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Mad Hedge Fund Trader

Mad Hedge Fund Trader

Mad Hedge Fund Trader

Contributor since: 29 Sep 2011

Biography

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.

Latest articles from Mad

  • How Falling Energy Costs will Shape the World

    Published 17 May 2012 | viewed 2,647 times

    A major plank in my golden age scenario for the 2020's is the collapse of the cost of energy. This won't occur because of a…

  • The Strong Dollar Leads to a Fall in Commodity Prices

    Published 16 May 2012 | viewed 916 times

    Panic is on deck, to use the baseball terminology that my foreign readers are often attempting to decipher. That is the only conclusion one can…

  • The Benefit of the Doubt Market

    Published 25 January 2012 | viewed 1,692 times

    It is already January 24, and the S&P 500 has seen a grand total of two down days so far in 2012. Are we on…

  • Natural Gas Goes Down in Flames

    Published 16 January 2012 | viewed 3,736 times

    I received a scratchy and barely audible call from my buddy out in the Barnet natural gas fields just outside of Fort Worth, Texas the…

  • How to Play Commodities in 2012

    Published 04 January 2012 | viewed 2,457 times

    This is my favorite asset class for the next decade, as investors increasingly catch on to the secular move out of paper assets into hard…

  • The Stock Market's Dream Scenario

    Published 31 October 2011 | viewed 2,446 times

    I’m sitting here with a mountain of technical analysis reports that are causing my desk to buckle this morning, all shouting “breakout”, “buy”, and “uptrend”.…

  • Get Ready to Short the Euro Again

    Published 27 October 2011 | viewed 2,003 times

    The financial markets exploded to the upside overnight with news of Europe’s triple resolution of their sovereign debt crisis. As I predicted in my letter…

  • Why I Tripled My Volatility Index Short

    Published 06 October 2011 | viewed 1,361 times

    It has been quite a hectic and frenetic day, so I am just getting around to writing out the logic behind today’s short cover of…

  • The Price Tag for Clean Coal

    Published 05 October 2011 | viewed 1,514 times

    I wanted to get the low down on clean coal to see how clean it really is, so I visited some friends at Lawrence Livermore…

  • The Most Bizarre Recession in History

    Published 04 October 2011 | viewed 2,839 times

    If we are now in recession, this is the most bizarre one in history. It is a recession where the first thing people do is…

  • Get Ready for the Final Flush in October

    Published 30 September 2011 | viewed 6,868 times

    What a quarter that was! Q3, 2011, will go down in the history books as one of the worst in market history, and certainly one…

  • Report From the Molycorp Mountain Pass Mine

    Published 29 September 2011 | viewed 720 times

    When I heard that Molycorp (MCP) had just cratered by $22 from $53 to $31 in two days, I did what I usually do when…

  • Selling Oil Again for a Hedge

    Published 15 September 2011 | viewed 1,232 times

    With oil having bounced $5.50 over the last couple of days, I am going to flip back to the short side for several reasons, not…

  • An Update on My Oil Short

    Published 06 September 2011 | viewed 2,033 times

    Will everyone please take a look at the chart below for the United States Oil Fund ETF (USO) and tell me if you don’t see…

  • Itching to Get Into Corn

    Published 02 September 2011 | viewed 1,470 times

    Long term readers of this letter know that I have long been banging away on the fact that the world is making people faster than…

  • Sell Oil for a Stock Hedge

    Published 30 August 2011 | viewed 1,152 times

    Over the last month, asset classes everywhere have downshifted to new, lower trading ranges, reflecting the very rapid chopping of GDP growth forecasts for 2011…

  • Bring Back the Uptick Rule!

    Published 29 August 2011 | viewed 1,334 times

    When the Dow crashed 514 points on August 8, the market lost a staggering $850 billion in market capitalization. High frequency traders were possibly responsible…

  • My View of the Stock Market for the Rest of 2011

    Published 24 August 2011 | viewed 1,303 times

    Down, then up, then down again. How about that? I believe that the global risk markets will bottom sooner than people think, and that the…

  • Use the Melt Down to Load Up on India

    Published 12 August 2011 | viewed 1,727 times

    Take a look at the chart for the emerging market ETF (EEM) below and you will be surprised to see how well it has held…

  • Why I’m Happy to Pay More for Green Power

    Published 12 August 2011 | viewed 1,361 times

    I received some questions last week on my recent solar pieces as to whether I minded paying more money for “green” power. My answer is…

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