History TraderSmith

“It's all the little important details you learn by repeated study and observation that add to your knowledge and skill and make the difference between succeeding and almost making it in the investment world.”
~ William J. O'Neil

The 1960s that gave birth to the Go-Go Years on Wall Street, was the same time around which a significant cultural shift saw the early success of William J. O'Neil, an outstanding young trader at securities firm Hayden, Stone & Co.

While many investors were relying on P/E ratio as a key stock screening metric, our founder O'Neil studied historical models of winning stocks and developed a proprietary trading methodology that blends quantitative and qualitative analysis-A method we still use today.

  • A new era of Investing 1960
  • William O'Neil + Co, Inc was founded
  • O'Neil becomes the youngest person to buy a NYSE seat
  • O'Neil Fund becomes the top-performing fund in the country
  • O'Neil invests $2 million in R&D
  • A Challenging Decade on Wall Street 1970
  • DatagraphsTM is launched
  • Technology Goes Global 2000
  • Daily Graphs, Inc launches Daily Graphs Online
  • 1994-Launch of William O'Neil Direct Access, an online data research platform
  • A Roaring Bull Market Led by Technology 1994
  • Navigating a Volatile Market 1980
  • First edition of O'Neil's best-seller How to Make Money in Stocks is published
  • Black Monday see the S&P 500's Largest one-day drop in history
  • Launch of Investors's Business DailyTM, an investment newspaper
  • The first Model Book of Greatest Stock Winners is published
  • Opening of O'Neil Data Systems
  • Innovation Drives the Market 2010
  • Opening of offices in London and the establishment of William O'Neil India Private Ltd.
  • MarketSmith, web-based investment research platform, is launched
  • AlphaScope®, a unique equity recommendation algorithm, is added
  • The establishment of William O'Neil + Company China Private Ltd.
  • The future of intelligent investments 2019
  • Daily Graphs, Inc was founded to help investors with stock market charts
  • Opening of Stock Mart, a low-commission, discount brokerage firm
  • Three more volumes of the Model Book of Greatest Stock Winners published
  • WONDA® adds the global market data From 71 markets
  • Introduction of the Global Focus List & expansion William O'Neil + Co's stock database globally
  • 1960

    A New Era of Investing

  • 1963 William O'Neil + Co, Inc was founded
  • 1964 O'Neil becomes the youngest person to buy a NYSE seat
  • 1967 O'Neil Fund becomes the top-performing fund in the country
  • 1968 O'Neil invests $2 million in R&D
  • 1970

    A Challenging Decade on Wall Street

  • 1970 DatagraphsTM is launched
  • 1971 The first Model Book of Greatest Stock Winners is published
  • 1972 Daily Graphs, Inc was founded to help investors with stock market charts
  • 1973 Opening of O'Neil Data Systems
  • 1979 Opening of Stock Mart, a low-commission, discount brokerage firm
  • 1980

    Navigating a Volatile Market

  • 1984 Launch of Investors's Business DailyTM, an investment newspaper
  • 1987 Black Monday see the S&P 500's Largest one-day drop in history
  • 1988 First edition of O'Neil's best-seller How to Make Money in Stocks is published
  • 1994

    A Roaring Bull Market Led by Technology

  • 1994 1994-Launch of William O'Neil Direct Access, an online data research platform
  • 1998 Daily Graphs, Inc launches Daily Graphs Online
  • 2000

    Technology Goes Global

  • 2000 Three more volumes of the Model Book of Greatest Stock Winners published
  • 2008 WONDA® adds the global market data From 71 markets
  • 2009 Introduction of the Global Focus List & expansion William O'Neil + Co's stock database globally
  • 2010

    Innovation Drives the Market

  • 2010 Opening of offices in London and the establishment of William O'Neil India Private Ltd.
  • 2011 MarketSmith, web-based investment research platform, is launched
  • 2013 AlphaScope®, a unique equity recommendation algorithm, is added
  • 2015 The establishment of William O'Neil + Company China Private Ltd.
  • 2019

    The future of intelligent investments