Worlds greatest forex trader?

[kuepper]

Soros... trading based on back pains... I like his style, a lot.

[_Ayman_]

Originally Posted by Svetlio

I would like to know the man who is the best in this game.

I'm the man you are looking for

[paulchaney]

Originally Posted by _Ayman_

I'm the man you are looking for

Alrighty then, let's hear some calls. Make us rich.

[larmand]

Originally Posted by Reiddar

I would like to know who the top forex traders are as well. Anyone have any other ideas?

Check out Paul Rotter in Germany, below its the link:

http://www.moneytec.com/forums/showt...t=gain+capital

[narafa]

Bruce Kovner is one of the greatest Forex traders. If you read The Market Wizards, you will find others for sure.

In the interview with Bruce Kovner in The Market Wizards, $2000 invested with him in 1978 would be worth $1,000,000 by 1988. This is for sure a great Forex trader. Although he was trading other markets, mainly commodities, he used to trade 60% of the money in Forex.

Thanks,

Nader

[VladaCMC]

Bill Lipschutz, who worked for the Solomon Brothers. He was interviewed in New Market Wizards, in my opinion one of the most colourful interviews too.

As a note for those that haven't read the interview with him, he used to be an options trader until one day they decided to open a forex division. This is an excerpt from the interview wuth Jack Schwager on how they went about it:

Wasn't there anybody else in the firm with the expertise in currencies?

No

Why wasn't there any thought given to getting someone from the outside with experience to develop the department?

That's not how Solomon did things. At Solomon everything was home grown. You're asking questions like you think there was some sort of business plan. The reality was that a few senior people got together one day, and one said, "Hey, shouldn't we really start a foreign exchange department?"
"Okay. Who can we get to run it?"
"How about Gill?"
"Okay. Hey, Gill. Do you want to run the department?"
"Sure, I'll do it."

Gill came from bond arbitrage. He had no experience in currencies.

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Very interesting in my opinion.