Next Move Trader Rankings

Margin of safety and disciplined valuation over market emotion.

Peter Tuchman

Floor Trading

Market microstructure, execution awareness and live-session discipline.

Bill Lipschutz

Forex

FX risk management, liquidity awareness and strong trade selection.

Thomas Bulkowski

Technical Research

Pattern statistics, evidence-based chart work and probability thinking.

James Simons

Quantitative

Data, models and systematic process over narrative bias.

John Paulson

Event Driven

Crisis positioning, catalyst research and payoff asymmetry.

Steve Cohen

Active Equities

Information flow, fast feedback and strict loss control.

Michael Marcus

Commodities / Futures

Trend following, conviction building and cutting weak ideas.

Richard Dennis

Trend Following

Rules, repeatability and the power of systematic execution.

Ray Dalio

Macro / Portfolio

Diversification, macro regimes and principled decision making.

Ed Seykota

Trend systems, psychology and consistency across cycles.

Mark Minervini

Momentum Equities

Relative strength, tight risk and timing around leadership stocks.

Bruce Kovner

Macro / Commodities

Scenario planning, volatility respect and global market context.

Andy Krieger

Forex

Currency pressure points and opportunistic macro execution.

David Tepper

Distressed / Macro

Deep value in stressed assets and macro turning points.

Carl Icahn

Activist Investing

Corporate catalysts, governance pressure and long-horizon conviction.

Joe Lewis

Currency / Investing

Macro patience, currency cycles and concentrated capital deployment.

Bill Ackman

Activist / Event Driven

Public theses, corporate change and risk of narrative concentration.

Nicolas Darvas

Momentum

Box theory, trend confirmation and simple execution rules.

Peter Schiff

Macro / Metals

Gold, currency risk and macro imbalance frameworks.

Simon Cawkwell

Short Selling

Bearish research, fraud detection and catalyst timing.

Warren Buffett

Long-Term Investing

Business quality, compounding and patience through cycles.

William Delbert Gann

Technical Theory

Market geometry, cycles and disciplined technical frameworks.

Bill Gross

Fixed Income

Bond cycles, duration risk and macro yield analysis.

Larry R. Williams

Futures / Short-Term

Seasonality, short-term setups and quantified timing ideas.

Hetty Green

Capital preservation, deep value, and extreme cash management.

Muriel Siebert

Speculation / Brokerage

Pioneering access, discount brokerage, and barrier-breaking execution.

Geraldine Weiss

Value / Dividends

Dividend yield analysis, value cycles, and income quality.

Linda Raschke

Futures / Short-Term

Swing trading, price action momentum, and daily range rules.

Kathy Lien

Forex

Currency macro drivers, yield differentials, and news trading.

Abigail Johnson

Asset Management

Long-term scale, digital asset adoption, and custody systems.

Cathie Wood

Growth / Innovation

Disruptive innovation, thematic investing, and high beta allocation.

Mellody Hobson

Corporate governance, patient compounding, and financial literacy.

Sallie Krawcheck

Wealth Management

Diversified asset allocation, systematic savings, and risk profiles.

Karen Finerman

Value / Arbitrage

Risk arbitrage, value investing, and hedging derivatives.

Sir John Templeton

Global contrarian value, maximum pessimism, and mutual fund scale.

Peter Brandt

Technical Trading

Classical chart patterns, asymmetric sizing, and survival psychology.

Richard Wyckoff

Technical Analysis

Market cycles, accumulation, and the composite operator.

Charles Dow

Technical Analysis

Dow Theory, primary market trends, and volume confirmation.

Ralph Nelson Elliott

Technical Analysis

Elliott Wave cycles, crowd psychology, and fractal patterns.

Larry Hite

Short-Term / Quantitative

Trend following, strict mathematically-defined risk, and survival.

Toby Crabel

Opening range breakouts, short-term patterns, and quick exits.

Dan Zanger

Momentum Trading

Chart pattern breakouts, extreme leverage, and volume confirmation.

Kristjan Qullamaggie

Momentum Trading

Episodic pivots, high-momentum breakouts, and risk rules.

Bernard Baruch

Speculation

Contrarian speculation, taking profits early, and public detachment.

