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Michael Cook
Michael Cook is not likely to overreact to sudden movements in the market. After all, when you have executed transactions valued at tens of millions on institutional trade desks, you’re not likely to be rattled by a three-tick swing in the e-mini S&P’s.
Cook spent 10 years on European trading desks as a market maker and senior trader with various banks and hedge funds, specializing in debt instruments and emerging markets. He holds a degree in Internatio . . . READ MORE |
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Kevin Davey
Kevin Davey is not one to take the easy way out.
A few years ago he decided that he needed to find a way to get in better physical shape. He hated running, so he handed himself the ultimate challenge: He would run a marathon.
"On the one hand I was trying to stay in shape," he says, "and on the other hand I wanted to set a goal that was mentally challenging. I knew that I needed to force myself to do something extreme. And what's the most extreme thing you can . . . READ MORE |
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Earl Erenler
With a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA, both from Columbia University, Earl Erenler thought trading would be a piece of cake.
“Like everyone else, I naively thought with my intelligence, I could easily be a profitable trader,” he says. “Little did I know what I was getting myself into. I found that trading profitably was a tough nut to crack.”
For 15 years, Erenler searched for the right methodology while working in strategic planning & analysis departments domestically and . . . READ MORE |
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Tom Hougaard
Traders Tom Hougaard and David Paul have been around.
Hougaard was born in Denmark, educated in England and Wales, and mentored as a trader in the U.S. For years he has been a favorite interview subject on major outlets including CNBC, Bloomberg, BBC and CNN. “I am inordinately articulate on screen and not afraid to put my head of the block,” he quips.
Paul, a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, hails from Northern Ireland, was raised in England and now lives and teaches in South Africa. He . . . READ MORE |
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Valeri Kornilo
When people talk about “brainiacs,” they often use rocket scientists, brain surgeons and nuclear physicists as examples. Now meet one who became a futures trader.
In 1976, Valeri Kornilo went to work for Russia’s Ministry of Atomic Energy after earning a PhD in Engineering at Moscow State Technical University. For 15 years, his office was the thermonuclear research reactor of the Angara-5 research facility in Troitsk, where he studied processes of thermonuclear implosions.
After relocati . . . READ MORE |
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Mike Lundgren
Mike Lundgren is the only trader ever to win the World Cup Trading Championships of Futures three times. Yes, three times. Mike won with a 176% return in 1989, a 244% return in 1990, and a 212% return in 1992.
After graduating Summa Cum Laude from Washington State University in 1982 with a degree in Business Administration, Mike took the Certified Public Accountants exam. He passed on the first try. He took a position with what was then a “Big 8” accounting firm in Seattle.
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Rob Mitchell
Rob Mitchell is not your average professional trader. He made his first trade in 1978 when he bought stock in AT&T, but didn’t get serious about trading until he experienced his first losses in the market. That loss sparked an intense interest in trading and motivated him to never let that happen again.
Rob graduated with honors from the University of South Carolina with a degree in experimental psychology. He took a position with Dean Witter as a broker but soon became dise . . . READ MORE |
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Brady Preston
When Brady Preston was in boarding school in the 11th and 12th grade, his peers thought he was a little off-kilter. “I don’t think they ever really understood what I was doing,” Brady says. “When the other kids were up on other floors, I was in my room programming and learning about trading systems. I have burnt out a lot of computers over the years.”
Preston’s trading began at age 16, when he sold his Honda CR 125 motorcycle for $1,100 and bought corn options with the . . . READ MORE |
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Kurt Sakaeda
In 1995, Kurt Sakaeda was discussing trading over a drink with a friend. “I told him there can be no advantage to trading on a seasonal basis,” says Sakaeda. “If there was an advantage like that, a large investment firm would find it. Then they would saturate the market and drive the advantage away.” Kurt’s friend replied simply, “How do you know if you haven’t done any of the research?”
After months of study, Sakaeda had done the research. H . . . READ MORE |
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Bill Sullivan
Broad experience in the futures industry – pit broker, independent trader, proprietary trader – led Bill Sullivan to the conclusion that the retail customer needed help.
“I realized that there had to be some kind of bridge between the retail trader, the software developer, the Introducing Broker and the FCM (Futures Commission Merchant) so that each understood what each other was doing,” says Sullivan, president of software development firm Continental Tr . . . READ MORE |
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Andrea Unger
Andrea Unger loves juggling numbers, except when the numbers are used to identify human beings.
Unger spent nine years as a middle manager for a major corporation in Italy. He enjoyed putting his mechanical engineering degree (University of Milan) to use in the workplace, but he didn’t enjoy the harsh realities of mid-level management.
“I had 30 people working under me, and I saw how people can be treated like numbers,” Andrea says. “The maneuvers I saw in business were . . . READ MORE |
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Steve Bigalow
When Steve Bigalow first started using candlestick analysis in the late 80’s, his trading was decidedly low-tech. He would call in his orders from a phone tied to the dashboard of his truck while driving to real estate renovation projects.
