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Trade Alert - (SH) – BUY LEAPS BUY the ProShares S&P 500 ETF LEAPS (SH) August 2025 $41-$42 in-the-money vertical Bull Call debit spread LEAPS at $0.60 or best If we get any kind of rally over the next few days, you need to add this position, which offers a 66.66% profit in five months.

Global Market Comments March 10, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or THE ECONOMY IS GRINDING TO A HALT), (IBKR), (JPM), (GS), (SF), (TSLA), (GM), (TLT), (GLD)

There isn’t a CEO in the country who hasn’t halted capital investment in the face of today’s unprecedented uncertainty. You can’t invest in a business without a credible GDP forecast, and Q1 is certain to deliver a large negative number, the first half of a recession. There isn’t a consumer that isn’t cutting back on

“And then what? That is the question you always have to ask yourself, what is going to happen in 10, 20, 0r 30 years,” said Warren Buffet, the Oracle of Omaha.  

Global Market Comments March 7, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (FOUNDING THE DIARY OF A MAD HEDGE FUND TRADER)

The Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader is now celebrating its 15th 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.  

Global Market Comments March 6, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (A REFRESHER COURSE AT SHORT SELLING SCHOOL), (SH), (SDS), (PSQ), (DOG), (RWM), (SPXU), (AAPL), (TSLA), (VIX), (VXX), (IPO), (MTUM), (SPHB), (HDGE)

Some asset classes are reflecting the fact that we are already in a full-blown recession, while others are not. In case I am wrong and we DO go into a recession, knowing how to sell short stocks will be a handy skill to have. It will become essential to be knowledgeable about all the different ways

Global Market Comments March 5, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (I HAVE A NEW OPENING FOR THE MAD HEDGE FUND TRADER CONCIERGE SERVICE), (TESTIMONIAL)

It’s been great working with you over the past year. You certainly pick the right timing with many clients reporting 100% returns or better over the past 12 months. I never would have found the US Steel trade without you. Attached please find my wire for $12,000 for my Mad Hedge Concierge renewal. Terry New

Global Market Comments March 4, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (A BUY WRITE PRIMER), (AAPL), (AMZN), (GOOGL)

With both market technical and fundamentals going to hell in a handbasket, it’s time to take a refresher course on “Buy Writes.” I have advised followers to dump the positions they are dating and only keep the ones they are married to. It’s worth enduring a 30% drawdown in a high-quality name to capture a


Armageddon is not a word I use lightly. But this weekend, every technical service I subscribed to warned that the recent damage to the market was immense. It’s time to raise cash, hedge your positions, or otherwise position for a bear market. I have noticed over the past half-century that the best technicians spend a

Global Market Comments February 28, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (FEBRUARY 26 BIWEEKLY STRATEGY WEBINAR Q&A), (BTC), (NVDA), (TSLA), (BRK/B), (JNK), (TLT), ($WTIC)

Below, please find subscribers’ Q&A for the February 26 Mad Hedge Fund Trader Global Strategy Webinar, broadcast from Incline Village, NV. Q: Isn’t this just a cyclical thing? Don’t all bull markets come to an end? A: Yes, they do. But this time around, it looks like the market is being pushed off a cliff.

When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate,” said Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder.”  

Global Market Comments February 27, 2025 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (RIGHT SIZING YOUR TRADING)

I can’t tell you how many times I have been woken up in the middle of the night by an investor who was sleepless over a position that was going the wrong way. The Dow Average cratered by 1,200 points, Gold was down $50, the Euro was spiking two cents, and oil was making one