Thank you for talking with me on the phone right before Christmas.? I enjoyed our conversation and look forward to meeting you at your Incline Village Global Strategy Luncheon in the spring.?
I will also look forward to the hike up to 12,000 ft. after our lunch, (are you sure you want to spot me by carrying a 60 lbs pack?). I usually stop running at 12,000 just saying. LOL.?
Hope you are having a great day! I renewed today!
Greg B.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Winter Hiking at 12,000 Feet in the High Sierras
Hi John,
I now have some great strategies, which are working well thanks to you. I just need to follow them, stop listening to others, and stick more to my own plan, and of course your research.
All the best for the festive season.
Dallas
Melbourne, Australia
Hatchet Throwing Contest at Fort Vancouver, Washington
I would like to express how much I enjoy reading your newsletter and the global views that I gain from it.?
It has been the best, by far, and the most financially worthwhile letter I have ever bought.? I find most newsletters spin and promote their returns during the good times, and never factor in or disclose their bad times.
I have had some bad trades with you, but the results from the good trades far outnumber them.? I do take positions based on your recommendations and have done very well.?
My portfolio has grown by over $1 million from shorting the yen, since late November, based on your calls. That is with no more than $200,000 invested in yen shorts at any one time. This has been far and away the single best trade of my life!
Thank you very much! May we all have many more of these!!
Thanks John,
Rob
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
I have been in the money management business working for a long time-only manager for 18 years, and in this business for 35.? I know you are the real deal.?
I also know many hedge fund managers. Besides Ken Griffin in Chicago at Citadel, who is up 16% year to date, very few are even up for the year.?
I believe in what you do.
Don
Cleveland, OH
SUPER trade with the (XIV). Thank you John!
I happened to be in front of my screens, when the alert came in. I saw it on the 5-minute divergence between price and RSI and went long at 27.60.
I?m at dinner just now and I got your ?take profit? Trade Alert.
I checked the chart and found we were at the 61.8% retracement of yesterday's move and took profits perfectly at $29.83. I took in an 8.08% profit in one day. That?s $818.41 less $4 bucks in commissions.
Nice, nice trade.
Thank you again John. Thank you for your call the other day.
Have a nice weekend coming up.
Semper Fi from Germany
Yours,
Jay
I have always had a passion for the markets and the Mad Hedge Fund Trader gave me the courage to make my first trade. At the time I was unemployed and put in everything I could scrape together - about ten thousand dollars.
For me this was a free education, as the profits would pay for all the books and the fees. My father gave me some money as a gift, while telling me ?I was crazy? following ?some guy? off the internet.
Every suggestion I have taken religiously. I follow all your lead indicators from the Shanghai stock market to Dr. Copper and the jobless claims. In the last couple of months I have started doing my own successful options trades based on the extra suggestions you give in the webinars and commentaries. Often I do a trade and ten minutes later an alert comes.
My father who is worried about his future (like so many of us) is now joining the program. I am going to assist him with his first trades. Another family member has asked me to manage his money. I really feel you are helping me become a hedge fund manager with this fantastic program.
Geoff
London ? England
Holy smokes! You really did it with the UNG trade. Up 25% in two hours? How did you do that? It was the best trade you?ve ever done. It?s the best trade I?ve ever done.
It was the right thing to do at the right time. And you had the balls to put it on after the (UNG) opened down a dollar. The follow up report was one of your best ever written as well. I will never again doubt your advice.
The next chicken fried steak at Billy Bob?s is on me. Thank?s a million.
George
Tampa, Florida
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Lee
Napa, California
The wise JT is correct again.? Nice short on the S&P 500 (SPY).
Dallas,
Melbourne, Australia
It would be remiss of me not to give thanks to you during this Thanksgiving season for all of your wise and profitable trading advice and wonderfully captivating and intense diaries. You are indeed very generous to your subscribers.
Based on what I have received so far it could not have been more fortuitous for me to have taken up your generous offer to profit from your brain trust.
I have positions in Apple (AAPL) and the Financials (XLF) based on your recommendations. Although I am not fond of Citigroup (C), JP Morgan (JPM), or Wells Fargo (WFC), at least I see (GS) in there!
I really find it somewhat difficult to place trades for the yen (FXY). My parents fled China during the Japanese invasion and settled in Burma where my father's family had a teak lumber business. ?He was cruelly tortured by the Japanese, so I try to avoid anything produced by them.
I drive a SAAB car?(born of jets!!!), own a Bang & Olufsen stereo and a Phillips television set, and rarely eat sushi. ?
I know you have extensive contacts with the Japanese peoples, culture, and economy and it would be foolish of me not to heed your excellent advice on the yen, I just haven't gotten my mind around to it yet.
Do allow me to offer "A Million thank you's" for your excellent trade advice and wonderfully prolific magnum opus diaries!!!!
Shirley
San Francisco, CA
That Was Some Move!