Stanley Kroll was a legendary commodity trader. After ten years as a broker, he decided to become a money manager for his and a few partners’ accounts in the early 1970s. He then succeeded in having a few years with triple and even four-digit annualized returns before taking a five-year sabbatical to travel around the… Read More »
Bernard Baruch was a successful trader and investor in the first half of the 20th century. Although not as widely quoted as his contemporary, Jesse Livermore, he did leave behind a wealth of wisdom regarding the markets. Here are some points I gathered reading about him (Bernard Baruch: The Adventures of a Wall Street Legend… Read More »
Mark Cook is a trader featured in Jack Schwager’s Stock Market Wizards book. Here‘s an interview he gave in May 2011 in Singapore. Some of the most important points he makes: there is always an opportunity to make money in the markets. You just have to find it. you have to know yourself and develop… Read More »
If you haven’t seen this 1987 documentary starring Paul Tudor Jones, I strongly recommend that you watch it. At that time he was right in the middle of that spectacular 5 years run that would be documented in Jack Schwager’s Market Wizards. It has always amazed me how aspiring traders pay a lot of money… Read More »
Jesse Livermore is known as one of the greatest traders who ever lived. During his lifetime he was a legend of Wall Street. In the 1920s, when the traffic lights were hand-operated by policemen on boxes, he would never stop for a red light. The moment they saw his car, the lights were green. (source:… Read More »