Author Archives: april@madhedgefundtrader.com

October 29 Biweekly Strategy Webinar Q&A

Below, please find subscribers’ Q&A for the October 29 Mad Hedge Fund Trader Global Strategy Webinar, broadcast from Incline Village, NV. Q: What are the chances of Elon Musk leaving Tesla (TSLA) if he doesn’t get his $1 trillion pay package? A: I think he’d settle for $500 billion, but knowing Elon Musk as I […]

Behind Every Breakthrough Drug Is A Massachusetts Phone Number

My buddy who runs business development at a mid-cap biotech called me last week with an interesting complaint. He’s trying to scale up manufacturing for their promising Phase III candidate, and every vendor he talks to has the same response: “Great, we’ll get you on the Thermo Fisher (TMO) waiting list.” That conversation made me […]

Why Technical Analysis is a Disaster

I recently heard an amazing piece of information from a subscriber. Fidelity recently conducted a study to identify their best-performing clients. They neatly fell into two groups: people who forgot they had an account at Fidelity, and dead people. It all underlines the futility of trading the markets without true professional guidance, such as you […]

The New Frontier In Tech Staff Numbers

Amazon is taking out the knife and getting lean. The repercussions will be widespread as they hack off 30,000 corporate workers starting tomorrow. This means that the AI revolution is in full swing with many of these jobs substituted by AI functions and the rest offshored to arbitrage cheaper labor costs. This is just the […]