John Bollinger

John Bollinger is the president and founder of Bollinger Capital Management, investment management companies, provider based on technical analysis services to wealth management for private individuals, corporations, trusts and pension funds. Bollinger publishes Capital Growth Letter. For many years, John Bollinger was chief analyst of the national cable TV Financial News Network (FNN), dedicated to financial news. Currently, he continues to advocate with weekly analytical commentary on channel CNBC, the successor of FNN, and for many years was the chief market analyst at Financial News Network.

Background to the financial career of John Bollinger periodically appeared on his path of life from early childhood. In his book “Bollinger on the tapes (bands) Bollinger, the author describes it this way:” I first encountered the stock market when I was a child and inherited a few shares Fruhauf, a company that subsequently rolled down and rolled and finally , sunk into bankruptcy. The second time I ran into him in the late sixties, when he was a young man, when I worked at the Museum of the media, establishment, owned by three brothers, whose father was then a successful underwriter of high-tech shares.

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John Bogle

John Clifton “Jack” Bogle (John Clifton “Jack” Bogle). To date, hundreds of billions of dollars invested by investors in index funds that will provide a stable income and has a low cost. For an excellent opportunity to get capital gains, not making much effort and not trying to “outplay” the market, investors should thank one man – John Bogla. Friends and colleagues, and often journalists call him Jack.

Bogle founded Vanguard, now managing the second largest family of mutual funds assets in the world, and in 1976 introduced to the market first index fund shares, effectively completing a revolutionary breakthrough in the industry. His idea, which he developed further in the thesis work while studying at Princeton, was simple as all genius. Realizing that in the long term, most investors, including mutual funds, lagging behind the market, and the commission for the transaction and asset management further reducing income investors, Bogle created the index funds simply by tracking the market. These funds do not feel the need either to expensive specialists on stock selection, or in high portfolio turnover and, hence, can invest without paying a significant share of income asset manager.

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Joe Di Napoli

Jo DiNapoli – a professional trader, the company president “Coast Investment Software, Inc.” Though his methods are applicable on all time scales and in all liquid markets, DiNapoli most prefer intraday trading on stock market indices. He began to sell them since he was introduced the S & P in 1982.

Joe DiNapoli – a professional trader and trading veteran with more than 35 years of market experience. He is also a tenacious researcher, an internationally recognized lecturer and well-known author. His formal education is associated with the electrical engineering and economics. His informal education was in the bunker, the so-called place of trade, a full complement of electronics and communications equipment, where most of the early studies began Joe. Trader Joe’s – so he signed the letter and the so-called by his friends and students who are working in many different countries and different markets.

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Jim Rogers

Bilend James Rogers, Jr. (James Beeland Rogers, Jr.) – U.S. investor, was co-founder of Quantum, a college professor, author, economic commentator, and creator of commodity index Rogers International Commodities Index (RICI).

Jim Rogers was born Oct. 19, 1942 in Baltimore, Maryland. He studied at Yale University and then at Oxford, where he studied politics, philosophy and economics. In the summer of 1964, working in the firm Dominick & Dominick, Jim Rogers really carried away by what is happening on Wall Street and “plunged” into the life of the financial world. It was here he returned after the end of Oxford and service in the army. In the early 1970’s., Gaining experience in the firm Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder, Jim Rogers was one of the founders of the Quantum Fund – a partnership in the sphere of global investment. During the next 10 years, the portfolio value Quantum Fund grew by more than 4200%, while the growth index, Standard & Poor’s 500 over that period was approximately 47%. At the age of 37 years, Jim Rogers has decided to leave the fund. He currently manages his own portfolio, teaches finance in the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University and is a regular commentator and presenter of headings in various media.

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Jesse Livermore

Jesse Livermore – a great trader early 20 century. One of the earliest trend traders. Among traders and investors Jesse Livermore was known by the nickname “Junior grip” (Boy Plunger) and “Miracle child” (Wonder Boy). He became famous for winning and losing fortunes at the time of exchange crisis of 1907 and 1929.

Jesse Livermore was born in Massachusetts, the son of farmers, and at fifteen left home to later become a great trader (according to legend, the coach, where he had left, stopped by the brokerage, defining the profession of boys). He supported his mother, who did not want her son, a year has passed three-year course in mathematics, the fate of the farmer, his father was against. At his first job in Boston, Jesse Livermore wrote down on the board quotes the brokerage firm Paine Webber.

