John Thomas, The Mad Hedge Fund Trader is one of today's most successful Hedge Fund Managers and a 40 year veteran of the financial markets. He has one of the best performing newsletters and has just launched a new investment service for Investors and Traders.
The markets are currently stampeding for yield of any description, damn the risk. That’s why shipping stocks have suddenly come into focus, which offer some…
Since I am a permabull on energy of all types, I am constantly trolling the markets for cheap energy plays, and ConocoPhillips (COP) popped up…
If you are looking for another emerging market to add to your list of things to buy on dips, then take a look at Indonesia…
I believe that the surge in the price of food we have seen in recent weeks is the beginning of a major, secular, long term…
It’s just a matter of time before global buying of the grains spills over into the sugar market. A combination of torrential rains in Brazil,…
Long time readers of this letter know that I have been a huge bull on lithium plays, my pick in the sector, Chile’s Sociedad Quimica…
I received another scratchy, crackling cell phone call from my drilling buddy in the Texas natural gas fields today. You could almost choke from the…
Now the grains are literally on fire. News reports over the weekend of wild fires triggered by historic draught conditions in Russia and the Ukraine,…
Want to invest in an extremely well managed country with almost no debt, budget surpluses, an appreciating currency, and the price for its dominant export…
One of my biggest disappointments with President Obama so far is his continued support of the ethanol boondoggle. The program was ramped up by the…
I have always been an unfashionable person. I was still wearing my bell bottoms and mutton chop sideburns well into the eighties, and even today…
Louise Yamada, one of the most widely followed technical analysts in the market, says the 29 year bull market in Treasury bonds is coming to…
If you think that the upcoming energy shortage is going to be bad, it will pale in comparison to the next water crisis, so investment…
Often while searching for a piece of data through Google, I stumble across something else, which is far more interesting. That is how I found…
The July 26-August 1, 2010 print edition of Business Week magazine put out a brilliant piece entitled “Amber Waves of Pain” detailing how retail investors…
The conspiracy theorists will love this one. Buried deep in the bowels of the 2,000 page health care bill is a new requirement for gold…
A quick look at the world's top performing stock markets during the first half of 2010 will not exactly ring bells for many investors. Bangladesh…
Uranium traders have been stunned by a sudden Chinese effort to corner the supplies in an effort to fuel the world's most ambitious nuclear program.…
Global currency traders remain puzzled by the continuing strength of the yen (FXY), (YCS), which broke out of a ¥90-¥95 range a few weeks ago…
I am constantly barraged with emails from gold bugs who passionately argue that their beloved metal is trading at a tiny fraction of its true…