David Tepper

Firm: Appaloosa ManagementCity: Chatham, New Jersey2008 Age: 502008 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 Business School. Tepper worked for eight years on the high-yield desk at Goldman Sachs

The Floating Oscillator

By Martha Stokes, C.M.T. © copyright 2007 all rights reserved. Trading Range Market Conditions require a different approach to trading than a trending, or correction phase market. OF the four sideways trending patterns, the trading range has the widest point range. It also tends to last a much longer time than other sideways patterns. This

David Kyte

David Kyte began his career on the trading floor as a blue button on the London Stock Exchange. He then became a Stock Exchange dealer. The news of the opening of the LIFFE exchange caught Kyte’s interest and he landed a job on the trading floor. Kyte began his career on the floor of LIFFE

Dan Och

Firm: Och-Ziff CapitalCity: New York2008 Age: 472008 Assets Under Management (AUM): $33 Billion Och graduated with a B.S. in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Like fellow hedge fund managers Eddie Lampert and Richard Perry – Och worked in the Risk Arbitrage Unit of Goldman Sachs under Robert Rubin. He spent

The Delusional Trader

By Adrienne Toghraie Psychologists would tell you that being in a delusional state means that you are psychotic – obviously not a good thing, especially when you need to know what is really going on in the world. But, strangely enough, sometimes it can work for a trader. Jack is a trader who is a