Come join me for lunch at the Mad Hedge Fund Trader’s Global Strategy Luncheon, which I will be conducting in Sarasota, Florida, on Wednesday, January 14, 2026. The cost of the luncheon will be $277. An excellent meal will be followed by a wide-ranging discussion and an extended question-and-answer period. I’ll be arriving early […]
Category Archives: Diary
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I have a feeling we are going to do a lot of buying in 2026, so it’s time to refresh your knowledge about “Buy Writes.” There is always a way to make money in the stock market. Get the direction right, and the rest is a piece of cake. But what if the market is […]
“It is fine to have the longest view in the room, as long as the thing at the end of the vista is a gigantic hill of money,” said John Lanchester of The New Yorker magazine.
Global Market Comments December 17, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (A CHRISTMAS STORY), (THE U-HAUL INDICATOR)
When I was growing up in Los Angeles during the fifties, the most exciting day of the year was when my dad took me to buy a Christmas tree. With its semi-desert climate, Southern California offered pine trees that were thin and scraggly at best, and we didn’t want to chop down the view that […]
It is the end of the semester at the University of California, and as a single parent, the unenviable task of retrieving my daughters out of the dorms for the holidays fell to me. When I arrived, I was stunned to find nothing less than a war zone. Both sides of every street were lined […]
“This isn’t a choice between vanilla and chocolate, folks! It’s all rocky road: a few marshmallows to get you excited before the elections, but with a lot of nuts to ruin the aftermath,” said the ever insightful Bill Gross at PIMCO.
Global Market Comments December 16, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (TESTIMONIAL) (WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION DEBT?), ($TNX), (TLT), (TBT)
With the national debt now at $36 trillion, becoming a hot-button issue once again, it’s time to revisit one of my favorite stories. When I was a little kid during the early 1950s, my grandfather used to endlessly rail against President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The WWI veteran, who was mustard-gassed in the trenches of France […]
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It’s so great having John as my Personal Investment 911. Even when he was navigating the current of his excellent Summit … it took him less than 3 minutes to answer my questions & guide me on my way. I’m underway & making hay … thank you, John Andy Sarasota, Florida