Author Archives: april@madhedgefundtrader.com

A Pity Party Never Paid So Well

Pfizer (PFE) today is what the oil majors were at peak ESG outrage: unfashionable, misunderstood, and throwing off more cash than the market wants to admit. The stock is still wearing its COVID windfall like a scarlet letter. Investors can’t forgive management for mistiming the boom and fumbling the money, so they’re pricing Pfizer as […]

What To Do About Carvana

Carvana (CVNA), the online used-car retailer famous for its vending-machine-style delivery pods and seamless e-commerce platform, has engineered quite a run for the ages. They came back when everyone wrote them off. Don’t believe what people have to say about them! From trading below $4 a share in late 2022—amid whispers of bankruptcy—to a staggering […]

December 8, 2025

  (FED COMMENTARY COULD SHAPE THE MARKET IN DECEMBER)   December 8, 2025   Hello everyone   WEEK AHEAD CALENDAR Monday, Dec. 8 Earnings: Toll Brothers   Tuesday, Dec. 9 10:00 a.m. October Job Openings and Labour Turnover (JOLTs) Earnings: AutoZone, Campbell’s, AeroVironment, Cracker Barrel   Wednesday, Dec. 10 2:00 p.m. FOMC Meeting wraps up […]

Wednesday, December 10, 2025 Salt Lake City, Utah Strategy Luncheon

  Come join me for the Mad Hedge Fund Trader’s Global Strategy Luncheon, which I will be conducting high in the western desert in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains. The event begins at 12:00 noon on Wednesday, December 10, 2025. A three-course meal will be provided and there will […]

A Note on Assigned Options, or Options Called Away Updated

Occasionally, I get a call from Concierge members asking what to do when their short options positions are assigned or called away. The answer was very simple: fall down on your knees and thank your lucky stars. You have just made the maximum possible profit for your position instantly. We have the good fortune to […]