Mad Hedge Fund Trader Kills it with a 12.6% 2014 Return
The industry beating performance of the Mad Hedge Fund Trader?s Trade Alert Service has maintained its gob smacking pace from last year, picking up another 12.6% profit in the first ten trading weeks of 2014.
The Dow Average was up a feeble 1.4% during the same period, pegging my outperformance of the index at a stunning 11.2%. Since the beginning of 2013, I am up 80%, with a trailing 12-month return of 51%.? 2013 closed with a total return for followers of 67.45%.
The three-year return is now an amazing 135.1%, compared to a far more modest increase for the Dow Average during the same period of only 34%. That brings my averaged annualized return up to 41.6%. Not bad in this zero interest rate world. It?s better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.
This has been the profit since my groundbreaking trade mentoring service was launched in 2010. Thousands of followers now earn a full time living solely from my Trade Alerts, 95% of which have been profitable this year.
Not a day goes by without finding grateful emails thanking me for changing their lives. Stories abound of mortgages paid off, college educations financed, and aging parents supported. Quite a few use my award winning mentoring service to finally achieve financial independence and told their bosses to go jump off a bridge.
I won?t pass on the pictures they sent me. To read the plaudits yourself, please go to my testimonials page. They are all real.
The hot streak continues.
I managed to call the double top in the Treasury bond market (TLT), and picked up some easy money on the short side. Crucially, I was one of the first to catch the leadership change in the market, out of technology and health care (XLV) and into banks (XLF), (BAC), (GS) and autos (GM).
On top of this, I bought some long exposure in classic old-line deep cyclicals, like General Electric (GE) and (Delta Airlines (DAL). Finally, I ramped up my ?RISK ON? trading book by adding a new position in eBay (EBAY), jumping on Carl Icahn?s attempt to greenmail this spectacularly well run company (come on Carl, call a spade a spade!).
My ambitious macro view is allowing me to put the pedal to the metal on the risk side. I think that the final effect of one of the cruelest winters in history will be to shift economic growth from Q1 to Q2. That gives us every excuse to ignore every piece of bad data, and only focus on the good numbers.
This paves the way for a blowout Q2 US GDP number of over 4%. That is what the stock market is telling us now by going sideways or up almost every day.
It is a real ?heads, I win, tails, you lose? market. The indexes could continue with slow, grinding sideways ?time? corrections followed by sudden, frenetic pops to the upside all the way until the summer. My current strategy cashes in on this scenario, while also providing some downside protection so you can sleep at night.
My only loss so far this year was with some S&P 500 puts that I used to hedge downside exposure for my other long positions. We can?t all be perfect.
My esteemed colleague, Mad Day Trader Jim Parker, was no small part of this success. Since the market became technically and momentum driven, I have been confirming with him before sending out every Trade Alert. Together, our success rate is 100%.
What would you expect with a combined 85 years of market experience between the two of us? Followers are laughing all the way to the bank.
Don?t forget that Jim clocked an amazing 2013 of a staggering 374%. That is just for an eight-month year!
The coming year 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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