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I just want to thank you for all your help over the past few years learning to trade. Your recommendation in May 2019 to buy the Tesla Convertible bonds remains the best performing position in my portfolio. It is up an amazing 415% since I bought it. My only regret is that I have not

Global Market Comments August 10, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or GET READY FOR THE REVERSAL) (INDU), (SPY), (TLT), (DIS), (BAC), (GLD)

Epidemics ebb and flow. Every spike is followed by a retreat. The cycle continues until everyone has been exposed to the disease….or is dead. Covid-19 has been on a tear for the last two months, doubling the number of US deaths to 162,000. An interim peak is just around the corner. What happens when Covid

Global Market Comments August 7, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: My 20 Rules for Trading in 2020

Global Market Comments August 6, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (HOW TO FIND A GREAT OPTIONS TRADE)

Global Market Comments August 5, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (A NOTE ON OPTIONS CALLED AWAY), (MSFT), (TLT), (BA), (GOOGL), (SPY)

Global Market Comments August 4, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MEET THE ITALIAN LEONARDO FIBONACCI) (MRK), (GILD), (REGN), (AZN), (PFE), (MRNA), (ABBV), (BMY), (RHHBY)

Global Market Comments August 3, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MEET THE GREEKS)

Global Market Comments July 31, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (LEARNING THE ART OF RISK CONTROL)

Global Market Comments July 30, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (HOW TO EXECUTE A MAD HEDGE TRADE ALERT)

Global Market Comments July 29, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (PLAYING THE SHORT SIDE WITH VERTICAL BEAR PUT SPREADS), (TLT)

Global Market Comments July 28, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (HOW TO EXECUTE A VERTICAL BULL CALL SPREAD), (AAPL)

Global Market Comments July 27, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (WELCOME TO THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF OPTIONS), (WHAT IS AN OPTION? - THE BASICS)

Hi there, I’m John Thomas, the Mad Hedge Fund Trader. Welcome to my trading desk and your new job of attaining financial independence. The coffee machine is right over there, and the bathrooms are down the hall. Don’t let all the shouting bother you. You’ll get used to it after a while. You’ve already made

Global Market Comments July 24, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (TAKING OFF FOR VACATION), (TESTIMONIAL)

With any luck, by the time you read this, I will be setting up my tent next to a High Sierra lake somewhere over 9,000 feet. For I will be leading 40 Boy Scouts on a 50-mile hike around the Desolation Wilderness next to Lake Tahoe. The vertical climb for this ambitious route is 6,300

I want to take this opportunity to share an experience that has been immensely valuable to me and could be to you as well... Over the holidays last December, a long-time buddy of mine and I were golfing Quail Creek in Green Valley, AZ. As a career money manager, he mentioned the name of John

Global Market Comments July 23, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE BEST COLLEGE GRADUATION GIFT EVER), (TESTIMONIAL)

Global Market Comments July 22, 2020 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MY NEWLY UPDATED LONG-TERM PORTFOLIO), (PFE), (BMY), (AMGN), (CELG), (CRSP), (FB), (PYPL), (GOOGL), (AAPL), (AMZN), (SQ), (JPM), (BAC), (BABA), (EEM), (FXA), (FCX), (GLD)

I am really happy with the performance of the Mad Hedge Long Term Portfolio since the last update on October 17, 2019.  In fact, not only did we nail the best sectors to go heavily overweight, we completely dodged the bullets in the worst-performing ones, especially in energy. For new subscribers, the Mad Hedge Long