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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 ...
Marc Rich – oil. John D. Arnold – natural gas. Louis Bacon – cotton. Jay Gould – gold. Paul Tudor Jones – cotton.
Richard J. Dennis, a commodities speculator once known as the "Prince of the Pit," [1] was born in Chicago, in January, 1949. In the early 1970s, he borrowed $1,600 and reportedly made $350 million in about six years. When a futures trading fund under his management incurred significant losses in the stock market crash of 1987 he retired from ...
"Slave Trader, Sold to Tennessee" depicting a coffle from Virginia in 1850 (Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum) Poindexter & Little, like many interstate slave-trading firms, had a buy-side in the upper south and a sell-side in the lower south [13] (Southern Confederacy, January 12, 1862, page 1, via Digital Library of Georgia) Slave ...
Jack D. Schwager. Jack Schwager (born 1948) [1] is a trader and author. His books include Market Wizards (1989), The New Market Wizards (1992), Stock Market Wizards (2001) and Unknown Market Wizards: The best traders you've never heard of (2020). [3][2] He is a well-known author, fund manager and an industry expert in futures and hedge funds.
Founder of O'Neil Data Systems, Inc. William Joseph O'Neil (March 25, 1933 – May 28, 2023) was an American businessman, stockbroker and writer. He founded the stock brokerage firm William O'Neil & Co. Inc in 1963 and the business newspaper Investor's Business Daily in 1984. O'Neil was the author of the books How to Make Money in Stocks, 24 ...
Peter Michael Tuchman (born 1957) is a stock trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). He is known to be as "Einstein of Wall Street" due to his hairstyle, and has been called the "most photographed trader on Wall Street," typically featured in reaction shots to particularly volatile trading days. [ 2 ][ 3 ]
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 ...