William J. O'Neil was born March 25, 1933 in Oklahoma City, and grew up in Texas. O'Neil studied business at Southern Methodist University, where he received a Bachelor's degree. He then went on to serve in the United States Air Force.In 1958, O'Neil began his career as a stockbroker, where he developed a trading strategy, which made early use of computers. O'Neil began studying historical stock market winners. He found out there were certain key characteristics all these leading stocks had in common, before their big upward price movements.O'Neil implemented these key characteristics into the highly successful trading strategy known as CANSLIM. This winning method combines technical and fundamental analysis, along with proper trading principles, such as keeping your losses small, and letting your profits run.O'Neil is founder of Investors Business Daily. In my opinion, this publication is by far the best, when it comes to the stock market. When
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