Nicolas Darvas was a dancer, self-taught investor and author. He is best
known for his book, "How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market." He
discovered investing in 1952, when a Toronto nightclub, unable to pay
him in cash, instead paid him with shares. It was on a two-year tour of
the world that he initially developed his 'Darvas Box' method of
screening stocks - a method of picking stocks based on the stock's price
and volume - and later went on to refine this to remove any human
element from his trading to substantial success. Nicolas Darvas is
regarded as one of the best traders in the history of the market and his
method, whilst complicated and difficult to master, has been rigorously
tested and has been found to be one of the best trading systems yet
developed.