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april@madhedgefundtrader.com

July 25, 2025

Diary, Newsletter, Summary

Global Market Comments
July 25, 2025
Fiat Lux

 

Featured Trade:

(FRIDAY, AUGUST 22 INCLINE VILLAGE, NEVADA STRATEGY DINNER)
(WHAT AI CAN AND CAN’T DO FOR YOU)
(AAPL), (GOOGL), (AMZN), (AMZN), (TSLA), (NVDA), (MU)

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april@madhedgefundtrader.com

July 18, 2025

Diary, Newsletter, Summary

Global Market Comments
July 18, 2025
Fiat Lux

 

Featured Trade:

(JULY 16 BIWEEKLY STRATEGY WEBINAR Q&A),
(GLD), (SLV), (DHI), (LEN), (CCI), (KRE), (META), (NFLX), (AMZN), (SLB), (PPL), (XOM), (OXY), (AGQ), (WFC), (DXJ), (FXE)

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april@madhedgefundtrader.com

July 16, 2025

Diary, Newsletter, Summary

Global Market Comments
July 16, 2025
Fiat Lux

 

Featured Trade:

(WHY TECHNICAL ANALYSIS NEVER WORKS)
(FB), (AAPL), (AMZN), (GOOG), (MSFT), (VIX)

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april@madhedgefundtrader.com

May 20, 2025

Biotech Letter

Mad Hedge Biotech and Healthcare Letter
May 20, 2025
Fiat Lux

 

Featured Trade:

(HEALTHCARE’S FALLING KNIFE)

(UNH), (CI), (CVS), (LLY), (VRTX), (SGRY), (AAPL), (AMZN)

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april@madhedgefundtrader.com

May 12, 2025

Tech Letter

Mad Hedge Technology Letter
May 12, 2025
Fiat Lux

 

Featured Trade:

(THE FIGHT FOR AI SUPREMACY)
($COMPQ), (AMZN)

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april@madhedgefundtrader.com

The Fight For AI Supremacy

Uncategorized

According to the betting markets, the odds of a recession

Overnight, have tanked from over 80% to just a fraction under 40%.

It is interesting to see such a development and speaks volumes to how volatile the tech markets are right now.

The V-shaped price action by the Nasdaq index ($COMPQ) perhaps forced the hand of decision makers.

Here we stand, only 6% from all-time highs after a vicious reversal to the upside.

I think it is fair to say that the belief in tech stocks has not corroded and is just resting.

Even though what was agreed was just a 90-day pause, the biggest takeaway is that the Americans aren’t willing to just blow the world order up.

The Chinese won’t just be moved to the side and switched in for Indians like a 6th man coming off the bench.

In fact, this signals that China has a big role to play in the upward trajectory of tech stocks, and that is why the tech index has exploded to the upside this morning.

Some of the tape is mind-boggling.

At the time of this writing, Amazon (AMZN) is up 8% and the Nasdaq is up over 4% in just ONE DAY.

To say this is a victory for tech is an understatement as the world’s two biggest economies unwound for now most of the tariffs they had imposed on each other since April in a tit-for-tat battle that was threatening to stoke U.S. inflation, crash China’s export engine, and upend the global economy.

The U.S. agreed to lower the base level of tariffs on most Chinese goods to 30%, from 145%, while China said it would cut its levies on U.S. products to 10% from 125%.

The U.S. tariff on many Chinese products will be higher than 30%. U.S. duties on steel, aluminum, and autos remain in place, as do some earlier tariffs on certain Chinese goods imposed during President Trump’s first term in office and that of former President Joe Biden.

Washington and Beijing agreed to keep the new tariff levels in place for 90 days, with the goal of working toward a broader deal on trade in further talks.

For China, an unrestrained trade clash with the U.S. would threaten millions of jobs tied to serving U.S. consumers and potentially worsen trade tensions with other countries wary of a surge in Chinese imports. China was also worried about losing access to some U.S. products it still needs, such as Boeing planes, aircraft parts, and certain chips.

In the short-term, I believe we are ready for a short squeeze higher.

The market was taken by surprise by the sudden announcement, and many companies were bracing for another onslaught of negative news.

