John Burbank Profile

By Jonathan Yates Like Bruce Kovner, founder of Caxton Associates, LLC, John Burbank III, founder of Passport Capital LLC, financed his initial foray into investing with money borrowed from his credit cards.  Unlike Kovner, Burbank lost almost all of the $50,000 borrowed.  Like Kovner, by far the greatest return earned from the first plunge into

Projection Oscillator

Derived from Projection Bands, the Projection Oscillator reflects the relationship of the current price to its minimum and maximum prices over time. In contrast to the Stochastic Oscillator, the minimum and maximum prices are adjusted up or down by the slope of the price’s regression line, making it more sensitive to short term price action.

Bernard Baruch

Bernard Baruch was a highly successful stock market trader and also served as an adviser to American presidents. Bernard Baruch Quotes: “But what actually registers in the stock market’s fluctuations are not the events themselves, but the human reactions to these events. In short, how millions of individual men and women feel these happenings may

Benjamin Graham

Graham came to New York from England with his parents in 1895 and grew up in Manhattan and Brooklyn. He was the youngest of three boys. His father died when he was nine leaving the family economically challenged. Graham graduated from Columbia University in 1914 and then went to work as a messenger for the

Projection Bands

Projection Bands are made up of two bands outlining minimum and maximum projected boundaries. The Bands are derived using the minimum and maximum prices over a given time period and projecting these forward, parallel to a linear regression line. The Bands are interpreted to signal directional price reversal when when prices reaches their boundary. This