William Joseph O'Neil was an American businessman, stockbroker, and writer.
12 Facts About William O'Neil
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William Joseph O'Neil was born on March 25,1933, in Oklahoma City.
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William O'Neil studied business at Southern Methodist University, received a bachelor's degree in 1955 and served in the United States Air Force.
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From his research, William O'Neil invented the CAN SLIM strategy and became the top-performing broker in his firm.
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William O'Neil bought a seat on the NYSE at age 30 and became the youngest at that time ever to do so.
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Daily Graphs was launched by William O'Neil to produce Daily Graphs, a printed book of stock charts delivered weekly to subscribers in 1972.
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In 1998, William O'Neil launched Daily Graphs Online as a comprehensive online equity research tool and an extension of the Daily Graphs business he launched in 1972.
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William O'Neil now operates as O'Neil Digital Solutions and has operations in Los Angeles, Dallas and Monroe, North Carolina.
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In 1984, William O'Neil made research from his database available in print form with the launch of Investor's Daily, a national business newspaper aimed to compete with The Wall Street Journal.
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William O'Neil stated in a 2002 interview that one of the books which was an early influence on him was Gerald Loeb's The Battle for Investment Survival.
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In 2007, William O'Neil started donating to his alma mater, Southern Methodist University and funded a chair in business journalism at SMU's Meadows School of the Arts.
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William O'Neil then endowed a professorship in markets and freedom and created the William J O'Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom at the university's Cox School of Business.