Alexander Elder
Professional trader and trading teacher
Alexander Elder is a New York-based professional trader and teacher of traders who first worked as a psychiatrist. He is the author of The New Trading for a Living.
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Born in Leningrad, Russian Federation
About Alexander Elder
Alexander Elder, MD, was born in Leningrad and brought up in Estonia, where he started medical school at 16. He was 23 and serving as a ship's doctor when he left a Soviet ship in Africa, and the United States granted him political asylum. Elder practised psychiatry in New York City and also taught at Columbia University. That background gave him a particular view of the psychology of trading. Elder started Traders' Camps, which are week-long classes for traders, and he still trades. His books include The New Trading for a Living, Come into My Trading Room (named Barron's 2002 Book of the Year) and Sell & Sell Short.