List the Founding Fathers of Trading(Technical Analysis/Fundamental)

Please list their names here and I'd like to know your favorite and why.


Me personally, I like Jim Rogers for investing because he started his commodity fund at the right time as commodity prices were very over-looked.

 

Buffett for deep value investing.

Soros/Rogers for global macro.

Richard Dennis for trend-following.

William O'Neill for growth-stock momentum trading.

Victor Niederhoffer for naked put writing

 

Any past names you like? Like Wyckoff?

 

In order of importance, imo:

1. Wyckoff

2. Schabacker

3. Taylor

4. Livermore

5. Edwards and Magee

6. Dunnigan

7. Donchian

8. Tubbs

9. Keltner

10. Nelson

 

George Lane for inventing stochastics.

 

O Neil

he should be on there somewhere

 

Charles Dow..........everyone else just built on his ideas, including Elliot.

 

Louis Bachelier (1900). His Wikipedia entry is (here)

 

Mune Homma 1755; Golden fountain, the three monkey's secret method of money. All others are derivatives. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homma_Munehisa The original text in Kanji is available online from a 1895 print. Most of the early American analysts including Dow and others were awared of Homma's work.

 

wd gann

john bollinger

glen nealy

larry williams


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