Author Archives: april@madhedgefundtrader.com

The Kindle Edition of the John Thomas Bio is Out

Amazon has published a Kindle eBook of the autobiography A Life Well Lived – Part I: 60 Years of Memories of the Mad Hedge Fund Trader. The book is offered for sale at a bargain price of $9.99, and I am told it was a best seller on the recent Alaska cruise of Cunard’s Queen […]

The High Cost Of Being First

There is a predictable arc to every great pharmaceutical story. First comes disbelief, then euphoria, then inevitability, and finally punishment for having believed too much of your own press. Novo Nordisk (NVO) reached that final phase in 2025, not because semaglutide stopped working, but because investors forgot how brutally unforgiving this business becomes once expectations […]

Friday, February 13, 2026 Antarctica Strategy Luncheon

  Come join me for lunch at the Mad Hedge Fund Trader’s Global Strategy Luncheon, which I will be conducting off the coast of Antarctica on Friday, February 13, 2026. The meeting will take place on a Celebrity cruise that departs for Buenos Aires, Argentina on Saturday, January 31. I just checked, and there are […]

A Cheap Hedge for This Market

The S&P 500 is now at an all-time high of 7,000 and is showing definitive signs of rolling over. So financial advisors, pension fund managers, and cautious individuals have been ringing me up asking what the best way is to hedge the heady 84% gains of the past three years. You can forget about buying […]

January 21, 2026

  (GEOPOLITICS COULD EVENTUALLY WAKE UP THE BEAR AND TOPPLE MARKETS)   January 21, 2026   Hello everyone WEEK AHEAD CALENDAR Monday, Jan. 19 Martin Luther King Day – stock market and bond markets are closed.   Tuesday Jan. 20 Earnings: Fastenal, Netflix, Interactive Brokers Group, United Airlines, U.S. Bancorp, 3M, KeyCorp, Fifth Third Bancorp, […]