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.
One of the great asset management blunders of all time has to be the EC’s decision to sell its gold reserves in the wake of…
“Watch where the big companies make their direct investments and that is where the markets will follow.” That golden rule is what the head of…
I am building lists of merging market ETF to snap up during any summer sell off, and turkey popped up on the menu. The country…
I believe that several asset classes are in the process of making important medium term tops, and that it is time to start building short…
My current scenario for global equities has them selling off over the summer, then a rebounding led by emerging markets starting sometime in the fall.…
Over the weekend, I managed to catch up with a friend of mine who just escaped from Libya by the skin of his teeth. Sent…
No one has been more negative about the long term outlook for the Treasury bond markets than I. At the rate that we are piling…
Today’s surprise release of figures showing a shocking draw down in natural gas supplies throws a great spotlight on what has undoubtedly been the red…
With the Q1 earnings season now underway, investors seeking a repeat of Q4’s blistering results are about to be sorely disappointed. While calendar 2010 delivered…
If you want to see the one precious metal that has been beaten senseless by the disaster in Japan, take a look at Palladium (PALL).…
I received a call from a friend in Osaka last night. It was scratchy, kept cutting in and out, and was barely comprehensible. There are…
The July 21 deadline for the hedge funds to register required by the one year anniversary of the Dodd-Frank bill is fast approaching, and the…
As destructive as the Japanese tsunami has been, it may have left some investment pearls in its wake. It has suddenly made available some of…
With gold threatening to break out to a new all-time high, and silver having already done so, some interesting facts are coming out about the…
Virtually every analyst has been puzzled by the seeming immunity of stock markets to soaring oil prices this year. In fact, stocks and crude have…
I am not in the habit of regularly lifting data out of the Wall Street Journal, but even a blind squirrel occasionally finds an acorn.…
Having once worked for the Atomic Energy Commission at the Nuclear Test Site in Nevada, I do have some insights into the melt down at…
I rely on hundreds of “moles” around the world whose job it is to watch a single, but important indicator for the world economy. One…
I went into the Japanese earthquake positioning for a big “RISK OFF” trade, and it now looks like we are getting it in spades. The…
I just got off the phone with several frightened, somewhat dazed survivors of the Japanese earthquake who work in the financial markets, and I thought…