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.
Mr. Sinclair provides Tan Range with the strategy for its corporate growth and
is primarily responsible for providing the leadership necessary for the Company
to complete its evolution into a gold royalty company.
Mr. Sinclair became Chairman of Tan Range following a Special Meeting of
Shareholders held in April 2002 in which shareholders voted 98% in favour to
approve a transaction for Tan Range to acquire Tanzania American International
Development Corporation 2000 Limited, a Tanzanian gold exploration company
controlled by the Sinclair family.
Mr. Sinclair is primarily a precious metals specialist and a commodities and
foreign currency trader. His past experience includes that of founder of 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. Mr. Sinclair served as a Precious Metal Advisor to Hunt Oil and
the Hunt family from 1981 to 1984 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. Mr. Sinclair was a general partner and member of
the executive committee of two New York Stock Exchange firms and also President
of Sinclair Global Clearing Corporation (Commodity clearing firm) and Global
Arbitrage (derivative dealer in metals and currencies). Mr. Sinclair was
President of James Sinclair Financial Research SARL in Luxembourg. Mr. Sinclair
held the position of Chairman of Sutton Resources from 1989 to 1995.
Jim Sinclair is the author of numerous magazine articles and three books, which
deal with a variety of investment subjects, including precious metals, trading
strategies and geopolitical events and their relationship to world economics and
the markets.
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.
Published in The Columbus Dispatch from 3/4/2006 - 3/5/2006.
In 1951,
after teaching economics at Williams College and a five-year stint in commercial
banking, Peter became Chief Executive of a nationally–known investment counsel
firm, where he personally managed billions of dollars of individual and
institutional portfolios. The assets under management at the firm had grown more
than tenfold by the time he resigned in 1973 to launch Peter L. Bernstein, Inc.
Peter was the first Editor of The Journal of Portfolio Management in 1974, a
widely-read scholarly journal for investment managers and academics in the field
of finance and investments. He is now Consulting Editor of the Journal.
He served for many years on the Visiting Committee to the Economics
Department at Harvard University, as a Trustee and member of the Finance
Committee of the College Retirement Equities Fund (CREF), and as a Trustee of
the Investment Management Workshop sponsored by the Association for Investment
Management & Research (AIMR).
He is the author of nine books in economics and finance plus countless
articles in professional journals such as The Harvard Business Review and the
Financial Analysts Journal, and in the popular press, including The New York
Times, The Wall Street Journal, Worth Magazine, and Bloomberg publications. He
has contributed to collections of articles published by Perseus and FT
Mastering, among others.
He lectures widely throughout the United States and abroad on risk
management, asset allocation, portfolio strategy, and market history.
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!
G.
Edward Griffin is a writer and documentary film producer with many
successful titles to his credit. Listed in Who’s Who in America, he is
well known because of his talent for researching difficult topics and
presenting them in clear terms that all can understand. He has dealt with such
diverse subjects as archaeology and ancient Earth history, the Federal Reserve
System and international banking, terrorism, internal subversion, the history
of taxation, U.S. foreign policy, the science and politics of cancer therapy,
the Supreme Court, and the United Nations. His better-known works include
The Creature from
Jekyll Island, World
without Cancer, The
Discovery of Noah’s Ark,
Moles in High Places,
The Open Gates of
Troy, No Place to
Hide, The Capitalist
Conspiracy, More
Deadly than War, The
Grand Design, The Great Prison Break, and The Fearful Master.
Mr. Griffin is a graduate of the University of Michigan where he
majored in speech and communications. In preparation for writing his book on
the Federal Reserve System, he enrolled in the College for Financial Planning
located in Denver, Colorado. His goal was not to become a professional
financial planner but to better understand the real world of investments and
money markets. He obtained his CFP designation (Certified Financial Planner)
in 1989.
Mr. Griffin is a recipient of the coveted Telly Award for excellence in
television production, a Contributing Editor of The New American
magazine, the creator of the Reality Zone
Audio Archives, and
is President of American Media, a publishing and video production company in
Southern California. He has served on the board of directors of The National
Health Federation and The International Association of Cancer Victors and
Friends and is Founder and President of The
Cancer Cure Foundation. He is also the founder and president of
Freedom Force International.
Edwin
Vieira, Jr., holds four degrees from Harvard: A.B. (Harvard College), A.M. and
Ph.D. (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), and J.D. (Harvard Law
School).
