110: How Anyone Can Beat the Market with Mad Hedge Fund Trader John Thomas

Invest Like a Boss

Sam Marks Johnny FD Derek Spartz

Investing, Business

4.8 • 518 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

John Thomas is one of the founding fathers of the modern hedge fund industry. He broadens the public understanding of the techniques and strategies employed by the most successful hedge funds so that they may more profitably manage their own money.

In his free time, John climbs mountains, does long distance backpacking, practices karate, performs aerobatics in antique aircraft, collects vintage wines, reads the Japanese classics, and engages in a wide variety of public service and philanthropic activities.

During this episode, John will share some of the investing principals that he’s used to yielding him up to 35% returns. Learn about the trade alerts, his favorite platforms to use, and how traveling the world has only improved his success. Expect to hear about his thoughts on passive verse active investing. After hearing this you might want to adjust your strategy.

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Where We Are:

Johnny FD - Chiang Mai, Thailand
Sam Marks - Ko Samui, Thailand
John Thomas - San Francisco, California

Time Stamps

00:39 - Monsoon season in southern Thailand
07:08 - First investment Johns ever made in his life
08:34 - Common errors and mistakes
10:49 - Making 30-40x your investment
11:47 - “Every year we get one guy... who brings in 1000% return” - @MadHedgFndTradr
12:36 - Following the trade alerts with little experience
18:28 - Favorite trading platforms
19:04 - Tricks, tips, and market trends
21:48 - Passive vs active investing
22:35 - “People are about to have a harsh awakening on the passive investing front” - @MadHedgFndTradr
22:50 - General investing principals to live by
23:48 - Traveling the world for success
33:16 - Compounding 35% interest over 8 years
36:15 - Passive vs active investing

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Invest Like a Boss podcast. I'm Sam Marks and I'm Johnny FD. We're self-made entrepreneurs who invest our own money and use modern technology to invest like a boss.
0:08.8	Join us each week for exclusive interviews with our network of modern investors, business owners, and multimillionaires to discover new ways to invest our hard-earned cash.
0:18.5	Hey guys, it's Johnny Ann. Welcome to episode 110 of the Invest Like a Boss podcast. I'm out here in
0:24.6	Chang Mai, Thailand. And Sam, where did you go in the last week? I have no idea where you are.
0:29.4	Secret place, buddy. No one can know. No one can know. I'm down in the beautiful, wonderful
0:36.3	paradise of Kosamui.
0:39.2	Anyone that doesn't know, an island in the Gulf of Thailand, so it's on the, what is that,
0:44.1	the east side of mainland Thailand, but it's beautiful here.
0:47.5	It's just before high season kicks in and all the tourists flood it.
0:50.9	So everything's well-priced.
0:53.4	The tourism's low, and I'm loving it.
0:56.5	Wait, it's November. Isn't it monsoon season there right now?
0:59.8	Yeah. So I flew in through a monsoon yesterday. It was a horrible flight, as you can imagine.
1:05.6	And everything's flooded. Everything's flooded. But it was incredible. Last night I have this private pool villa
1:13.3	down in LaMai. Johnny, I'm sure you're familiar where LaMai is. And I was just sitting outside
1:18.9	of my pool villa under cover and laying down, there's like an outside hammock at my villa
1:23.9	and it was covered and it was raining. and it was just the most peaceful thing you
1:28.5	could ever imagine just laying there in the rain and listen to listen to the waves crash it was
1:32.7	amazing yeah yeah i definitely love those islands i'm definitely going to go there in february but
1:37.8	when the sun's back out and it stops raining yeah it's it's odd because in northern thailand
1:42.7	this is november's typically a very nice month but down here, it's not there yet. And you got to wait to at least, I guess, December, January. Yep, but it is a beautiful place. And that's a pro tip, I guess this week's travel tip is when you come to Thailand, even though it's not that big of a country, the climates change a lot versus if you're on the islands on the East Coast or the West Coast, if you're in the cities in the north or the south.
2:06.9	So if the weather is bad in one place, it might be amazing in another.
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