I sit here with my fingertips battered, bruised, and bleeding. My lower back aches, and my shoulders are as tight as a drum. After promising to take it easy for a while because the risk/reward in the market so badly sucks, I knocked out six Trade Alerts in one day. That is on top of conducting a one-hour strategy webinar and writing a 1,600 word daily newsletter. So I lied.

So far in 2013, I have issued an exhausting 114 opening, closing, and updated Trade Alerts. That includes one amazing run of 19 consecutive profitable trades. You have to strike while the iron is hot, make hay while the sun shines, yada, yada, yada. Making money in the market this year has been a turkey shoot.

Since writing about my performance a few days ago, which now stands at an eye popping 35.88% for 2013 and 90.93% over the past 30 months, I have been deluged with inquiries about how I pulled off this trading miracle from the incredulous. Is he using insane amounts of leverage? Or is he just telling porky pies, a not unheard of practice in this sullied industry.

So in the interest of full disclosure, I am posting below every trade I have alerted readers to since January 1, along with the profit and loss. Of the 43 trades executed in 2013, 37 have been profitable, some quite impressively so. Each trade is shown in terms of its contribution to the portfolio?s total annual return. That is a success rate of 86%, which rightly earns me an honored place in the Hedge Fund Trader?s Hall of Fame.

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Feast your eyes.

No matter what anyone promises you today, this week, or this year, your taxes are going up. I don?t care if you are still licking your wounds from the January 1 payroll tax rise, or the federal tax hike for millionaires, which in my case took my rate up from 35% to 39.6%. At least the capital gains tax is still a steal at 20%.

At $1.3 trillion, the budget deficit is so enormous that bringing it into balance merely through spending cuts is a mathematical impossibility. Chopping funding for Planned Parenthood and National Public Radio just isn?t going to do it.

If you own your own home, work for a large company, save for your retirement, earn money from capital gains, and toss in a check when they pass the dish around at church every Sunday, you are the biggest beneficiary of the current tax system. Therefore, you are about to take a big hit. Check out the target list below, and the tax revenues the death of these tax breaks will raise:

$264 billion- Should those without health care subsidize those who receive it for free from their employers? This is the amount raised by taxing company provided health insurance as regular income. Think large banks and oil companies.

$100 billion- Should renters be subsidizing homeowners? Kiss that home mortgage interest deduction on loans under $1 million goodbye. Ditto for the real estate market as a whole. The more aggressive version of this has the ceiling on deductions dropping to $500,000.

$100 billion- End the tax deductibility of charitable contributions. Should those who don?t go to church subsidize those who do? Universities, churches, and political fund raising go begging.

$52 billion- Should those without savings subsidize those salting away money for retirement. This is the argument that will be made to end tax deductibility of 401k contributions.

$39 billion- Savings on taxes exempted by the step up in the cost bases for investments inherited by surviving spouses. She doesn?t need that McMansion anyway.

$36 billion- Tax capital gains as regular income. This won?t affect you if you never sell and let your heirs sort out the mess.

$31 billion- Stop special tax treatment of dividend incomes.

Please note that these most draconian measures only raise $586 billion a year, a mere 45% of last year?s deficit. Without raising tax rates, the remaining $714 billion will have to come from cutting Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and Defense spending. In any case, I think it will be politically impossible to get any of these changes through the current congress. An energy tax and a national value added tax are also on the table.

None of these hikes would be necessary if the economy grew at a 4% real rate instead of 3%. This is why tax rates in emerging countries are so low. But I believe that America?s long-term growth rate is falling, not rising, and that our budget problems are going to get worse, not better. What happens if interest rates rise for the world?s largest borrower? Oops.

Of course, we could adopt Mary Meeker?s suggestion in her paper on USA, Inc. and eliminate all deductions, raising about $1 trillion a year. That would involve shrinking the Internal Revenue Code from the current 71,000 pages to a single page, and moving to a flat tax system. The mass unemployment of one million CPA?s and 106,000 internal revenue agents alone would be worth the price.