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Trend Following Family Tree: Richard Dennis, Ed Seykota and Richard Donchian Students

This page outlines students of Ed Seykota, Bill Dunn, Richard Dennis, John Henry and Richard Donchian. If you learn anything from this page learn that trading is teachable. All below would agree 100%.

Ed Seykota: Sampling of Students

  1. Ed's Trading Tribe 2003.
  2. David Druz.
  3. Michael Marcus.
  4. Chauncey DiLaura.
  5. Greg Smith.
  6. Jim Hamer.
  7. Easan Katir.
  8. Bet Sizing Article by Ed Seykota and David Druz

Turtle Students: Trained by Richard Dennis

  1. Jerry Parker.
  2. Tom Shanks.
  3. Paul Rabar.
  4. Mike Carr.
  5. Curtis Faith.
  6. Mike Shannon.
  7. Jim DiMaria.
  8. Craig Soderquist
  9. Rudolph Papirnik
  10. Liz Cheval
  11. Anthony Bruck
  12. Jim Melnick
  13. Michael Cavallo
  14. Philip Lu
  15. Erle Keefer
  16. More...

Donchian: Sampling of Students

I remember in 1979 or 1980 at one of the early MAR conferences being impressed by the fact that I counted 19 CTAs who were managing public funds, and I could directly identify 16 of the 19 with Dick Donchian. They had either worked for him or had had monies invested with him. To me, that’s the best evidence of his impact in the early days. Dick has always been very proud of the fact that his people have prospered. He also was proud that after so many years in which his was the lone voice in the wilderness, his thinking eventually came to be the dominant thinking of the industry.Brent Elam, Elam Management Corp.

Richard Donchian, though now deceased, left many students that still trade or run money management firms. A sampling of his students include:

  1. Nelson Chang worked for Donchian. Started Chang-Crowell Corp.
  2. Robert Crowell worked for Donchian. Started Chang-Crowell Corp.
  3. Bruce Terry worked for Chang-Crowell Corp.
  4. Barbara Saslaw Dixon worked for Donchian. Started Spackenkill Trading.
  5. Paul E. Dean of TrendLogic was a student of Richard Donchian.
  6. Brentin Elam of TrendLogic was a student of Richard Donchian. Started Elam Management Corporation also.


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