William O'Neil

• O'Neil started his career as a stockbroker at Hayden, Stone & Co. in 1958, where he developed an investment strategy that made early use of computers.
• He invented the CAN SLIM strategy while at Harvard Business School, a bullish formula for determining which stocks were likely to grow.
• He bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange when he was only 30 years old, becoming at that time the youngest person ever to hold a seat on the exchange.
• His fascination with the securities market led him to develop his own computerized study of what made stocks successful.
• He pioneered and developed the use of historical precedent to analyze equities in tandem with fundamental and technical analysis. 
• He created his own investment discipline, the O’Neil Methodology, focusing on the trends and patterns of stocks as they become top performers or underachievers.
• In 1971, he summarized, adapted, and published his findings as The Model Book of Greatest Stock Market Winners, which was the basis for the OM.
• In 1972, he copyrighted the unique format he had created to capture all the relevant information he needed to make an investment decision about a stock, which he called a Datagraph™.
  
• To help provide individual investors with charts and information for their investment research, he founded Daily Graphs, Inc. 
• Realizing the need to deliver his time-sensitive information ahead of the competition, in 1973 he founded O’Neil Data Systems, Inc.
• He designed and launched Investor’s Daily in 1984—later renamed Investor’s Business Daily®—, the first national Business newspaper to compete successfully with The Wall Street Journal.
  
• Some of his investing influences include Bernard Baruch, Jesse Livermore, Gerald M. Loeb, Jack Dreyfus, and Nicolas Darvas.

PUBLICATIONS

• O’Neil is a successful writer, authoring several best-selling books on investing in the stock market. 
• How To Make Money In Stocks: is in its fourth revised edition and was the best-selling investment book of 1988; It has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide.
• He wrote the bestseller 24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success and The Successful Investor in 2004.
• He wrote the foreword for Edward Lefevre's popular Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Illustrated Edition in 2005.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

• Named one of the Top 100 Business Luminaries of the Century by TJFR Group and MasterCard International.
• Featured in the book Market Wizards by Jack D. Schwager in 1988.
• Received the Classic Award of Recognition from the AeA in 2002.
• The Stock Trader’s Almanac devoted its 37th edition to him in 2004.
• Received the prestigious Spirit of Lincoln Award from the Lincoln Club of Los Angeles in 2005
• Named one of the Most Influential People in Los Angeles by The Los Angeles Business Journal in 2016