People in Trading

Dan Zanger Interview

By Larry Jacobs ©2006, Reprinted with permission of Traders World Magazine (www.tradersworld.com) Larry: How have you been? Dan: I have been very good and busy. Last year was probably my most profitable year and my biggest dollars gain ever since I started trading. I had some big winners such as G

Steven Cohen Profile

Steven Cohen is a world class hedge fund investor and the founder and manager of SAC Capital Partners, a Stamford, Connecticut-based hedge fund. Cohen grew up in Great Neck, New York, and he attended the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. After graduating, Cohen began his career as ju

Stephen Mandel

Firm: Lone Pine Capital City: Greenwich, Connecticut 2008 Age: 52 2008 Assets Under Management (AUM): $9 Billion Stephen Mandel, a protégé of hedge fund pioneer Julian Robertson at Tiger Managment, founded Lone Pine Capital in 1997 – a long/short and long-only hedge fund. Having graduate

Stephen Feinberg

Firm: Cerberus Capital City: New York 2008 Age: 48 2008 Assets Under Management (AUM): $26 Billion Stephen Feinberg graduated from Princeton University with a degree in politics. He started his career as a trader at Drexel Burnham. Stephen Feinberg co-founded Cerberus Capital in 1992 with William L.

Sir John Templeton

Sir John Marks Templeton was born in the small farming town of Winchester, Tennessee in 1912. The first person from his hometown to attend college, Templeton worked his way through Yale University along with the help of scholarships and graduated at the top of his class with a degree in economics.

Steidlmayer

J. Peter Steidlmayer is an independent trader who joined the Chicago Board of Trade in 1963. Steidlmayer served on the CBOT Board of Directors from 1981-1983. While a director, he developed Market Profile in conjunction with the CBOT. Market Profile is a technical tool that uses a graphical organiza

Blair Hull

Blair Hull received a BA in Mathematics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, went on to receive an MBA from Santa Clara University. He also graduated from the Harvard OPM Program. After graduating University, Hull spent 6 years in the military. Having read Edward O. Thorp’s Beat

Financial Market Gurus

Interviews Boris Stein J. Welles Wilder Joe DiNapoli Dan Zanger John Murphy Robert Deel Joe Dinapoli Perry Kaufman Mark Cook W.D. Gann Profiles of Market Gurus Traders and Trading Industry Jesse Livermore Bernard Baruch WD Gann Jay Gould Tom Baldwin Charlie D Ed Seykota Lewis Borsellino David Kyte M

Lewis J. Borsellino

Famous S&P 500 Futures trader, and contributing commentator on CNN and CNBC. Borsellino’s lengthy career spans back to the early days of S&P Futures Trading at the CME, and he has remained a leading player in that contract for many years.

Phil Falcone

The youngest of nine siblings, Phil Falcone was an avid and formidable hockey player as a youth in his hometown of Chisholm, Minnesota. He went on to play hockey for Harvard University, where he graduated with a BA in economics in 1984. Falcone began his career in 1985, trading high yield and distre