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It is by no accident that the Mad Hedge Fund Trader has partnered with the lying scum at Zero Hedge.

It is also by no accident that he, like the main figures behind Zero Hedge refuses to tell you his name. That alone should raise some really big red flags.

Why would the Mad Hedge Fund Trader refuse to identify himself?

Perhaps it is because this enables him to make claims that are impossible to verify. He claims to have run a hedge fund, but decided to exit the business to focus on managing his personal investments. This is another red flag. It basically implies that his fund blew up.

Think about it, the best way to manage your money as a fund manager is to keep running your hedge fund, that is, if it’s making money. After all, you get 20% of the profits after the low benchmark has been reached.

If in fact he did run a legit hedge fund, he would tell you how large or small it was.

If he did in fact sell his fund, he would tell you the sales price. Anyone in the financial industry will confirm that this is all basic information. And to leave it out really raises some big doubts.

Perhaps he was banned from the industry. No one knows because he won’t tell you who he is. This is problematic in itself.

The following bio was taken from his website.

“The Mad Hedge Fund Trader graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) with a degree in Biochemistry and a minor in Mathematics in 1974. He moved to Tokyo, Japan to join Dai Nana Securities as a research analyst of Japanese companies, becoming fluent in Japanese. In 1976 he was appointed the Tokyo correspondent for The Economist magazine and the Financial Times. For the next seven years he published thousands of articles about the economies, companies, and leaders of every country in Asia.

In 1982 the Mad Hedge Fund Trader moved to New York as the US editor of Euromoney magazine. As a member of the White House Press Corps he covered the early years of the Reagan administration. In 1983 he was hired by a top investment bank to build a new division in international equities. In 1985 he was promoted to vice president and transferred to London to head up the sales and trading of Japanese equity derivatives in Europe and the Middle East.

In 1989 the Mad Hedge Fund Trader was appointed a director of the Swiss Bank Corp responsible for its then vast portfolio of Japanese equity derivatives. A year later he left to set up the first ever dedicated international hedge fund, which became a top performer in the industry.

In 1999 the Mad Hedge Fund Trader sold his hedge fund to concentrate on managing his personal investments. He focused on natural gas exploration and development in Texas and Colorado, as well as other commodities. Seeing the incredible inefficiencies and severe mispricing offered by the popping of multiple bubbles during the Great Crash of 2008, and missing the adrenaline of the marketplace, he returned to active hedge fund management.

In his free time, the Mad Hedge Fund Trader climbs mountains, does long distance backpacks, practices karate, performs aerobatics in vintage aircraft, collects vintages wines, reads the Japanese classics, and engages in a wide variety of public service and philanthropic activities. Why they call him “mad” he will never understand.

How to Contact The Mad Hedge Fund Trader

You can reach him at madhedgefundtrader@yahoo.com.”

Note that he spent the first ten years of in the real world working for the financial media. And then, all of the sudden “a top investment bank” hired him “to build a new division in international equities.”

Are you kidding me? This is truly laughable.

What “top investment bank” is he referring to? Why won’t he name it?

Perhaps it was a boiler room.

Perhaps if we knew his name and the name of this bank, we might discover that things are not quite as he has stated.

In just two years in the business he becomes the head of the sales and trading division of this “top investment bank.” He must be superhuman.

[Note that vice president is a common designation in the industry. Most financial reps become vice presidents after a couple of years. But he wants you to think that he was THE vice president.]

Next, he claims that he was in charge of the Japanese equity derivatives department at the Swiss bank Corp. I doubt it, knowing what I know about how many individuals exaggerate their role in the financial industry. In fact, I am willing to bet money that he exaggerated his role.

Once again, if he told us his name, we could verify his claims. But even this does not really matter because I’ve known several guys that headed up divisions that had no clue. Many of them are nothing more than administrators. Hell, look at Wall Street CEOs.

But I do find it odd that after this promotion, he leaves to start his own hedge fund. That simply does not happen if you are in a department leadership position unless you are fired. Typically, when guys do decide to go off on their own, they only do so after several years at the firm so they can tap into all of the resources and cement relationships.

He also claims to have started the “first ever dedicated international hedge fund” in 1990; another dubious claim. Perhaps if he would give us his name and the name of the fund we could verify his claims.

Next, he claims this fund “became a top performer in the industry.”

What does “top performer” mean? When fund managers state the performance of their fund, they will tell you exactly where it ranked, unless it performed poorly. In the later case, they will tell you it was a top performer because this is a subjective statement.

Notice that his fund operated during the biggest bull market in decades, between 1990 and 1997. Even Jim Cramer had success during that time (although Cramer’s claims have not been independently varied as far as I am aware). An idiot could make money during that time, as the Dow soared by more than 400%.

My guess is that he got blown out during the Asian Financial Crisis; just a hunch, but one that I’d be willing to lay some money on. Once again, if we knew the name of his fund, we would know a lot more.

But he would have you believe that his fund was doing great and he was making money hand over fist. Then one day, he decided that he wanted to leave all of that to manage his personal investments. Excuse me while I pause to laugh.

“Seeing the incredible inefficiencies and severe mispricing offered by the popping of multiple bubbles during the Great Crash of 2008, and missing the adrenaline of the marketplace, he returned to active hedge fund management.”

In other words, he did not see the collapse coming (probably because he read Dent’s 2005 book, The Great Bubble Boom Ahead). However, he recognized “severe mispricing” after the market began to collapse in 2008. Does that mean he bought into the market in late 2008, only to see it collapse further in 2009?

Note that nowhere does he point to specific forecasts or performance that can be verified.

He points to his real motive in the last line. He has “returned” to “active hedge fund management.” That means he is marketing to the sheep. He wants their money. And he is willing to sell his soul to scumbag liars and false heroes like Zero Hedge to get it.

We cannot leave out the passage describing to you just how amazing he is…

“In his free time, the Mad Hedge Fund Trader climbs mountains, does long distance backpacks, practices karate, performs aerobatics in vintage aircraft, collects vintages wines, reads the Japanese classics, and engages in a wide variety of public service and philanthropic activities. Why they call him “mad” he will never understand.”

What a worldly, refined and dynamic guy. Yet, he can’t even tell us his name. And he can’t even read a simple price chart to know that DENT was NOT up by 20% over the past year.

Who is the Mad Hedge Fund Trader?