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July 24 Zermatt, Switzerland Global Strategy Seminar

Diary, Newsletter

Come join me for afternoon tea for the Mad Hedge Fund Trader?s Global Strategy Seminar, which I will be conducting high in the Alps in Zermatt, Switzerland at 2:00 PM on Thursday, July 24, 2014.

A PowerPoint presentation will be followed by an open discussion on the crucial issues facing investors today. Coffee, tea, and schnapps will be made available, along with light snacks.

You are welcome to attend in your mountain climbing gear, but you will have to leave your boots at the door. Socks only are welcome, and if it?s cold, we will throw some extra wood on the fire. Last year, someone came down from the Matterhorn summit straight to the seminar, sunburned and tired, but elated. He even gave me a valued pebble from the summit.

I?ll be giving you my up to date view on stocks, bonds, foreign currencies, commodities, precious metals, and real estate. And to keep you in suspense, I?ll be throwing a few surprises out there too. Enough charts, tables, graphs, and statistics will be thrown at you to keep your ears ringing for a week. Tickets are available for $195.

I?ll be arriving early and leaving late in case anyone wants to have a one on one discussion, or just sit around and chew the fat about the financial markets.

The event will be held at a central Zermatt hotel with a great Matterhorn view, operated by one of the village?s oldest families and long time friends of mine. The hotel is just down the street from the town?s beautiful 17th century church.
The details will be emailed directly to you with your confirmation.

I look forward to meeting you, and thank you for supporting my research. To purchase tickets for the luncheons, please go to my online store.

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Mad Hedge Fund Trader

Announcing the Mad Hedge Fund Trader Video Channel on YouTube

Diary, Newsletter, Travel Videos

One request I get more than any other, is to expand on my half century of international travel, provide a business, economic, and historical backdrop, and place it in today?s global context.

Shake up such a cocktail of experience and knowledge, and more than a few trading and investment ideas spill over the top. If it?s funny, that helps too.

It seems that I am one of a tiny handful of people still alive in the world today who can do this.

Therefore, I am launching the Mad Hedge Fund Trader Video Channel on YouTube. This will provide the opportunity to offer you informative and well-researched videos on my non-stop travels around the world.

This is not your normal travel show. Think of it as Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous meets The Economist and the History Channel, all couched in a language any trader will understand.

I am not going to tell you about the standard, top ten sights in every city. Any guidebook bought at Amazon or found on line can do a better job than me. Instead, I will take you to the out of the way, the quirky, and the unconventional.

These are places of interest I have accumulated over five decades of living out of backpacks and suitcases. The goal is for you to learn from every single segment.

One of the great advantages of spending so long on the road is that I can chronicle the momentous changes that civilization has endured over the past half century. And sometimes, what hasn?t changed is much more impressive than what has.

I will be the sole producer of content for this show, grinding out entertainment and education as easy and cheaply as possible. Like everything else on the Internet, I am looking to achieve zero cost and infinite distribution.

So, all of the audio will be shot on my iPhone 5s. A running audio commentary will be provided via the Audio Memos app. Since the iPhone 5s is so sensitive, it picks up all the ambient sounds around me. I can only provide live audio when there is dead silence elsewhere.

Since the 19th century broadband found in many foreign hotels makes it difficult for me to email content back to the head office, segments are limited to a minute each. Each program will run from 15-30 minutes in length.

Full disclosure: None of the people involved in the production of this program have the slightest idea of what they are doing. They include the producers, editors, website designers, researchers, and of course, myself, the presenter, writer, and cameraman.

However, as with the inception of the Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader seven years ago, we shall push ourselves down the learning curve at hyper speed, or we shall perish. In a few months, these shows should get pretty good and might even make an appearance on a cable TV channel someday.

If you have any suggestions for how we might improve this service, or comments of any kind, positive or negative, please don?t hesitate to email me at support@madhedgefundtrader.com . Just put ?Video show? in the subject line and it will go straight to me.

You can?t beat the price. It?s free. The philosophy of this business has always been to charge people for the content that makes them money, like our market beating Trade Alert service, and give everything else away for nothing.

In the online business world, this is known as the ?walled garden? strategy whereby the public gets a taste of the far greater delights to be found with an upgrade. I was one of the originators of this revolutionary concept, and it appears that much of the mass media are now copying me.

