John Ducas (investor)

Ducas speaking at a conference

John Ducas (born January 13, 1998) is a teen-aged investor and entrepreneur.

Ducas is from New York City but currently lives in Europe with his family. At the age of 9 he started investing with play money at Marketwatch. When he was 13 his parents gave him 3,000 euros to invest, and he opened a trading account with an online broker.[1][2] At age 15, he founded Ducas Capital Management, which specializes in financial research.[3] According to Forbes magazine, he serves over 110 clients.[2]

He is a member of a global community of young investors and entrepreneurs and the creator of an online stock market instruction course called The Beginners Guide to the Stock Market, with over 5,000 enrolled students.[4]

Ducas was the youngest person on Business Insider's list of the most powerful people in finance.[5] He created and is a political analyst on The Young Informer, a YouTube channel devoted to news and current events, which has more than 30,000 subscribers.[6] He is one of the youngest contributors to The Huffington Post.[7]

References

  1. "The 20 under 20: Meet the teen traders trying to take over the finance world". Business Insider. 2013. Retrieved September 20, 2014.
  2. 1 2 Strauss, Karsten (September 4, 2014). "16 Year-Old Investor Plays Video Games, Basketball And The Stock Market". Forbes. Retrieved September 20, 2014.
  3. CNBC, CNBC (November 20, 2014). "Are you ever too young to trade?". CNBC. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
  4. "Millennial profile of the week: John Ducas". Future Forbes List. September 13, 2014. Retrieved September 20, 2014.
  5. Yang, Stephanie (July 3, 2014). "The Most Powerful Person In Finance At Every Age". Business Insider. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
  6. "The Young Informer". YouTube. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  7. "John Ducas Author Profile". Huffington Post. September 13, 2014. Retrieved October 1, 2014.
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