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Global Market Comments April 7, 2026 Fiat Lux SPECIAL VOLATILITY ISSUE Featured Trade: (TESTIMONIAL) (MAKING VOLATILITY YOUR FRIEND), (VIX), (VXX), (XIV)    

Ingenious writing, John, in your Monday morning strategy letter.  I forwarded it to all my family and kids, and made my 16-year-old read it out loud to my wife. I made sure he understood what he was reading. I got choked up by the whole article.  Go Ukraine! Best regards, Greg Las Vegas, NV  

“You always sound smarter when you’re a bear than when you’re a bull,” said Adam Parker formerly of Morgan Stanley.  

Global Market Comments April 6, 2026 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD or A WEEK….OR 50 YEARS IN DUBAI), (USO), (SPY), ($INDU), (GLD), (B), (NEM), (NG), (GDX), (NFLX), (WBD), (NVDA)  

“By 2027, 75% of the companies in the Fortune 500 will not be there unless they make bold changes and digitally transform their companies. It’s do or die,” said Bill McDermott, CEO of ServiceNow (NOW), which offers cloud computing platforms for companies. I couldn’t agree more.  

Global Market Comments April 2, 2026 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 2026 DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, GLOBAL STRATEGY LUNCHEON), (THE MAD HEDGE MARCH 17-19 SUMMIT REPLAYS ARE UP!)  

“Nothing good ever happens under the 200-day moving average,” said my old friend, hedge fund legend Paul Tudor Jones.  

Global Market Comments April 2, 2026 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (THE LAZY MAN’S GUIDE TO TRADING), (ROM), (UXI), (BIB), (UYG)  

I like to start out my day by calling readers on the US East Coast and Europe, asking how they like the service, are there any ways I can improve the service, and what topics would they like me to write about. After all, at 5:00 AM Pacific time, they are the only ones around.

“Half the world’s job will be wiped out over the next 30 years, and the middle class will be completely wiped out,” said technology guru Mosh Varde.  

Global Market Comments March 31, 2026 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (A BUY WRITE PRIMER), (AAPL), (AMZN), (GOOGL)  

"It is fine to have the longest view in the room, as long as the thing at the end of the vista is a gigantic hill of money," said John Lanchester of The New Yorker magazine.  

Global Market Comments March 30, 2026 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (THE MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or HERE COME THE GAS LINES) (USO), (SPY), (TLT), (XLE), (XLU), (MU), (META), (GLD), (SLV), (NOC), (LMT), (GD), (RSX)  

“When asked how he manages the time to be chairman of Microsoft, run the world’s largest charity, and raise three kids, Bill Gates answered, “I don’t mow the lawn.”  

Global Market Comments March 27, 2026 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (MARCH 27 BIWEEKLY STRATEGY WEBINAR Q&A), (SDS), (MTUM), (HDGE), ($VIX), (TLT) (SNOW), (PANW), (PLTR), (MSFT) (NVDA), (PLTR), (GLD), (SLV), (BLK), (KKR), (APO), (RTX), (LMT), (NOC)  

“Sometimes, when you jump off a bridge, you have to grow your wings on the way down,” said author Danielle Steele.

Global Market Comments March 26, 2026 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 2026 DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES GLOBAL STRATEGY LUNCHEON), (THE MAD HEDGE MARCH 17-19 SUMMIT REPLAYS ARE UP!)  

Global Market Comments March 24, 2026 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (FOUNDING THE MAD HEDGE DIARY OF A MAD HEDGE FUND TRADER)  

The Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader is now celebrating its 18th year of publication. During this time, I have religiously pumped out 3,000 words a day, or 18 newsletters a week, of original, independent-minded, hard-hitting, and often wickedly funny research. I spent my life as a war correspondent, Marine Corps combat pilot, Wall

“Believe nothing that you hear, and half of what you see,” said the legendary investor, Ron Baron.