Global Market Comments
January 5, 2018
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN!),
(SPY), (QQQ), (TLT), (USO), (FXY), (FXE), (GLD), (ITB),
(THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MAD HEDGE FUND TRADER AND MAD DAY TRADER)
Thanks to our ballistic, market beating performance, up 57.91% last year, we have recently enjoyed a large influx of new subscribers, especially from Australia and New Zealand. So, I want to take this opportunity to clarify exactly what you bought.
While the Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader focuses on investment over a one week to six-month time frame, Mad Day Trader will exploit money-making opportunities over a brief ten minute to one month window.
It is ideally suited for day traders, but can also be used by long-term investors to improve market timing for entry and exit points.
The Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader is written by myself, John Thomas, who you may have met during my many Global Strategy Luncheons around the world.
I use a combination of deep, long term fundamental research, technical analysis, and a global network of long time contacts to generate great investment ideas for you, the reader.
The target holding period can be anywhere from three days to six months, although if something fortuitously doubles in a day, I don't need to be told twice to take a profit (yes, this happens sometimes).
Last year, I issued over 200 Trade Alerts, of which 84% were profitable.
The Mad Day Trader is a separate, but complimentary service run by my Philadelphia based friend, Bill Davis. He uses a dozen proprietary short-term technical and momentum indicators he developed himself to generate buy and sell signals.
These will be sent to you by email for immediate execution. During normal trading conditions, you should receive up to ten alerts a month. The target holding period can be anywhere from a few minutes to a month.
Bill uses far tighter stop loss limits, given the short-term nature of his strategy. The goal is to keep losses miniscule, so you can always live to fight another day.
Bill uses primarily a "Buy-Write" strategy whereby he buys stock and sell short call options against them. Bill also provides outstanding daily US stock market commentary.
You will receive the same instructions for order execution, like ticker symbols, entry and exit points, targets, stop losses, and regular real time updates, as you do from the Mad Hedge Fund Trader.
He supplies key support and resistance levels for several indexes, which the markets will revolve around. Traders love it.
At the end of each day, a separate short-term model portfolio will be posted on the website for both strategies.
Bill is a 30-year market veteran who has spent a career in financial education.
I have followed his work for yonks, and can't imagine a better partner in the serious business of explaining how to make money to you, the reader.
Together, The Mad Hedge Fund Trader and the May Day Trader comprise Mad Hedge Fund Trader Pro, which is for sale on my website for $4,500 a year.
I hope this makes everything crystal clear for the new subscribers. If you have anymore questions, please email my assistant, at support@madhedgefundtrader.com
When Nancy is tied up, calls are automatically routed through to our web developer, Doug. Please remember that Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane Australia are 16 hours ahead of Florida, while Perth is 13 hours ahead.
Global Market Comments
January 4, 2018
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(JANUARY 3 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR Q&A)
(TESTIMONIAL)
I have always had a passion for the markets and the Mad Hedge Fund Trader gave me the courage to make my first trade. At the time I was unemployed and put in everything I could scrape together - about ten thousand dollars.
For me this was a free education, as the profits would pay for all the books and the fees. My father gave me some money as a gift, while telling me "I was crazy" following "some guy" off the Internet.
Every suggestion I have taken religiously. I follow all your lead indicators from the Shanghai stock market to Dr. Copper and the jobless claims.
Over the last couple of months I have started doing my own successful options trades based on the extra suggestions you give in the webinars and commentaries. Often, I do a trade and ten minutes later an alert comes.
My father who is worried about his future (like so many of us) is now joining the program. I am going to assist him with his first trades.
Another family member has asked me to manage his money. I really feel you are helping me become a hedge fund manager with this fantastic program.
Geoff
London - England
"It's a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it," said British Novelist, Somerset Maugham.
Global Market Comments
January 2, 2018
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(JANUARY 3 GLOBAL STRATEGY WEBINAR),
(HAS THE WORLD HIT "PEAK DIAMONDS"),
(NILE), (AAL.L),
(THE NEW COLD WAR)
(TESTIMONIAL)
"Liquidity is a coward. It's never around when you need it." said market commentator, Jeff Saut.
Now that China has ended its "One Child" policy, it is time to assess its long-term costs.
Adopted 33 years ago, there are now 32 million more boys under the age of 20 than girls.
Large scale interference with the natural male:female ratio has been tracked with some fascination by demographers for years, and is constantly generating unintended consequences.
Until early in the last century, starving rural mothers abandoned unwanted female newborns in the hills to be taken away by "spirits."
Today, pregnant women resort to the modern-day equivalent by getting ultrasounds and undergoing abortions when they learn they are carrying girls.
Millions of children are "little emperors," spoiled male-only children who have been raised to expect the world to revolve around them.
The resulting shortage of women has led to an epidemic of "bride kidnapping" in surrounding countries. Stealing of male children is widespread in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Mongolia.
The end result has been a barbell shaped demographic curve unlike that seen in any other country. The Beijing government says the program has succeeded in bringing the fertility rate from 3.0 down to 1.8, well below the 2.1 replacement rate.
As a result, the Middle Kingdom's population today is only 1.3 billion instead of the 1.6 billion it would have been.
Political scientists have long speculated that an excess of young men would lead to more bellicose foreign policies by the Middle Kingdom. But so far the choice has been for commerce, to the detriment of America's trade balance and Internet security.
In practice, the one child policy has only been applied to those who live in cities or have government jobs. That is about two thirds of the population.
On my last trip to China I spent a weekend walking around Shenzhen city parks. The locals doted over their single children, while visitors from the countryside played games with their three, four, or five children. The contrast couldn't have been more bizarre.
Economists now wonder if the practice will also understate China's long-term growth rate. Parents with boys tend to be bigger savers, so they can help sons with the initial big-ticket items in life, like an education, homes, and even cars.
The end game for this policy has to be the Japan disease; a huge population of senior citizens with insufficient numbers of young workers to support them. The markets won't ignore this.
In the latest round of reforms announced by the Chinese government was the demise of the one child policy. But no matter how hard you try, you can't change the number of people born 30 years ago.
The boomerang effects of this policy could last for centuries.
Global Market Comments
December 28, 2017
Fiat Lux
Featured Trade:
(THE FUSION IN YOUR FUTURE),
(TESTIMONIAL),
(DECODING THE GREEBACK),
(WHAT ABOUT ASSET ALLOCATION?)
If you want to impress your friends with your vast knowledge of financial matters, then here are the Latin translations of the script on the backside of a US dollar bill.
"ANNUIT COEPTIS" means "God has favored our undertaking." "NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM" translates into "A new order has begun."
The Roman numerals at the base of the pyramid are "1776." The better known "E PLURIBUS UNUM" is "One nation from many people."
The basic design for the cotton and linen currency with red and blue silk fibers, which has been in circulation since 1957, carries enough symbolism to drive conspiracy theorists to distraction.
An all-seeing eye? The darkened Western face of the pyramid? And of course, the number "13" abounds.
Thank freemason Benjamin Franklin for these cryptic symbols, and watch Nicholas Cage's historical adventure movie "National Treasure."
The balanced scales in the seal are certainly wishful thinking and a bit quaint if they refer to the Federal budget.
Study the buck closely, because there are soon going to be a lot more of them around, thanks to the borrowing history of the new president.
What Did You Really Mean, Ben?