Author Archives: april@madhedgefundtrader.com

October 6, 2025

  (THE DATA BLACKOUT MIGHT RUIN THE BULLISH RUN)   October 6, 2025   Hello everyone   WEEK AHEAD CALENDAR Monday Oct. 6 Earnings: Constellation Brands   Tuesday Oct.7 8:30 a.m. New York Federal Reserve Bank Director of Research Kartik Athreya speaks at the Orange County Partnership Investor Breakfast. 8:30 a.m. Trade Balance (August) 10:05 […]

The Market Outlook for the Week Ahead, or Flying Blind

During the 1980s, I ran Morgan Stanley’s equity trading desk in London. Every summer, I used to park my family at my villa in the mountains above Cannes in the South of France with a spectacular view of the Mediterranean. On weekends, I would fly down to Cannes in my twin-engine Cessna 340 with the […]

October 1 Biweekly Strategy Webinar Q&A

Below, please find subscribers’ Q&A for the October 1 Mad Hedge Fund Trader Global Strategy Webinar, broadcast from Incline Village, NV. Q: What effect will the government shutdown have on the stock market? A: The answer so far is nothing—absolutely nothing. It appears the President’s strategy is to cut spending only in Democratic states. New […]

The Dividend King That Keeps Growing It’s Kingdom

A Chicago lawyer named Russ Gremel walked into a brokerage in 1945 with $1,000 and a theory so simple it barely qualified as an investment thesis. He figured people would always need medicine and women would always buy makeup, so he bought shares in Walgreens (WBA) and promptly forgot about them. Seventy years later, when […]