Profiles

Ed Seykota

Ed Seykota is a commodities and futures trader, trading educator and trading systems developer. Seykota holds degrees in Electrical Engineering and Industrial Management from MIT.  In 1970 he pioneered systems trading using early punch card computers to test his trading strategies. His entry into t

Turtle Traders

Famous commodities trader Richard Dennis was having an ongoing debate with his friend and business partner Bill Eckhardt about whether great traders are born or made – whether it is possible to teach the ability to trade successfully. While Dennis firmly bel

Ed Meihaus

Ed Meihaus is Chief Investment Officer of boutique investment firm Hanseatic Group. Meihaus joined the firm in 1985 and develops quantitative model-based investment applications. See also: www.hanseaticgroup.com

Ray Dalio

Firm: Bridgewater Associates City: Westport, Connecticut 2008 Age: 58 2008 Assets Under Management: $160 Billion Ray Dalio is rumoured to have started trading at the age of 12. Having gained experience in futures and commodities at firms including Merrill Lynch, Dalio founded Bridgewater Associates

Ralph Nelson Elliott Biography

Ralph Nelson Elliott (1871-1948) was an accountant and business executive with railroad companies in Mexico and Central America. A serious physical malady, possibly anemia left him bedridden and forced into retirement in 1929. As a distraction, Elliott turned to study  the stock m

Raj Rajaratnam Profile

By Jonathan Yates When the defense of The Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam rested on April 18, 2011, it was deploying the same strategy that Dennis Levine, the Drexel Burnham managing director, utilized in his trial for insider trading back in the mid 1980s: all the large sized profits were from

Dr. Richard Sandor

Dr Richard Sandor was chief economist at the Chicago Board of Trade during the 1970′s where he spearheaded the introduction of the futures contracts on Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae) certificates and 30-year Treasury bonds.

Dr. Van K. Tharp

Dr. Van K. Tharp is a specialist in the area of trading psychology. He is the author of Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom, Safe Strategies for Financial Freedom, Financial Freedom Through Electronic Day Trading. He is featured in Jack Schwager’s classic Market Wizard’s: Interviews with

Dinakar Singh

Firm: TPG-Axon Capital City: New York 2008 Age: 39 2008 Assets Under Management: $13 Billion Dinakar Singh founded TPG- Axon Capital in late 2004, in partnership with private equity firm Texas Pacific Group – launching with $5 billion in capital. TPG-Axon currently has some 75 researchers sp

David Tepper

Firm: Appaloosa Management City: Chatham, New Jersey 2008 Age: 50 2008 Assets Under Management (AUM): $4 Billion David Tepper founded Appaloosa Management in 1993. Tepper graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a BA in economics and earned an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University’s Busine