It is true that imitation is in sincerest for of flattery.

So please come join me on my never-ending adventures. The first one is to London, England, which you watch by clicking here. Or just go to my home page at www.madhedgefundtrader.com and click on the ?MHFT Videos? menu tab.

Bon Voyage!

John Thomas

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Mad Hedge Fund Trader

July 16, 2014

Diary, Newsletter, Summary

Global Market Comments
July 16, 2014
Fiat Lux

Featured Trade:
(LAST CHANCE TO ATTEND THE JULY 18 BARCELONA, SPAIN STRATEGY LUNCHEON)
?(AN EVENING WITH TEXAS GOVERNOR RICK PERRY),
?(LNG), (UNG), (TSLA)

Cheniere Energy, Inc. (LNG)
United States Natural Gas (UNG)
Tesla Motors, Inc. (TSLA)

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Mad Hedge Fund Trader

July 16, 2014 - Quote of the Day

Diary

?AIG was regulated by the Office of Thrift Supervision, which I abolished. Actually, instead of abolishing it, I wanted to change the name to the Office of Fig Leaf Dispensation,? said former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Barney Frank.

David-Statue

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Mad Hedge Fund Trader

July 15, 2014

Diary, Newsletter, Summary

Global Market Comments
July 15, 2014
Fiat Lux

Featured Trade:
(JULY 17 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR FROM BARCELONA, SPAIN),
(JUMPING BACK INTO APPLE), (AAPL),
(HOW TO AVOID PONZI SCHEMES)

Apple Inc. (AAPL)

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Mad Hedge Fund Trader

July 14, 2014

Diary, Newsletter, Summary

Global Market Comments
July 14, 2014
Fiat Lux

SPECIAL MAD DAY TRADER ISSUE

Featured Trade:
(MAD DAY TRADER JIM PARKER?S Q3 VIEWS),
(SPX), ($NDX), (QQQ), (TLT), (TBT), (FXA), (FXE), (FXY),
(GLD), (GDX), (SLV), (USO), (UNG), (LNG),
(CORN), (WEAT), (SOYB), (DBA)

SPX Corporation (SPW)
Nasdaq 100 Index ($NDX)
PowerShares QQQ (QQQ)
iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (TLT)
ProShares UltraShort 20+ Year Treasury (TBT)
CurrencyShares Australian Dollar ETF (FXA)
CurrencyShares Euro ETF (FXE)
CurrencyShares Japanese Yen ETF (FXY)
SPDR Gold Shares (GLD)
Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX)
iShares Silver Trust (SLV)
United States Oil (USO)
United States Natural Gas (UNG)
Cheniere Energy, Inc. (LNG)
Teucrium Corn ETF (CORN)
Teucrium Wheat ETF (WEAT)
Teucrium Soybean ETF (SOYB)
PowerShares DB Agriculture (DBA)

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Mad Hedge Fund Trader

Mad Day Trader Jim Parker?s Q3 Views

Diary, Newsletter

The stock markets are on the verge of a small correction, perhaps less than 5%, which should unfold over the next six weeks.

There is just not enough juice in a mini crisis triggered by one lousy Portuguese bank, the Banco Espiritu Santo, to take us any further. Bonds globally should put in their highs for the year during this period.

After that, it will be off to the races with a major year-end rally that could take us up another 10%. Both old tech and new tech, plus biotech and social media will be the front runners in this next leg of the bull market. Fixed income products will suffer across the board.

These were the results of the exhaustive research Jim undertakes every quarter using his proprietary analytical system. His goal is to define the best long and short opportunities across all asset classes.

Ignore him at your peril. Last year Jim?s system delivered a gob smacking trading return of over 300%.

Jim, a 40-year veteran of the trading pits in Chicago, would tell you all this himself. But as he is a product of the Windy City?s lamentable school district, the task of translating his pivot points, swing counts, and support and resistance levels into simple ?BUYS? and ?SELLS? falls to me.

What else can I say?

By the way, a pivot point is a number Jim?s system serves up once a quarter dictating the tone of the market for individual securities. Trade above the pivot, and we are in ?RISK ON? mode. Trade below it, and we need to take a decidedly ?RISK OFF? posture.

