What did you do after you quit?
I just quit the research department, but I stayed on as a broker managing accounts. After about two years, I
gave up brokerage to become a money manager. That shift allowed me to get away from earning my living from
commissions, which I think can be a counterproductive incentive to making money for clients. I switched to a pure
profit incentive fee arrangement.
Did you continue trading the system after you left?
Yes, although I substantially revised the system over the years.
What is the performance track record?
I do not publicize my track record other than my "model account," which is an actual customer account that
started with $5,000 in 1972 and has made over $15 million. Theoretically, the total return would have been many
multiples larger had there been no withdrawals.
With performance like that, how come you haven't been deluged with word-of-mouth requests to
manage money?
I do receive requests, but I very rarely accept new accounts. If I do, it is only after considerable interviewing
and screening to determine the motivations and attitudes of the client. I have found that the people I associate with
have subtle, yet very important, effects on my performance. If, for example, they are able to support me and my
methods over the long term, then they tend to help me. If, however, they get too concerned with the short-term ups
and downs of their account, they can be a hindrance.
How many accounts did you originally start out with?
About a half dozen back in the early 1970s.
How many of those accounts are still with you?
Four. One client made about $15 million and decided to withdraw his money and manage it himself; another
made over $10 million and decided to buy a house on the beach and retire.
What source did you learn from before designing your first system?
I was inspired and influenced by the book
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
and also by Richard Donchian's
five- and twenty-day moving average crossover system and his weekly rule system. I consider Donchian to be one of
the guiding lights of technical trading.
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