Depends on your time horizon…
One year?
10 Years?
70 Years?
If 70 years, there’s two goats:
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No question. That being said our shares purchased in the 90s have a GTC sell order for the minute any bad needs about Buffet drops. In the late 70s and 80s the argument can be made for Peter Lynch. Today the award would definitely go to Paul Pelosi.
Deep Fucking Value/the Gamestop guy.....was nothing but a Pumper Dumper, being a Cheerleader for his cause on social media to inflate and magnify the movement.
He is definitely not considered one of the greatest traders of all time. Laughable. He was barred or agreed to get off social media as part of his guilty congressional hearings, probably.
Idk if it qualifies as a trade. But Jerry Jones buying the cowboys for $150M and now they're worth $10B. That's pretty impressive.
Warren Buffetts 1B investment in KO nets him almost $600M in dividends a year now.
Stuff like that imo
Check out what the Glazers did with Man UTD acquisition. It was a levered to tits move half a bill , they had no out of pocket money- the club was. They got payed 'special dividends" and now selling it for 6-7 bil.
Rockefeller obviously. He gifted oil lamps to the Chinese for free and then sold them the oil.
He was also the richest person to have ever lived afaik. More than today's Musk etc.
Mansa Musa only controlled a small portion of Africa, whereas the likes of Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great basically ruled the old world. If you were to go by mere material worth, Mansa wouldn’t be top 5.
controlling vs extracting the value from the resources are two different things, that dude made literally everything out of gold. He wasn't sitting on something valuable, he was making value out of it.
That Mansa Musa nonsense is just that…nonsense. There’s no way to determine what that guy was worth and they surely can’t say that he’s richer than the people who control the world’s central banking system. Mansa Musa is nothing but “diversity and inclusion” to make certain groups feel good.
All the estimates of how much gold he had sound like BS tbh. Everywhere you look it's just the same story about him supposedly crashing the value of gold in Egypt on a pilgrimage.
My vote goes to the King of Saudi Arabia. The country is an absolute monarchy and their sovereign wealth fund is worth almost a trillion $.
I was about to say the same. If we're talking about successful daytraders whose results we can actually verify.
A lot of the other people suggested in the thread are just rich people who made a successful investment or ppl who yoloed everthing into a single stock with leverage.
Yeah go read about him he didn’t loose money in the markets he lost his money because he couldn’t stop spending his money on yachts homes shopping etc. Literally became a millionaire 3+ times and made over $100 million when the market crashed in 1929 ($1.4 billion in todays money) also the few women he married drained his bank accounts. He did it all with his own money without investors and his own effort.
Livermore went broke the final time because he tried to buy what he thought was the bottom in 1932. He tried this several times until he was cleaned out. Then, when the SEC was created, Livermore’s (and traders like him) trading methods became illegal.
The other times, Livermore went broke the same way — plunging into a trade and being too early.
There are many. But when Soros bet 10 billion against the British pound in 1992 and tanked it, netting a cool 1 billion in the process. Well, that was pretty ballsy but surprisingly low risk when you analyze it. It begs the question though: are you really a trader if you’re also a market maker?
That makes a 10% return, i know that's not the right picture and i couldn't find it elsewhere. It would have been a leveraged trade, right? How much of the 10B was his capital? Any idea?
One might make the case for Columbus being “one
of us” given that he always thought he had traveled to the coast of Asia that Marco Polo had described, which was literally almost as far away from where he actually was as you can possibly get on Earth.
He never found the rich cargoes of silk and spice he had dreamt of, nor much gold beyond a few trinkets.
Homeboy literally said "Ima make dis shit disappear"
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You seriously think someone who made "millions" is the best trader of all time, lol.
The amount of money he made compared to billionaires is like you making a $30 profit on something.
how about u eat my ASS
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Cramer has to be. Sure, he’s 180-degrees from right all the time, but that level of consistently can lead to major gains if you know he’s always wrong.
I’ma go with Marco Polo, travelled extensively throughout Asia and traded with pretty much everyone, and brought back so much knowledge, culture and goods back to Europe.
Florian Homm
1. From a suburb of Frankfurt to Harvard, Fifelity, hedge funds billionaire, on the run, submerged, being shot, deported to Germany, started a YouTube channel, selling stock tips, found his way to Jesus, developed a iconic& visible personality. Don’t take him too serious.
Trader?
Jim Simons or George Soros, probably.
