The 24th Mad Hedge Traders & Investors Summit

2026

A Gathering Of Some Of The Greatest Trading And Investment Minds In The Market.

Sharpen Your Investment Skills With The Best Of The Best Guiding Your Hand.

Cutting Edge Insights On The Best Trading Strategies For 2026.

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What Do I Get Out Of It?

John Thomas, aka the Mad Hedge Fund Trader, has spent the last 50 years looking for the best traders and investors around the world. Now John has assembled the cream of the crop to share their wealth of knowledge with you. These are individuals who can make money in any market conditions, including a global Covid-19 pandemic. Listen to these speakers and they will enhance your earning power mightily.

Lead the Vanguard

Mad Hedge Fund Traders and Investors Summit Speakers will teach you the most insightful trading strategies that will make money in all market conditions. Never lose sleep again worrying about the safety of your retirement portfolio. Best of all, attendance is FREE

Comprehensive Asset Classes

All asset classes will be covered looking for the best longs and shorts around the world, including stocks, bonds, options, foreign currencies, precious metals, commodities, energy, and bitcoin. Compress decades of experience into mere hours of learning.

Learn a New Trading Discipline

Buy low, sell High. Everyone talks about it, but few individuals are actually able to pull it off. It takes decades of experience to profit in volatile conditions of today. Take our speakers’ hundreds of years of experience and add it to your own.

Win $100,000 in Prizes

As each speaker presents, we will be holding a lottery among registered participants that will give away free trading and investment services for FREE. You could be the lucky winner of a $10,000 a year trade one on one mentoring service!

The Host

John Thomas
The Mad Hedge Fund Trader

The Mad Hedge Fund Traders and Investors Summit features top notch industry insiders who have spent their entire lives working in the financial industry. Be Gifted a Hyper-targeted snapshot on how markets will trade during the rest of 2025 and how to cherry pick the best remaining trades. Sector selection will be everything. Thrive in the new post-pandemic financial markets. Invest a few hours of your time and it should multiply your performance for the rest of the year, if not your life.

Schedule

Day 1: December 2, 2025

Eastern Standard Time

09:00 AM | Lee Lowell

Get Paid To Buy Stocks. A Beginner’s Guide To Conservative Put-Option Selling

  • For those just starting!

10:00 AM | John Thomas

How to Play 2026

  • Stocks are poised to close 2025 at the highs of the year
  • The fall correction is behind us
  • The Fed is likely to cut interest rates on December 10 because the jobs market is so bad and inflation comes in less than expected
  • Even if the Fed doesn’t cut rates, 2026-27 will be all about falling interest rates
  • AI, falling rates, quantitative easing, and hyper liquidity will remain the market drivers in 2026
  • Bonds are dead, frightened by $10 trillion in financing needs in 2026
  • Oil may finally find a bottom as global demand heats up in 2026
  • Big Technology will lead any recovery
  • The gold and silver bull market are still on after a prolonged consolidation

11:00 AM | Jermal Chandler

12:00 PM | Dr. Jim Schultz

Using Futures Options to Increase Capital Efficiency

Futures Options offer traders much better buying power relief relative to equity options – allowing you to more easily find opportunities in the market and customize the risk-return profile of your portfolio.

01:00 PM | Tony Battista

Market Strategies for today’s market! Omni directional bullish strategies.

02:00 PM | Sunny Harris

Mastering the Business of Trading

03:00 PM | Jonathan McKeever

Trendy Iron Fly Automated Bot

Day 2: December 3, 2025

Eastern Standard Time

09:00 AM | Marina Villatoro

4 Steps to Simplify Your Day Trading

10:00 AM | Buff Dormeier

Intro to Volume Studies: Decoding Money Flow for Market Insight” Buff Dormeier, CMT – Chief Technical Analyst, Kingsview Investment Management/ Index Specialist – Monarch Funds ETFs “Volume is the market’s footprint—it reveals the conviction behind price movement.” In this session, Buff Dormeier, CMT, will reveal how to interpret volume and money flow to confirm trends, detect accumulation or distribution, and identify early shifts in institutional behavior. Learn how volume leads price action and therefore enhances trend identification tools. Take away a keen understanding of why the flow of capital is essential for anticipating major market moves.

11:00 AM | Melissa Armo

Trade On The Side Of Institutional Money In Gaps

12:00 PM | Martha Stokes

Beyond Indicators: The Institutional Market Structure Most Traders Never Learn

01:00 PM | John Thomas

The Next Leg Up is Here

  • The global economy is being fundamentally remade by artificial intelligence and those companies in the forefront will deliver the best investment performance.
  • Never underestimate the earnings power of US tech companies.
  • They will lead every new rally from here on.
  • Trade wars, inflation, recessions, politics, and
    an exploding national debt are just temporary
    distractions
  • Keep focused on the big picture.
  • For 20 years, tech companies maintained massive cash balances and were net creditors to the financial system
  • That changed in 2025 when many began a borrowing binge to fund AI infrastructure build outs
  • The Magnificent Seven have split in two

02:00 PM | Ben Colabella & Dillon Del Rosso

The Rise of Simple Bots: Zero-Code, Options Trading on Autopilot

Day 3: December 4, 2025

Eastern Standard Time

09:00 AM | AJ Brown

​The Dual-Vertical VIX Play, When Fear Pays

10:00 AM | Jacquie Munro

11:00 AM | Price Headly

How Our NASDAQ Strategy Has Been Doubling in a Day (The QQQ Options Playbook)

12:00 PM | Ben Colabella & Dillon Del Rosso

The Rise of Simple Bots: Zero-Code, Options Trading on Autopilot

01:00 PM | Micah Lamar

How a Simple Niche Strategy Helped Me Make fourteen thousand sixty six dollars in three days and How You Can Use It in Fifteen Minutes a Day

02:00 PM | Simon Klein

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