end any time soon. this company is the only real player in a very lucrative business and i wouldn't be surprised if it's got more room to run, maybe a lot more room. however, let's consider mazor for speculation only, you don't want your retirement money anywhere near something this risky. liberty mutual stood with us when a fire destroyed the living room. we were able to replace everything in it. liberty did what? liberty mutual paid to replace all of our property that was damaged. and we didn't have to touch our savings. yeah, our insurance

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it is time for "the lightning round." [ buzzer ] and then "the lightning round" is over, are you ready see can dad daddy? i'm going to start with roy in california. >> caller: i have exxon, do you

think it's good for a long-term? >> it's gotten much better with a couple of mergers. les go to larry in new york. >> caller: boo-yah, jim. bounty national bank. i was wondering if you think they're a good bank? >> they were very inquizive and i have to tell you i happy to like bali, new jersey bank, did some business with them at one point. understanding that the banks are under a great deal of pressure, because interest rates are so low. how about mike in florida? mike? >> caller: hey, jim, welcome to sunny florida. symbol axcn. >> axogen.

nick in illinois, nick? >> caller: i wanted to know what do you think about skylar. >> everybo -- sky works? >> we know that obviously there was a problem with one supplier over in europe. i have to tell you, i see the money, just hot money back and forth in skyworks, let it come in, tomorrow let some analyst panic and downgrade it and then do some buying. >> caller: hey, jim, i love in show, man. >> thanks, man. >> caller: there's a lot of talk about transocean being a buy.

let >> let's go to don in texas. >> caller: master cramer, please tell me why saic is tanking faster than my red raiders? >> geez, i love the red raiders. i got to tell you, i think it's a trump trade. and you know what a trump trade is these days? sell, sell, sell, sell. say no more. and i take another, yes, we're going to eddie in florida. eddie? >> caller: boo-yah from sunny south florida, jim. listen, thank you for everything you do and what i would like is your thought on new star energy lp. >> that's a transporter of crude oil, that's a very tough business. i think you're taking on too

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the initial offering day is here, and i don't like it, no, i don't like it one bit.

just this week we have seven deals, the most this year and one week, and the stock market just isn't equipped to handle all these new supply, particularly with sop of these suboptimal offerings first azul which means blue in spanish and portuguese. it's not the very good liquor, it's the brazilian jetblue, which makes sense. it's also a potentially compelling company if you like brazil. largest brazilian airlines in terms of departures. there's hot money but this one opened at a small premium. or just plain gold. the airlines up 140% year to date. even though azul did go out at a premium, this is not the stock that you want to kick off a flood of ipo's because airlines

are terrifricky and risky. a special purpose acquisition. i just like these stocks. sure it might work out, but it's hard to be involved in something when you don't even know what it will end up being. next ipo, cane's back in court. it's a decent bank with decent profitability. but you buy this one, you better hope that the other banks have some superior numbers, they're in control. i know people have been falling back in love with coal now that trump is president. so warrior met coal, leaves a bitter taste in my mouth having just filed for bankruptcy two years ago.

so warrior met coal could pop, but it's bankruptcy is not reassuring. in case you haven't had enough of brazil, you may be interested in net shoes. this is an online sporting and shoes retailer. you know you're getting to the bottom of the barrel when you start seeing clinical stage b biotechs. the clinical stage anti-cancer gene therapy play. i think that unless it has a magic elixir, you would simply be buying a lottery ticket. i may prefer the lottery ticket. finally there's yext. they're advertising themselves as an enterprise play that gives businesses control across various ecosystems. this is exactly the kind of

company that i would expect to go public at the tail of ipo season. maybe the bankers can make it hot by only offering a small sliver a lot of stocks. this is a holiday shortened week with not a lot of room for any deals. that's far too much sand it makes me a little bit more pessimistic than i like to be. there's too much supply jammed into the market without enough demand. that's what's happened this week with a flood of ipos. and that's often co-inincided w a short-term stop. stick with cramer. stick with cramer. and drive forward with broader possibilities. cme group: how the world advances.

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