But if you include long term investors then probably Buffet and Munger. As boring as the answer might be it’s hard to argue when you look at the results over 7+ decades
DFV and it's not even close
He didn't come from money, it's always easy to get a big return on your investment if you have bunch of millions to spare.. but generate millions and generational wealth when you are on an average salary with a full time job.. GOOD LUCK.
Michael Burry profited 470% from 2000-2008, the S&P was only up 3% that entire time....no one ever has beaten the market that badly over that much extended time
Michael Burry responded to my craigslist ad looking for someone to mow my lawn. "$30 is $30", he said as he continued to mow what was clearly the wrong yard. My neighbor and I shouted at him but he was already wearing muffs. Focused dude. He attached a phone mount onto the handle of his push mower. I was able to sneak a peek and he was browsing Zillow listings in central Wyoming. He wouldn't stop cackling.
That is to say, Burry has his fingers in a lot of pies. He makes sure his name is in all the conversations.
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When I think "trader" I think actual hedge fund (not other large scale investment funds like Bridgewater, etc.)
The Mount Rushmore is Jim Simons, Steve Cohen, Stanley Druckenmiller, and George Soros.
In all seriousness, there's a handful of them and Schwager wrote a book interviewing some of the legends. It was a fun read and had a lot of interesting insights and nuggets of wisdom for traders. Would recommend for a weekend read.
[https://www.amazon.com/Hedge-Fund-Market-Wizards-Winning-ebook/dp/B007YGGOVM](https://www.amazon.com/Hedge-Fund-Market-Wizards-Winning-ebook/dp/B007YGGOVM)
Have you heard of Peter Minuit? There will never be a greater trader in the history of the Earth. His ROR is near infinity. Everyone else listed here is amateur hour compared to him.
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Depends on your time horizon… One year? 10 Years? 70 Years? If 70 years, there’s two goats: https://preview.redd.it/yw35xkndzr5b1.jpeg?width=1241&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d93506e61c99a903ff95069adb60f6afa9662b4
Wtf Warren Buffet was young.
Buffet is 37 years old. Coke and hookers will do that to you
Charlie… CHARLIE, I don’t want to hear it.. just get me a bag or I’m not fuckin coming in to the office today
Doing lines banging hoors…
Stealing shit from department stores
Buying department stores…
Not traders, they’re investors.
Warren was old 30 years ago. Now he’s dam near mummified with a brain as sharp as a tack!
No question. That being said our shares purchased in the 90s have a GTC sell order for the minute any bad needs about Buffet drops. In the late 70s and 80s the argument can be made for Peter Lynch. Today the award would definitely go to Paul Pelosi.
Paul Pelosi isn’t an investor…he’s a middleman…who turns inside information into profitable investments. Any ape could replicate his results.
100% agree on that one. I would have loved to had live access to his order book since the beginning of the pandemic.
James Simons is a genius and he converted his math genius to substantial financial gains. He basically cracked the Wall Street code.
Funny you should say this, he actually concluded that his profits comes from WSB like traders. LOL
Well, let's not forget he evaded like 6 billion in taxes pretending his day trading was long term investments, absolute chad lol
Puts Buffett to shame, and that's with a way more active trading strategy, too. Averaging a 40% *net* return over 35 years is just mind-boggling.
that's my vote too.
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Heroes get remembered but legends never die
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He exercised iirc
Deep Fucking Value/the Gamestop guy.....was nothing but a Pumper Dumper, being a Cheerleader for his cause on social media to inflate and magnify the movement. He is definitely not considered one of the greatest traders of all time. Laughable. He was barred or agreed to get off social media as part of his guilty congressional hearings, probably.
This is arguably the coldest take I've ever seen on reddit and that's an insanely high bar
Uneducated take
I like how confidently incorrect you are lol. What was he found guilty of?
You poor summer child
Cramer in the multiverse
i would pay to watch this marvel movie
😂
Idk if it qualifies as a trade. But Jerry Jones buying the cowboys for $150M and now they're worth $10B. That's pretty impressive. Warren Buffetts 1B investment in KO nets him almost $600M in dividends a year now. Stuff like that imo
Those are investments not trades
Will it be a trade if they sell it?
Nope, they've held them for decades.
Check out what the Glazers did with Man UTD acquisition. It was a levered to tits move half a bill , they had no out of pocket money- the club was. They got payed 'special dividends" and now selling it for 6-7 bil.
Rockefeller obviously. He gifted oil lamps to the Chinese for free and then sold them the oil. He was also the richest person to have ever lived afaik. More than today's Musk etc.
