Larry Williams, Author and Short-Term Trader

Larry Williams has been trading futures and commodities for well over 40 years. He is the most highly-regarded and well-known, short-term trader in the world. No other trader is as accomplished as Larry Williams. He has more trading and investing books on the market than any other trader. The majority of his books have been best sellers. Larry Williams has taught thousands to correctly trade the markets, won many trading championships, and has been the only futures trader in the world to repeatedly trade $1 million of his own money live at seminars around the globe.

The year 1962 was when Larry Williams began following the markets. His interest was sparked by the Kennedy market crash, when President Kennedy forced a roll back in steel prices. The crash was front page news everywhere. People lost millions but Larry was more taken by the fact that if you had been "short" the market, you would have made millions. Larry began to understand that he could make $100 a day trading the markets, whether the market was going up or down. Larry was smitten. To a 20-year-old college kid, $100 bought a lot of beer and pizza. Larry Williams graduated from the University of Oregon in 1964 with a bachelors in Journalism, thus his passion for writing.

By 1965, Larry was actively trading the markets and began writing newsletters as well. It wasn't long before Larry began producing ground breaking market research. In 1966, Larry developed his famous timing tool, Williams %R. This tool still is published daily in many major financial papers and is a standard indicator provided on trading web sites from MSN's Money Central to Yahoo!. In 1970, Larry's first investment book, The Secret of Selecting Stocks was published. Larry followed that with the first book ever on the seasonality of stocks and futures, Sure Thing Commodity Trading, How Seasonal Factors Influence Commodity Prices.