Swing counts then project the distance a security should travel once the directional call has been determined. Think of it as your own private inertial navigation system for your trading approach.

Equities

With that said, Jim?s pivot for the S&P 500 for Q3 is 1,970. As we are well below that now, you can expect some further work to be done on the downside, possibly as low at the 1,875-1,895 range over the next six weeks.?That would then be a sweet spot to initiate new longs.

The NASDAQ 100 has a pivot of 3,811 for Q3, a few percent above here. Jump back into the technology arena with a tight stop in the 3,700-3,725 neighborhood, or down some 5%, which works out to around $90 for ETF (QQQ) players.

Among foreign markets, Jim likes Japan?s Nikkei (DXJ), is wary of the German DAX, and is neutral on Australia (EWA).

Point a gun to his head, and Jim will opt for the Wisdom Tree Europe Hedged Equity Fund (HEDJ), a customized long European equity/short Euro ETF that effectively prices these stocks in US dollars. Think of it as a (DXJ) with a French accent.

?Bonds

Jim sees a rare, generational opportunity, to sell bonds setting up for August. They could grind up until then off the back of today?s news from Europe, but not by much. Use $137.00 as the pivot point for the 30-year bonds futures.

The market?s Focus will remain on the SPX/Bond spread, as it has all year. When the Equity Indices go into profit taking mode, bonds are the only place to park money, taking prices northward.

Long term, he favors the short side of the bond market, when conditions allow.?His game plan remains to sell bonds at these levels, with tight stops, until proven wrong.

My own strategy of buying out of the money (TLT) put spreads on a monthly basis also works perfectly in this scenario. Use every three-point rally as an opportunity to get in.

We are on the threshold of a more normalized interest rate environment, with a long awaited reversion to the mean in rates imminent. Jim says that the entire bond world is about to roll over.

Foreign Currencies

Jim isn?t getting too excited about foreign currencies these days, which appear to have fallen into a bottomless volatility trap. He doesn?t see any big moves unless a serious risk off trend develops in the equity markets, which is unlikely.

Use the Australian dollar (FXA) as your lead currency with which to make directional calls for the entire asset class. The pivot there is $94.60 in the cash market. As we are now at $93.68, stand aside.

The Japanese yen (FXY) has done its best impression of a Kansas horizon this year of any financial asset. It will continue to flat line as long as the jury is out on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe?s ?third arrow? economic and reform strategy. The yen will eventually weaken against the greenback, but it could be a long wait. Until then, use 101.33 as a pivot.

If you have to hate a currency in 2014, make it the Euro (FXE), with a pivot of $139.50. Sell every rally against this figure until the cows come home. The fundamentals for a weaker continental currency are building by the day. But we won?t see real fireworks until we close below $135.50. Then we?ll be targeting $127.50.

Commodities

Jim likes the precious metals (GLD), (SLV) and thinks the recent bottom will last for some time. This is further confirmed by the miners (GDX), which appear to have staged a major turnaround.

Bond market rallies have been highly correlated to metals rallies this year, at least for over the short term. So follow the sparkly stuff along with a bond rally into August. Lower rates will be price positive the metals. Use $1,265-$1,275 as your pivot for gold going forward. For silver use $19.70.

Copper (CU) is a bit of a conundrum, as it is stuck, in the middle of one-year range, so don?t chase recent rally. Use $2.95 as the pivot there. It?s not going anywhere until China decides what to do with its economy.

Don?t buy into the upside breakout school of thought for oil (USO) until we close over 104.70-105.30 (last qtr's high). That?s where you can count on the buy stops to kick in. At the current $102, we are firmly in bear territory. Talk to Jim when oil breaks this quarter?s resistance and upside momentum level at 107.50.

Infrastructures plays are still the best way to participate in any move in the natural gas (UNG) market. At the top of the list is Mad Hedge Fund Trader long time favorite, Cheniere Energy (LNG), up from $6 to $74.??(LNG) should be on your shopping list on any big equity index sell-off.?This week may see a low, and then a substantial rally when July futures expire.

