Laura Pedersen. The Final Frontier

Laura Pedersen. The Final Frontier

Laura Pedersen began working on Wall Street in 17 years to 20 years, she has, incidentally, was the youngest, which had its own place on the American Stock Exchange (her employer rented a place for her, because she was not of age for possession of .) Not yet reached 24 years old, she made $ 1.5 million Raised in the suburbs of Buffalo, Pedersen born entrepreneur: in six years, selling tomatoes from the garden of his mother, played poker and bet on horses, in

Charles I. and E. Merrill Pierce. Declaration of Policy

Charles I. and E. Merrill Pierce. Declaration of Policy

Lasting legacy of Charles Merrill is that he has brought Wall Street to Main Street for making the stock market that has made Henry Ford for the automotive industry to adapt it to some extent for the common man. However, it was a long way from Florida, his birthplace. Although his father was a prosperous country doctor, Merrill helped pay for his training in "Emharst college" in Massachusetts, serving waiter, tables and selling mail-order

Michael H. Steinhardt. Investing in hedge fund style

Michael H. Steinhardt. Investing in hedge fund style

Michael Steinhardt is recognized as one of the best investors of his time. In 1995, at the time of the announcement of his resignation, the average annual return of its funds was about 24 percent. Look at it this way: one Domar invested in the initial stage s his fund in 1995 was worth 462 dollar against the 17 mosquitoes of the same investment in an index Standard & Poor's 500. Steinhardt grew up in Brooklyn, where his father was a jeweler,

Otto Kahn. New York Stock Exchange and public opinion

Otto Kahn. New York Stock Exchange and public opinion

Otto Kahn, a German by birth, became the JP Morgan of his time as a powerful partner, the renowned investment banking house, "Kuhn, Lobe." One colleague described him as "Lorenzo de 'Medici of his time ... with an expression of alienation from everything so plebeian as money." And it was a man who never graduated from high school and who loved to write essays, poems and short stories. His mother, OA-However, she advised him to burn his works.

UU Fowler. Stock exchange

UU Fowler. Stock exchange

Understanding UU Fowler, the New York Stock Exchange proved to be useful to more than one historian, and any student of Wall Street should have to read his writings. As a speculator in force in the middle of the XIX century, he spoke with Daniel Aru and Cornelius Vanderbilt. "These people, - he said - the real Nimrod the mighty hunter of the stock market, they are big pike in a pond populated by smaller size of flakes of the family." Sam Fowler was acting according to

Edward GG Simmons. The stock exchange as a stabilizing factor in the American economy

Edward GG Simmons. The stock exchange as a stabilizing factor in the American economy

Nephew and namesake, a robber baron EH Harriman had the misfortune to be president of the New York Stock Exchange in 1929, the year of the great crash. Edward Simmons, a native of New Jersey, graduated from Columbia University in 1898 and two years later bought a place on the New York Stock Exchange. To him respectfully treated from the start. In 1909 he became manager of the Exchange, in 1921 he was elected

The views from the inside

The views from the inside

Spirit stops on the form, which opens with a picture of any of the exchanges, surprisingly, among the flying paper and screaming and mad rush around to maintain order. Not much has changed since 1870, when the speculator W. W. Fowler described the market as "turbulent maelstrom." After about 120 years, Laura Pedersen options trader, has made a $ 1.5 million, before she turned 24 years old, draws as much precision and savage portrait of life in the operating room. She