While the Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader focuses on investment over a one week to six-month time frame, Mad Day Trader, provided by Jim Parker, will exploit money-making opportunities over a brief ten minute to three day window. It is ideally suited for day traders, but can also be used by long-term investors to improve market timing for entry and exit points.
While the Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader focuses on investment over a one week to six-month time frame, Mad Day Trader, provided by Jim Parker, will exploit money-making opportunities over a brief ten minute to three day window. It is ideally suited for day traders, but can also be used by long-term investors to improve market timing for entry and exit points.
Global Market Comments
December 19, 2013
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(MAD HEDGE FUND TRADER PROFIT HITS 63%),
(SPY), (TLT), (FXY), (SFTBY), (AAPL), (XLF),
(I WAS WRONG?.BUT IT DIDN?T MATTER)
(A DIFFERENT VIEW OF THE US)
(THE STRUCTURAL BEAR CASE FOR TREASURY BONDS),
(TLT), (TBT)
SPDR S&P 500 (SPY)
iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (TLT)
CurrencyShares Japanese Yen Trust (FXY)
SoftBank Corp. (SFTBY)
Apple Inc. (AAPL)
Financial Select Sector SPDR (XLF)
ProShares UltraShort 20+ Year Treasury (TBT)
The performance of the Mad Hedge Fund Trader?s Trade Alert Service is still going ballistic, reaching the heady height of 63.08% for the year.
Including both open and closed trades, 24 out of the last 26 consecutive Trade Alerts have been profitable. The results so far in December are up a stunning +7.04.
The three-year return is an eye popping 118%, compared to a far more modest increase for the Dow Average during the same period of only 32%.
That brings my averaged annualized return up to 39.3%.
This has been the profit since my groundbreaking trade mentoring service was launched three years ago. It all is a matter of the harder I work, the luckier I get.
I held on to every risk on position during the two-week December correction, fully expecting the pause to become the springboard for a new run to all time highs by year-end. That is exactly what happened in the wake of the Federal Reserve?s decision to taper its quantitative easing program by only $10 billion a month, mere sofa change given the size of our bond market.
That sent off to the races my long positions in the Financials Select Sector SPDR (XLV), the S&P 500 (SPY), and Internet giant Softbank (SFTBY). I cashed in one of my three short positions in the Japanese yen (FXY), which broke to new multiyear lows. I kept my shorts in the Treasury bond market (TLT), which crashed. I?ll double up here on the next rally.
It looks like I still have room to take in a few more percentage points in profits before 2014. Japan should explode to the upside tonight, where I am maintaining a hefty 40% weighting in my model trading portfolio. My followers will spend New Years laughing all the way to the bank.
This is how the pros do it, and you can too, if you wish.
Carving out the 2013 trades alone, 77 out of 92 have made money, a success rate of 83%. It is a track record that most big hedge funds would kill for.
My esteemed colleague, Mad Day Trader Jim Parker, has also been coining it. Since April, his own performance numbers have just come back from the auditors, revealing that he is up a staggering 279%.
The coming winter promises to deliver a harvest of new trading opportunities. The big driver will be a global synchronized recovery that promises to drive markets into the stratosphere in 2014. The Trade Alerts should be coming hot and heavy. Please join me on the gravy train. You will never get a better chance than this to make money for your personal account.
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Ben Bernanke finally did the deed. He tapered his quantitative easing program, from $85 to $75 billion a month. I thought he would wait until next month for incoming Fed governor Janet Yellen to take the helm, and the responsibility. It was not to be.
The good news for followers of my Trade Alert Service was that it didn?t matter. $85 or $75 billion is really six of one and half dozen of another, almost. As we used to say on the trading desk at Morgan Stanley, just take the difference out of my next paycheck. It is a win-win, which I had expected.
The one certainty today was that the Fed would make a decision. Now that it?s out of the way, stocks can only go up.
Market?s reacted as if there had been no taper at all. Stocks and the dollar rocketed, led by financials, technology, health care, and industrials. Softbank gapped up and is approaching a new high for the year. Bonds, gold, volatility, and the yen collapsed. My model trading portfolio is almost a perfect reflection of what you should be doing with your money.
Big Ben?s incredibly dovish talk we received during the press conference that followed was fantastic news for risk assets everywhere. It means that interest rates will remain lower for longer than most expected. ?Highly accommodative money monetary policy remains appropriate? is still ringing in my ears. This will remain the case until unemployment falls ?well below 6.5%? and inflation returns to 2%. ?The Fed balance sheet will continue to expand.?
What all this does is deliver a ?goldilocks? scenario for the foreseeable future. The potential disasters for January, a Fed taper and a Washington shut down have suddenly gone missing.
Ben?s Christmas present to us all is a printing press to print money in the markets for the next three months.
That?s Ben! That?s Just What I Wanted!While the Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader focuses on investment over a one week to six-month time frame, Mad Day Trader, provided by Jim Parker, will exploit money-making opportunities over a brief ten minute to three day window. It is ideally suited for day traders, but can also be used by long-term investors to improve market timing for entry and exit points.
While the Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader focuses on investment over a one week to six-month time frame, Mad Day Trader, provided by Jim Parker, will exploit money-making opportunities over a brief ten minute to three day window. It is ideally suited for day traders, but can also be used by long-term investors to improve market timing for entry and exit points.
While the Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader focuses on investment over a one week to six-month time frame, Mad Day Trader, provided by Jim Parker, will exploit money-making opportunities over a brief ten minute to three day window. It is ideally suited for day traders, but can also be used by long-term investors to improve market timing for entry and exit points.
While the Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader focuses on investment over a one week to six-month time frame, Mad Day Trader, provided by Jim Parker, will exploit money-making opportunities over a brief ten minute to three day window. It is ideally suited for day traders, but can also be used by long-term investors to improve market timing for entry and exit points.
Global Market Comments
December 18, 2013
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(THE RECEPTION THAT THE STARS FELL UPON),
(NLR), (CCJ), (CORN), (WEAT), (SOYB), (DBA),
(OIL ISN?T WHAT IT USED TO BE), (USO),
(TAKING A BITE OUT OF STEALTH INFLATION), (SGG), (WEAT)
Market Vectors Uranium+Nuclear Enrgy ETF (NLR)
Cameco Corporation (CCJ)
Teucrium Corn (CORN)
Teucrium Wheat (WEAT)
Teucrium Soybean (SOYB)
PowerShares DB Agriculture (DBA)
United States Oil (USO)
iPath DJ-UBS Sugar TR Sub-Idx ETN (SGG)