William Eckhardt (trader)

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William Eckhardt is a commodities and futures trader and fund manager. He began trading in 1974 after four years of doctoral research at the University of Chicago in mathematical logic.

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[edit] Education

Eckhardt never finished his PhD in mathematics, claiming that he left graduate school for the trading pits after an unexpected change of thesis advisors. Despite leaving academia prematurely, Eckhardt has published several papers in academic journals. In 1993, Eckhardt's article Probability Theory and the Doomsday Argument was published in the philosophical journal Mind (journal). His follow-up article, A Shooting-Room view of Doomsday was published in the Journal of Philosophy in 1997. Both articles make arguments skeptical of the Doomsday Argument as formulated by John Leslie. In 2006, he published “Causal time asymmetry” in the journal Studies In History and Philosophy of Modern Physics.

[edit] Career

In 1991 he founded Eckhardt Trading Company ("ETC") as an alternative investment management firm that specializes in the trading of global financial futures and commodities which manages over $1 billion in managed accounts, domestic and offshore products. The firm's international clientele includes "Fund of Funds", corporate, private and institutional investors.

[edit] See also

List of personalities associated with Wall Street

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

Eckhardt, William. "The c-Test", Stocks & Commodities magazine, May 1994. Retrieved on 2006-09-05. 

Penn, David. "Websites For Traders", Stocks & Commodities magazine, January 2004. Retrieved on 2006-09-05. 

Collins, Art. "Interview: Richard Dennis", Stocks & Commodities magazine, April 2005. Retrieved on 2006-09-05. 

  • Eckhardt, William. (2006). "Causal time asymmetry". Studies In History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies In History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 37: 439-466. 

[edit] Further reading

Schwager, Jack D. (1995). The New Market Wizards. 20 pages: Wiley; New Ed edition. ISBN 0-471-13236-5. 

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