Author Archives: april@madhedgefundtrader.com

The Best Leaps Testimonial Ever

Thank you for your sage advice and ability to leave the corporate grind. I work from home and trade from anywhere in the world.  I’m on my way to becoming a full-fledged Mad Hedge Fund Trader! Now that I’ve been a Mad Hedge subscriber for five years, I’ve experienced trading with you in a world […]

My Drill Sergeant’s Guide To Dividend Discipline

I’m looking at Johnson & Johnson’s (JNJ) latest quarterly numbers from my Lake Tahoe office, and I keep thinking about something my drill sergeant used to say in boot camp: “The best soldiers are the ones nobody notices until the shooting starts.” JNJ is that soldier right now. While everyone’s losing their minds over the […]

The Long View on Emerging Markets

I managed to catch a few comments in the distinct northern English accent of Jim O’Neil, the fabled analyst who invented the “BRIC” term, and who was later kicked upstairs to the chairman’s seat at Goldman Sachs International (GS) in London. Now that the US dollar is in free fall, Jim thinks that it is […]