Category: Trading Greats

William Eckhardt is a Market Wizard and Godfather of the popular trend-following trading method: The Turtle Trader. Eckhardt, a former mathematician, left the academic world to pursue trading full-time and never looked back. He raked in profits and generated an average return of 62% in the twelve years before his Market Wizards interview.  Eckhardt was…

Mark Ritchie was one of the greatest traders of his generation. He started trading in 1987 with a $1M account and generated a 50% annual return over his first four years. In fact, 90% of Ritchie’s trading weeks were profitable.  Mark is a self-taught Market Wizard. He scraped by during his early trading years working…

Richard Dennis is a legendary trader famous for his trend-following approach to trading and his successful experiment with a group of novice traders known as the Turtles. This blog post will provide an in-depth overview of Richard Dennis’s trading strategy and explain how it works, including its fundamental principles, advantages, and disadvantages. The Turtle Trading…

Marc Cohodes from the Big Short is one of the most popular short sellers in the game. He’s spent the last few decades exposing failing business models and fraudulent management teams as a PM at Copper River Management, greatly increasing his net worth in the process. Today he manages his own money with the same…

Jamie Mai is a hedge fund manager who has generated world-class returns for Cornwall Capital, a fund he founded after studying history in college. Mai returned 42% per year for investors (net of fees) during the fund’s first nine years. $100,000 initially invested in Mai’s fund would’ve been worth $2,347,000 by the end of year…