Legendary Traders Explorer
A filterable database of 104 traders covering Mind, Method, and Money. Filter by era, tradition, archetype, timeframe and outcome to find the chapters most relevant to you.
Position
Quiet SpecialistAhmet Okumus
Position
Quiet SpecialistAllan Gray
“We are contrarian by nature.”
Day Trader
Consistent CompounderAmrit Sall
Day Trader
One Iconic TradeAndrew Krieger
“You have to be willing to do the hard work and put in the analysis.”
Position
Comeback StoryAndré Kostolany
“Money goes from the patient to the impatient.”
Position
Consistent CompounderAnthony Bolton
“I do not think you can have any pre-set views.”
Position
Comeback StoryBenjamin Graham
“The investor's chief problem and even his worst enemy is likely to be himself.”
Swing
One Iconic TradeBill Ackman
“Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.”
Position
Consistent CompounderBill Gross
“Finding good performance is hard; keeping it is harder.”
Swing
Quiet SpecialistBill Lipschutz
“If most traders would learn to sit on their hands 50 percent of the time, they would make a lot more money.”
Position
Cautionary BlowupBill Miller
“100 percent of the information you have is about the past, but 100 percent of the value of your decisions depends on the future.”
Day Trader
Consistent CompounderBlair Hull
Swing
Quiet SpecialistBruce Kovner
“Whenever I enter a position, I have a predetermined stop. That is the only way I can sleep.”
Day Trader
One Iconic TradeCIS
“The market is the only opponent you cannot outsmart by knowing more.”
Position
Consistent CompounderCarl Icahn
“In life and in business, there are two cardinal sins: the first is to act precipitously without thought, and the second is to not act at all.”
Position
One Iconic TradeCathie Wood
“Innovation solves problems.”
Long-Term
Consistent CompounderCharlie Munger
“Invert, always invert.”
Swing
Consistent CompounderChris Camillo
Position
Consistent CompounderChris Hohn
“You do not need to win every battle to win the war.”
Position
Comeback StoryCliff Asness
“Quantitative research is just disciplined common sense.”
Position
Consistent CompounderColm O'Shea
Daljit Dhaliwal
Dana Galante
Position
Consistent CompounderDaniel Loeb
“We invest in companies where we can identify a catalyst.”
Position
One Iconic TradeDavid Einhorn
“The whole point is to position yourself for the most likely outcomes.”
Position
Consistent CompounderDavid Ryan
Position
Quiet SpecialistDavid Shaw
“In quantitative finance, the data is the strategy.”
Swing
Consistent CompounderDavid Tepper
“There is a time to make money, and a time to not lose money.”
Position
Quiet SpecialistEdward Thorp
“The only way to consistently beat the market is to use mathematical methods.”
Swing
Quiet SpecialistGil Blake
Position
Consistent CompounderHoward Marks
“You cannot predict; you can prepare.”
Position
Consistent CompounderIsrael Englander
“Risk management is the alpha.”
Day Trader
Consistent CompounderJaffray Woodriff
Position
One Iconic TradeJamie Mai
Swing
Consistent CompounderJason Shapiro
Day Trader
Consistent CompounderJeff Yass
Position
One Iconic TradeJeffrey Gundlach
“The market does not care about your beliefs.”
Day Trader
Cautionary BlowupJesse Livermore
“Markets are never wrong; opinions often are.”
Position
One Iconic TradeJim Rogers
“Buy low, sell high. Sounds simple. The hard part is figuring out what is low.”
Day Trader
Consistent CompounderJim Simons
“I am no slave to history.”
Position
Quiet SpecialistJoel Greenblatt
“The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something and then pay a lot less.”
Long-Term
Quiet SpecialistJohn Bogle
“Do not look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack.”
Position
One Iconic TradeJohn Paulson
“In a low-interest-rate world, leverage is the way you make money.”
Position
Consistent CompounderJohn Templeton
“The four most expensive words in the English language are: this time it is different.”
Position
Consistent CompounderJohn W. Henry
“The market price is always right.”
Position
Consistent CompounderJulian Robertson
“Smart idea, grounded on exhaustive research, followed by a big bet.”
Swing
One Iconic TradeKeith Gill (Roaring Kitty)
“I am not a cat.”
Position
Consistent CompounderKen Griffin
“The reality is the world is changing very rapidly.”
Position
Consistent CompounderKerr Neilson
“You should think differently to add value.”
Position
Consistent CompounderLarry Hite
Day Trader
One Iconic TradeLarry Williams
“Markets are made by people, and people do not change.”
