TradersLog 
In discussing basketball players who step up in the playoffs and elevate their game to do what it takes to win the National Basketball Association (NBA) championship, NBA analyst Kenny Smith remarked, “The great ones have short memories.”
After being blamed for the flash crash of May 6, 2010, high frequency trading (HFT) took on a legendary status with the investing public. Some had found yet another reason why the little guy can’t get a break on Wall Street, while others saw another step in the evolution of trading.
Richard Driehaus is famous as founder of Driehaus Capital Management which produced compounded annual return in excess of 30% net of all fees over 12 years.
Well known within the trading community, Richard Dennis and William Eckhardt have forever changed the landscape of commodity trading. Not only amassing fortunes themselves, Dennis and Eckhardt created a whole school of trading which, merely off a bet, made 23 lucky students very rich.
Counterpunching is the key to success for legendary investor Paul Tudor Jones II, founder of the hedge funds group, Tudor Investment Corporation.