Fast money starts right now live in the NASDAQ market site overlooking New York

City's Times Square. I'm Melissa Lear traders on the desk or Tim Seymour.

Mike Co. Gina Sanchez and Carter Work tonight on Fast. The shorts are piling in

on some of the biggest tech names in the market.

So are these high flyers in trouble?

We've got the details.

Plus, from worst to first.

Energy has been lagging all year, but the Chartmaster says it's about to take off.

He'll break that trade down. And later, it's about to take off he'll break that trade down and later it's into

sin casinos and other so-called vice stocks have been surging but if history is

any indication it could be time to call it quits we will explain but first we start off with of course the

markets the S&P Dow and Nasak closing at the dead lows on this last

trading session of the year the Dow dropping a hundred points this after what has

been a record year for stocks

now surging 25% seeing 71 record closes for its best performance since 2013. The

U.S. gaining 4.5 trillion dollars in market capitalization, but it wasn't just here.

Investors all over the world have reason to celebrate. China up 33 percent, its best year

since 09, Germany, Europe, Japan, all up more than 20%. This is as measured by the ETS, even

Brazil getting in on the action. So the global stocks are booming. Where should you put your

money in 2018? Tim. Well if you look at that chart, one of the reasons global stocks were booming is because the dollar

was weaker and if you think about a lot of those returns, if you invest in say the EWG, which is Germany, you're investing

as a dollar investor and actually the euro strengthened and at some level while that's

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