Position
Consistent CompounderLeon Cooperman
“The cure for high prices is high prices.”
Day Trader
Consistent CompounderLinda Raschke
“You can never tell where the market is going to go.”
Day Trader
Comeback StoryLukas Frohlich
Day Trader
Comeback StoryMark D. Cook
Swing
Quiet SpecialistMark Douglas
“Anything can happen.”
Swing
Consistent CompounderMark Minervini
“There is no holy grail. The holy grail is in the discipline.”
Day Trader
Comeback StoryMarty Schwartz
“Learn to take losses. The most important thing in making money is not letting your losses get out of hand.”
Position
One Iconic TradeMichael Burry
“In essence, the stock market represents three companies, and they all sell air.”
Position
Consistent CompounderMichael Marcus
Swing
Consistent CompounderMichael Platt
“You either compound or you do not.”
Long-Term
One Iconic TradeMichael Saylor
“Bitcoin is the highest form of property.”
Swing
Consistent CompounderMichael Steinhardt
“The hardest thing for most people to do is hold something for an extended period.”
Day Trader
Consistent CompounderMonroe Trout
Position
One Iconic TradeNassim Taleb
“The fool generalises the particular; the nerd particularises the general; the wise does neither.”
Position
Consistent CompounderNelson Peltz
“You can build value through operational improvement.”
Position
One Iconic TradeNicolas Darvas
“You can never go broke taking a profit, but you can certainly stop making real money.”
Position
One Iconic TradePaul Singer
“Every investment decision is essentially a probabilistic determination.”
Swing
Consistent CompounderPaul Tudor Jones
“The most important rule is to play great defence, not great offense.”
Swing
Quiet SpecialistPeter Brandt
“There is nothing new in trading.”
Position
Consistent CompounderPeter Lynch
“Know what you own, and know why you own it.”
Position
One Iconic TradePrem Watsa
“We are very humble investors.”
Position
Consistent CompounderRadhakishan Damani
“Stay away from the noise.”
Position
Consistent CompounderRakesh Jhunjhunwala
“The market is supreme. It can do anything.”
Swing
Consistent CompounderRandy McKay
Position
Consistent CompounderRay Dalio
“He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.”
Position
One Iconic TradeRichard Dennis
“I always say you could publish trading rules in the newspaper and no one would follow them.”
Position
Consistent CompounderRichard Driehaus
Position
Consistent CompounderSeth Klarman
“Investing is the intersection of economics and psychology.”
Day Trader
Comeback StorySteve Cohen
“The only way to make money is to be different.”
Steve Watson
Stuart Walton
Position
Comeback StoryT. Boone Pickens
“A fool with a plan is better than a genius without one.”
Day Trader
One Iconic TradeTakashi Kotegawa (BNF)
“I trade alone. That is the only way I know how.”
Position
Consistent CompounderTom Basso
Tony Saliba
Position
Consistent CompounderVictor Sperandeo
Long-Term
Consistent CompounderWarren Buffett
“Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.”
Position
One Iconic TradeWilliam O'Neil
“The whole secret to winning in the stock market is to lose the least.”
Long-Term
Cautionary BlowupBernie Madoff
“In today regulatory environment it is virtually impossible to violate rules.”
Position
Cautionary BlowupBill Hwang
“I have a lot of leverage.”
Position
Cautionary BlowupEike Batista
“I will be the richest man in the world.”
Position
Consistent CompounderFelix Zulauf
“Every cycle ends, and the next one begins where you least expect.”
Long-Term
Quiet SpecialistGuy Spier
“You become what you read.”
Position
One Iconic TradeJim Chanos
“Short-selling is the cure for financial fraud.”
Day Trader
Cautionary BlowupJérôme Kerviel
“My only goal was to make money for the bank.”
Position
Consistent CompounderLi Lu
“The most important thing in investing is to know what you do not know.”
Long-Term Capital Management
“In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.”
Position
Consistent CompounderMohamed El-Erian
“Trade what you see, not what you think.”
Position
Consistent CompounderMohnish Pabrai
“Heads I win, tails I do not lose much.”
Long-Term
Quiet SpecialistMorgan Housel
“Doing well with money has little to do with how smart you are and a lot to do with how you behave.”
Day Trader
Cautionary BlowupNick Leeson
“I never was a serious trader.”
Day Trader
Cautionary BlowupSam Bankman-Fried
“It is bad behaviour for me to play poker for hours.”
Long-Term
Consistent CompounderTerry Smith
“Buy good companies, do not overpay, do nothing.”

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