Name John Ducas | Role Investor | |
John Ducas (born January 13, 1998) is a teen-aged investor and entrepreneur.
Ducas is from New York City but currently lives in Europe with his family. At the age of 9 he started investing with play money at Marketwatch. When he was 13 his parents gave him 3,000 euros to invest, and he opened a trading account with an online broker. At age 15, he founded Ducas Capital, which publishes financial research online. According to Forbes magazine, he serves over 110 clients.
He is a member of a global community of young investors and entrepreneurs and the creator of an online stock market instruction course called The Beginners Guide to the Stock Market, with over 5,000 enrolled students.
Ducas was the youngest person on Business Insider's list of the most powerful people in finance at every age. He created The Young Informer, a YouTube channel devoted to news and current events. He is one of the youngest contributors to The Huffington Post.