Being the armchair historian that I am, I sense that I have just been through D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, and Dien Bien Phu, ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
That is what it's felt like trading these violent markets this year. After snoring for months, volatility came back with a vengeance.
They?re now running the movie on fast forward.
So it has been a long four months since the performance of The Mad Hedge Fund Trader?s Trade Alert Service has hit a new all time high.
Yet, despite some non-fatal battle injuries and plenty of scars, and now wiser from the trying experience, here we are.
They say in the Marine Corps. that whatever doesn?t kill you makes you stronger.
Semper Fi.
So true, so true.
I have been using every short-term rally for the past six weeks to strap on short positions in the S&P 500 (SPY) through risk limiting vertical bear put option spreads.
Those who couldn?t trade options bought the ProShares Ultra Short S&P 500 (SDS) instead.
For the first few times I had to stop out with frustrating, but small losses.
Then, when I saw the rally in stocks rolling over I bet the ranch.
Guess what? I won another ranch!
That?s not all I have been doing.
I have also been using every dip in gold (GLD) to get long. So far in 2016 my track record here has been perfect, with four consecutive winners.
I have also been hammering both the Japanese yen (FXY), (YCS) and the Euro (FXE), (EUO) on the short side.
And for good measure I strapped on an opportunistic short position in oil (USO), which delivered an instant two-day 9.63% gain.
If you have been reading my daily research you know exactly why we have been executing these specific trades, with the fundamental and technical arguments displayed in all their glory.
No chance for indecision or waffling here!
So far in 2016 we have posted A BLISTERING 9.35% GAIN, putting us once more in the top 1% of all hedge fund performance.
And this is in a year when many of the biggest hedge funds have been wiped out, or are posting severe double-digit, life threatening losses, with lame excuses attached.
May so far has been as hot at the Sahara Desert that I recently escaped, UP AN EYE POPPING 8.14%, making it the best month since September, 2015, when we clocked a life changing +11.99% .
This brings my performance since the inception of the Trade Alert Service five and a half years ago to 201.03%. That annualizes out to 37.11% per year, not bad in this upside down, negative interest rate (NIRP) world.
It seems like only a Madman can prosper in these hopeless trading conditions.
The last nine consecutive Trade Alerts I issued have been profitable, most instantly.
Under promise and over deliver has always been a winning business strategy for me. The harder I work, the luckier I get.
This is against a backdrop of major market indexes that are all unchanged so far this year, despite sudden bursts of volatility and long stretches of boredom.
The key to winning this year has been to put the pedal to the medal during those brief, but hair raising rallies, and then take quick profits.
They don?t call me ?Mad? for nothing.
When the market is dead, you sit on your hands.
After all, you are trying to pay for your own yacht, not your broker?s.
When the market pays you to stay away, you stay away in droves.
Those who have made the effort to wake up early every morning and read my witty and incisive prose have an impressive row of notches on their bedpost to show for their effort.
My groundbreaking trade mentoring service was first launched in 2010. Thousands of followers now earn a full time living solely from my Trade Alerts, a development of which I am immensely proud.
Some 50% of my clients are over 50 and managing their own retirement funds fleeing the shoddy, but expensive services provided by Wall Street. The balance are institutional investors, hedge funds, and professional financial advisors.
The Mad Hedge Fund Trader seeks to level the playing field for the average Joe or Josephine. Looking at the testimonials that come in every day, I?d say we?re accomplishing our goal.
Quite a few followers were able to move fast enough to cash in on my trading recommendations. To read the plaudits yourself, please go to my testimonials page by clicking here.
Our business is booming, so I am plowing profits back in to enhance our added value for you.
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And now for the rest of the year.
I can?t wait!
Daily Audited Trade Alert 201.03% Performance Since Inception
Off to Find the Next Great Trade
