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Global Market Comments August 19, 2024 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD or LESSONS LEARNED) plus (GLIDING INTO LITHUANIA), (SPY), (GLD), (DHI), (TSLA), (JPM), (AAPL), (DHI), (LRCX)

After the worst week of the year, we get the best. If you are confused by all of this, so am I. On the one hand, the downside was firmly rejected by the $8 trillion sitting under the market that has been trying unsuccessfully to get into the market all year. The upside was rejected

"The level of fact available from news services is way less than it once was," said Roger McNamee, co-founder of venture capital fund Elevation Partners.

Global Market Comments August 16, 2024 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: ( AUGUST 15 BIWEEKLY STRATEGY WEBINAR Q&A), (SPY), (CMG), (SBUX), (TLT), (CCI), (FCX), (SLRN), (DAL), (TSLA), (LRCX)

Below please find subscribers’ Q&A for the August 15 Mad Hedge Fund Trader Global Strategy Webinar, broadcast from London, England Q: Do you think we’ll still have another significant test of the lows for the year, or was that it last week? Stocks are rebounding huge this week. A: They never really went down very

Global Market Comments August 15, 2024 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (TESTIMONIAL) (ELECTIONS IN DAYS GONE PAST)

Hi John, I made it to Cortina on my European vacation paid for entirely by my successful trades this year from the Mad Hedge Fund Trader.   Today, we hiked to Lago di Sorapis and I am now enjoying a Dolomiti on the veranda.  I will depart tomorrow to continue through the Alps to avoid

You may have noticed that the 2024 presidential election has reached a fever pitch, so it is time to fill you in on the deep background of this all-American practice. I come from a background that is drowning in history. I am the end product of pilgrim stock who landed in Massachusetts in 1630. I

“I used to tell lies. But I’ve given it up, because the field has become overrun with amateurs,” said the great American 19th century humorist, Mark Twain.  

Global Market Comments August 14, 2024 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)

Global Market Comments August 13, 2024 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (AUGUST 15 LONDON ENGLAND STRATEGY LUNCHEON) (THE MAD HEDGE DICTIONARY OF TRADING SLANG)

"Whenever I hear someone in finance say that a one in two-billion-year event just happened, I say that you just demonstrated you have a model for measuring tail risk that isn't any good," said former Treasury Secretary and Harvard University President Larry Summers.

Global Market Comments August 12, 2024 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD or THE ROUND TRIP TO NOWHERE), plus (A VISIT TO TRINITY), (ROM), (TQQQ), ($VIX), (TLT), (SLRN), (CAT), (AMZN), and (BRK/B). (NVDA), (TSLA), (AAPL), and (META), ($INDU), (TSLA), (DHI), (DE), (AAPL), (JPM), (DE), (GLD), (DHI)

I am writing this to you from the airport in Vilnius, Lithuania, which is under construction. The airport is packed because people are flying all planes to Paris to catch the closing ceremony of the 2024 Olympics. There is also the inflow of disappointed Taylor Swift fans returning from three concerts in Vienna, Austria that

“The entire market is trading like a biotech stock,” said Steve Weiss, a portfolio manager.

Global Market Comments August 9, 2024 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: TESTIMONIAL) (AUGUST 15 LONDON ENGLAND STRATEGY LUNCHEON)

Hi, my name is Wilson and I've been with the Mad Hedge Fund Trader, John Thomas, since 2019. I caught the phenomenal returns in 2019 and 2020, somewhere in the order of the 80-90% returns for both of those years. I caught all of those trades—Nvidia (NVDA) the US Treasury bond fund (TLT), Tesla (TSLA),

"If you work forever, you can live forever," said my friend and mentor, Blackstone's Byron Wien.

Global Market Comments August 8, 2024 Fiat Lux   Featured Trade: (THE IDIOT’S GUIDE TO INVESTING), (TSLA), (BYND), (JPM) (TESTIMONIAL)

Until July 1, everyone seemed to have pretty much the same investment strategy. What would you do if I recommended an investment strategy that would cause your accountant to disown you, your inheritance anticipating children to sue you, and your wife to file for divorce? Chances are you would designate all my future mailings as