Victor Sperandeo

Macro / Options

Trend identification, the 1-2-3 reversal, and option leverage.

Stanley Kroll

Futures / Trend

Long-term futures trend following, patience, and system discipline.

Alan Howard

Macro / Trading

Global macro speculation, interest rate trends, and risk management.

Chris Rokos

Macro / Trading

Sovereign debt speculation, global macro, and asymmetric bets.

Paul Rotter

Order Flow

Order book scalping, liquidity hunting, and market making.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Options / Tail Risk

Black Swan events, tail-risk optionality, and anti-fragility.

Mark Spitznagel

Options / Tail Risk

Disaster insurance, tail-risk options, and capital preservation.

David Harding

Quantitative / Trend

Systematic trend following, data-driven futures, and model building.

Michael Platt

Macro / Trading

Multi-strategy capital allocation, capital preservation, and leverage.

William Eckhardt

Trading systems, mathematical probability, and bias mitigation.

Philip Fisher

Growth stocks, scuttlebutt research, and long-term holding.

Thomas Rowe Price Jr.

Growth cycles, earnings reinvestment, and thematic growth.

Walter Schloss

Deep value, net-net assets, and diversification.

Irving Kahn

Decades of value discipline, Graham-Dodd principles, and patience.

Seth Klarman

Distressed debt, margin of safety, and cash flexibility.

Howard Marks

Value / Cycles

Oaktree distressed debt, second-level thinking, and cycle awareness.

Joel Greenblatt

Magic Formula Investing, return on capital, and earnings yield.

Bill Miller

Flexible value, beating the S&P 500, and growth-value crossover.

Kenneth Griffin

Quantitative / Trading

Citadel market making, quantitative algorithms, and multi-strategy.

Julian Robertson

Long/Short Equity

Tiger Management, long/short fundamentals, and Tiger Cubs.

Chase Coleman III

Growth / Venture

Tech growth equity, venture capital, and thematic technology.

Philippe Laffont

Coatue Management, thematic technology, and shorting tech decay.

Andreas Halvorsen

Long/Short Equity

Viking Global, bottom-up fundamental stock picking, and risk rules.

Stephen Mandel

Long/Short Equity

Lone Pine Capital, fundamental research, and growth equity.

Leon Cooperman

Omega Advisors, value equity, dividend growth, and capital allocation.

Mohnish Pabrai

Pabrai Funds, copying value managers, and low-downside equity.

Guy Spier

Aquamarine Fund, value checklists, and defensive portfolio setup.

Shelby Davis

Insurance stock compounding, leverage, and long-term patience.

David Dodd

Security Analysis, value principles, and balance sheet research.

John Neff

Windsor Fund, low-P/E investing, and out-of-favor equities.

Mark Douglas

Trading Psychology

Trading in the Zone, probabilistic thinking, and mental discipline.

Brett Steenbarger

Trading Psychology

Performance coaching, pattern recognition, and review habits.

Van Tharp

Trading Systems

Position sizing, expectancy models, and trader psychology.

Jack Schwager

Trading Systems

Market Wizards interviews, futures research, and trader styles.

John Bogle

Passive Investing

Vanguard indexing, low fee mutual funds, and long-term compounding.

Martin Zweig

Don\'t fight the Fed, trend following, and growth stock filters.

David Ryan

CAN SLIM growth, relative strength, and strict breakout rules.

Monroe Trout

Quantitative / Trading

Quantitative risk models, low drawdown, and systematic execution.

Victor Niederhoffer

Quantitative / Trading

Statistical arbitrage, market anomalies, and leverage risk.

Michael Covel

Trend following advocacy, systematic rules, and cycle survival.

Nick Leeson

Rogue trading, hidden accounts, and collapse of Barings Bank.

Yasuo Hamanaka

Market manipulation, rogue copper futures, and Sumitomo crisis.

Jérôme Kerviel

Arbitrage abuse, unauthorized size, and Société Générale collapse.

Kweku Adoboli

Exchange Traded Funds speculation, rogue trading, and UBS loss.

Bruno Iksil

London Whale CDS credit derivatives, size risk, and JP Morgan loss.

Bill Hwang