Profiles
11 articles
Legends and characters of trading and forex
Jérôme Kerviel: the junior trader who hid €50 billion
A trader on an ordinary desk built €49.9 billion in hidden positions. Unwinding them over three days cost Société Générale €4.9 billion.
Paul Tudor Jones: the trader who saw Black Monday coming
In October 1987 the Dow fell 22.6% in a single day. One fund returned 62% that month — and the reason was a chart from 1929.
Richard Dennis and the Turtle Traders: can you teach someone to trade?
In 1983 Richard Dennis bet he could teach total beginners to trade like pros. He recruited the 'Turtles', gave them rules, and won — a lesson in systems and discipline.
Nicolas Darvas: the dancer who made two million in boxes
A ballroom dancer turned $25,000 into more than two million by telegram, watching only price and volume: the Darvas "box" method.
Jim Simons: the man who solved the market
A math professor who never read a chart hired physicists instead of traders — and never let anyone overrule them. A lesson in method, not prediction.
Nick Leeson: the trader who broke a 233-year-old bank
One trader, one hidden account, and a bank that had financed the Napoleonic Wars — gone. The most expensive lesson in trading isn't about being right; it's about the loss you refuse to take.
Stanley Druckenmiller: the man behind the trade that broke the pound
Everyone remembers Soros and Black Wednesday. Few remember the strategist who actually sized the bet — and whose real lesson is about how much you risk when you're right.
Bill Lipschutz: the sultan of currencies who lost everything first
He turned a $12,000 inheritance into $250,000 in college — then lost it all on one trade. That loss made him one of the greatest currency traders alive.
George Soros: the man who broke the Bank of England
On one day in 1992, a single fund bet $10 billion the pound would break — and a central bank surrendered. A clean lesson in price versus fundamentals.
Jesse Livermore: the boy who shorted the 1929 crash
He made $100 million betting the 1929 crash would come — then lost every cent. The Boy Plunger’s real lesson isn’t timing; it’s discipline and risk.
Andrew Krieger: the man who shorted an entire country
The 1987 legend who shorted the New Zealand dollar with a position bigger than the country's money supply — and what it really teaches about currency strength, liquidity and leverage.
