High Annual Return Trader And Yet A Great Author

Hello Traders (Who Are Also Bookworms)!

Do you know a trader that produced high annual return and authored a great trading book?

So far I found those author names with their annual returns in parenthesis:
Larry Williams (11000) (Some say his performance isn't consistence)
Martin Schwartz (781)
Michael Thomsett (35)
Larry Connors (30)
Kathy Lien (19)

Happy Trading and Reading!

Here's an another finding:
Kevin Davey (100)

Dear sideburn,

Not sure about great authors, but I assume you meant the annual returns in %?

It is not fair to consider the returns out of context.

The Larry Williams return you listed matches a competition, was it fake money, I don't know or care . It was also in futures trading...which is out of context.
"In 1987 he won the World Cup Championship of Futures Trading *, turning $10,000 in to over $1.1 million in 12 months, that’s a cool 11,000% return and the highest return to ever be achieved in that competition."

If you look at someone like Kathy, she doesn't only trade Fx, but also other financial derivatives and talks in presentations (teaching?).

Furthermore, how do we know they are even great authors? Has reading any of their books made someone achieve similar annual return outcomes?

Why are high returns even important for publications, they can be out of context or false and in many cases the true value will be unknown.

To me, books are there to try take away something that makes you grow as a person by putting the knowledge learned into practice before it is put to the back of our minds and forgotten. Only then you will know that the written work was invaluable or you found out how not to do something from un-useful knowledge that you hopefully then forget. (*My final post on this thread*)

Kind Regards,
Tzamo