The Ags

Agricultural commodities (CORN), (SOYB), (WEAT), (DBA) have been the major disaster area of 2014, thanks to the best growing conditions in history. Not only has the weather been perfect, the US Department of Agriculture keeps ?finding? new stockpiles. Conditions have been improving in major export markets abroad, as well.

Farmers may get a break this week when multiple futures contracts expire. At the very least, we should get a dead cat bounce. After that, it?s up to Mother Nature.

By the way, Jim Parker?s Mad Day Trader service has attracted a substantial following over the past year. If you are not already getting Jim?s dynamite short term ?BUY? and ?SELL? calls, please get yourself the unfair advantage you deserve.

Just email Nancy in customer support at support@madhedgefundtrader.com and ask for the $1,500 a year upgrade from your existing Global Trading Dispatch service to Mad Hedge Fund Trader PRO. The service includes Jim?s timely Trade Alerts, a running daily market commentary, and the daily morning webinar, The Opening Bell with Jim Parker.

HEDJ 7-10-14

S.HEDJ 7-10-14

SPX 7-10-14

RUT 7-10-14

TNX 7-10-14

CRB 7-9-14

Jim ParkerThe Quarterly Calls Are In

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Mad Hedge Fund Trader

July 11, 2014

Diary, Newsletter, Summary

Global Market Comments
July 11, 2014
Fiat Lux

Featured Trade:
(THURSDAY, JULY 17 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR FROM BARCELONA, SPAIN),
(JULY 24 ZERMATT, SWITZERLAND GLOBAL STRATEGY SEMINAR),
(WILL SYNBIO SAVE OR DESTROY THE WORLD?)

Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLV)
Monsanto Company (MON)
SPDR S&P Biotech ETF (XBI)
SPDR S&P Pharmaceuticals ETF (XPH)

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Mad Hedge Fund Trader

July 24 Zermatt, Switzerland Global Strategy Seminar

Diary, Newsletter

Come join me for afternoon tea for the Mad Hedge Fund Trader?s Global Strategy Seminar, which I will be conducting high in the Alps in Zermatt, Switzerland at 2:00 PM on Thursday, July 24, 2014.

A PowerPoint presentation will be followed by an open discussion on the crucial issues facing investors today. Coffee, tea, and schnapps will be made available, along with light snacks.

You are welcome to attend in your mountain climbing gear, but you will have to leave your boots at the door. Socks only are welcome, and if it?s cold, we will throw some extra wood on the fire. Last year, someone came down from the Matterhorn summit straight to the seminar, sunburned and tired, but elated. He even gave me a valued pebble from the summit.

I?ll be giving you my up to date view on stocks, bonds, foreign currencies, commodities, precious metals, and real estate. And to keep you in suspense, I?ll be throwing a few surprises out there too. Enough charts, tables, graphs, and statistics will be thrown at you to keep your ears ringing for a week. Tickets are available for $195.

I?ll be arriving early and leaving late in case anyone wants to have a one on one discussion, or just sit around and chew the fat about the financial markets.

The event will be held at a central Zermatt hotel with a great Matterhorn view, operated by one of the village?s oldest families and long time friends of mine. The hotel is just down the street from the town?s beautiful 17th century church.

The details will be emailed directly to you with your confirmation.

I look forward to meeting you, and thank you for supporting my research. To purchase tickets for the luncheons, please go to my online store.

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Mad Hedge Fund Trader

July 10, 2014

Diary, Newsletter, Summary

Global Market Comments
July 10, 2014
Fiat Lux

Featured Trade:
(WHY IS THE S&P 500 BEATING THE DOW),
(SPY), (BAC), (HPQ), (AA), (GS), (V), (NKE), (AAPL),
(GE), ($NIKK), (CAT), (DIS), (INTC),
(AN EVENING WITH BILL GATES, SR.)
(TESTIMONIAL)

SPDR S&P 500 (SPY)
Bank of America Corporation (BAC)
Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ)
Alcoa Inc. (AA)
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (GS)
Visa Inc. (V)
Nike, Inc. (NKE)
Apple Inc. (AAPL)
General Electric Company (GE)
Tokyo Nikkei Average (EOD) INDX ($NIKK)
Caterpillar Inc. (CAT)
The Walt Disney Company (DIS)
Intel Corporation (INTC)

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