Category: Brad

Friday Q&A: Brad Thomas – Professional Trader

Recently, while corresponding with our friend Chris Mayer from the simply outstanding Mayer’s Special Situations, Chris shared with me the GMO quarterly newsletter. For those of you who are thinking GMO is something to do with crops that promise to make you sterile, or grow you another finger you’d be

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Friday Q&A: Brad Thomas – Professional Trader

I had an interesting conversation with Brad covering the global macro situation which I decided to record. I’ve excerpted a slice of it below which I felt was pertinent to the types of trades that Brad hunts for, and then we answer a couple of this week’s questions. If you

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Friday Q&A: Brad Thomas – Professional Trader

We’ve got quite a few questions to cover this week. Enjoy, and don’t forget to send your questions to Brad here. Question: Can you suggest a good platform for trading? I’ve been using Schwab but curious what you think is best. I’m not a newbie so I don’t need full

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Friday Q&A: Brad Thomas – Professional Trader

We live in a surreal world dominated by central bank interference, liquidity driven markets and simultaneous collapsing credit conditions (China) and record bond purchasing (US). As if this wasn’t enough, we have the crisis in Ukraine forcing liquidity out of Europe. Over in Japan we’re experiencing a body slam to

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Friday Q&A: Brad Thomas – Professional Trader

We are pleased to announce that a new and much-anticipated feature of Capitalist Exploits is now here. Every Friday our “head” Trader, Brad Thomas will be answering readers questions. Questions about the markets, how to trade them, how to manage risk, the macro, the micro and much in between. If

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We Hope You took Advantage of THIS!

When we decided to launch a Trade Alert service together with Brad Thomas there were 3 rules we all agreed on: Trade for our readers like we trade for our own accounts. This means exactly what it says. We’ve all learned the hard way that getting too fancy is rarely

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THIS Sector Offers a Compelling Asymmetric Trade

We recently discussed the asymmetry available in the gold mining stocks here. We showed the spectacular returns that have been achieved by investing in beaten down sectors since the 1920’s. Just the facts on what the past has shown us. We offer no guarantees to what the future holds, but

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