My AI Bet Just Changed

In 2004, I wrote a book called Trade Like a Hedge Fund.

I was a partner at a fund called Subway Capital back then. We traded arbitrage and short-term statistical setups. My partner Dan and I ran every system in that book..

The book had 20 strategies in it. No fluff. Just systems.

I taught people how to fade gaps. How to buy bankruptcies. How to trade the TICK, the QQQ crash, the 200-day moving average, option expiration day.

Jim Cramer said that I gave away too much. He said I could "ruin it."

Nearly every edge in that book came down to the same idea. A window—a pocket of inefficiency that opens for a moment, then slams shut.

Technique 13 was called "Ten Percent Down—Panic 101." The market panics. A window opens. You buy the fear. Then it closes.

Technique 8 was the QQQ Crash System. Same idea. The crash creates the window.

Technique 12 was about the end of the month and the end of the quarter—windows that open on the calendar, like clockwork, whether anyone is paying attention or not.

I wrote it in the introduction. The market is full of "hidden pockets of inefficiency." And "those pockets are constantly changing." 

They appear. You act. They vanish.

That’s the whole book. Twenty ways to find a window and step through it before it shuts.

And it worked.

My best system in that book returned about 28% a year. The gap trade won 63% of the time. For a statistical trader grinding small edges, those were beautiful numbers.

But I am going to tell you the thing I missed. 

The Window Whisperer 

I could find the window. I could time it. I could tell you almost to the day when panic would crack the market open.

What I could never do was make it pay 100 times over.

My edges were small. 

Half a percent on a gap. Two percent on a crash setup. I stacked them, I diversified them, I smoothed out the volatility—exactly like a hedge fund is supposed to. In the book I wrote, "No one system is a Holy Grail." I meant it. I still mean it.

But for 22 years, one question sat in the back of my head.

What if you could find the same window—and instead of squeezing 2% out of it, you caught the whole move?

I never had an answer I trusted enough to put my name on. For two decades.

Now I have one.

My AI Bet Just Changed

His name is JC Parets. 

JC is one of the few on record who called the 2008 crash before the market fell 50%. Then, in 2022, with the market down 20% and everyone screaming recession, he went on Maria Bartiromo's show and told people to buy. 

It was the exact bottom. 

He called gold to $5,000 when it was trading under $2,000. It hit early this year. In December 2023, when the smart money swore Nvidia was a bubble about to pop, he said buy. Up 50% inside three months.

JC reads windows better than anyone I know. And he just changed my mind on the AI trade. 

This Thursday at 1pm ET, JC is sitting down with me to walk through how he does it. We’re calling it “The 100X AI Window.” He will show the exact day the next one opens—he believes it is before the end of this month—and the single trade he would put at the center of it.

If you’re signed up, I’ll hand you the name and ticker of my favorite stock from his watchlist. Free. 

Don’t tell Cramer.