- Larry Trader
Larry J. Trader (born July 7, 1963 in Barry's Bay, Ontario) is a retired ice hockey defenceman. He played a handful of games at the NHL level, but is mostly known for his high scoring in the American Hockey League and overseas. He last played for Varese Hockey Club in Italy. He is the cousin of former NHL player Jim Peplinski.
- Jim Cramer
James J. "Jim" Cramer (b., Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania) is an American television personality, former hedge fund manager, and best-selling author. Cramer is host of CNBC's "Mad Money" and co-founder of TheStreet.com. According to the January 27, 2006 episode of "High Net Worth" on CNBC, Cramer has accumulated a net worth of over $100 million. He currently resides in Summit, New Jersey.
- Nick Leeson
Nicholas Leeson (English, born February 25, 1967) is a former derivatives trader whose unsupervised speculative trading caused the collapse of Barings Bank, the United Kingdom's oldest investment bank. Leeson was born in Watford, north-west of London. He attended Parmiter's School. After leaving school in the early 1980s, Nick landed a job as a clerk with royal bank Coutts, followed by a string of jobs with other banks, …
- Larry Williams
Larry R. Williams is a stock and commodities trader and technical analyst. Larry Williams is a graduate of the University of Oregon, with BS in Journalism. In 1982, his book "How to Prosper in the Coming Good Years" was published. It forecast the largest bull market and surge of economic growth the United States has ever seen. The book was written at a time when the majority of pundits were calling for slowdown in economic growth and stock market, …
- Paul Tudor Jones
Paul Tudor Jones (b. 1954, Memphis, Tennessee) is a well-known commodity trader. Having made $500 million in 2005, he is worth an estimated $2.5 billion, and was ranked by "Forbes" in September 2006 as the 117th richest person in the world. One of his earliest successes was predicting Black Monday in 1987, tripling his money during the event due to large short positions. Jones uses a global macro strategy when trading in some of his funds.
- Ed Seykota
Ed Seykota turned $5,000 into $15,000,000 over a 12 year time period in his model account - an actual client account. Ed is self-taught, but influenced early on in his career by Richard Donchian . He is a commodities and futures trader and a Trend Follower.
- Brian Hunter
Brian Hunter (born c. 1974) was the Canadian based trader for the now closed Amaranth Advisors hedge fund. Amaranth, which had $6 billion in assets and closed in 2006 because of bad natural gas trades, was the largest hedge fund collapse in history. He was based in Calgary, Alberta (his home town) and is single handedly responsible for losing the fund $6.5b USD betting on the weather and closing the fund down in fall of 2006. In 2007, Hunter organized a new hedge fund, …
- Mark Skousen
Mark Skousen is an American economist, investment analyst, newsletter editor, college professor and author of more than 20 non-fiction books. Skousen was an economic analyst for the CIA from 1972 to 1975. He later worked as a consultant for IBM and Hutchinson Technology, among other Fortune 500 companies. He was a columnist for Forbes magazine from 1997 to 2001, …
- Mark Ritchie
Mark Andrew Ritchie is a Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange commodities trader. A twenty- year veteran of the financial industry, Mark is one of the original founding partners of "Chicago Reasearch and Trading (CRT)" (the other his brother Joe Ritchie) once the largest options firm in the industry. He is also the author of two books, "God in the Pits" and "Spirit of the Rainforest".
- Linda Bradford Raschke
Linda Bradford Raschke is a commodities and futures trader who is President of LBRGroup, Inc., a registered CTA and money management firm and president of LBR Asset Management, a "Commodity Pool Operator".
- Tom Baldwin
Lucian Thomas Baldwin III is a bond trader investor and founder of the Baldwin Group of companies. He was described by the "Wall Street Journal" as the trader who can singlehandedly move the Treasury bond market. His preferred instrument to trade is the 30-year bond in the pits of the Chicago Board of Trade.
- Richard Donchian
Richard Davoud Donchian (b. September 1905, Hartford, Connecticut - d. 1993) was a commodities and futures trader, and pioneer in the field of managed futures. The first publicly managed futures fund, "Futures, Inc.", was started in 1949 by Richard Donchian. He also developed the trend timing method of futures investing and introduced the mutual fund concept to the field of money management.
