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William Delbert Gunn / William Delbert Gann

William Delbert Gunn was born 6 June 1878 years at Lufkin, Texas. His father, Samuel Houston Gann, was a teacher, traded horses and cows. He also owned a small billiard club.. His mother, Susan Rebecca Gann (in the maidenhood of Trevation), devoted all her time to the upbringing of V.D.. Ganna and his younger siblings. She taught young William to read with the Bible - books, which later greatly influenced his reflections on the nature of financial markets. His family was poor.. Samuel, Susan and their eight children lived in a small house., and young William, to get to school, walked seven miles every day for three years. Gunn never graduated from high school. IN 1894 year, William Gunn, Age 16 years, left school and started looking for work. He became a peddler. (sold newspapers, going ...) on the train, who traveled between Texarkana and Tyler in Texas. He also worked in a cotton warehouse.

Victor Niederhoffer / Victor Niederhoffer

In April 2006 of the year Victor Niederhoffer (Victor Niederhoffer) appeared at an evening at New York's St. Regis, where about 300 America's leading fund managers. Walking under the gilded candelabra in a lavender blazer, he felt, that again rose to the top of success. 1980-90s. Victor Niederhoffer has built a huge fortune and a reputation as one of the most prominent hedge fund managers in the United States.. But he was ruined by an excessive love of risk.: before the Asian financial crisis, he played for the rise in Thai stocks, and during the crisis - to increase the Standard index&Poor’s 500, using uncovered options on the index. When the markets crashed, Victor Niederhoffer lost everything overnight - a $ 130 million fund and almost all of his own savings. It seemed, life dealt him a crushing blow, however, he managed to overcome the path up the second time. Speaking to financiers, honoring him in St. Regis, Niederhoffer stressed, how highly he appreciates the “difficult and courageous” decision to reward him after, how it crashed once.

Bill Williams / Bill Williams

Bill Williams and his colleagues trade more 35 years, constantly improving their trading equipment. He conducts trade seminars, the subject of which is the psychology of trading and its trading methods. Bill Williams has outstanding trading performance and is the author of Trading Chaos, "New dimensions in stock trading", "Trade Chaos 2", which outlines the basic concepts, underlying his trading methods. Bill Williams' trading system is not static and has undergone changes since the publication of the books., however, the key ideas and principles remain the same. The trading technique of Bill Williams can be classified as an aggressive trend. It should be noted, that satisfactory results using such methods can be achieved provided there is sufficient diversification and, Consequently, capitalization. CQG Users, practicing a similar approach, can also use the CCI comment service, hosted by Ted Ryan.

What is CanSlim

Questions about a previous post about IBD promotions. In general, the meaning is, what are they looking for “healthy” companies, whose fundamental indicators are constantly growing and no obstacles to this growth are foreseen. It is sometimes too lazy to look for such companies yourself., yes and why, if there is already such a service. :)
You can read more about the CanSlim system in William O'Neil books..
Here, for example, how Apple's fundamentals are growing year by year.

Here's the thing., for comparison, Boeing, not registered with IBD100 — things are not so optimistic here:

Bernard Baruch / Bernard Baruch

Bernard Mannis Baruch (Bernard Mannes Baruch) – American financier, speculator, as well as a politician and statesman. Bernard Baruch was born 19 august 1870 in Campden, South Carolina and was the second of four sons of Simon and Bell Baruch. His father, Simon Baruch (1840—1921), German immigrant of Jewish origin immigrated to the USA from Germany 1855. Physician by profession, during the civil war he served in the army of the southerners and was one of the founders of physiotherapy. IN 1881 his family moved to New York, where Bernard went to City College (City College of New York). After graduating from college, Bernard Baruch began working for Houseman and Company. (A. A. Housman and Company). Moving up the career ladder, he became a broker, and then partner A. A. Housman and Co., and seven years later he already owned an eighth of this brokerage house. The source of his income was part of the commission, received by him from each transaction of the client.

Alan Greenspan

Every morning, Alan Greenspan wakes up in 5.30 and during 1.5 hours taking a bath and reading economic reports, thinks over the financial and economic problems of the country. For the post of Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Central Bank of the United States), the most influential body of the country's economic policy, Greenspan was appointed by President George W. Bush 20 June 2000 of the year, and for the fourth time. Alan Greenspan was born in March 1926 years in Brooklyn, near, which was called "Frankfurt on the Hudson", since many Jewish immigrants from Germany settled there. His father's parents, stock broker, were also from Germany. On the maternal side, his ancestors were immigrants from Poland. When Alan was 5 years, his parents divorced, and he was raised by his mother and her parents. His mother Rose, after the divorce, together with Alan, moved to her parents in a small 2-room apartment in a six-story building on the corner of Broadway and 163rd Street and went to work in a furniture store.. Sister Rose's family lived next to them. – Mary and her husband Jacob Halpert, which had two children – boy and girl. It was with them and with their father that young Alan spent most of his time.

Laura Pedersen (Laura Pedersen)

Laura Pedersen (Laura Pedersen) started working on Wall Street in 17 years; in 20 years she, By the way, was the youngest, which had its own place on the American Stock Exchange (her employer rented this place for her, since she did not pass the age to own it). Before reaching another 24 years, she did 1,5 million. Doll. Growing up on the outskirts of d. Buffalo, Pedersen is a born entrepreneur: at the age of six she was selling tomatoes from her mother's garden, played poker and bet on horses; asked for company shares at ten years old “Pepsi-Cola” as a birthday present; in 14 years went to New York on an excursion to the American Stock Exchange (АМЕХ). After her first boring semester at the University of Michigan, she dropped out.. “If I wanted to be a movie star, – she reflected, – I think, I would head west, to Hollywood; and since I was only striving to make a fortune, I flew east, on Wall Street”. In January 1984 Pedersen began working as a clerk, Earning 120 Doll. in Week. She has worked for several companies, before settling in “Spear Leeds Kellogg / Investor Company” as a secretary of traders. When traders went for a smoke break, she briefly replaced them. It was the world, full of obscene language and vulgar gestures. As Pedersen said: “Four years, three …

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Лео Меламед (Leo Melamed)

One of the most powerful figures in the financial world – Лео Меламед (Leo Melamed) – revolutionized futures trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. However, like his fellow financial genius George Soros, Melamed first had to take an amazing journey, which included eluding the Nazis and Russians, to get to the United States. IN 1939 year he and his family fled from Poland to Lithuania, but, when they got there, they needed a transit visa, to continue the journey. “Even my philosophical father, – told Melamed, – could not explain, how you can reduce a person's life to waiting in line for a piece of paper, which could mean the difference between life and death”. Crossing Siberia by train, young Melamed learned his first lesson in strategy – stay calm and focused under fire – because, to his amazement, father plunged into chess, obviously, oblivious to the chaos around him.

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