Category: Trading Greats

Ray Dalio is the founder of Bridgewater. Two years ago, Bridgewater surpassed Soros’ Quantum fund for the title of most profitable hedge fund of all time; returning over $46 billion since inception. In your author’s humble opinion, Ray Dalio is one of the more original thinkers alive today. In the investing world he stands alone…

Let’s dive into Paul Tudor Jones’ trading strategy to learn how he’s maintained consistent success in the stock market over multiple decades. We’ll dissect the key principles and tactics that have made him one of the greatest traders of all time. From Jack Schwager’s Market Wizards: October 1987 was a devastating month for most investors…

The “greatest money making machine in history”, a man with “Jim Roger’s analytical ability, George Soros’ trading ability, and the stomach of a riverboat gambler” is how fund manager Scott Bessent describes Stanley Druckenmiller. That’s high praise, but if you look at Druckenmiller’s track record, you’ll find it’s well deserved. Druck averaged over 30% returns…

“Boy Wonder”, “Boy Plunger” and the “Great Bear of Wall St.” are a few of the monikers Jesse Livermore was known by. Livermore was immortalized in the trading classic Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre — a book your author has read countless times over the years and still pulls new wisdom from…

Michael Marcus turned $30,000 into $80 million over a 20 year period — not too shabby.He was profiled in Schwager’s original classic Market Wizards, giving one of the more impressive interviews in a book filled with many. What many don’t know is that Michael Marcus was also part of what has to be the most…

Bruce Kovner retired in 2011 from Caxton Associates, the hedge fund he founded and ran for 28 years. Over that time the fund returned an average of 21 percent a year since its inception. In comparison, the SPX averaged just 11%. Kovner had only one losing year (in 94’). Before Caxton, while trading at the…