- Michael Marcus
Michael Marcus is a commodities trader who, in under 20 years, is reputed to have turned his initial $30,000 into $80 million. Marcus met his mentor Ed Seykota while working as an analyst and learned money management from him. Later while working. at Commodities Corporation and before becoming the company's executive vice president, he hired Bruce Kovner to be his assistant and taught Bruce the ins and outs of trading.
- Louis Bacon
Louis Moore Bacon (born 1956) is a hedge fund manager and commodities trader who uses a global macro strategy to invest in the markets. Louis has been at the top 20 ranking of Top 100 money earners since the 1990s. He is considered one of the top 100 traders of the 20th century. With an estimated current net worth of around $1.0 billion, he is ranked by "Forbes" as the 746th richest person in the world.
- Tom Basso
Thomas F. Basso was a stock and commodities trader who was president and founder of "Trendstat Capital Management". He is the author of two books, "Panic-Proof Investing" and the self-published "The frustrated investor". In 1998 he was elected to the board of the "National Futures Association". Basso became a registered investment advisor in 1980 and a registered commodities advisor in 1984.
- Charles Faulkner
Charles Faulkner, (born 29 February 1960), is an American life coach, motivational speaker, trader and writer. Has made numerous contributions to the field of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).
- Charles Faulkner
Charles Faulkner, (born 29 February 1960), is an American life coach, motivational speaker, trader and writer. Has made numerous contributions to the field of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).
- Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein (born 1953 in Coney Island, New York) is a wealthy financier and philanthropist. He began his career as a math teacher, before becoming a trader at Bear Stearns, and eventually founding his own financial management firm located on his 80 acre private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. He reportedly will not take clients with assets less than $1 billion. Epstein has been known to befriend high profile scientists and politicians such as Leonard Susskind, …
- Matthew Elliott
Matthew Elliot was a British trader and Indian agent in the Ohio Country in the era of the American Revolution and afterwards. He worked closely with Tecumseh in securing a Native American alliance with the British in the War of 1812.
- William Eckhardt
William Eckhardt is a commodities and futures trader and fund manager. He began trading in 1974 after four years of doctoral research at the University of Chicago in mathematical logic.
- Joe Ritchie
Joseph Ritchie (born 1946) is a commodities and options trader, the founder of "Chicago Research and Trading", whose capital went up from $200,000 to over $225 million in 11 years. According to BusinessWeek, "Ritchie is widely acknowledged to be one of the sharpest minds in the options business". As an avid aircraft owner/operator, Joe Ritchie and his personal friend and mentor, record-setting balloonist Steve Fossett, …
- Toby Crabel
William "Toby" Harrison Crabel (born 1955) is a United States self made millionare commodities trader, The Financial Times called Crabel "the most well-known trader on the counter-trend side"He is the fund manager of "Crabel Capital Management". Crabel Capital Management ranked number "101" out of "196" funds on Absolute Return magazine list "Absolute Return survey of U.S. groups with more than $1 billion AUM, July 2005"..
- Robert Krausz
Robert Krausz (1936 - October 3, 2002) was a commodities and futures trader. As a child born in Budapest, Hungary, Robert Krausz spent most of his childhood living in one of nine ghettos formed by the Nazis during World War II, established to confine Jews into tightly packed areas of the cities of Eastern Europe. He survived World War II by escaping from a group being led to a concentration camp. After the war, he ended up in a South African orphanage, …
- Larry Hite
Lawrence D. Hite is a hedge fund manager commodities trader, who along with Ed Seykota is one of the forefathers of system trading. Profiled and recognized as one of the best in the industry, in major international publications like in BusinessWeek's annual the "Best of Award", Larry was name "Best of 1986".
- William Paterson
Sir William Paterson (born April, 1658 in Tinwald, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland - died in Westminster, London, on January 22, 1719) was a Scottish trader and banker.
- Tony Saliba
Anthony J. Saliba is an options trader.
- William Delbert Gann
William Delbert Gann (June 6, 1878 - June, 1955), also W. D. Gann, was a trader recognized not only for his trading abilities, but also for his financial market forecasts. The accuracy of his forecasts is still the subject of substantial debate. Gann's son alleged that many of Gann's claims were fraudulent.
- Hakan Yalincak
Hakan Yalincak (born in Izmir, Turkey), also known as Hagan Yalincak and Jon Sahenk, is an American felon, derivatives trader, and New York University college student who pleaded guilty to charges of bank fraud and wire fraud for his role in a multi-million dollar hedge fund fraud and Ponzi scheme.
