Mad Hedge Technology Letter November 14, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (BITCOIN HIT HARD IN THE SHORT-TERM) (BTC), (MSTR), (IBIT)
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Readers need to digest Bitcoin getting whacked over the head with a glass beer bottle. Bitcoin’s brutal 21% selloff from its October peak to sub-$96,000 levels signals to us that we are stuck in risk-off mode. November is usually the time for the Santa Claus rally, but a series of high-profile gaffes by tech CEOs […]
Global Market Comments November 5, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (THE MARGIN CALL FROM HELL) (NFLX), (MSTR), (TSLA)
It was just another quiet Friday afternoon. I was letting my call spreads in Netflix (NFLX) run off in the weekly expiration. They were $100 deep in-the-money and I had $1 million in excess margin, so I figured I could just go take a nap. Then, at exactly 1:30 PM EST, a message highlighted in […]
Global Market Comments October 20, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or BUY THE BLACK SWANS) (GS), (TSLA), (MSTR), (MS), (NFLX), ($VIX), (SCHW), (ZION), (USO), (GLD)
It was truly the week from hell. Three out of five days posted moves in the Dow Average of over 1,000 points or more. Dueling comments designed to worsen the trade war were tweeted daily. A trader really had to pedal hard to earn his crust of bread. However, the strategy on how to deal […]
Global Market Comments October 13, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or A FRIDAY AFTERNOON SURPRISE) ($INDU), (SPY), (GLD), (TLT), (USO), ($VIX), (GS), (MSTR), (TSLA), (NFLX), (IBKR)
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The Market Outlook for the Week Ahead, or A Friday Afternoon Surprise
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It was looking like just another boring Friday afternoon ahead of a three-day weekend, with bond markets closed on Monday for Columbus Day. I was sitting in front of my screens at my Lake Tahoe mansion, trying to untie the persistent knot in my pajama bottoms with a can opener. I have lost so much […]
Global Market Comments October 6, 2025 Fiat Lux Featured Trade: (MARKET OUTLOOK FOR THE WEEK AHEAD, or FLYING BLIND), (SPY), (GLD), (NFLX), (TSLA), (MSTR)
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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 […]