Profiles

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Author of Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, and The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.

International Federation of Technical Analysts – IFTA

The International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA) was incorporated in 1986 and is a non-profit organization of market technical analysis societies and associations spanning 26 countries. IFTA also offers certification to Professional Technical Analysts. See also: Market Technicians Associati

Tom DeMark

Tom DeMark is a successful trader, technical analyst and advisor. He has worked with numerous industry leaders including George Soros, Paul Tudor Jones and Stevie Cohen. See also: TomDeMark.com

Larry Williams

Larry Williams, a trading veteran of over 40 years, is the author of How I Made A Million Trading Commodities published in 1973. In 1987 he took $10,000 to $1.1 million in a highly publicized real time trading championship. Williams’ contributions to the wor

George Soros

George Soros is chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Institute. He is famous for being a massively successful speculator and left wing political activist. During his time at the Quantum Fund, he earned the sobriquet of the man who broke the Bank

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