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Meet Stephen Bigalow
By Luckbox
Office location
Houston
Age
69
Years trading
48
How did you start trading?
When I was 8 years old, my dad bought me one share of Eazor Express [a trucking company now defunct]. It split two-for-one, so then I had two shares. I would watch the price movement every single day in the newspaper. Starting at the age of 21, I became a stockbroker for Kidder, Peabody & Co., and then for Oppenheimer & Co. When I discovered brokerage firms didn’t know more than anyone else about what made prices go up or down, I struck out on my own.
Favorite trading strategy?
I discovered candlestick analysis by accident. As I started researching the signals and patterns, one concept kept hitting me in the side of the head—this...
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Straightforwardly Successful
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Meet the Trader: Caulin T. Struyk
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|Meet the trader Caulin T. Struyk in a Q&A about his trading experience. -
Meet Micheal Antzas
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|Home/Office location Tulsa, Oklahoma Age 63 Years trading 25 How did you start trading? The company I worked for 27 years ago offered a 401(k), and on the weekends I… -
The Apprentice: A Mathematical Edge
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The Master Trader & Educator
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THE JOURNEYMAN: THE PATH TO A 153,000% RETURN
By Ed McKinley
|Son Dao has made a fortune in almost no time by bucking the market’s bearishness. He turned $1,600 into $2.5 million in 17 months. Yes, Luckbox verified the numbers. Twenty-eight-year-old… -
Meet Stefanie Kammerman
By Yesi D
|Home/Office location Las Vegas Age 52 Years trading 28 How did you start trading? Happy hour! I got lucky and got offered a job as a trader’s assistant working in… -
Meet Bobby Gaines
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Meet Ivan Fediv
By Yesi D
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Meet Sanjeev Malhotra
By Yesi D
|Home/Office location East Brunswick, New Jersey Age 51 Years trading 22 How did you start trading? I began trading during the stock market’s great bull run in 1992 and made… -
Meet Payal Swami
By Yesi D
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Meet Aneta Genova
By Yesi D
|Home/Office location New York City Years trading 12 How did you start trading? I was running my own business for small leather goods about 17 years ago, and when I… -
Meet Mike Niemotka
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|Home/Office location Round Lake, Illinois Age 54 Years trading 20 How did you start trading? My father introduced me to investing around the age of 13, but it was more… -
Meet Kimberly Jane
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Meet Dino Karahalios
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Meet Joseph Barbuto
By Yesi D
|Home/Office location Long Island, NY Age 59 Years trading 25 How did you start trading? Around 1987, I was working for a small electronics company that Bear Sterns took public.…