Trader profile articles
Long-form trader profiles — career arcs, championship runs, and the people behind the names in the Hall of Fame.
Andrea Unger — the only four-time World Cup Trading Champion (and how he got there)
A mechanical engineer from Milan, a Mensa member, four wins of the World Cup Trading Championships across 2008-2012 — and the only person to win the championship four times on real money. Andrea Unger's career is the canonical case for systematic, engineer-built trading.
David Ryan — three U.S. Investing Championship wins in a row
1985, 1986, 1987 — David Ryan won the U.S. Investing Championship three consecutive years, compounding to a 1,379% return across the trio. The William O'Neil protege turned CANSLIM into the most-cited championship sweep in USIC history.
Larry Williams — the trading career that set the World Cup record
From a $10,000 account at the start of 1987 to a $1.13 million net gain by year-end, Larry Williams set the all-time World Cup Trading Championship record. Six decades of trading, indicators, books, and a Senate run later, the 11,376% benchmark still hasn't been matched.
Linda Raschke — four decades of trading, from options pit to hedge fund
Market-making at the Pacific Coast and Philadelphia exchanges in the 1980s, registering as a CTA in 1992, founding LBRGroup, running the Granat Fund into a top-20 BarclayHedge five-year ranking — Linda Raschke's career is the canon's reference point for sustained excellence over time.
Marty "Pit Bull" Schwartz — from failed analyst to U.S. Investing Champion
Schwartz spent nearly a decade as a securities analyst losing money before pivoting to trading. Six years later he won the 1984 U.S. Investing Championship with a 210% return — and went on to become the trader his memoir Pit Bull made famous.