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.
Name one of the best performing assets since the “RISK OFF” trade started and it would have to be natural gas. You may recall my…
Deutsche Bank has launched the first ever ETF for the precious metal Rhodium, to be listed on the London stock exchange. Expecting a massive inflow…
Interest in Rare Earths is starting to heat up once again, and it something you should keep on your radar. China’s Baotou Steel has announced…
It has been three months since the horrific Japanese tsunami, the economy is in free fall, and radiation is still lingering in the air and…
This week, the World Bank published a report predicting the demise of the US dollar as the major reserve currency by 2025. The transition will…
With smoke still rising from the ruins of the recent silver crash, I thought I’d touch base with a wizened and grizzled old veteran who…
Most analysts have missed the fact that QE3 has already started in earnest. Of course, it would have been easy to miss. Ben Bernanke has…
Hedge fund titan, Jim Chanos, is well known for his extremely bearish views on China. He says that the cracks are spreading on the façade,…
Let’s do some out of the box thinking here. Let’s say that the global economy is really slowing down. The demand for oil will fall.…
One of the greatest indicators that the music has stopped playing, the fat lady is singing, and it is time to get out of Dodge…
On the way back from a funeral in Los Angeles last weekend, I thought I would take a walk down Nostalgia Lane and have breakfast…
Those looking for guidance on the medium term trend in the market better take a look at the best of breed, benchmark stocks for the…
In the days of olde, the prices of agricultural commodities were determined by the birds, the bees, and Mother Nature. No more. The Mississippi River…
All global asset classes are within a hair’s breadth of completely breaking down. The S&P 500 sits perilously on its neckline. Just below here there…
With gold crashing through to $1,500 this morning, I thought that I would once against re-examine the fundamentals for the barbarous relic. That is most…
Yes, we are all in the instant gratification business. We all want to ride an uptrend for nine months, sell at the top tick, and…
To say that the partial meltdown at Tokyo Electric Power’s Fukushima plant has put a chill on the global nuclear industry would be a vast…
I have started batting out short positions as fast as the market can field them. To be more specific, I am buying puts and selling…
When you look at the profusion of new ETF’s being launched today, you find that they almost always correspond with market tops. The higher the…
No one can explain the most complex economic and monetary issues in a simpler, more homespun fashion than former governor of the Federal Reserve, Bob…