Famous Traders and Trading Championships
Most lists of famous traders rank by fame or net worth and repeat return figures nobody can trace. These guides use only numbers with a source: fund reports, shareholder letters, contest standings and contemporary newspaper reports.
Where to start: the ranking of the best traders in the world gives the overview. The championship guide shows how real-money contests work, and the portraits go deeper into single traders and their methods.
Guides in this topic
- See who really performed best
Best Traders in the World, Ranked by Documented Returns
A ranking built only from documented annual returns, from Jim Simons to Warren Buffett, and why the famous 120% figures are missing.
- Understand trading championships
World Cup Trading Championship: Winners, Rules, Criticism
How the real-money World Cup Trading Championship works, what it costs to enter, record winners, German champions and its flaws.
- Meet the record holder
Larry Williams: The 11,376% Record Holder, Fact-Checked
Larry Williams and his 11,376% year: his COT approach, the Oops pattern, the volatility breakout and the criticism.
- Meet the Prince of the Pit
Richard Dennis: The Prince of the Pit and the Turtle Traders
Richard Dennis from $400 to a fortune, the Turtle experiment, his losses in 1987 and 1988 and what is really documented.
- Learn the Turtle rules
Turtle Trading: The Original Rules of Richard Dennis
The key original Turtle trading rules: entries, position size with N, the 2N stop, adding units and the exits.
Related articles
- Trade breakouts
Breakout Trading Strategy: Entries and False Breakouts
How breakouts work, how to filter false ones and where to place the stop, the idea behind the Turtle system.
- Control your risk
Risk Management in Trading: Rules, Math, Psychology
The 1% rule, stops, reward-to-risk and daily loss limits: tools for judging trading results and controlling your own risk.