| Markets: FuturesContact: Undisclosed. (I do have | | | | performance. This experience provided the |
| his e-mail address but it would be unfair to | | | | catalyst for Seykota going out on his own.In the |
| disclose it.)Results:Undisclosed but thought to be | | | | ensuing years, Seykota applied his systematized |
| up there with the VERY best. He has made some | | | | approach to trading a handful of accounts and his |
| of his managed account holders into | | | | own money. During that period, the accounts |
| multi-millionaires from small initial | | | | Seykota managed have witnessed an absolutely |
| investments.Featured in the books "The Market | | | | astounding rate of return. For example, as of |
| Wizards I and II"Although completely unknown, | | | | mid-1988, one of his customer's accounts, which |
| not only to the public, but to most of the financial | | | | started with $5,000 in 1972, was up over 250,000 |
| community as well, Ed Seykota's achievements | | | | percent on a cash-to-cash basis. WOW!Seykota |
| must certainly rank him as one of the best | | | | works from an office in his house on Lake Tahoe. |
| traders of our time. In the early 1970s, Seykota | | | | His trading is largely confined to the few minutes |
| was hired by a major brokerage firm. He | | | | it takes to run his computer program, which |
| conceived and developed the first commercial | | | | generates signals for the next day.So, don't let |
| computerized trading system for client's money in | | | | any one ever tell you trading cannot be |
| the futures markets. His system proved quite | | | | mechanical and you must spend hours per day |
| profitable, but interference and second-guessing | | | | managing your trading accounts. Ask Ed Seykota. |
| by management significantly impeded its | | | | |