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Top Famous Traders in History | World most famous Traders

1. William Delbert Gann (6 June 1878 - 18 June 1955)

WD Gann is a mysterious trader who used to give the exact price of commodities by following his own methods based on astrology, geometry, and ancient mathematics. Even today Gann followers try to predict the market by his technical tools like Gann angles and the Square of 9.

2. Jesse Livermore (26 July 1877 - 28 November 1940)

Jesse Lauriston Livermore was an American stock trader. At the age of 14, he secured employment as a board boy posting stock quotes at a Boston. At the age of 16-17, Livermore's nickname was 'The Boy Plunger'. In 1907, took huge short positions and made $1 million in a single day. Livermore shot himself since he had lost most of his money by 1934.

3. George Soros (12 August 1930)

He is a Hungarian-born American net worth of $8.6 Billion. He is also known as 'The Man  Who Broke the Bank of England' because of his short sale of $10 billion worth of pounds sterling and makes a profit of $1 billion and that day is called as Black Wednesday UK currency crisis.

4. Jim Rogers(19 October 1942)

James Beeland Rogers Jr. is an American investor and financial commentator in Singapore. He was also the creator of the Rogers International Commodities Index(RICI). He was also in the US Army during Vietnam War. He traveled through China and around the world on motorcycles, covering over 1,60,000 KM across six continents. His journey was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records.

5. Richard Dennis (January 1949)

In the early 1970s, he borrowed $1,600 and made $350 million in about six years. Made a loss of $10 million in the black Monday stock market crash of 1987 and a total of $50 million lost between 1987-1988 and later he gets retired from trading. He trained a group that was not related to the stock market known as Turtles for only two weeks. After 5 years later, Turtles reportedly had earned an aggregate profit of $175 million.

6. Paul TudorJones(28 September 1954)

Paul Tudor Jones II is an American Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager(Tudor Investment Corporation). Current Jones firms manage $7.8 billion. His major success was predicting Black Monday in 1987 and triple his money(nearly around $100 million) by large short positions. Tudor Investment Corp. charges 4% per annum of AUM & 23% of the profits.

7. John Paulson(14 December 1955)

John Alfred Paulson is an American Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager. His net worth is near $4.2 billion and earned almost $4 billion by shorting US subprime mortgage lending market in 2007.

8. Steven Cohen (11 June 1956)

 Steven A. Cohen is an American hedge fund manager. In 2013, pleaded guilty to insider trading and pay $1.8 billion in fines it is one of the biggest criminal cases against a hedge fund. He is also a minority owner of Major League Baseball(MLB) team with an 8% stake.

9. David Tepper (11 September 1957)

David Alan Tepper is an American Billionaire hedge fund manager. He is also the owner of National Football League(NFL). In 2012 tax year he ranked for a paycheck of $2.2 billion as the world’s highest for a hedge manager.

10. Nick Leeson (25 February 1967)

Nicholas William Lesson is an English former derivatives rogue trader and he is the one who bankrupts Barings Bank in 1995 by his fraudulent, unauthorized, and speculative trades and sentenced to prison.




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