In the next 60 to 90 days, I can easily see the US dollar popping higher, tech firms reforecasting higher revenue targets, and the Nasdaq coalescing around the positive energy to surge higher.

That’s not to say that everything is hunky and dory, we are literally just one tweet away for the market collapsing and going into a tailspin.

The risk levels have never been higher, and I would urge readers to keep positions small.

 

 

 

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april@madhedgefundtrader.com

April 11, 2025

Tech Letter

Mad Hedge Technology Letter
April 11, 2025
Fiat Lux

 

Featured Trade:

(WALMART IS THE NEW TECH UNICORN)
(WMT), (AMZN)

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April 1, 2025

Diary, Newsletter, Summary

Global Market Comments
April 1, 2025
Fiat Lux

 

Featured Trade:

(REVISITING THE FIRST SILVER BUBBLE),
(SLV), (SLW)

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april@madhedgefundtrader.com

March 31, 2025

Tech Letter

Mad Hedge Technology Letter
March 31, 2025
Fiat Lux

 

Featured Trade:

(THE TRUTH ABOUT AUTOMATION AND BANKING)
(SQ), (PYPL), (APPL), (AMZN)

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april@madhedgefundtrader.com

The Truth About Automation And Banking

Tech Letter

Automation is taking place at warp speed displacing employees from all walks of life. 

According to a recent report, the U.S. financial industry will depose of 400,000 workers in the next decade because of automating efficiencies.

Yes, humans are going the way of the dodo bird and banking will effectively become algorithms working for a handful of executives and engineers.

The x-factor in this equation is the $150 billion annually that banks spend on technological development in-house which is higher than any other industry.

Welcome to the world of lower costs, shedding wage bills, and boosting performance rates.

We forget to realize that employee compensation eats up 50% of bank expenses.

The 400,000 job trimmings would result in 20% of the U.S. banking sector getting axed.

The hyped-up “golden age of banking” should deliver extraordinary savings and premium services to customers at no extra cost.

This iteration of mobile and online banking has delivered functionality that no generation of customers has ever seen.

The most gutted part of banking jobs will naturally occur in the call centers because they are the low-hanging fruit for the automated chatbots.

A few years ago, chatbots were suboptimal, even spewing out arbitrary profanity, but they have slowly crawled up in performance metrics to the point where some customers are unaware that they are communicating with an artificially engineered algorithm.

The wholesale integration of automating the back-office staff isn’t the end of it, the front office will experience a 30% drop in numbers sullying the predated ideology that front-office staff are irreplaceable heavy hitters.

Front-office staff has already felt the brunt of downsizing with purges carried out in 2022 representing a twelfth year of continuous decline.

Front-office traders and brokers are being replaced by software engineers as banks follow the wider trend of every company transitioning into a tech company.

The infusion of artificial intelligence will lower mortgage processing costs by 30% and the accumulation of hordes of data will advance the marketing effort into a smart, multi-pronged, hybrid cloud-based, and hyper-targeted strategy.

The last two human bank hiring waves are a distant memory.

The most recent spike came in the 7 years after the dot com crash of 2001 until the sub-prime crisis of 2008 adding around half a million jobs on top of the 1.5 million that existed then.

After the subsidies wear off from the pandemic, I do believe that the banking sector will quietly put in the call to trim even more.

The longest and most dramatic rise in human bankers was from 1935 to 1985, a 50-year boom that delivered over 1.2 million bankers to the U.S. workforce.

This type of human hiring will likely never be seen again in the U.S. financial industry.

Recomposing banks through automation is crucial to surviving as fintech companies like PayPal (PYPL) and Square (SQ) are chomping at the bit and even tech companies like Amazon (AMZN) and Apple (AAPL) have started tinkering with new financial products. 

And if you thought that this phenomenon was limited to the U.S., think again, Europe is by far the biggest culprit by already laying off 102,000 employees in 2021, more than 10x higher than the number of U.S. financial job losses and that has continued in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

In a sign of the times, the European outlook has turned demonstrably negative with Deutsche Bank announcing layoffs of 40,000 employees as it scales down its investment banking business.

Don’t tell your kid to get into banking, because they will most likely be feeding on scraps at that point.  

 

THE LAST STAGE OF HUMAN-FACING BANK SERVICES IS NOW!

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