Fast forward twenty years. Bigalow long ago traded in the pick-up for a Mercedes SL500, and he has no time for house rehabbing anymore. He is now considered one of the top candlestick experts in the country. Along . . . READ MORE |
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Tom Busby
Every trader is tested in his or her career. Tom Busby was taken to the brink.
Busby stared into the abyss on October 19, 1987, a high-profile victim of Black Monday. The unthinkable happened when the market collapse caught Tom short a massive 1,000 S&P puts. In the space of a few hours, he went from a wealthy stock broker who had all the answers to a man deep in debt and riddled with self-doubt.
It took 20 years of rebuilding before Tom came to believe that Black Monday was the b . . . READ MORE |
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Peter Eliades
Upon graduation from Harvard College and Boston University Law School and passing the Massachusetts Bar, Peter Eliades moved to New York City where he entertained as a performer/singer and pianist in Manhattan cabarets and off-Broadway musical comedy. In 1967, he moved to Los Angeles and continued his musical career. In 1968, with a lot of time and curiosity and a little money, Peter initiated his stock market studies. The motivation for those studies was a book on stock market . . . READ MORE |
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David Floyd
If Dave Floyd's mug shot looks familiar, it's because his expertise is in high demand these days. He's a regular contributor of forex content on TradingMarkets.com, FXStreet .com, eSignal.com and ForexCentral.com, and he has appeared on Bloomberg TV numerous times to provide insights. Dave's writing has been featured in most of the prominent trade publications, including Active Trader, Currency Trader, Futures, and Stocks Futures & Options Magazine.
But what you see on camera, online, . . . READ MORE |
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Ken Goldberg
For Ken Goldberg, the gateway to successful trading was lined with psychology classes and fine men’s suits.
It was in the mid 1980s, and Ken was finishing up his BA in Psychology in the Honors and Distinction program at the University of Washington. He was working in a high-end men’s clothing store to make ends meet, and he noticed a strange phenomenon: a large percentage of the men buying thousand-dollar suits were brokers and traders from Seattle’s financial district.
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Michael Hayes
Teaching math and science to high school students in Quebec may seem worlds apart from mixing it up in the futures markets, but for Michael Hayes it was a logical phase in the development of a trader.
Armed with technical and teaching degrees from Concordia and McGill universities – along with a diploma from the Canadian Securities Institute – Hayes founded two computer technology companies during his nine-year teaching stint. After successfully configuring computer networking s . . . READ MORE |
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Mark Hodge
The family tradition is teaching. The personal passion is trading. For Mark Hodge, serving as Head Coach at Rockwell Trading, Inc. is the best of both worlds.
“My dad taught high school music, my mother taught elementary school, and my sister’s a middle school teacher,” Mark says. “Teaching has definitely been a family affair. So I took my love for trading and business and was able to teach in another venue.”
Mark’s fascination with t . . . READ MORE |
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John Logan
John Logan and his colleagues at TradeAngle.com are following the lead of a pretty smart guy.
“One of the things Einstein said was that he never invented any mathematics, he just identified patterns,” Logan says. “That’s what we try to do.”
Logan has founded several successful financial companies and is part of a four-member TradeAngle Strategies advisory team that is rich with degrees in mathematics, statistics, engineering, economics and computer science . . . READ MORE |
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Tim Rayment
When you've been in harm's way covering news stories around the world, fearing that you might die in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing and hiding from armed men in a prickly bush in South Africa, it doesn't seem like such a big deal when a forex trade starts ticking against you.
Such is the mindset of Tim Rayment, a British journalist-turned-trader who carries a passion for both professions. He has claimed some of Great Britain's highest journalistic honors and several . . . READ MORE |
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Tim Rea
If you’re looking for a locale that can facilitate your development as a futures trader, take Tim Rea’s advice and look beyond the Richmond-Nelson Region at the top of New Zealand’s South Island.
Nelson is the country’s geographical center and its second-oldest city. It is long on extraordinary scenery but short on traders.
“The average person on the street doesn’t pay much attention to the stock market,” Tim says. “Most people here don’ . . . READ MORE |
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Bert Riedel
Among the universe of traders, where the dominant mantra is “price,” it’s refreshing to meet Bert Riedel. His buying and selling
is governed by a master called “time.”
“Market moves are predetermined by time,” Riedel says. “Time is always dominant for trading purposes. Fundamentals and
the news affect the amplitude of a move, but the move itself follows along a path of interacting multidimensional fractals.”
The e . . . READ MORE |
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Brian Shannon
Brian Shannon has written extensively about stock market trading, and has been written about a few times, too. He contributed heavily to David Nassar’s Ordinary People, Extraordinary Profits in 2005 and is a regular contributor to high-profile magazines like Active Trader and SFO. When Thomas McCafferty wrote his book (The Market is Always Right) in 2002, he devoted a chapter to Shannon wisdom.
But while Brian can write volumes about the trading techniques, he has no problem distil . . . READ MORE |
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