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Richard Dennis: Turtle Students

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

Richard Donchian: Students

A thought from one of Donchian’s students, Brent Elam of Elam Management Corp.:

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.

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.

Ed Seykota: Students

1. Ed’s Trading Tribe.
2. David Druz.
3. Michael Marcus.
4. Chauncey DiLaura.
5. Greg Smith.
6. Jim Hamer.
7. Easan Katir.

This page outlines students of Richard Dennis, Ed Seykota, Bill Dunn, John W. Henry and Richard Donchian. If you learn anything from this page learn that trading is teachable.

Ed Seykota Students

1. Ed Seykota
2. Trading Tribe
3. David Druz
4. Michael Marcus
5. Chauncey DiLaura
6. Greg Smith
7. Jim Hamer

Richard Dennis Students

1. Jerry Parker
2. Brian Proctor
3. Jeff Gordon
4. Philip Lu
5. Erle Keefer
6. Michael Cavallo
7. Jiri Svoboda
8. Jim Melnick
9. Craig Soderquist
10. Paul Rabar
11. Michael Carr
12. Howard Seidler
13. James DiMaria
14. Mike Shannon
15. James Kenny
16. William Eckhardt

Bill Dunn Students

1. Robert Pardo
2. Pierre Tullier
3. Daniel Dunn

Richard Donchian Students

1. Nelson Chang worked for Donchian.
2. Robert Crowell worked for Donchian.
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.

Richard Dennis Associates

• Dale Dellutri worked for Richard Dennis and his partner Michael J. O’Brien.
• Robert Moss worked for Richard Dennis and now runs RAM Management Group

Second Generation Traders: Sampling

1. Irwin Berger was a second generation Turtle with Sjo
2. Susan Sjo was a second generation Turtle with Sjo
3. Brad Cole was a second generation Turtle with Sjo
4. Jeff Izenman was a 2nd generation Turtle with Rabar
5. John Hoade is a 2nd generation Turtle brother-in-law with Chesapeake
6. Jonathan Craven is a 2nd generation Turtle. Training with Jerry Parker. Training with Brian Byrnes.
7. Mark J. Walsh was a 2nd generation Turtle. Runs firm Mark J. Walsh and Company. Training with Richard Dennis. Training with Craig Soderquist. Training with Brian Proctor.