The Thirteen-Year Anniversary of the Mad Hedge Fund Trader

The Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader is now celebrating its 13th year of publication.

During this time, I have religiously pumped out 1,500 words a day, or eight double-spaced typed pages, of original, independent-minded, hard-hitting, and often wickedly funny research.

I spent my life as a war correspondent, Marine Corps combat pilot, wall street trader, and hedge fund manager, and if you can’t laugh after that, something is wrong with you.

I’ve been covering stocks, bonds, commodities, energy, precious metals, real estate, and agricultural products.

You’ve been kept up on my travels around the world and listened in on my conversations with those who drive the financial markets.

I also occasionally opine on politics, but only when it has a direct market impact, such as with the recent administration's economic and trade policies.

The site now contains over 13 million words or 14 times the length of Tolstoy’s epic War and Peace.

Unfortunately, it feels like I have written on every possible topic at least 100 times over.

So, I am reaching out to you, the reader, to suggest new areas of research that I may have missed until now which you believe justifies further investigation.

Please send any and all ideas directly to me at support@madhedgefundtrader.com/ and put “RESEARCH IDEA” in the subject line.

The great thing about running an online business is that I can evolve it to meet your needs on a daily basis.

Many of the new products and services that I have introduced since 2008 have come at your suggestion. That has enabled me to improve the product’s quality, to your benefit.

This originally started out as a daily email to my hedge fund investors giving them an update on fast market-moving events. That was at a time when the financial markets were in free fall, and the end of the world seemed near.

Here’s a good trading rule of thumb: Usually, the world doesn’t end. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes.

The daily emails gave me the scalability that I so desperately needed. Today’s global mega enterprise grew from there. Today, the Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader and its Global Trading Dispatch are read in over 140 countries by 24,000 followers. The Mad Hedge Technology Letter and the Mad Hedge Biotech & Healthcare Letter also have substantial followings. And Mad Hedge Hot Tips is one of the most widely read publications in the financial industry.

I’m weak in North Korea and Mali, in both cases due to the lack of electricity. But that may change.

If you want to read my first pitiful attempt at a post, please click here for my February 1, 2008 post.

It urged readers to buy gold at $950 (it soared to $1,920), and buy the Euro at $1.50 (it went to $1.60).

Now you know why this letter has become so outrageously popular.

Unfortunately, I also recommended that they sell bonds short. I wasn’t wrong on that one, just early, about eight years too early.

I always get asked how long will I keep doing this?

The government tells me that the latest I can start drawing down on my retirement funds and Social Security is 72. That’s some three years off for me.

Given the absolute blast I have doing this job, that is highly unlikely. Take a look at the testimonials I get on an almost daily basis and you’ll see why this business is so hard to walk away from (click here for those.)

In the end, you are going to have to pry my cold dead fingers off of this keyboard to get me to give up.

Fiat Lux (Let there be light).