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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

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.

Interviews: April 18, 2005 (13.5 minutes)

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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 allof 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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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 37^th 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.” 

Website: www.investors.com

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Ken Hoover

Ken Hoover is a writer and content editor for the New America page of Investor’s Business Daily.

Website: www.investors.com
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