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Here are the remarkable traders you will meet in Unknown Market Wizards:

A college graduate who started with a $2,500 account and in the course of the next 17 years pulled
$50 million of profits out of the market.

An ex-advertising executive who in a 27-year career as a futures trader achieved an average annual
return of 58%.

A stock trader who developed a unique trading approach that utilizes neither fundamental nor
technical analysis and turned his original $83,000 stake into $21 million.

A futures trader who over a 13-year career has averaged 337% per year without any drawdowns
exceeding 10% after his first trading year.

A bellhop in the Czech Republic whose day trading strategy for buying stocks has provided
return/risk performance that far surpassed over 99% of both long-only funds and hedge funds.

A futures trader who made and lost over one-half million dollars twice before developing a
contrarian methodology that led to a 20-year career of consistent trading success.

A former US marine who designed proprietary software to automatically trade market events and
has a 10-year record of outstanding return/risk performance.

A futures trader who has averaged a return of 280% per year with an end-of-month maximum
drawdown of only 11%.

A music major who used his self-taught programming skills to design stock trading systems that
delivered an average return of 20% during the past 20 years, well over triple the S&P 500 return
during the same period.

A one-time professional tennis aspirant who achieved a remarkable average annual return of 298%
over a near-decade as a futures trader.

An equity trader who by combining long investment positions withshort-term event trading has
tripled the S&P 500 performance in both return and return/risk terms.

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