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Joe Granville
 For the past 24 years Joseph Granville has been living with his wife Karen in Kansas City Missouri. He is best known as a stock market Technical Analyst.
Now almost 82, his latest book HOW TO READ THE STOCK MARKET was published last year. It explains and applies his entire theory of On-Balance Volume.
His fame grew rapidly following hundreds of seminars starting in 1978. Aside from all that, he wants to be best known for his major contributions to technical analysis and what he has taught to his followers all over the world.
Mr. Granville is a frequent contributor to TFNN and has many interviews in the
Interview Archives section of this website.
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Jim Sinclair
Jim Sinclair is primarily a precious metals specialist and a
commodities and foreign currency trader. He founded the Sinclair Group
of Companies (1977), which offered full brokerage services in stocks,
bonds, and other investment vehicles. The companies, which operated
branches in New York , Kansas City, Toronto , Chicago , London and
Geneva , were sold in 1983.
From 1981 to 1984, Mr. Sinclair served
as a Precious Metals Advisor to Hunt Oil and the Hunt family for the
liquidation of their silver position as a prerequisite for the $1
billion loan arranged by the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Paul
Volker.
He was also a General Partner and Member of the Executive Committee
of two New York Stock Exchange firms and President of Sinclair Global
Clearing Corporation (commodity clearing firm) and Global Arbitrage
(derivative dealer in metals and currencies).
In April 2002, shareholders of Tanzanian Royalty Exploration
(formerly Tan Range Exploration) approved the acquisition of Tanzania
American International, a company controlled by the Sinclair family,
for shares in Tan Range . Following this transaction, Mr. Sinclair
became Chairman of Tan Range and now leads its efforts to become a
gold royalty company.
He has authored numerous magazine articles and three books dealing
with a variety of investment subjects, including precious metals,
trading strategies and geopolitical events, and their relationship to
world economics and the markets. He is a frequent and enormously
popular speaker at gold investment conferences and his commentary on
gold and other financial issues garners extensive media coverage at
home and abroad.
In January 2003, Mr. Sinclair launched, “Jim Sinclairs MineSet,”
which now hosts his gold commentary and is intended as a free service
to the gold community.
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Jerry Favors
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 Jerry
L. Favors, 52, peacefully departed this life on February 28, 2006 at home.
He is survived in loving memory by Leslie Blackston-Favors, his wife,
companion and friend. Also in loving memory he is remembered by his parents,
Mrs. Pearlene Favors of Columbus and Mr. and Mrs. Will Favors of Marion,
Oh.; other family members include his sisters and brothers, Vanessa Favors
of Calif., the late Christine Tinsley, Tommy Favors of Fla. and Freddy
Favors of Calif.; nieces and nephews, Fallon, Shaykia, Nicole, Chanelle,
Amber, Ariana, Jamil, Taurelle, Valvis, Dakota, Makoa and Taurelle Jr.;
lastly, his favorite aunts, Hattie of Columbus and Bea of Ga. Jerry is
survived by extended family, friends and business associates, who will miss
him deeply. Interment will be at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in
Scottsdale, Ariz. A Memorial Celebration of his life and work will be held
in Columbus in the coming weeks. Family, friends and business associates
will be notified.
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Arch Crawford
 Arch
Crawford, editor and publisher of Crawford Perspectives for over 20 years, cut
his Technical Analysis teeth as first assistant to Top Wall St technician,
Robert Farrell at Merrill Lynch (1961-64) and was said by Kiplinger's Personal
Finance to be the "...only one market-timing newsletter among several dozen
timers tracked by Hulbert Financial Digest (that) has outpaced the simple
strategy of buying and holding...the S&P500... over the past five
years."
"The Street's best known Astrologer" (according to BARRON'S) has
made some astounding market calls, including "The best Bull Market in 15
years" (WSJ-1981) and the Exact Top and Crash in 1987, using a combination
of technical analysis and astronomic cycles.
Ranked #1 for the First Half of 2002 by TIMER DIGEST, he finished the year in
the #2 spot for the entire 12 months out of over 110 best known market
newsletters.
Actual accounts at RYDEX Funds, monitored by www.selectadvisor.com
ranked #4 & #10 for 2002 out of 600+ accounts of 292 advisors, showing a
return of 60%+ for the year.
Crawford gave a Major Long Term BUY Signal for GOLD in early April of 2001.
The GOLD Stock group has been the best performing group for all of 2001 and all
of 2002!
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Joe DiNapoli
 Joe
is a veteran trader with over 30 years of solid market trading experience. He is
also a dogged and thorough researcher, an internationally recognized lecturer,
and a widely acclaimed author.
His formal education was in electrical engineering and economics. His informal
education was in "the Bunker", an aptly named trading room, packed
full of electronics and communications equipment, where most of Joe's early
research began.
Joe's exhaustive investigations into Displaced Moving Averages, his creation of
the proprietary "Oscillator Predictor", and in particular, his
practical and unique method of applying Fibonacci ratios to the price axis,
makes him one of today's most sought after experts.
