Featured Trades: (BEHAVIORAL TARGETING) 3) Be Careful .Your PC is Watching. Hey! You there, staring at this monitor. This is your PC talking to you. No, not you over there standing in the background. I’m talking to the guy sitting in front of me poking at my keys. Ouch! That one hurt! So you thought [...]

'Don't believe the numbers that any government tells you. Lying is what they do,' said Jim Rodgers, the legendary co-founder with George Soros of the Quantum Fund.

SPECIAL COPPER ISSUE Featured Trades: (COPPER), (CU), (JJC), (ECH), (FCX) FOR PAID SUBSCRIBERS ONLY 1) Copper Turns Into Gold. – - Want to Race for Pink Slips? -

Featured Trades: (ECONOMY UPGRADE FEVER), ($SSEC), (SSO), (X), (CU), (COPPER) 1) The Upgrade Fever Pandemic. I knew it, I knew it, I knew it. As soon as Bill Gross at bond giant, PIMCO, announced that it was off to the races with a 1% mark up in his GDP forecast for 2011, upgrade fever would [...]

Featured Trades: (NISSAN LEAF), (NSANY) 2) The Nissan Leaf Roll Out. With great fanfare and celebration, Nissan Motors (NSANY) at long last delivered its first all electric, 100 mile range Leaf to an ecstatic customer at San Francisco city hall today. Long time readers of this letter know that I have been banging the table [...]

'This is the ultimate Keynesian stimulus. We debated all summer and Keynes won. This is $800-$900 billion of stimulus over the next two years. This guarantees that the economy will surprise to the upside,' said Greg Valliere, chief research strategist at the Potomac Group.

Featured Trades: (SOARING WITH THE EAGLES), (SLV), (AGQ), (GLD), (TBF), (TBT), (XLF), (BAC), (YCS) 1) Soaring With the Eagles. I was sleeping like a rock last night, having one of those great flying dreams. I dove, rolled, and looped through the clouds, and soared with the eagles, my arms stretched out like wings. The phone [...]

Featured Trades: (TECHNOLOGY STOCKS), (INTC), (CSCO), (QQQQ), (JNPR), (JSDU), (JNPR), (ROM), (CSCO)   2) Get Ready to Load the Boat With Tech Stocks. There is one sector that hedge funds have an absolute laser focus on these days, and that is technology stocks. This is where they will be pouncing at the first sign of [...]

Featured Trades: (SLV), (BAL), (PALL), (JO), (JJG), (CORN), (UNG), (FXE) (WHAT A YEAR!) 3) And What a Year It's Been! Look at the year to date performance of  the asset classes below, and it almost looks like my buy and sell recommendations I put out at the beginning of 2010. I had strong buy recommendations [...]

'When you fly from Shanghai airport to New York airport, you're flying from the Jetsons to the Flintstone's,' said Hot, Flat, and Crowded author Tom Friedman.

Featured Trades: (CHICAGO STRATEGY LUNCHEON)   1) Only Two Weeks Until the December 28 Chicago Strategy Luncheon. Come join me for lunch at the Mad Hedge Fund Trader’s Global Strategy Update, which I will be conducting in Chicago on Tuesday, December 28, 2010. A three course lunch will be followed by a 45 minute PowerPoint [...]

Featured Trades: (A TECHNICAL UPDATE ON YOUR POSITIONS), (BAC) 2) The Lost Decade For Bonds Has Begun! In order to enjoy your coming weekend, I thought you'd like a technical update of your positions, so feast your eyes on the two charts below. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, so here [...]

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Featured Trades: (BAC) 1) What a Wild Day! I was looking forward to a quiet day today. I was sitting in front of the fireplace, an oak log that I had lovingly hand carried down from Mt. Diablo crackling away, reading the morning papers. Frank Sinatras' greatest hits was in the CD player (young readers [...]

Featured Trades: (TBT), (YCS), (SSO) 2) Instant Gratification Alert. If you are one of the 1,000 recent new subscribers to The Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader, religeously executed every trade I recommended, and ignore the naysayers and the party poopers, well done! As I write this, the leveraged short Treasury bond ETF, the [...]