- James Chapman
James Chapman (27 December 1831 Cape Town - 4 February 1872 Kimberley, was a South African explorer, hunter, trader and photographer. A son of James Chapman and Elizabeth Greeff of Malmesbury and brother to Henry Samuel Chapman, he was educated in Cape Town and left for Durban when 14 years old. He was appointed as chief clerk in the Native Affairs Department in 1848. A year later he settled in Potchefstroom where he became one of the first storekeepers.
- George Cartwright
George Cartwright, trader, explorer, born in Marham, England, died unmarried in nearby Mansfield, England. Cartwright's father, John, first pursued a naval career and through it was closely connected with George’s early ventures in Newfoundland later resigned in protest against participation in the American Revolutionary War and became a radical pamphleteer. Cartwright was born at Marham in Nottinghamshire, the eldest brother of Edmund Cartwright, …
- Rick Roberts
Rick Roberts (born November 13 1965, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actor. His most substantial role to date is as Donald D'Arby in the series "Traders", for which he was nominated for a Gemini Award. Roberts has also appeared in "L.A. Doctors" and "An American in Canada". Most recently he played Dennis MacDonald on Family's "Life with Derek".
- Louis-Serge Real del Sarte
European Sales Director at GLOBAL EQUITIES since 2001, Inventor of the Cylindrical analysis approach, deputy vice-Chairman of the HEC Finance Club in charge of external relations, XING Ambassador to Paris, Vice-Chairman of the European Circle, Co-founder of the Financial Web Site EASYBOURSE.com, Blog with 650 000 unique visitors : http://www.absolute-trading-method.com
- William Conner
William Conner (1777 - 1855) was an American trader, interpreter, scout, community leader, entrepreneur, and politician. Although his first trade was a fur trader, his later business interests included farming, milling, distillation of spirits, mercantile endeavors, and land speculation. Conner is notable to Indiana history for platting the town of Connersville, Indiana and founding Hamilton County and its county seat Noblesville.
- Dicky Barrett
Richard "Dicky" Barrett (1807-47) was one of the first white traders to be based in New Zealand. He lent his modest translation skills to help negotiate the first land purchases from Maori in New Plymouth and Wellington and became a key figure in the establishment of the settlement of New Plymouth.
- Espen Haug
Espen Gaarder Haug is an author, quantitative trader and arbitrageur specializing in options and other derivatives. He holds a Ph.D. degree from NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). He is best known for his book "The Complete Guide to Option Pricing Formulas" 2nd edition McGraw-Hill 2006. He is also a regular columnist for Wilmott Magazine. Espen G. Haug has worked as a trader for J.P. Morgan Chase in New York City, Chemical Banking, Amaranth Advisors, …
- Patrick McKenna
Patrick McKenna (born May 8, 1960 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian comedic and dramatic actor. He is best known for playing Harold Green on the television series "The Red Green Show" and "Traders", and the "Trudeau" miniseries. McKenna is one of many notable alumni of Toronto's "The Second City" comedy troupe.
- Bill Lipschutz
Bill Lipschutz is a forex trader who is the co-founder and Director of Portfolio Management at "Hathersage Capital Management".
- Andrew Myrick
Andrew J. Myrick (died August 18, 1862), was a trader who operated a store in southwest Minnesota near the Minnesota River in the late part of his life.
- Louis Vasquez
Pierre Louis Vasquez (October 3, 1798 - September 5, 1868) was a mountain man and trader. He was born and raised at St. Louis, Missouri. In 1823, he became a fur man, receiving his first license to trade with the Pawnee. By the early 1830s he had shifted his operations to the mountains, a popular and active mountain man and trader. Vasquez became a partner of Andrew Sublette, perhaps in 1834, returned to St. Louis in 1835, …
- J. P. McManus
John Patrick McManus is an Irish businessman and racehorse owner. Born in Limerick, he began his business career at his family’s construction plant hire firm, and then became an on-course bookmaker at Limerick’s greyhound track, before moving into horse ownership and racing. He has a stud farm in County Kildare. In 1982, he and his wife bought Martinstown Stud on over 400 acres in County Limerick from the McCalmonts. McManus is National Hunt racing's largest owner.