The Methods Library NEW
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Where it all began
Munehisa Homma
1724–1803 · Read the crowd's emotion in rice prices — the thinking behind candlesticks.
Read the profile →Charles Dow
1851–1902 · Built the first market averages; his editorials became Dow Theory.
Read the profile →William P. Hamilton
1867–1929 · Turned Dow's editorials into a method — the tide, waves & ripples.
Read the profile →Ralph Nelson Elliott
1871–1948 · Markets move in repeating, fractal waves — the Elliott Wave Principle.
Read the profile →Richard Wyckoff
1873–1934 · Read the footprints of large operators — the accumulation/distribution cycle.
Read the profile →Jesse Livermore
1877–1940 · The original trend-follower — pivotal points, pyramiding, sitting tight.
Read the profile →Robert Rhea
1896–1939 · Distilled Dow Theory into clear, rule-based principles for investors.
Read the profile →Richard Schabacker
1899–1934 · Forbes editor who first systematized chart patterns — a father of technical analysis.
Read the profile →Robert D. Edwards
fl. 1940s · Co-author of Technical Analysis of Stock Trends — pioneer of pattern analysis.
Read the profile →The first true systems
Benjamin Graham
1894–1976 · Father of value investing — intrinsic value, the margin of safety, and Mr. Market.
Read the profile →Richard Donchian
1905–1993 · Father of trend following — channels, breakouts, and mechanical rules.
Read the profile →Nicolas Darvas
1920–1977 · The dancer who traded by telegram — the Darvas Box breakout method.
Read the profile →Warren Buffett
b. 1930 · The Oracle of Omaha — Graham's student who made value investing legendary.
Read the profile →William O'Neil
1933–2023 · Founder of IBD; the CAN SLIM method of buying winning growth stocks.
Read the profile →Philip Fisher
1907–2004 · Father of growth investing — quality, "scuttlebutt," and the long hold.
Read the profile →John Magee
1901–1987 · Co-author of Technical Analysis of Stock Trends — codified chart patterns.
Read the profile →Joseph Granville
1923–2013 · Creator of On-Balance Volume — "volume precedes price."
Read the profile →George Lane
1921–2004 · Popularised the Stochastic Oscillator — "Lane's Stochastics."
Read the profile →Goichi Hosoda
1898–1982 · Creator of Ichimoku Kinko Hyo, the one-glance cloud system.
Read the profile →Chester W. Keltner
1909–1998 · Namesake of the Keltner Channel.
Read the profile →George Chestnutt
fl. 1930s–60s · Relative-strength pioneer who ran the American Investors Fund.
Read the profile →More coming
Gerald Loeb, Jesse Livermore's contemporaries, and more.
The modern legends
Thomas Aspray
Analyst who created the MACD histogram (1986) to reduce signal lag.
Read the profile →J. Welles Wilder Jr.
1935–2021 · Created the RSI, ATR, ADX & Parabolic SAR in one 1978 book.
Read the profile →John Bollinger
b. 1950 · Creator of Bollinger Bands; first to hold both the CFA and CMT.
Read the profile →Gerald Appel
1933–2020 · Creator of the MACD; founder of Signalert Asset Management.
Read the profile →George Soros
b. 1930 · The man who broke the Bank of England — macro & the theory of reflexivity.
Read the profile →Jim Simons
1938–2024 · The mathematician behind Renaissance — the greatest quant fund ever.
Read the profile →Peter Lynch
b. 1944 · Magellan's legend — 'invest in what you know,' then do the homework.
Read the profile →Bruce Kovner
b. 1945 · Cab-driver-turned-macro-legend — survival through risk management and restraint.
Read the profile →Marty Schwartz
b. 1945 · Lost for a decade, then became a champion — discipline over brilliance.
Read the profile →Van Tharp
1946–2022 · The coach of expectancy, R-multiples, and position sizing.
Read the profile →Ed Seykota
b. 1946 · First computerized trend-follower — ride winners, cut losers, mind the trader.
Read the profile →Mark Douglas
1948–2015 · Trading-psychology pioneer — think in probabilities, not predictions.
