Gerald M. Loeb was a senior partner of E. F. Hutton & Company, a nation-wide brokerage firm. He was respected as one of the most astute brokers on Wall Street and his market interpretations were featured prominently in newspapers, magazines, radio and television. He was born in San Francisco in 1899, survived the devastating earthquake, and began his association with E. F. Hutton & Company as a statistician at the age of twenty-two.