Joe, a registered C.T.A., has taught his techniques in the major financial
capitals of Europe and Asia, as well as in the United States. In 1996 alone Mr.
DiNapoli taught his techniques to capacity audiences in over 23 financial
centers around the globe. His articles have appeared in a wide variety of
technical publications across the nation and worldwide.
He was a contributing author to "High Performance Futures Trading, Power
Lessons From The Masters", selected 1990 book of the year by Super Trader's
Almanac. He has also authored the "Fibonacci Money Management and Trend
Analysis In Home Trading Course" which has been lauded by professional and
novice traders alike. His most significant work to-date is the book
"Trading with DiNapoli Levels", which has become the industry standard
for students of Fibonacci trading techniques.
When Chuck LeBeau (Technical Traders Bulletin) asked his readers for names of
successful traders they most wanted interviewed, Joe DiNapoli's name came up
more often than any other. Likewise the "Atlanta Constitution" cited
Joe's work by referring to the "magical power" of Fibonacci ratios in
the market place. Joe has used this magic time and again on national TV to make
both startling and uncannily accurate market predictions, particularly in stock
market indexes and interest rate futures.
As president of Coast Investment Software, Inc., located on Siesta Key in
Sarasota, Florida, Joe continues to develop and deploy "high accuracy"
trading methods, using a combination of leading and lagging indicators in unique
and innovative ways. He conducts a limited number of private tutorials each year
at his trading room and he also makes his trading approach available to others
via software and Trading Course materials.
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Basil Chapman
 As Editor of The Chapman Marketline and Trendswatch since 1984,
Basil Chapman’s service has been used by Fidelity’s Technical Department,
hedge funds, banks, money managers, and individual clients. Often quoted
in Barron’s MarketWatch section, as well as winning TheStreet.com’s
“timing” competition, where his analysis has often been referenced, Basil
has a history of significant market-trend calls.
While hand drawing charts from the late 1970s into the 1980s, he
noticed that prices under most circumstances virtually always had a certain
number of legs to the upside before declining sharply. Later he found that
computer software, which included the standard market technical indicators,
enhanced the degree of accuracy in calling price turns. As well as market
trend calls.
Thus was born the ChapmanWave© Up/Down Sequence.
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Walter A. “Bud” Rolfs
 Bud
Rolfs joins the TFNN family as chief technical analyst in the “Tiger Trading
Post”. Bud originally hails from Mount Joy, Pennsylvania. Coming from a small
rural community, Bud was raised in an environment that placed great value on
such characteristics as honesty, responsibility, and hard work. “What I
believe I personally brought to that environment was a tremendous drive for
achievement, a great appreciation for creativity, and a warm sense of humor,”
Bud humbly adds.
In the late 60’s, at the height of the Vietnam War,
Bud’s sense of duty lead him toward service to our country. And so it was that
upon graduation from High School, Bud received acceptances from the U. S. Coast
Guard Academy and the United States Military Academy at West Point, as well as a
full 4-year ROTC scholarship to Drexel University. Bud chose West Point and
after 4 arduous years graduated as part of the “Proud and Free Class of
‘73”. “I knew that leadership would be a lifelong pursuit whatever
vocation I wound up pursuing, and that no where was there a greater tradition of
leadership training than West Point.” With a wink he observes, “But getting
a ‘taste of leadership’ at West Point was sometimes a bit like getting a
drink of water from a fire hose!” During his 5 year active duty tour, Bud
served as a Field Artillery officer with the 1st Infantry Division in
Ft. Riley Kansas and Germany, receiving the Army Commendation Medal.
Upon leaving the service in 1978, Bud accepted a production
supervisor’s position with Polaroid Corporation, and followed that with an
outstanding 25 year stint with Polaroid and Analogic Corporation highlighted by
significant achievements in operations, engineering, and program areas of the
business. “I guess the common thread across those many years was my ability to
achieve unprecedented results through leveraging innovative approaches to the
analysis and application of critical data combined with a passion to bring out
the best in all those whom I was so honored to work with,” Bud offers. Perhaps
an excellent example of those talents was Bud’s role in the development of
statistical process control and his leadership in one of the nation’s first
large scale operator-controlled product release system, named by Bud as
“Operation Greenlight”. “By developing and training the production folks
in the appropriate quality control tools, we were able to eliminate the need for
tollgate auditing by a separate ‘quality department’ thus putting both the
build and release functions in the hands of the people making the product.”
While that may sound pretty tame nowadays, in the early ‘80s it was such a
bold step forward in efficiency and cultural change that Bud’s achievements
became the subject of a Harvard Business Review case study that is still used by
many undergraduate and postgraduate level courses to this day.
