Trade Like an O'Neil Disciple: How We Made 18,000% in the Stock Market

Foreword

Bill O'Neil is a passionate student of the markets and one of the most successful traders of the modern era. From our days at SMU and later during his time in Alaska, Bill was studying charts and developing his vast understanding of the markets. Based upon his historical studies back into the nineteenth century, Bill has always tried to help the investor improve their success ratios.

His commitment to bringing that knowledge to the average and/or professional investment community has cost him millions of dollars through the subsidization of Investor's Business Daily® and other O'Neil projects.

It has been my privilege to have known Bill for almost sixty years and while my own investment style is not exactly O'Neil's, it is built upon the same building blocks. When I first went to Wall Street in June 1962 (ten years after meeting WON almost to the day), William T. Golden, the New York partner in Cornell, Linder & Co., a member of the NYSE, told me: "We mostly invest in stocks and convertibles with increasing sales and increasing earnings. Go find them, keep your losses under control and everything will work out."

Luckily for me, those few words of wisdom have been the basis of my investment style during the past fifty years. Stripped to its core values that is also basically O'Neil's CAN SLIM®.

O'Neil is often accused of being only a technician, but that is not true. His investment style builds heavily upon fundamentals, chart patterns, market trends, sector rotation, ...