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Laszlo Birinyi, Jr. is the President of Birinyi Associates, Inc. He began his career as a sales trader, where he conceived the idea of a trading calendar and other market-oriented products. In 1976, Laszlo Birinyi joined Salomon Brothers with a mandate to develop products and analysis that would provide market intelligence and information to the firm's clients and traders. The first of these, the Block Trading Monitor, detailed the movement of block trades and unusual accumulation and distribution, and led to even more detailed information or money flows.

Laszlo Birinyi wrote Salomon Brothers' first weekly market commentary, Stock Week, and topical studies on volatility, flow of funds, market structure, and transaction costs. One of his efforts was The Equity Desk, a book written for Salomon Brothers' training classes. Laszlo Birinyi was later given the additional responsibility for international analysis and was the architect of the Salomon-Russell International Index.

In 1989, while a Director at Salomon Brothers, Laszlo Birinyi left to form Birinyi Associates. His first consulting client was Bloomberg LP, for whom he designed a variety of equity functions. Laszlo Birinyi is also an occasional contributor to Forbes and Bloomberg Personal Finance. In addition, he was a panelist on Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser.

Reminiscences (at Birinyi.com) is a monthly newsletter that provides Laszlo Biriny's market commentary, conservative and aggressive growth portfolios, trading ideas for the month, as well as market indicators and technicals.

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