For nearly thirty years he has been a practicing attorney, with
emphasis in constitutional law. He is a member of the Bars of Virginia, the
District of Columbia, and Maryland; the Supreme Court of the United States; and
numerous federal Circuit Courts of Appeals.
In the Supreme Court of the United States he successfully argued
or briefed the cases leading to the landmark decisions Abood v. Detroit Board of
Education, Chicago Teachers Union v. Hudson, and Communications Workers of
America v. Beck, which established constitutional and statutory limitations on
the uses to which labor unions, in both the private and the public sectors, may
apply fees extracted from workers as a condition of their employment.
He has written numerous monographs and articles in scholarly
journals, and lectured throughout the county. His latest scholarly work is the
two-volume Pieces of Eight: The Monetary Powers and Disabilities of the United
States Constitution (2002), the most comprehensive study in existence of
American monetary law and history viewed from a constitutional perspective.
He is the co-author (under a nom de plume) of the political
novel CRA$HMAKER: A Federal Affaire (2000), a not-so-fictional story of an
engineered “crash” of the Federal Reserve System, and the political upheaval
it causes.
Edwin Vieira resides with his wife, six children, and Argentine
mastiff outside of Manassas, Virginia.
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.
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.
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.
Randy Frederick
is Director of Derivatives for the Schwab Center for Financial Research. He is
one of the chief architects of Schwab’s option trading platforms and analytics
tools. Frederick supervises operation and risk procedures, business and product
development efforts, as well as public relations and client education for the
derivatives business.
Frederick, a respected industry veteran with more than 19 years of experience, writes monthly
columns for Schwab’s client newsletters, and is the host of the weekly radio
show “The OPTIONal Hour” on TFNN. He is the author of the book The Trader’s
Guide to Equity Spreads (McGraw-Hill, 2007) and his articles have been
published in trade magazines such as Active Trader, SFO, and Futures. He is a
frequent guest on CNBC and his comments appear regularly in the financial news
media including The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Financial Times, Bloomberg,
Dow Jones, Reuters, USA Today and TheStreet.com.
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.”
Ken Shreve is a weekly columnist and
National Speaker for Investor's Business Daily® (IBD™) and content editor of its
companion Web site, Investors.com.
Shreve writes Investors.com's mid-day market update column "From The IBD™ Markets Desk." He also
writes the weekly "Investors.com Corner" feature, which can also be found every
Thursday in IBD™'s print edition.
Shreve is also one of IBD™'s
select national speakers on investment education. He travels year round to
major cities across America hosting IBD™'s popular introductory level seminars,
"Essential Strategies and Techniques for Successful Investing," designed to
educate individual investors on everything from chart reading to the basics of
how to pick a winning stock and avoid big losses.
Investor's Business Daily® and
Investors.com are both widely recognized for their proprietary stock ratings and
for being one of the more innovative business and financial resources in the
country. Founded by investment expert William J. O'Neil in 1984, IBD™
provides individuals with the superior stock market information and critical
analysis generally reserved for institutional investors.
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 
Mr. Sinclair provides Tan Range with the strategy for its corporate growth and
is primarily responsible for providing the leadership necessary for the Company
to complete its evolution into a gold royalty company.
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.
In 1951,
after teaching economics at Williams College and a five-year stint in commercial
banking, Peter became Chief Executive of a nationally–known investment counsel
firm, where he personally managed billions of dollars of individual and
institutional portfolios. The assets under management at the firm had grown more
than tenfold by the time he resigned in 1973 to launch Peter L. Bernstein, Inc.
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."
G.
Edward Griffin is a writer and documentary film producer with many
successful titles to his credit. Listed in Who’s Who in America, he is
well known because of his talent for researching difficult topics and
presenting them in clear terms that all can understand. He has dealt with such
diverse subjects as archaeology and ancient Earth history, the Federal Reserve
System and international banking, terrorism, internal subversion, the history
of taxation, U.S. foreign policy, the science and politics of cancer therapy,
the Supreme Court, and the United Nations. His better-known works include
Edwin
Vieira, Jr., holds four degrees from Harvard: A.B. (Harvard College), A.M. and
Ph.D. (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), and J.D. (Harvard Law
School).
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.
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. 
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.