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Bollinger Bands – John Bollinger / John Bollinger

John Bollinger / John Bollinger is the President and Founder of Bollinger Capital Management, investment management companies, providing technical analysis-based wealth management services to individuals, corporations, trusts and pension funds. Bollinger publishes Capital Growth Letter. For many years, John Bollinger was the chief analyst for the nationwide cable television channel Financial News Network. (FNN), dedicated to financial news. He currently continues to provide weekly analytical commentary on CNBC., successor to FNN, and for many years was the Chief Market Analyst at the Financial News Network. The prerequisites for the financial career of John Bollinger periodically arose in his life path from early childhood.. In his book Bollinger on Ribbons (Bands) Bollinger Bands ", the author describes it as follows: “For the first time I encountered the stock market, when I was a child and inherited several Fruhauf shares, companies, which subsequently rolled down, rolled down and, eventually, went bankrupt.

John Bogle / John Bogle

John Clifton "Jack" Bogle (John Clifton “Jack” Bogle). To date, hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested by investors in index funds., generating a stable income and characterized by low costs. For a great opportunity to profit from invested capital, without making great efforts and without trying to "outplay" the market, investors have one man to thank - John Bogle. close, colleagues, and often journalists call him Jack.

Joe DiNapoli / Joe Di Napoli

Jo DiNapoli – professional trader, President of Coast Investment Software, Inc." Although its methods are applicable on all time scales and in all liquid markets, DiNapoli prefers intraday trading on the stock market indices most of all. He started trading them ever since, how the index S was introduced&P in 1982. Joe DiNapoli – professional trader and trading veteran with over 35 years of market experience. He is also an avid researcher, an internationally recognized lecturer and well-known author. His formal education is related to electrical engineering and economics. His informal education was in the "Bunker", the so-called trading place, fully equipped with electronics and communication equipment, where most of Joe's early research began. Trader Joe - this is how he signs letters and this is the name of his friends and students, who operate in a wide variety of countries and markets.

Jim Rogers / Jim Rogers

James Biland Rogers Jr. (James Beeland Rogers, Jr.) - American investor, was a co-founder of the Quantum Foundation, is a college professor, author, economic commentator, and creator of the Rogers International Commodities Index (SAY). Jim Rogers was born 19 October 1942 in baltimore, Maryland. Studied at Yale University, and then at Oxford, where did you study politics, philosophy and economics. In summer 1964 of the year, working for Dominick & Dominick, Jim Rogers really got carried away with what was happening on Wall Street and "plunged headlong" into the life of the financial world. It was here that he returned after graduating from Oxford and serving in the army.. In the early 1970s., having gained experience at Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder, Jim Rogers co-founded Quantum Fund – global investment partnerships. During the next 10 years, the value of the Quantum Fund portfolio has increased by more than 4200%, while the growth of the Standard&Poor’s 500 during this period amounted to approximately 47 %. Aged 37 years old Jim Rogers decided to leave the foundation. He currently manages his own portfolio, teaches finance at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University and is a regular commentator and columnist for various media.

Jesse Livermore / Jesse Livermore

Jesse Livermore – great trader started 20 century. One of the earliest trend traders. Among traders and investors Jesse Livermore was known by the nicknames "Young Grip" (Boy Plunger) and "Miracle baby" (Wonder Boy). He became famous for winning and losing millions of fortunes during the stock market crises. 1907 And 1929 years. Jesse Livermore was born in Massachusetts, in a family of farmers, and left home at fifteen, to later become a great trader (according to legend stagecoach, where he left, stopped near a brokerage office, defining the profession of a young man). His mother supported him, unwilling son, per year completed a three-year mathematics course, farmer's fate, father was against. At his first job in Boston, Jesse Livermore wrote quotes on the board at the brokerage office of Payne Webber.

