Jack D. Schwager
Financial trader and author
Jack D. Schwager is an American financial trader and author, known for the Market Wizards series of interviews with top traders. He is also an expert on futures and hedge funds.
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American Born 1948 in Antwerp, Belgium
About Jack D. Schwager
Jack D. Schwager was born in 1948 and is an American financial trader and author. He is known for Market Wizards (1989), which started a series of books built on in-depth interviews with very successful traders. The series continued with The New Market Wizards (1992) and Stock Market Wizards (2001). His books have been translated into more than 20 languages. Schwager also worked in the markets himself. He spent two decades and more as a futures research director at major Wall Street firms, and ten years as co-principal of a commodity trading advisor (CTA). He was also a partner in the Fortune Group, a London hedge fund advisory firm, and co-founded FundSeeder, a platform for discovering trading talent. He started his writing career with A Complete Guide to the Futures Markets, published in 1984, and later wrote Market Sense and Nonsense. He studied economics, earning a BA from Brooklyn College in 1970 and an MA from Brown University in 1971.