Stan Moore’s Background

After receiving a BBA in Accounting from Notre Dame in 1963, Stan entered the Army as a 21-year-old officer.  During the Vietnam War Stan commanded a 400-man company and trained thousands of enlisted personnel.  His military experience matured his leadership skill and turned a shy young man to an out-going, gregarious, well-balanced adult.

In 1967, Stan completed his MBA in Finance from Columbia Graduate School of Business. The next ten years were spent as a Wall Street analyst/trader.  Stan played various games of chance, including poker, craps and Blackjack, often using counting cards or using other techniques that gave him an edge.  These games offer the player a mathematical or probability edge.  In the 50s and 60s, Stan’s favorite TV show was Maverick, a professional poker player, who consistently won with his skill of knowing more than other players.  Stan took his statistical drive and mathematical bent into the financial derivatives market where he added the concept of financial leverage.  Eventually, Stan became president of Gabelli Brokerage, a subsidiary of Gabelli Asset Management, where Stan managed client money and headed the trading desk for five years.

After leaving Gabelli, Stan formed his own money management firm, Moore, Grossman & DeRose where he specialized in under-researched small cap companies of less than $300M market capitalization.  Under Stan’s management, while at both firms, he compounded clients’ money at nearly 30% a year for 10 years.  During his 25-year Wall Street career, Stan has traded just about every financial product using a variety of techniques.

Stan left money management in 1988 and provided his trading services to the highest paying investment houses.  Stan continued honing his trading skills focusing mainly on the S&P futures and index options.  While attending a trading seminar, other traders asked Stan to show them exactly how he traded the S&Ps.  For the next 3 hours the "Guru" flashed 3-minute bars, one at a time with no indicators of any kind.  Stan successfully called an extremely high percentage of the trades by just reading price action.  Those in attendance were in awe but attributed his proficiency to his 20 years of trading experience.  Stan disagreed as he believed that his trading skill is something almost anyone could learn.  Joe Conway, an attending university professor with a Ph.D. in Communications, witnessed the trade calling and offered to help to write a book about Stan’s trading methodologies if Stan would concurrently teach him.  Only after the first book was written and after fielding countless phone calls from traders did Stan consider becoming a trading mentor.

Not only has Stan succeeded on Wall Street, he is now recognized and endorsed by many professional traders and trainers for the proprietary trading methods he has developed over the years.  These are people who have successfully traded and/or taught for 30-40 years.  They include John Hill, Larry Pesavento, Dr. Humphrey Lloyd, George Lane (developer of Stochastics) and Kit Webster.  Well-known trainer Joe DiNapoli noted Stan in his book, DiNapoli Levels, and Joe cited Stan as one of the best students he’d ever taught.

Many of you have wondered the $64,000 question - "If you trade so well why do you bother to teach?"  At 65 years old, Stan does not need to teach for a living and never intended to become a trading trainer but did so by circumstance.  "The reason I teach isn't the fact I want to teach something.  I teach because I have something to teach.”  Stan Moore, 07/2007

Stan receives income from mentoring but, more importantly, as a trading mentor he has met some of the most interesting and smartest people one could ever hope to meet.  His students have taught him and continue to teach him more as a teacher than he has learned from the market.  Today, Stan is a much better person for it with an ever widening array of friends.  To keep his mental skills sharp, Stan scans or reads 6 newspapers, 20-30 magazines per week, 4-5 hours a day covering all subject matter and Internet perusing.  Stan has a tremendous breath of living.

As for Stan’s integrity, please see back issues of the Club 3000, a pre-Internet clearing house for trading courses and student feedback on courses.  Here is an excerpt from Andy Armour's Club 3000 newsletter:

"From the first meeting, I knew Stan was a winner, both as a trader and a person.  I was a complete stranger to him, yet, he invited me into his office and opened up completely to me, showing me all his techniques that obviously took him years to formulate and master.  He had nothing to sell me, he was just sharing, one trader to another."

Andy’s observation speaks volumes, more than any ad Stan could ever place.

Stan Moore has been a trading over 45 years, longer than many others have been alive.