Entries by Spencer Li

Best Trading Tips & Quotes from Alexander Elder

Alexander Elder, M.D., was born in Leningrad and grew up in Estonia, where he entered medical school at the age of 16. At 23, while working as a ship’s doctor, he jumped a Soviet ship in Africa and received political asylum in the US, where he worked as a psychiatrist. This provided him with unique […]

Best Trading Tips & Quotes from Nicolas Darvas

Nicolas Darvas was a dancer, self-taught investor and author. During his off hours as a dancer, he had read some 200 books on the market and on speculators, sometimes reading up to eight hours a day. At the age of 39, after accumulating his fortune and also being exposed in Time magazine, Darvas documented his […]

Best Trading Tips & Quotes from Richard Dennis

Richard J. Dennis, a commodities speculator once known as the “Prince of the Pit”, started off by borrowing $1,600 from his family, which after spending $1,200 on a seat at the MidAmerica Commodity Exchange left him $400 in trading capital. In 1970, his trading increased this to $3,000, and in 1973 his capital was over […]

Best Trading Tips & Quotes from Paul Tudor Jones

Paul Tudor Jones II (born September 28, 1954) is an American hedge fund manager, conservationist and philanthropist. In 1980, he founded his hedge fund, Tudor Investment Corporation, an asset management firm which currently manages $7.8 billion (as of June 30, 2019). As of November 2019, Forbes Magazine estimated his net worth to be US$5.3 billion, […]

Best Trading Tips & Quotes from Ed Seykota

Edward Arthur Seykota (born August 7, 1946) is a commodities trader, who pioneered a computerized trading system for the futures market for the brokerage house he were working for. Trading as a trend follower, Ed Seykota turned $5,000 into $15,000,000 over a 12 year time period. Later, he decided to venture out on his own […]