William J. O’Neil is an American entrepreneur, stockbroker and writer, who founded the stock brokerage firm William O’Neil & Co. Inc in 1963 and the business newspaper Investor’s Business Daily in 1983. He is the author of the books “How to Make Money in Stocks”, “24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success” and “The Successful Investor” […]
George Soros is a Hungarian-American billionaire investor and philanthropist. As of February 2018, he had a net worth of $8 billion, having donated more than $32 billion to his philanthropic agency, the Open Society Foundations. He is known as “The Man Who Broke the Bank of England” because of his short sale of US$10 billion […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
