People in Trading

Michael Price of MFP Investors Inc.

Michael F. Price was born in 1953 in New York. He graduated in 1973 from the University of Oklahoma with a Bachelors degree in Business Administration. Price has become one of America’s most successful value investors. He sees an opportunity in a company going through financial difficulties and pr

Mario Gabelli, CFA of GAMCO Investors Inc.

Mario Joseph Gabelli is the chairman and CEO of GAMCO Investors Inc.( Gabelli Asset Management Company Investors), a $30 billion dollar global investment firm headquartered in Rye, New York. Gabelli is a proponent of the Graham-Dodd school of security analysis and pioneered the application of Graham

Bill Ackman Profile

By Muhammad Raheel William Albert Ackman more commonly known as Bill Ackman (born 11 May 1966, New York) is the founder and CEO of hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management LP. Ackman was raised in Chappaqua, NY. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1988,

Profiles: Kenneth C. Griffin

Name: Kenneth C. Griffin Born: Daytona Beach, Florida in 1968. Affiliation: Citadel LLC (formerly known as Citadel Investment Group, L.L.C.) Kenneth C. Griffin is one of world’s top ranked hedge fund managers. He is the founder and CEO of Citadel, a Chicago based investment firm. Citadel is ranke

The Hunt Brothers and their Attempt to Corner the Silver Market

In the early seventies, amidst political upheaval, inflationary pressures and stagnant economic growth, the richest family in America (at the time), the Hunt family of Texas, tried to corner the market on precious metals. As a way to hedge themselves from the rampart printing of dollars the US gover

Curtis Faith

Curtis Faith is a notable participant of Richard Dennis’ fabled Turtle Trader experiment. He is the author of Way of the Turtle: The Secret Methods that Turned Ordinary People into Legendary Traders (2007) and Inside the Mind of the Turtles: How the World’s Best Traders Master Risk. Se

WD Gann Biography

Considered by some to be the greatest trader of all time, William Delbert Gann was born on a farm outside of Lufkin, Texas on June 6, 1878. The firstborn of 11 children, Gann never graduated from grammar school or attended high school, having the obligation of working his family’s farm. His wa

Warren Buffett

Legendary investor Warren Buffett is the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Born in 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska. His father, Howard Buffett was a stockbroker. Listed as the world’s richest man by Forbes magazine in 2008 with an estimated fortune of $62 billion. Sometimes referred to as ‘the oracle

William D. Gann

An Operator Whose Science and Ability Place Him in the Front Rank – His Remarkable Predictions and Trading Records By Richard D. Wyckoff, Ticker and Investment Digest Sometime ago the attention of this magazine was attracted by certain long pull Stock Market predictions which were being made

Victor Sperandeo – Trader Vic

Sperandeo achieved 18 consecutive years of positive returns up till 1990. He had negative returns of 15% in 1991 and 1992 before resuming consecutive years of positive returns. In 1993 his Methods of a Wall Street Master was published. Sperandeo managed money for George Soros and Leon Cooperman of O