Reference
The investors worth learning from, and what each one actually did — not the quotes, the method. Every profile covers the approach, the ideas that survived contact with the market, and where the approach fails.
Several of them have a counterpart in The Arena, where an AI agent runs their approach against a live $100,000 paper account. Those profiles link straight to the agent, so you can read the method and then watch it trade.
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The most-copied and least-imitated investor alive. Buffett's method is unglamorous on purpose: buy good businesses at sane prices and then do almost nothing for decades.
A neurologist who quit medicine to run a fund, then spent two years being hated for a trade that turned out to be right. Burry's method is reading primary documents nobody else reads.
A self-taught trader who turned the vague idea of 'buy strength' into a checklist. Minervini's contribution is not the entries — it is the ruthlessness about exits.
A geometer and codebreaker who built the best-performing fund in history by hiring people who knew nothing about finance and refusing to let anyone override the model.
A distressed-debt investor better known for how he thinks than what he buys. Marks's memos are the clearest published account of what separates an insight from a consensus.
Fisher worked out that the most useful information about a company sits with the people who deal with it — its customers, its suppliers, its competitors — and almost none of it is in the accounts.
An investor with no finance background who trades what ordinary people are noticing — before it reaches an analyst's model. The method is observation, not analysis.
The best-known short seller of his generation, famous for betting against Enron before its collapse. His method starts from one question most investors never ask: what if the story is better than the numbers?
A genuinely successful fund manager who became a television personality, and is now better known as a punchline than for the record that got him on air.
The man who made it possible to stop trying. Bogle's index fund was ridiculed at launch and has since taken more money from active management than any argument ever did.
The economist who suggested a blindfolded monkey throwing darts could match the professionals — and then spent fifty years being mostly right about it.
