Hall of Fame

When I first noticed The World Cup Trading Championship Larry told me it's the biggest and the best. If you want to prove yourself, that's the one to do. I took his advice, winning in 2007 and took second in 2008.

I use Larry's material as an idea generator for further research. He has been responsible for a good number of profitable strategies I have developed over the years, certainly more than any other commentator.

Michael won the World Cup Championship with a 250% gain in 2007 and won again in 2014 with a 366% gain.

MICHAEL COOK

A good trader, but knowing he needed something more Andrea decided to sign up for the Million Dollar Challenge held by Larry Williams in October 2004.

On his way back home from the seminar this is what Andrea posted on a Yahoo Group: "Hi everybody those in here know all the doubts I had about this seminar. I don't know yet the final result as one trade had to be closed right today, I know it's another winner (all winners by the way), I think it should be between 70k and 80k the total profit of all the seminar."

Andrea's trading skyrocketed, in 2005 he won the European TopTraderCup in the futures division getting more than 60% revenue in 3 months, then won the monthly race of the Tcup organized by IwBank with over 50% in one month. In 2006 his mathematical mind led him to publish the first book in Italian on Money Management.

In 2008 the big challenge, Andrea became the first Italian trader to win the most famous trading championship all over the world, he won The World Cup Trading Championships in the futures division with an astonishing 672%. This performance allowed him to become the first Italian trader as an advisor in the World Cup Advisors team. In year 2009 Andrea became the first back to back winner of the competition in nearly 20 years winning again with 115%.

Andrea did again - with a 240% return he won the cup in 2010.

Mr Hsu has one of the more interesting stories. When my son Jason lived in Shanghai the two met and became close friends. Jason gave him the nickname we all call him by now of "Steven". In 1999 he helped organize and translate my appearances in China. That got him interested in trading. Translating all of my works in China inspired him get his MBA with an emphasis in financial studies in Toronto. He has been a visiting professor at National Jia Tong University and the Hong Kong Financial Institute. He has repeatedly won real time trading championships with his system based on awakening, continuation, turning and swing definitions. Now living in Canada he still visits China on a regular basis.

STEVEN HSU

Brian Schad began trading in 1992 while serving active-duty as a US Navy SEAL in San Diego. A chance meeting with Larry in 1994 changed his life in a completely different direction. Brian busted out of the Seals, worked with Larry and became full time trader and CTA.

Brian is an independent futures & options trader servicing established commodity brokerage firms, working with private traders, commodity brokers, commodity producers, and financial consultants abroad.

In 2010 Brian was a Congressional Candidate for Idaho's 2nd District House of Representatives and resides there with his wife and kids. Brian is a man of faith, family, and leadership.

BRIAN SCHAD
www.schadcommodity.com/

Brent Penfold is a full time futures trader and licensed Adviser based in Sydney, Australia.

"Since 1998 I have been making money from active trading and since 2003 I have been trading full time. What I do is very simple and Larry's teaching and sharing of ideas has been a big contributor to my success. My audited returns from June 2001 to June 2010 has been a CARR (compound annual rate or return) of 28.5%. I have written Trading The SPI, an Australian best seller. My next book was The Universal Principles of Successful Trading, which is becoming an internationally well accepted book.

I strongly encourage you to start listening to what Larry has to say while he's still prepared to share. He changed my life and trading."

BRENT PENFOLD
https://indextrader.com.au/

A seasoned presenter, Kushal has made numerous presentations to commodity exchanges, international commodity associations, corporations and management institutions.

An active trader in the commodities market, involved in both physical and futures trading of all commodities Edible/Non edible Oils, Metals, Energies, Agricultural & Plantation products and Spices. Thacker is one the largest traders in India, trading on all major 18-20 exchanges around the world.

"I have established a strong network enabling me to exchange information and understand well the global factors influencing the prices of the commodities. Larry is part of that Network, he should be part of yours."

KUSHAL THAKER

Brady's trading career began when he was 14 having discovered his grandparent's collection of Larry Williams' courses. His next step was to sell his motorcycle at 16 to buy corn options!

A profitable trade hooked him; a career was born and now has taken off. Brady holds degrees in Commerce of Finance and Computer Science from Nipissing University.

He completed the Series 3 exam on his 21st birthday and has been running his own hedge fund since 2007.

Brady continues to follow in Larry Williams' footsteps, a goal he aspires to achieve is to win the World Cup Championship as Larry has.