Some of Bud’s other achievements over the years include
development and leadership of a number of teambuilding and management workshops,
as well as the development of diversity training workshops utilized by such
organizations as the Tennessee Valley Authority. Bud also developed a
significant ‘following’ over the past 6 years providing technical analysis
on a variety of websites under the codename ‘Tiger 1590’, chosen in honor of
his mentor and friend, Tom O’Brien. “Though I had been a student and
successful practitioner of technical analysis for many years, I had never
reached the tremendous level of success I enjoy now prior to meeting Tom. No one
before Tom had ever pulled together quite the mix of Fibonacci, volume, candles,
and technical indicators that Tom has…” Bud remarks. “Technical analysis
is all about increasing one’s probabilities of success. Though Tom’s system
makes things a lot more black and white, there is also a subtlety and nuance
required in bringing it all together successfully in trading. Luckily my long
history of getting results through creative operations analysis helped me to
quickly appreciate and absorb Tom’s approach to integrating the signals and
making the right calls a high percentage of the time. That Tom also brings to
the mix his uniquely positive and inspiring leadership combined with his genuine
desire to help others was also a critical aspect.” adds Bud.
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Bill O'Neil
William J. O'Neil began his career as a stockbroker in his early 20s and through
studies of the greatest stock market winners uncovered their common
characteristics, which today is known as the CAN SLIM™ Investment Research
Tool—the seven steps to finding great stocks. The success of this strategy was
first seen in the 1960s, when O’Neil catapulted to top-performing broker at
Hayden Stone, increasing his personal portfolio over 2,000% in just 26 months.
In January 2004, the American Association of Individual Investors’ (AAII)
studies of over 50 well known strategies found that CAN SLIM outperformed with a
704.9% six year compounded result (1998 through 2003).
O’Neil’s early extraordinary success led him to found his first company, William
O'Neil + Co. Incorporated in 1963, one of the most respected institutional
investment research firms worldwide. O’Neil was on the leading edge when he
created the first computerized securities database for tracking and comparing
stock performance.
In 1984, O'Neil launched Investor’s Business Daily®, a national
business and financial daily newspaper, in response to investors’ need for
relevant market data and investing education. For the first time, individuals
gained access to condensed, easy-to-use versions of the same critical data
research previously reserved for professional money managers.
O'Neil is the author of
24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success and the million-plus best seller
How to Make Money in Stocks, the 2003 update of which was a BusinessWeek,
USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller. His newest book
The Successful Investor (October 2003) analyzes the 2000-03 bear market and
presents what 80 million people need to know to invest profitably. Stock
Trader’s Almanac dedicated their 37th Edition (2004) to him as a
“Wall Street pioneer who put investment information at the fingertips of the
masses by launching Investor’s Business Daily in 1984. His foresight,
innovation and disciplined approach to stock market investing will influence
investors and traders for generations to come.”
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Larry Pesavento
 Larry
Pesavento is a forty year veteran trader. He managed Drexel Burnham
Lambert’s Commodity department and is a former member of the C.M.E., where
he was a local in the S & P pit. Larry has been a guest on FNN (now CNBC)
and is the author of nine books on trading, he currently is a private trader
for a large hedge fund. Larry uses a system of pattern recognition in his
trading. This approach eliminates the random nature of market action. Since
1985, his focus has been weighted heavily on NASDAQ stocks with special
emphasis on Internet stocks. He has one of the most extensive trading
libraries in the world, which he utilized in his personal training of over
800 traders in the past thirteen years.
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Kate Stalter
 Kate
Stalter is a writer and content editor for Investor’s Business Daily and host of
the “Daily Stock Analysis” video at Investors.com. Since 2001, she has edited
and written IBD columns including “The Real Most Active,” “Stocks In The News”
and “Investor’s Corner.” Stalter co-hosted Web casts with TDAmeritrade and
regularly presents at investing seminars nationwide. She is an in-demand
commentator on national radio programs. She received her MBA from the Kellogg
School of Management at Northwestern University.
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Tom Sosnoff
 Tom
Sosnoff is the founder of thinkorswim, Inc. and is responsible for overseeing
the company’s corporate strategy; specifically dedicated to systems development
and trading strategy. Prior to starting thinkorswim, Sosnoff served as an
options market maker and managed a trading group at the Chicago Board Options
Exchange (CBOE). He has also successfully traded index arbitrage strategies and
managed a variety of hedge funds.
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Ed Young
Ed Young is a Systems Specialist at MF Global and the host of TFNN's weekly
radio program, The Futures Hour. He is also a daily contributor to The Tom
O'Brien Show at 4:15 pm EST.
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Greg Johnson
 Greg
Johnson is Vice President, Strategic
Development of NovaGold Resources and the host of our biweekly radio program,
The Gold Show. Greg joined Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse to establish NovaGold in
1998. With over 20 years of industry experience, Greg is responsible for
NovaGold's marketing and communication activities, and is involved in developing
strategic growth opportunities. Prior to his role at NovaGold, Greg was part of
the management team responsible for overseeing the exploration and acquisition
activities for Placer Dome's International Exploration Group in Africa and
Eurasia. Greg also worked with Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse and Joe Piekenbrock as part
of the Alaska Exploration Group for Placer Dome in the late 1980s and early
1990s, where he played a key role in the multi-million-ounce Donlin Creek
discovery in 1995. Greg has been involved in all aspects of exploration and
development, from grassroots discoveries to Feasibility Studies in the United
States, Canada, Australia, Russia and Africa. Greg holds an Honors B.Sc. in
Geology from W. Washington University.
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