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Larry Williams

The Living Legend — 56 Years of Futures Mastery

📈 Turned $10,000 → $1,100,000 in 12 months (1987 Robbins World Cup Champion)
Trade the trend, not opinions
Volume precedes price — always follow accumulation
Seasonal patterns are the most consistent edge in futures
Open interest changes reveal the smart money hand
Never let a good profit turn into a loss
COT data: commercials are right at major turns
The market makes the most moves in the least time
Your stop-loss is more important than your entry
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⚔️ The 15 Legends
Jesse Livermore
The Boy Plunger — Trend & Tape Reading Master
Key Rules
  • Never average a loser
  • Cut losses without hesitation
  • Trade in the direction of the trend
  • Sit with winning trades — patience is the rarest skill
  • Markets are never wrong — opinions often are
Books
  • Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Edwin Lefèvre)
  • How to Trade in Stocks (Jesse Livermore)
Mark Minervini
SEPA / VCP — Volatility Contraction Pattern Master
Key Rules
  • Buy only Stage 2 uptrends
  • VCP: each contraction must be tighter and on lower volume
  • Risk no more than 10% per trade
  • Always define risk before entry
  • Institutional sponsorship is mandatory
Books
  • Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard
  • Think & Trade Like a Champion
  • Momentum Masters (co-author)
William O'Neil
CANSLIM — Growth Stock Methodology
Key Rules
  • C = Current earnings (25%+ growth)
  • A = Annual earnings acceleration
  • N = New products / highs / management
  • S = Supply & demand confirmed by volume
  • L = Leader not laggard | I = Institutional | M = Market direction (75% of outcome)
Books
  • How to Make Money in Stocks
  • 24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success
Paul Tudor Jones
Macro Risk Management — Never Average Losers
Key Rules
  • Never average losers
  • Reduce size when losing
  • 3:1 risk/reward minimum on every trade
  • Capital preservation is the most important thing
  • 5% max drawdown on any position before cutting
Books / Resources
  • Market Wizards (Schwager interview)
  • Trader (documentary, 1987)
George Soros
Reflexivity Theory — Boom-Bust Cycles
Key Rules
  • Markets are always biased in one direction or another
  • Reflexivity: fundamentals and prices influence each other in feedback loops
  • Identify boom-bust sequences early
  • Bet big when you have conviction
  • "It's not whether you're right or wrong, but how much you make when right"
Books
  • The Alchemy of Finance
  • Soros on Soros
Ray Dalio
All Weather Portfolio — Radical Transparency & Debt Cycles
Key Rules
  • Diversify across uncorrelated assets (All Weather)
  • Understand debt cycles — they run 75-100 years
  • Radical truth and radical transparency
  • Pain + reflection = progress
  • "Most people know less than they think they do"
Books
  • Principles
  • Big Debt Crises
  • Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
Ed Seykota
Trend Following — The Whipsaw Song
Key Rules
  • Win or lose, everybody gets what they want from the market
  • Go long uptrends, short downtrends — trend is the only filter
  • Small losses, large wins — asymmetry is everything
  • The elements of trading: cut losses, ride winners, keep bets small
  • "The trend is your friend, except at the end when it bends"
Books / Resources
  • The Whipsaw Song (philosophy / album)
  • Market Wizards (Schwager interview)
Alexander Elder
Triple Screen Trading System
Key Rules
  • Weekly chart sets the trend direction
  • Daily chart provides entry signals
  • Intraday chart for precise entry timing
  • Force Index confirms momentum
  • Never trade against the weekly trend
Books
  • Trading for a Living
  • Come Into My Trading Room
  • Entries & Exits
Van Tharp
R-Multiples — Position Sizing is Everything
Key Rules
  • Define initial risk (1R) before every trade
  • System expectancy = avg R-multiple × win rate
  • 1% risk rule per trade protects capital
  • Position sizing determines 90% of performance variation
  • A good system has expectancy >0.4R
Books
  • Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom
  • Definitive Guide to Position Sizing
  • Super Trader
Nicolas Darvas
Box Theory — Stage-Based Breakout System
Key Rules
  • Buy at box breakouts with new price highs
  • Each new box must be higher than the previous
  • Stop-loss at the bottom of the current box
  • Volume must confirm the breakout
  • Ignore news — follow price action only
Books
  • How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market
  • Wall Street: The Other Las Vegas
Richard Dennis
Turtle Trading — Rules-Based Trend Following
Key Rules
  • Buy 20-day high breakouts (System 1) or 55-day (System 2)
  • Exit on 10-day or 20-day low respectively
  • Size positions based on N (ATR) for equal volatility
  • Add to winners in units — pyramid into strength
  • Never risk more than 2% per trade (1 unit = 1% risk)
Books / Resources
  • Way of the Turtle (Curtis Faith)
  • Market Wizards (Schwager interview)
Jack Schwager
Market Wizards — Common Traits of Trading Legends
Key Rules
  • All great traders have a disciplined, tested methodology
  • Cut losers fast, run winners — universally consistent
  • Risk management separates professionals from amateurs
  • Develop your own edge through rigorous testing
  • "The trade is not over until it's over" — manage until closed
Books
  • Market Wizards
  • The New Market Wizards
  • Stock Market Wizards
  • Unknown Market Wizards
Stanley Druckenmiller
Macro Concentration — Bet Size Matters
Key Rules
  • Never invest in something you don't fully understand
  • When you have conviction, bet big (20-30% of portfolio)
  • Earnings don't move markets — liquidity does
  • US money supply 12 months forward is the best market predictor
  • When you're wrong, get out fast — no ego
Books / Resources
  • Market Wizards (Schwager interview)
  • Various public interviews and speeches (2010-2024)
Linda Bradford Raschke
Short-Term Swing Trading — Pattern Recognition
Key Rules
  • Buy strength, sell weakness — always in direction of trend
  • Look for pullbacks to moving averages in trend phases
  • Patterns repeat because human psychology repeats
  • Always know your stop before entry — no exceptions
  • 80% of gaps fill within the same trading day
Books
  • Street Smarts (with Connors)
  • Market Wizards (Schwager feature)
  • Trading Sardines
Peter Lynch
GARP — Invest in What You Know
Key Rules
  • Invest in what you understand and observe daily
  • PEG ratio: P/E divided by earnings growth rate — target <1
  • Ten-baggers come from boring companies in boring industries
  • "Know what you own, and why you own it"
  • Avoid the whisper stock — the hot tip is usually a trap
Books
  • One Up On Wall Street
  • Beating the Street
  • Learn to Earn
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