His first try in 2009, Brady finished in third place. In 2010, Brady Preston finished second among all competitors with a 193.2% net return.

He attributes much of his success to hard work and mentoring from Larry.

BRADY PRESTON

If you have ever read Futures Magazine you know Murray; he has been a contributing editor to Futures magazine since 1994, and has written over 160 articles.

After earning his degree in astrophysics, Murray pioneered work on neural net and artificial intelligence (AI) systems for applications in the investment arena
Murray's "Simple Harmony" system has been in the top ten multi-market systems in Futures Truth magazine every issue since it was eligible and it was selected in 2009 by George Pruitt as one of the top ten system of all time in SFO magazine article. He cut his teeth in the mid 1990's working for Larry Williams. Shortly after that his career took off.

He is the designer f TradersStudio Inc. TradersStudio is a state of the art trading system development platform and chief systems designer/ market analyst at Tuttle Wealth Management with almost 100 million dollars under management.

MURRAY RUGGIERO

www.TradersStudio.com

Tom came to a seminar Larry gave in 1972. The chemistry was right and they became life long friends. They developed systems together, traded together and enjoyed lives ups and downs.

"Larry's knowledge was the foundation and springboard for my career."

Larry has watched his children grow up as well as their children. He used to show his son TJ magic tricks, now TJ is an accomplished market author and professional.

Tom has worked with the best of the best including Soros Partners, Paul Tudor Jones, Charlie Di Francesca, and the worlds best trader ever to walk on this planet, Steve Cohen. He is also president of Market Studies LLC, a supplier of market timing services to Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, and CQG.

There is a lot of admiration and mutual respect between the two of them. "I have learned more from Tom about the markets than any other person." - Larry

TOM DEMARK
https://symbolik.com/

JR is one of the well known Australian market's characters. JR was a Sydney Futures Exchange Local member pit trading his own bank and has been online trading for a decade. He holds an AFS License (AFSL 338 674) and is a Director of I-Deal Financial Group (CAR. 299753).

Ideal Financial Group is a boutique Australian Broker with global online trading - Stocks, CFDs, Futures, FX.

JR has filled Larry's Australian orders, done 3 Million Dollar Challenges, 4 Picture Perfect Trading Seminars, Trade and Investment Expo's with Larry and Trade Navigator. JR walks the talk. Markets are always right, you won't be, so run stops.

"Larry has taught me technical setups, entry signals, trading fills, stop losses, money management - he is the complete package. Go no further, he is the one to follow."

JOHN ROBERTSON
aka JR

I have known Larry Williams for over forty years all of which we exceptionally enjoyable. Having attended many of his seminars i can say without hesitation Larry has made many contributions in trading and technical analysis.

On a personal note I approached Larry in 1987 to co write a book that i had just finished thinking that his name would help sell more copies. His response was "Larry, this is a good book and you should get all of the income from the sales". He then gave me a list of his subscribers and told me to start there --1 year later the book ASTRO CYCLES -THE TRADERS VIEWPOINT had sold 10,000 copies and is still going strong today.

Needles to say I am a huge fan of Larry Williams as a mentor and a friend, as he has been to countless others.

LARRY PESAVENTO

Ralph came to work for Larry in 1986. He was there in the 1987 crash and trading championship win. "I thought I knew how to trade; then I met larry, and my world changed."

"Ralph helped me so much with trading and money management. About all I did for him was to get him to run marathons; we ran Boston together in 2004.

He would not say this so I will. He has gone to greatness; a best selling author (his books are the best ever on money management). He now manages a sizable amount of funds and claims I have helped his career a little bit; I sure hope so. He's razor sharp on systems as well. We developed many together that are still cranking away." - Larry

RALPH VINCE

Andrew says his life changed when he was 21 and a friend lent him a book by Larry Williams called Long Term Secrets to Short Term Trading.

"That got me into back-testing, my time frame went short term and my direction in life became futures all the way.... There was only one problem... I had no money and no experience. I was a fresh 21 year old university graduate and I still didn't know much. I went to work for various broking houses, including Goldman Sachs.

In 2008 I established Strategic Capital Management so I could trade the same systems on my own account as I do for my clients. Even now, after 10 years, all of my systems and ideas are variations of what I originally learnt from Larry... and given the success of my personal trading, along with that of my clients since I founded SCM these methods are just as applicable today, as they were back 10 years ago."

ANDREW GIBBS