The Most Successful Turtles Are…
Liz Cheval, one of the Turtles, was blunt:
“The most interesting, thing about the Turtle program was observing who succeeded and who did not.”
Since the Turtles went out on their own in 1988, the performance numbers (see charts below) show the top Turtles:
1. Jerry Parker (Chesapeake)
2. Paul Rabar (Rabar)
3. Liz Cheval (EMC)
4. Howard Seidler (Saxon)
5. Tom Shanks (Hawksbill)
6. Jim DiMaria (JPD)
Those 6 Turtles are the ones with the continuous track records back to 1984 and 1985. From a trading perspective - they are the Turtle winners. One of those six told me that the most successful Turtle in terms of performance since 1988 has been Jiri Svoboda, but Svoboda has no public fund and remains invisible. Other former Turtles have portrayed an image of success with no real results, but in terms of trading that group of six Turtles is it.
