Bill Eckhardt left the University of Chicago and quite pursuing his almost finished PhD in mathematical logic in 1973. He focused his educational pursuits into research in creating profitable trading systems. Eckhardt teamed up with his high school friend Richard Dennis as traders and became partners in C&D Commodities They created technical trading systems and […]
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No matter where you are in your trading or investing journey it is good to stay inspired and focused on your long-term goals and prize. Psychology can be 80% of winning in the markets as quitting is so easy and perseverance can seem so difficult during losing streaks or drawdowns in capital. It is important
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The name Lao Tzu is translated as “Old Master.” He was thought to be a historical figure in ancient China and a philosopher and writer. He is believed to be the author of the Tao Te Ching, the founder of Taoism as a philosophy, and even a deity in some of the more fundamentalist Taoism
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Mark Minervini is a legendary stock trader featured in Jack Schwager’s book “Stock Market Wizards: Interviews with America’s Top Stock Traders“. In the book Schwager wrote: “Minervini’s performance has been nothing short of astounding. Most traders and money managers would be delighted to have Minervini’s worst year–a 128% gain–as their best.” Starting with only a
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Linda Bradford Raschke has been a full-time professional trader for more than 40 years. She was the principle trader for several funds and also the Commodity Pool Operator for her own hedge fund she opened in 2002. Her trading records were verified and she was included in Jack Schwager’s best selling book, The New Market
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Peter L. Brandt has been a full time professional commodity and foreign exchange trader for over thirty years. He has worked as a broker to large industrial clients, traded for his own account, and was one of the early pioneers in the commodity hedge fund arena. Along the way, Brandt published a highly regarded newsletter
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Bruce Kovner was one of the biggest traders in the world in the interbank currency and futures markets during his career according to author Jack Schwager. He is the founder and chairman of Caxton Associates, a global macro hedge fund. Kovner retired from the hedge fund in 2011 after managing it for over 30 years. In
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Larry Williams is a legendary trader and the author of approximately 11 books on trading stocks and commodities. He developed several technical market indicators like the Williams %R, Ultimate Oscillator, COT indices, accumulation/distribution indicators and others to measure cycle forecasts, market sentiment, and also for quantifying the values for commodity prices. He is most famous for winning
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Jim” Chanos is an investment manager as the president and founder of Kynikos Associates, a New York City registered investment advisor focused on short selling. Chanos is a famous short seller and one of the most impressive positions taken at Kynikos was the shorting of Enron before its collapse along with many other great short trades.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a best selling author, philosopher, scholar, and statistician. He had a long career as a professional option trader and hedge fund manager. His expertise was as a risk analyst focusing his work on the problems of outliers and fat tail events of randomness. His books go into depth about the nature of probability
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David Einhorn started his hedge fund Greenlight Capital in 1996 with $900,000 and returned 16.5% annualized on investor capital for 20 years from 1996 to 2016. The funds assets under management dropped from about $12 billion at its peak in 2014 to approximately $5.5 billion by July 2018 and the fund was down -11.3% from
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Bill Ackman is a hedge fund manager and CEO who founded Pershing Square Capital Management. He is primarily a contrarian investor betting against popular companies by going short and buying stocks when they are not popular. He considers himself to be more of an activist investor trying to cause change through his investment positions. Bill
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Stanley Druckenmiller was one of the most successful hedge fund managers in history. Duquesne returned an average annual return of 30% with no losing years. He founded Duquesne Capital in 1981 and grew it to $12 billion under management. After two decades of great returns he closed the fund in 2010 because he felt he could
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Legendary trader John Paulson is a hedge fund manager that leads the Paulson & Co. he founded in 1994. He made one of the biggest fortunes in Wall Street history in 2007 when he earned almost $4 billion personally and became a legend in the industry. Paulson used credit default swaps to place a trade
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Howard Marks is an investor, writer, and author. After working for Citibank early in his career at senior positions, he joined TCW in 1985 and created and managed the High Yield, Convertible Securities and Distressed Debt groups. He left TCW in 1995 and co-founded Oaktree Capital Management. Mr. Marks net worth is $2.2 billion as of 2019. He
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Michael J. Burry was once a physician then a hedge fund manager of Scion Capital from 2000 until 2008, before closing it to focus on his own personal investments and trades. Michael Burry was made famous by his depiction in the movie ‘The Big Short’ played by Christian Bale based on the book by Michael
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This is a Guest Post by: Colibri Trader @priceinaction. This article is used here with permission and originally appeared here on ColibriTrader.com. It is important that we remember the great traders. The lessons we can learn from their experience are precious. That is why I have this short visual presentation covering some of their famous sayings. I
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While trading quotes can be taken out of context, and it is crucial to have a full understanding of what the trader meant at the time, they can also give traders important insights. I asked some of my followers for their favorite trading quotes. There were a lot of great suggestions, but here are the
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Here is a list of the ten most powerful quotes from Jesse Livermore’s book “How to Trade in Stocks.” Livermore was one of the greatest stock market operators of our time and his trading quotes stand the test of time. No one made more money in the markets or came back from more bankruptcies than Jesse
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“Mr. Seykota himself has put together a money management track record with returns of roughly +60% net of fees over the three-decade span of his trading career…” -Futures Magazine Ed Seykota, first featured in the book Market Wizards has one of the best records of all time for any trader. Ed Seykota’s returns on capital
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