Thanks to our ballistic, market beating performance, up 47% year to date, we have recently enjoyed a large influx of new subscribers, especially from Australia and New Zealand. So I want to take 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 me, 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 some 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 issues 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.

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.

Bill also sends out an outstanding daily commentary, which gives followers the true color of the market.

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 Davis is a 40-year market veteran who has spent a career in financial education. Suffice it to say, Bill knows which end of a stock to hold up.

I have followed his work for yonks, and can?t imagine a better partner in the serious business of making money for 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 call my loyal assistant, Nancy, in Florida at 888-716-1115 or 813-388-2904, or email her directly 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.

Sometimes it?s Good to Have Gunslingers on Your Side

It has been a long hard slog, but I finally managed to get the performance of my Trade Alert Service up once again to a new all time high.

I have not pushed forward my service?s performance numbers to loftier heights since September 29.

It had to happen sooner or later.

What finally did it was my absolute nailing of the blockbuster November nonfarm payroll at 211,000. Headline unemployment dropped to a new decade low at 5.0%.

I went into the report short the Euro (FXE), (EUO), short volatility (XIV), and long US stocks up the wazoo, especially financials (JPM), technology (MSFT), and consumer discretionaries (DIS).

When I saw the report at 5:30 AM Pacific Standard Time, I went back to bed. I knew everything would be running my way, big time, and I didn?t want to be awake to take profits too soon.

When we tallied the numbers at the end of the day, I was blinking at the largest one-day gain for Mad Hedge Fund Readers in years, up a ballistic +5.73%.

Furthermore, my five-year record catapulted to a new all time high of 199.41%. That works out to an average annualized return of an eye popping 39.88%. I have no doubt we will top the magical 200% level on Monday.

The fruit of these labors was to take the Mad Hedge Fund Trader?s profit for 2015 up to a new all time high at 46.60%.

December so far has been as hot at the Sahara Desert that I recently escaped, up a blistering 2.79%. It is a return that most hedge fund managers would kill for.

In fact hedge funds would take any return now, even a single basis point, as most are showing red ink for 2015.

It seems like only a Madman can prosper in these hopeless trading conditions.

The last ten consecutive Trade Alerts I have issued have been profitable, most instantly.

It has been a near perfect year. I said nearly.

Followers have found themselves in the green during every month of 2015, except during October, when the monster melt up short caught me short US stocks.

I started out 2015 with the goal of earning 25% for my readers during the first half, and another 25% in the second half. This latest batch of trades puts me right on track for reaching my yearend target.

Under promise and over deliver; it has always been a winning business strategy for me.

This is against a backdrop of major market indexes that are all down so far this year, despite sudden bursts of volatility and long, Sahara like stretches of boredom.

The key to winning this year has been to put the pedal to the mettle during those brief, but hair raising selloffs, 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 is institutional investors, hedge funds, and professional financial advisors.

The Mad Hedge Fund Trader seeks to level the playing field for the average Joe. Looking at the testimonials that come in every day, I?d say we?ve accomplished that 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.

Global Trading Dispatch, my highly innovative and successful trade-mentoring program, earned a net return for readers of 40.17% in 2011, 14.87% in 2012, 67.45% in 2013, and 30.3% in 2014.

Our flagship product, Mad Hedge Fund Trader Pro, costs $4,500 a year. It includes?Global Trading Dispatch?(my trade alert service and daily newsletter).

You get a real-time trading portfolio, an enormous research database, and live biweekly strategy webinars. You also get Bil Davis' Mad Day Trader service.

To subscribe, please go to my website at?www.madhedgefundtrader.com, click on the ?Memberships? located on the second row of tabs.

And now for the rest of the year.

I can?t wait!

Off to Find the Next Great Trade