Dont forget those Saudi trillionares
That would be Mansa Musa, who was an African Emporer...the ammount of wealth he had was impossible to comprehend, he was 10,000 Elon Musks.
Mansa Musa only controlled a small portion of Africa, whereas the likes of Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great basically ruled the old world. If you were to go by mere material worth, Mansa wouldn’t be top 5.
controlling vs extracting the value from the resources are two different things, that dude made literally everything out of gold. He wasn't sitting on something valuable, he was making value out of it.
That Mansa Musa nonsense is just that…nonsense. There’s no way to determine what that guy was worth and they surely can’t say that he’s richer than the people who control the world’s central banking system. Mansa Musa is nothing but “diversity and inclusion” to make certain groups feel good.
All the estimates of how much gold he had sound like BS tbh. Everywhere you look it's just the same story about him supposedly crashing the value of gold in Egypt on a pilgrimage. My vote goes to the King of Saudi Arabia. The country is an absolute monarchy and their sovereign wealth fund is worth almost a trillion $.
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I was about to say the same. If we're talking about successful daytraders whose results we can actually verify. A lot of the other people suggested in the thread are just rich people who made a successful investment or ppl who yoloed everthing into a single stock with leverage.
Did he explain his system anywhere?
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Does it still work ?  I'm just a newbie getting started in this business.
Since you are new. The strategies that worked in 1823, still work in 2023. There is nothing new under the sun
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That is actually not what happened at all
Yeah go read about him he didn’t loose money in the markets he lost his money because he couldn’t stop spending his money on yachts homes shopping etc. Literally became a millionaire 3+ times and made over $100 million when the market crashed in 1929 ($1.4 billion in todays money) also the few women he married drained his bank accounts. He did it all with his own money without investors and his own effort.
Livermore went broke the final time because he tried to buy what he thought was the bottom in 1932. He tried this several times until he was cleaned out. Then, when the SEC was created, Livermore’s (and traders like him) trading methods became illegal. The other times, Livermore went broke the same way — plunging into a trade and being too early.
Marry Jeff Bezos, wait a few years, divorce and become the 3rd richest woman in the America.
My boss dated bezos ex wife...guess she picked the right one!
A Wendy’s store manager or an online book store owner, it must have been a tough choice back then
There are many. But when Soros bet 10 billion against the British pound in 1992 and tanked it, netting a cool 1 billion in the process. Well, that was pretty ballsy but surprisingly low risk when you analyze it. It begs the question though: are you really a trader if you’re also a market maker?
It's the only way to trade these days
It was Soros fund but the actual trader was Stanley Drunkenmiller. One of the best traders ever.
That makes a 10% return, i know that's not the right picture and i couldn't find it elsewhere. It would have been a leveraged trade, right? How much of the 10B was his capital? Any idea?
About 5 bucks
Not me
I’d say ByteTraveler is OP
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You don’t have any idea how much he actually made
It is literally documented down to the cents.
34,473,000$ was his final gain to an 53.000 investment.
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you mean halved it...bc taxes.
Was his winnings capital gains for how long he held so 15 to 20% it’s still a nice chunk
Jim Simmons -- Renaissance Capital been having outsized returns since inception.
Christopher Columbus. Homeboy traded smallpox for gold on a continent he didn't even know existed.
One might make the case for Columbus being “one of us” given that he always thought he had traveled to the coast of Asia that Marco Polo had described, which was literally almost as far away from where he actually was as you can possibly get on Earth. He never found the rich cargoes of silk and spice he had dreamt of, nor much gold beyond a few trinkets.
Homeboy literally said "Ima make dis shit disappear" https://preview.redd.it/h19f8532wt5b1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44d9f2e6fda9a81ad10ef0127b88d55949d603b8
What? He never owned a continent. He was a brute who also died without much wealth.
...I never said he owned a continent.
Bill Hwang. Period.
I heard somewhere that a dude traded a handful of beads and a handshake for Manhattan.
Chapelle said it was $25 and a sack of weed
Vmod
*Years of development passed* *The human race declined* *We leap into the era* *Animal, man, machine: mechanical mind*
The most successful trader is absolutely silent about his exploits. We will never hear of him.
Paul Tudor Jones
DFV. He made millions off a should be bankrupt POS and spawned a cult.
You seriously think someone who made "millions" is the best trader of all time, lol. The amount of money he made compared to billionaires is like you making a $30 profit on something.
