Come join Mad Day Trader Jim Parker and I for lunch at the Mad Hedge Fund Trader?s Global Strategy Luncheon, which we will be conducting in New York, NY on Tuesday, June 17, 2014. An excellent three-course lunch will be provided. A PowerPoint presentation 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, and real estate. And to keep you in suspense, I?ll be throwing a few surprises out there too. Enough charts, tables, graphs, and statistics will be thrown at you to keep your ears ringing for a week. Tickets are available for $248.

The formal luncheon will run from 12:00 to 2:00 PM. I?ll be arriving an hour early and leaving late in case anyone wants to have a one on one discussion, or just sit around and chew the fat about the financial markets.

The event will be held at a prestigious private club on Central Park South, the details of which will be emailed to you with your purchase confirmation.

I look forward to meeting you, and thank you for supporting my research. To purchase tickets for the luncheons, please go to my online store.

Executing the Mad Hedge Fund Trader?s?Trade Alerts?from the other side of the world can pose some annoying challenges. After speaking with many of my Australian followers on my recent trip down under, I learned of the obstacles presented by distant time zones, dealing in foreign currencies, regulations, and obtaining live customer support.

I want to make my service easy as possible for everyone to follow. Execution of my?Trade Alerts?should never be an issue. The?Mad Hedge Fund Trader?has therefore tied up with?Halifax Investment Services Limited, an established local broker, to provide support and execution services for my Australian followers.

Halifax?possesses an Australian Financial Services (AFS) License from the Australian Securities & Investments Commission to provide brokerage and custody services. It is a member of the Australian Stock Exchange. It has a relationship with the American firm, Interactive Brokers, which gives it access to state of the art online executive at competitive commissions.

Halifax?can open trading accounts, Self-managed superannuation funds, or any other type of account. It also offers a wealth of educational resources you can use to improve your own trading performance.

If you open a brokerage account with?Halifax?they will provide the following for you:

1) Custody of your Australian dollar funds in a safe, segregated account.

2) Personal customer support from a professional financial advisor in your time zone who will explain the fundamentals, the logic, and the risks involved in every?Mad Hedge Fund Trader Trade Alert.?They will invest the time and energy to make sure you can execute these trades online on your own.

3) The ability to hedge out foreign currency risks in your trading.

4)?Halifax?can execute the full range of trades recommended by the?Mad Hedge Fund Trader?with the greatest of ease. These include stocks, bonds, commodities, foreign currencies, precious metals, exchange traded funds (ETF?s), options, and option call and put spreads.

Halifax?is a well-capitalized firm. It does not engage in any trading for its own account. It is the subject of regular audits by its regulator. All cash accounts are insured in value up to AUS$250,000. In other words, it is a financial institution where you can place you life savings and sleep well at night.

To avail yourselves of these services, please open an account with?Halifax Investment Services Ltd. contact Matthew Brown,?financial advisor who has been assigned to provide you assistance (Ph 7 5585 4200/email: brown@halifaxonline.com.au).? Matthew has been in the industry since 1998 and in particular has been involved in the US markets for the last 10 years. He runs the US trading desk for the Queensland office.

Good Luck and good trading!

Did You Say ?Buy? or ?Sell??

My friend, Ian Bremmer of the Eurasia Group, a global risk analyst who I regularly follow, has published an outstanding book entitled The End of the Free Markets: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations. I find this highly depressing, as it takes me as long to read one of Ian?s books as it takes him to write another one. To read a review of his highly insightful tome published in 2008, The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing, please click here. The world is reaching a tipping point. For the past 40 years, global multinationals with unfettered access to capital, consumer, and labor markets have driven the world economy. There is now a new competitor on the scene, the ?state capitalist,? where political considerations trump economic ones in the allocation of resources. Of course, China is the main player, joined by several other emerging nations. The Middle Kingdom has posted double-digit annual growth for the past 30 years without freedom of speech, economic rules of the road, and independent judiciary, and credible property rights. China?s leadership is clearly worried that Western style freedoms will enable wealth to be generated outside their control and be used to orchestrate their overthrow. Private Western companies can only engage in transactions, which stand on their own economically and deliver the short-term profits, which their shareholders demand. In China, long-term political goals enable them to pay through the nose to obtain stable supplies of oil, gas, minerals, and materials. That keeps the country?s massive work force employed, off the streets, and politically neutered. The bottom line is that there are now two competing forms of capitalism. The recent financial crisis has accelerated their entrance to the global stage, moving us from a G7 to a G20 dominated world. Globalization is not ending, but it is definitely entering a new chapter. For those of us who read tea leaves to ascertain major, market moving economic trends, this will be a must read. To buy the book at Amazon, please click here.