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James Harris Simons

James Harris “Jim” Simons, a grandson of the owner of a shoe factory in Massachusetts, received a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1958 and received his Ph.D., also in mathematics at UC Berkeley in 1962 at the age of 23 years. From 1961 to 1964 he taught mathematics at MIT and Harvard. In 1964-1968 he held a research position in the Communications Research Division of the Institute of Defense Analysis. In 1968 he became head of the mathematics department at Stony Brook University. During his university entered the top ten in the U.S.. In 1976, Simons was Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry American Mathematical Society for his work on multi-dimensional surfaces that minimize area, and characteristic forms. He proved the assumption Bernstein until dimension 8, and also improved the properties of regularity result Wendell H. Fleming on the generalized Plateau problem. In 1978, Simons left academia in order to establish an investment fund. read more

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James Stephen Fossett

James Stephen Fossett was born April 22, 1944, in Jackson, Tennessee. Childhood and youth passed in Garden Grove, California. From a young age Steve Fossett was a member of the Scout Movement. In 1966, Fossett graduated from Stanford University with a degree in economics. In 1968 he was awarded the title of Master of Economics at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. In the same year, Steve Fossett married Peggy Wieland.

Up to 40 years old Fossett was known only in business circles. He made a very successful career at the exchange, and even became the founder of the largest U.S. trading corporation Lakota Trading Inc., Co-owner of the company Scaled Composites.

In 1985, apparently bored of achievements in business, Steve Fossett decided to swim the English Channel. It was just a challenge to myself – and the fourth time he did it. Incidentally, it is interesting that for the first extreme achievement, Steve has committed, not invested in it, no dollar. In the future it will also be very practical given his passion for extreme entertainment.

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Henry Clews

Henri Clouzot was born in England in 1836, and in 1850 emigrated to the United States. Clouzot began as a clerk in a large company-importer, and only later moved into the financial sector business. Clouzot became a member of the New York Stock Exchange shortly after the panic of 1857, during which prices have fallen about 50 percent. “This crisis has sounded a funeral march for the old conservatism in the” Street “- wrote Clouzot. – There was a young race of financiers, to fill the seats of the old conservative leaders. ” For all its extravagance Clouzot was an investor in the price. He realized that “in light of all this tumultuous mass of facts are the laws of nature if we study them for their control facilities, they (the laws) will be working exactly the same way as the rising sun.”

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William Delbert Gann

William Delbert Gann was born June 6, 1878 in Lufkin, Texas. His father, Samuel Houston Gann, was a teacher, selling horses and cows. He also owned a small billiard club. His mother, Susan Rebecca Gann (nee Trevation), devoted all his time raising VD Gann and his younger brothers and sisters. She taught the young William to read through the Bible – the book, which later had an enormous impact on his thinking about the nature of financial markets. His family was poor. Samuel, Susan and their eight children lived in a small house, and young William to get to school every day, walked seven miles over three years. Gunn never finished high school.

In 1894, William Gunn, aged 16, he left teaching and began to look for work. He became a peddler (selling newspapers, food …) in the train, which traveled between Texarkana and Tyler, Texas. He also worked at the cotton warehouse.

In 1901, he worked at a brokerage firm in Texarkana, and married his first wife, Rena May Smith.

In 1902, the first daughter was born – Nora. 1902 was also the first year, when Gunn made his first deal in cotton.

In 1903 Gann moved to New York. He was already 25 years old.

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Victor Niederhoffer

In April 2006 Niderhoffer Victor (Victor Niederhoffer) appeared on the evening in a New York hotel St. Regis, which brought together some 300 leading fund managers of America. Passing under the gilded chandeliers in a blazer the color of lavender, he felt that once again raised at the summit of success. In 1980-90-ies. Victor Niderhoffer created for himself a vast fortune and a reputation as one of the most prominent hedge fund managers in the United States. But his undoing excessive love of risk: before the Asian financial crisis, he played in improving Thai shares, and during the crisis – on the rise in the index Standard & Poor’s 500, using the naked option on the index. When the markets collapsed, Victor Niderhoffer overnight, lost everything – $ 130 millionth Fund and almost all of their own savings. It seemed that life has dealt him a crushing blow, but he managed to overcome the way up the second time. Speaking to the financiers, honored him in St. Regis, Niderhoffer stressed how highly appreciates “the difficult and courageous” decision to reward him after he had once failed.

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