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Given the ballistic growth of our business here at the Mad Hedge Fund Trader, you will soon be seeing some major improvements in the service. You may have already noticed a substantial upgrade to our website. Further changes will be ongoing in the coming months promising better functionality and faster speeds. Some 10,000 pages of

“Only the mediocre are always at their best,” said the late American comedian Jonathan Winters.  

Global Market Comments October 1, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or DON’T NOMINATE ME!), (AMZN), (NVDA), (AAPL), (MSFT), (GLD), (ABX), (GOLD), (JOIN US AT THE MAD HEDGE LAKE TAHOE, NEVADA, CONFERENCE, OCTOBER 26-27, 2018)

I have a request for all of you readers. Please do not nominate me for justice of the Supreme Court. I have no doubt that I could handle the legal load. A $17 copy of Litigation for Dummies from Amazon would take care of that. I just don’t think I could get through the approval

Tickets for the Mad Hedge Lake Tahoe Conference are selling briskly. If you want to obtain a ticket that includes a dinner with John Thomas and Arthur Henry you better get your order in soon. The conference date has been set for Friday and Saturday, October 26-27. Come learn from the greatest trading minds in

Global Market Comments September 28, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (WHAT WILL TRIGGER THE NEXT BEAR MARKET?) (JPM), (SNE), (TLT), (ELD), (AMZN), (WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2018, HOUSTON GLOBAL STRATEGY LUNCHEON)

To paraphrase Leo Tolstoy in Anna Karenina, all bull markets are alike; each bear market takes place for its own particular reasons. Now that the wreckage of the past financial crises is firmly in our rearview mirror, it is time for us to start pondering the causes of the next one. I’ll give you a

Come join me for lunch at the Mad Hedge Fund Trader’s Global Strategy Luncheon, which I will be conducting in Houston, Texas, on Wednesday, October 17, 2018. A three-course lunch will be followed by a wide-ranging discussion and an extended question-and-answer period. I’ll be giving you my up-to-date view on stocks, bonds, foreign currencies, commodities,

Global Market Comments September 27, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (HOW TO GAIN AN ADVANTAGE WITH PARALLEL TRADING), (GM), (F), (TM), (NSANY), (DDAIF), BMW (BMWYY), (VWAPY), (PALL), (GS), (RSX), (EZA), (CAT), (CMI), (KMTUY), (KODK), (SLV), (AAPL), (TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2018, MIAMI, FL, GLOBAL STRATEGY LUNCHEON)

Come join me for lunch for the Mad Hedge Fund Trader’s Global Strategy luncheon, which I will be conducting in Miami, Florida, on Tuesday, October 16, 2018. A three-course lunch will be followed by an extended question-and-answer period. I’ll be giving you my up-to-date view on stocks, bonds, foreign currencies, commodities, energy, precious metals, and

Global Market Comments September 26, 2018 Fiat Lux SPECIAL CAR ISSUE Featured Trade: (SAY GOODBYE TO THAT GAS GUZZLER), (GM), (F), (TSLA), (GOOGL), (AAPL)

Do you want to get in on the ground floor of another major new trend? Well, here’s another new trend. Get this one right and your retirement funds should multiple like rabbits. There have been some pretty amazing announcements by governments lately. The United Kingdom has banned the use of gasoline-powered engines by 2040. China

“A 5% improvement in customer retention leads to a 95% improvement in the profitability for most companies,” said SAP CEO Bill McDermott.  

Global Market Comments September 25, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (AI AND THE NEW HEALTH CARE), (GOOGL), (XLP), (XLV), (MRK), (BMY), (PFE), (MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2018, ATLANTA, GA, GLOBAL STRATEGY LUNCHEON)

Come join John Thomas at the Mad Hedge Fund Trader’s Global Strategy Luncheon, which I will be conducting in Atlanta, Georgia, on Monday, October 15, 2018 at 12:00 noon. A three-course lunch will be followed by an extended question-and-answer period. I’ll be giving you my up-to-date view on stocks, bonds, foreign currencies, commodities, precious metals,

“Everything needs more data. The day is not far when you’ll need a gigabyte of flash in a smart phone,” said Sanjay Mehrotra, the CEO of Micron Technology.  

Global Market Comments September 24, 2018 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or IT’S FED WEEK), (SPY), (XLI), (XLV), (XLP), (XLY), (HD), (LOW), (GS), (MS), (TLT), (UUP), (FXE), (FCX), (EEM), (VIX), (VXX), (UPS), (TGT) (TEN TIPS FOR SURVIVING A DAY OFF WITH ME)

20/20 hindsight is a wonderful thing, especially when all of your predictions come true. In February, I announced that markets would trade in broad ranges until the run-up to the midterm elections. That is what has happened to a tee, with the decisive upside breakout taking place last week. From here on. You’re trying to

I snowshoed some 600 miles last winter, most of it over 9,000 feet with a 60-pound pack. And now the weather is getting nippy, so it is time to haul my well-worn snow shoes out of storage. It is definitely a sport of mixed pleasures. The blisters and calluses that cover my feet hurt, but

“Data mining is risky when only focusing on the past. When a decision is widely believed it becomes widely used. The value of a widely known insight disappears over time. Some decision rules become so popular that it becomes wiser to do the opposite. Computers have no common sense,” said the legendary hedge fund manager