Mad Hedge Fund Trader Chewing the Fat With Harry S. Dent. Given the fresh dose of uncertainty besieging the markets these days, I thought I’d touch base with my pal, co-conspiring Eagle Scout, and fellow traveler, Harry S. Dent. Harry runs an independent research boutique, which has accurately predicted many of the major moves in financial markets...

David Banister- www.MarketTrendForecast.com Interesting to watch all of the Silver and Gold Bears running out into the streets from their caves beating their chests due to the silver shellacking we just saw. Getting jiggy with the US Dollar rally is all the rage right now, and stomping on the precious metals Bulls is the hot sport. The only problem...

As soon as you think you’ve seen it all someone comes along doing something really cool. Mike Maffei turned $10k into $100,000 in just over a month and $50k into over $750,000 in 12 months. Yes, those are actual trading results; not back tests or simulated trading or anything like that. These are real returns from trading REAL MONEY – he lets...

by Tyler Durden It’s official: the US credit card has officially been maxed out, just as we predicted on Wednesday, and througout Q1 and Q2. The United States is expected to reach the legal limit on its debt later on Monday and will start dipping into federal retirement funds to give the country more room to borrow, a Treasury official said. ...

Here is quick pre-week analysis video explaining what I think could happen in the gold, silver, oil and the stock market. The dollar continues to control the short term movements in both stocks and commodities Watch The Video Here

Mad Hedge Fund Trader The Markets Are On a Knife Edge. 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 are a ton of sell stops that could pare 5% off the index very rapidly. The more volatile and leading emerging market ETF (EEM) has already...

I’ve been long SPX since the September 2010 bottom and an aggressive buyer on pullbacks. Today I exited all long trades and went to 100% cash and then even took on a small short position. My current analysis shows ample reason to conclude that stocks and commodities are in the early stages of a significant correction. Here’s my SPX...

Gold Scents It is been my belief that stocks and the economy have been locked in a secular bear market since March of 2000. During that period we’ve had two recessions and two cyclical bear markets. One of those recessions was the worst since the Great Depression and the last bear market in stocks was the second worst in history. I’ve...

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. – George S. Patton - Last week silver was the focus of incredible price swings which left many licking their wounds and shaking their heads at the trading losses they had incurred. This sell off was likely triggered by the increase in margin requirements for futures contracts, but the...

by Andrey Dashkov, Casey International Speculator The gold-silver ratio (GSR) measures how many ounces of silver one can purchase for an ounce of gold, on a certain date. Reference to the ratio has a long history. One of the first mentions was that upon the death of Alexander the Great, the ratio was 12.5 to 1. During the Roman Empire, the ratio was...

The Mad Hedge Fund Trader This Chart Keeps Me Awake at Night. The forest and the trees are the constant dilemma facing traders on hedge fund desks, the exchange floor, the commodities pits, or behind PC’s at home. While spending all day focusing intently on the tree in front of them with a magnifying glass, they miss the fact that a forest fire is...

by Tyler Durden Today’s Flash Smash visualization in the stock of Enstar is brought to you by Nanex: from $102 to $0.01 in just under a second. But fear not: William O’Brien, the CEO of Direct Edge, made infamous by Zero Hedge through the whole Flash trading frontrunning scandal, says “the most egregious aspects of the Flash Crash,...

This week we are seeing fear across the board from traders and investors as they dump their long positions is stocks and commodities. Just in the past two trading sessions alone we have seen extreme overbought conditions and extreme oversold conditions which generally mean another big move is brewing… Fear (panic selling) has very distinct characteristics...

Gold Scents Despite my bias to see new all time lows in the dollar index, I think the dollar probably put in the three year cycle low last week. Sentiment at the time had reached multi-year lows and as of yesterday the dollar had moved back above the 50 day moving average. If I’m right then this should usher in the next deflationary...

From the desk of John Thomas The Mad Hedge Fund Trader Thursday, May 12, 2011 Last week’s gut wrenching selloff is now threatening the short term uptrend. If it breaks, then the medium and long term trends will be at risk and who knows how low we go this summer… I have the Macro Millionaire...