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November 23, 2010

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Money to play with Sure you’ve heard it: Forex money should be disposable money. The concept itself is paradoxical. You can never have money that you can not find a useful meaning. And yet what are disposable money? They are saved money, gathered over time to which now you are willing to give them a [...]

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Larry Hite

September 26, 2010

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Lawrence D. Hite is a trailblazing investor who actively shaped the upcoming landscape of system trading as early as the 1980s. During his tenure with Mint Investment Management Company, he helped propel the commodity trading advisor to become the very first business in its discipline to report in excess of $1 billion in assets. In [...]

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Martin Schwartz

September 26, 2010

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Martin S. Schwartz, known in the stock trade as Buzzy, is a formidable day trader who serves as example to virtually all aspiring stock traders. His first year as an independent stock trader netted him $600,000; he doubled this figure in the following year. Schwartz is quoted as revealing that he used to make about [...]

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William O’Neil

September 26, 2010

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William O’Neil has been the authoritative voice of investors and stockbrokers all across the United States ever since he formed William O’Neil & Company in 1963; today the company works exclusively with institutional investors. The founder of Investor’s Business Daily and the inventor of the CAN SLIM investment stratagem – which limits losses to a [...]

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Alexander Elder

September 25, 2010

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Alexander Elder, M.D. is a native Russian who defected to the United States at the tender age of 23. He has since worked as a New York City psychiatrist, Columbia University professor, and expert stock trader. Drawing heavily on his psychiatry background, Dr. Elder was so successful that he is the author of a number [...]

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Stanley Druckenmiller

September 25, 2010

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In 1975, Stanley Druckenmiller graduated from Bowdoin College where he studied English and Economics, with the desire to eventually to become a professor of those subjects. He began to work on a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, but left the program to work at Pittsburgh National Bank as a stock analyst in 1977. After [...]

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Investor Jack Schwager

September 23, 2010

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Investor Jack Schwager

Jack D. Schwager first entered the market in 1971. Since then, he has become a highly respected director of futures research and also a well known profiler of investment greats – many of whom he met while trading for Commodities Corporation. As a profiler, he has penned a number of successful books, such as “Market [...]

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Jesse Livermore stock trader

September 23, 2010

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Jesse Lauriston Livermore was an active trader during the famous stock market crashes of 1907 and 1929. He amassed a personal fortune totaling more than $100 million in 1929, and just a few short years later lost it all. In the course of his career he lost millions of dollars just as quickly as he [...]

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Ralph Nelson Elliott

September 18, 2010

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Ralph Nelson Elliott (28 July 1871–15 January 1948) was an American accountant and author, whose study of stock market data led him to develop the Wave Principle, a form of technical analysis that identifies trends in the financial markets. He proposed that market prices unfold in specific patterns, which practitioners today call Elliott waves. Early [...]

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