In a year that produced explosive returns for old line long-term trend followers, it is only right that we profile one of the method's founding fathers. Edward (Bill) Dreiss got a job at a San Francisco think tank after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Harvard Business School. It was the first step in an eclectic trading career that spans several decades and two continents. "We were doing mathematical modeling mainly involving game theory," Dreiss says of his first job. Dreiss was introduced to commodities by one of his colleagues and had access to computers to do his research. "Out of that I developed a trading system [and] started to trade a small amount of money."
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