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Testimonial

Just a quick note of appreciation for your helping me decide to get my clients into (GLD) with a 15% allocation early this year. It sure has helped me to be more of a hero to my clients this year than a goat… Best wishes to you and yours! Keep ’em coming. Brad Bakersfield, CA. […]

Launching “Trading Options for Beginners”

Not a day goes by without an email coming in asking if beginners can make use of my money-making service. I always reply, “Absolutely.” When I first started the Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader 17 years ago, layoffs were rampant, General Motors was going bankrupt, and the financial crisis was imminent. Many newly […]

The Mad Hedge December 2-4 Traders & Investors Summit is On!

With a global trade war in full swing, unemployment rising, inflation ticking up, a recession possibly on the horizon, and some of the worst market volatility in history, investors are confused, befuddled, and disoriented. Here’s the good news for you. The 21st Mad Hedge Traders & Investors Summit, to be held on December 2-4, has […]

The Market Outlook for the Week Ahead, or Welcome to the Rodeo

With stock market volatility hitting a seven-month high last week, you might have been riding the brahma bull at the Reno rodeo. It was a technical analyst’s dream come true. We saw the perfect double bottom at $6,500 in the S&P 500 (SPX). This was further confirmed by a perfect double bottom in Goldman Sachs […]

The Mad Hedge Dictionary of Trading Slang

The Diary of a Mad Hedge Fund Trader is read in 140 countries. About a quarter of our readers run the letter through Google Translate before reading. That has created a problem. Stock trading is probably the most slang and acronym-ridden profession on the planet, second only to the United States Marine Corps. (Semper Fi). […]

The Market Outlook for the Week Ahead, or The Tail Wagging the Dog

You can be forgiven for thinking that the stock market has become manic-depressive, which, over the last two trading days, ended up violently flat. On Thursday, the Dow Average ($INDU) shed 1,100 points in the wake of Nvidia’s blockbuster earnings report. NASDAQ (QQQ) stocks saw the widest range since April 2 Liberation Day, when stocks […]

January 8, 2026 Orlando, Florida Global Strategy Luncheon

  Come join me for lunch for the Mad Hedge Fund Trader’s Global Strategy Luncheon, which I will be conducting in Orlando, Florida at 12:00 PM on Thursday, January 8, 2026. A three-course lunch is included. I’ll be giving you my up-to-date view on stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities, precious metals, and real estate. And to […]

Trading the Kennedy Assassination

Passing through Dallas, Texas, on the way to a previous Mad Hedge Strategy Luncheon a few years ago, I couldn’t help but remember the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, some 57 years ago today. The tragedy offers valuable lessons for today’s traders, although we have to travel a somewhat circuitous […]