Read the profile →Paul Tudor Jones
b. 1954 · Macro legend — capital preservation and asymmetric bets; called the '87 crash.
Read the profile →Linda Raschke
b. 1959 · The disciplined short-term pro — patterns, tape reading, relentless consistency.
Read the profile →Stan Weinstein
Contemporary · Stage analysis — buy stage 2, avoid stage 4, using the 30-week MA.
Read the profile →The Turtles
1983 · Dennis & Eckhardt's experiment — proof that disciplined trading can be taught.
Read the profile →Peter Steidlmayer
Contemporary · Creator of the Market Profile & auction market theory at the CBOT.
Read the profile →James Dalton
Contemporary · Made the Market Profile teachable — Mind Over Markets & Markets in Profile.
Read the profile →Edward Thorp
b. 1932 · Beat blackjack, then the market — edge, the Kelly criterion, and the first quant fund.
Read the profile →Howard Marks
b. 1946 · Oaktree's memo-writer — second-level thinking, risk, and reading the cycle.
Read the profile →Ray Dalio
b. 1949 · Founder of Bridgewater — diversification, radical transparency, and Principles.
Read the profile →Alexander Elder
b. 1950 · The psychiatrist-trader — Mind, Method & Money in Trading for a Living.
Read the profile →John Murphy
1942–2026 · Father of intermarket analysis; the standard reference on charting.
Read the profile →Steve Nison
b. 1951 · Brought Japanese candlestick charting to the Western world.
Read the profile →Jim Rogers
b. 1942 · Quantum co-founder; contrarian commodities — buy what's cheap and hated.
Read the profile →Michael Marcus
The first Market Wizard — $30k to $80M; Seykota's student, Kovner's mentor.
Read the profile →Stanley Druckenmiller
b. 1953 · Ran Soros's Quantum; ~30%/yr for 30 years with no down year.
Read the profile →The digital generation
Mike Bellafiore
Contemporary · SMB Capital — building a personal "playbook" of A+ setups through deliberate practice.
Read the profile →Lasse Heje Pedersen
b. 1972 · Professor & AQR principal — how smart money invests; "efficiently inefficient" markets.
Read the profile →Brett Steenbarger
b. 1954 · Trading psychologist — consistency as a trainable skill through deliberate practice.
Read the profile →Adam Grimes
Contemporary · Author of The Art and Science of Technical Analysis — edge as imbalance, and the four trade categories.
Read the profile →Ross Cameron
Contemporary · Warrior Trading — small-cap momentum, scanners, and unusually honest risk disclosure.
Read the profile →Ariel Hernandez
Contemporary · “Real Simple Ariel” — top-down swing trading of leading stocks; following the money.
Read the profile →Mark Minervini
b. 1967 · Two-time U.S. Investing Champion — SEPA, the Trend Template, and the VCP.
Read the profile →Kristjan Qullamaggie
b. 1988 · Swedish swing trader — momentum breakouts & episodic pivots; mall guard to $100M+.
Read the profile →Lance Breitstein
Prop trader · ex-Trillium top trader, $100M+ — expected value, risk engineering & psychology.
Read the profile →Brian Shannon
b. 1967 · AlphaTrends, CMT — multiple-timeframe trend trading and the pioneer of Anchored VWAP.
Read the profile →Rob Smith
d. 2023 · Creator of The Strat — every candle is a 1, 2, or 3, traded with full timeframe continuity.
Read the profile →Thomas Bulkowski
b. 1957 · Catalogued chart-pattern success and failure rates with hard data.
Read the profile →Larry Connors
Quant short-term trader who popularized the 2-period RSI mean-reversion method.
Read the profile →Olivier Seban
Creator of the ATR-based Supertrend indicator.
Read the profile →Andrew Cardwell
The leading authority on the RSI — range rules and reversals.
Read the profile →Constance Brown
Institutional trader & author; advanced RSI and the Composite Index.
Read the profile →Mebane Faber
Quant investor & Cambria co-founder; simple tested trend/momentum rules.
Read the profile →Growing
Reputable modern educators — added carefully and selected for clear, honest teaching, never hype.