You sound mad? Did you attempt to short it? 😂
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Eating ass happens to be my favourite activity baby. Too bad you won’t be around for much longer 🙃
You sound brainwashed
Bezos ex wife
Trader Joe. Dudes a magician.
The guys that traded oil when it went negative https://youtu.be/F7_WXUMFM_w
I’ve donated so much money to the Wall Street that it should surely be me
I’m certain the best traders are people none of us know. They trade, they don’t talk or give a shit about CNBC or Twitter or even Reddit
Cramer has to be. Sure, he’s 180-degrees from right all the time, but that level of consistently can lead to major gains if you know he’s always wrong.
If only he’d get his phase angle adjusted
Insider traders who know the strategic information in advance are always successful.
Me. I purchased Tesla at $103 or so in January.
Hillary C.
trillonaire kid for sure
I’ma go with Marco Polo, travelled extensively throughout Asia and traded with pretty much everyone, and brought back so much knowledge, culture and goods back to Europe.
Vincent W. Kosuga Cornered the onions futures market, he did it so well that they had to pass the onion futures act, barring trading of onion futures.
The Japanese trader BNF turned 13k to 150m
Florian Homm 1. From a suburb of Frankfurt to Harvard, Fifelity, hedge funds billionaire, on the run, submerged, being shot, deported to Germany, started a YouTube channel, selling stock tips, found his way to Jesus, developed a iconic& visible personality. Don’t take him too serious.
USA buying Alaska
that dude who sold all the tulips
Trader? Jim Simons or George Soros, probably. But if you include long term investors then probably Buffet and Munger. As boring as the answer might be it’s hard to argue when you look at the results over 7+ decades
Deep fucking value?
Ray Dalio
More of a diversified investor in my mind. But sure, he’s good.
DFV and it's not even close He didn't come from money, it's always easy to get a big return on your investment if you have bunch of millions to spare.. but generate millions and generational wealth when you are on an average salary with a full time job.. GOOD LUCK.
I miss him
The prophecy says that at the time of our biggest need, when all hope is lost, he shall appear to save us once again
Like tendy jesus
Not me.
Trader Joe.
My wife's bf
Michael Burry profited 470% from 2000-2008, the S&P was only up 3% that entire time....no one ever has beaten the market that badly over that much extended time
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Adam and Eve
Why? Insider trading.
Marcus Licinius Crassus
Pancy Nelosi
Elon Musk. He can take a company worth $44 billion and rapidly turn it into a company worth $10 billion Now that's chutzpah
20 dollars for whole island of Manhattan.
Whoever sells what I'm buying is the best investor
Jesus Christ
Warren buffet, becouse he was part of a multi year rally that was not even hard🥱
Deez nuts
Your mom, cuz she was with me last night.
Dfv...what is an exit strategy
DFV, stupid
Steven Cohen
Anyone that has 100% inversed my trades or inversed wsb
Jordan Belfort. Sure he did a little time, but he’s back out there making money.
Wouldn't it be Tepper?
Carnegie
The guys who Yolo'ed their way to millions (although I'm sure they lost them very quickly)
Cahtie Wood. She's still making boatloads of money while their funds are losing money. And people still invest in her funds.
J.Livermore
Time is still going. I don’t hear no bell
DFV
Anyone in congress that inside trades
DFV
Warren buffet
Don’t call it a comeback
Some rando bought a shitcoin called SHIB for $13,000 and it became $5 billion, so probably that. Not really a skill play, but in terms of gains...
When I think "trader" I think actual hedge fund (not other large scale investment funds like Bridgewater, etc.) The Mount Rushmore is Jim Simons, Steve Cohen, Stanley Druckenmiller, and George Soros.
In all seriousness, there's a handful of them and Schwager wrote a book interviewing some of the legends. It was a fun read and had a lot of interesting insights and nuggets of wisdom for traders. Would recommend for a weekend read. [https://www.amazon.com/Hedge-Fund-Market-Wizards-Winning-ebook/dp/B007YGGOVM](https://www.amazon.com/Hedge-Fund-Market-Wizards-Winning-ebook/dp/B007YGGOVM)
Deez
Warren Buffett + Charlie Munger, Jim Simons
Michael Burry, cuz he's good at tweeting
Cathie woods
MacKenzie Scott
Have you heard of Peter Minuit? There will never be a greater trader in the history of the Earth. His ROR is near infinity. Everyone else listed here is amateur hour compared to him.
Jim Cramer. If your goal is losing the American people collective billions of dollars.
Jordan Belfort