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Jesse Livermore. Jesse Lauriston Livermore (July 26, 1877 – November 28, 1940) was an American stock trader. [1] He is considered a pioneer of day trading [2] and was the basis for the main character of Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, a best-selling book by Edwin Lefèvre. At one time, Livermore was one of the richest people in the world ...
Chart of the NASDAQ-100 between 1994 and 2004, including the dot-com bubble. Day trading is a form of speculation in securities in which a trader buys and sells a financial instrument within the same trading day, so that all positions are closed before the market closes for the trading day to avoid unmanageable risks and negative price gaps between one day's close and the next day's price at ...
Anne-Marie Baiynd (born January 11, 1966) is an American author, financial analyst, technical analyst.Baiynd published her Market Positioning System (MPS) in 2011 to educate beginning day traders on the tools and techniques that have her listed in Traders at Work: World's Most Successful Traders Make Their Living in the Markets.
Marc Rich – oil. John D. Arnold – natural gas. Louis Bacon – cotton. Jay Gould – gold. Paul Tudor Jones – cotton.
James Harris Simons (April 25, 1938 – May 10, 2024) was an American hedge fund manager, investor, mathematician, and philanthropist. [ 4 ] At the time of his death, Simons' net worth was estimated to be $31.4 billion, making him the 51st-richest person in the world. [ 4 ] He was the founder of Renaissance Technologies, a quantitative hedge ...
Billion Dollar Day is a documentary about currency trading created by the British Broadcasting Corporation on 4 June 1985. The documentary focuses on three traders, each located in New York, London, and Hong Kong. The traders are followed throughout a typical day in order to demonstrate the challenges and dedication of each trader. [1]
William T. Walters (born July 15, 1946) [ 1 ] is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, New York Times best-selling author, [ 2 ] and one of the most successful American sports bettors of all time, having a winning streak which extended over 30 years. [ 3 ] Walters was convicted of insider trading and received a 5-year prison sentence, later ...
Below are the 20 largest hedge funds in the world ranked by discretionary assets under management (AUM) as of mid-2022. Only assets in private funds following hedge fund strategies are counted. Some of these managers also manage public funds and offer non-hedge fund strategies.