Gerald Loeb / Gerald Loeb

Gerald Loeb (Gerald Loeb) made a name for himself as a first-class specialist in the sale of securities, and Forbes magazine once called him "the most quoted man on Wall Street.". His book "The Struggle for Investment Survival" (The Battle for Investment Survival), published in 1935 year, considered a classic, and the first edition was sold in 250 000 copies. The main reason for her success – the book is written alive, in plain language, which did not require such mental ability, as published in 1934 year book by Benjamin Graham "Securities Analysis". Lobe's strong point – mass marketing, giving you the opportunity to become a regular Investor Joe. Consider the following metaphor, addressed to the novice investor: “One should limit his first cooking efforts by boiling eggs.; nobody starts with Baked Alaska, no matter, what a great dessert it can turn out later ”.

James Harris Simons / James Harris Simons

James Harris "Jim" Simons, grandson of a shoe factory owner in Massachusetts, received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1958 year and received a doctorate, also in mathematics, at the University of Berkeley in 1962 year aged 23 years. With 1961 on 1964 he taught mathematics at MIT and Harvard. In 1964-1968 he held a research position in the Communications Research Division of the Institute for Defense Analysis. IN 1968 year he became the head of the department of mathematics at Stony Brook University. Under him, the university entered the top ten in the United States.. IN 1976 Simons received the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry from the American Mathematical Society for his work on multidimensional surfaces, minimizing the area, and characteristic forms. He proved Bernstein's conjecture up to the dimension 8, and also improved the regularity properties of Wendell Fleming's result on the generalized Plateau problem. IN 1978 year Simons left academic science in order to, to establish an investment fund.

James Stephen Fossett / James Stephen Fossett

James Stephen Fossett was born 22 April 1944, in Jackson, Tennessee. Childhood and youth were spent in Garden Grove in California. From a young age, Steve Fossett was a member of the scout movement. IN 1966 Fossett graduated from Stanford University with a degree in economics. IN 1968 year he was awarded the title of Master of Economics at the University of Washington at St. Louis, Missouri. In the same year, Steve Fossett married Peggy Wieland.. To 40 years Fossett was known exclusively in business circles. He had a highly successful career in the stock exchange, and even became the founder of the largest US trading corporation Lakota Trading Inc., co-owner of Scaled Composites. IN 1985 year, apparently, bored with business achievements, Steve Fossett decided to swim across the English Channel. It was just a challenge to myself – and from the fourth time he did it. By the way, interesting, that Steve made his first extreme achievement, without investing a dollar in it. In the future, he will also be extremely practical to surrender to his passion for extreme entertainment..

Jake Bernstein / Jake Bernstein

Jake Bernstein – professional trader, American analyst and author, who uses his more than 40 years of practical experience in market analysis to test opposing and controversial points of view, formalizing and building effective trading methods. Jake Bernstein is one of the most popular and respected analysts in the stock and futures markets.. He also serves as President of MBH Commodity Advisors., located in g. Vignette, Illinois and Network Press Inc in Scots Valley, California. Jake wrote over 40 Futures & Stock Market Books, Trading Psychology and Economic Forecasting; introduced numerous methodologies for analyzing futures markets, based on cyclicality and technical analysis; is the author of the newsletter for traders; conducts online training, helping traders improve their skills and achieve trading success.

Henry Cluse / Henry Clews

Henry Cluse was born in England in 1836 year, and in 1850 emigrated to the United States. Kluz started out as a clerk in a large importing company and only later moved into the financial business.. Close became a member of the New York Stock Exchange shortly after the panic 1857 of the year, during which prices fell by about 50 Percent. “This crisis sounded like a funeral march for the old conservatism on Street, – wrote Kluz. – A younger race of financiers emerged, filling the places of the old conservative leaders ". For all his extravagance, Clouse was a value investor. He understood, that “at the heart of all this stormy mass of facts are the laws of nature; if we study them in relation to the objects they control, they (laws) will work the same way, like the rising of the sun ".

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