6 Female Traders To Watch in 2023

Male traders have traditionally taken the limelight, but women have been making good inroads into the financial world over the last 20 years. Who are the best female traders to watch in 2023? Here we’ve picked a selection of 6 traders who we think are worth keeping an eye on over the next couple of […]

Jordan Zarrilli – Traders To Watch Series

Jordan Zarrilli is an equities derivatives trader at Goldman Sachs. In 2019 she made the Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list for Finance. Here we take a look at her career in more detail, as part of our Traders To Watch series. Where did Jordan Zarrilli go to school? Jordan Zarrilli attended Staples High School from […]

Jesse Livermore – Trader Wisdom Series

Jesse Livermore is arguably the most successful stock trader of all time, if not the most famous. Edwin Lefevre’s 1923 book, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, was based on Livermore, and he also wrote his own book, How to Trade In Stocks, shortly before his death in 1940. What can we learn from Jesse Livermore […]

Who is Lucy Baldwin?

Lucy Baldwin is the global head of markets research & equity advisory at Citigroup. She has made Forbes’ 30 Under 30: Finance list two years running. Here we take a closer look at her career and thoughts, as part of our series on inspirational women in trading and finance. Also in this series are articles […]

Trader Raghee Horner

Raghee Horner is Managing Director of Futures Trading at Simpler Trading and has been trading her own account for over 30 years. Here we take a closer look at her thoughts on trading, as part of our series on inspirational women in trading and finance. Also in this series are articles on ,Jennifer Fan, ,Nelisiwe […]

Trader and Entrepreneur Nelisiwe Masango

Nelisiwe Masango is a trader and entrepreneur. She believes in empowering people, especially women, to make sound financial decisions and invest in their financial independence. She has been listed as one of Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Black African Women Entrepreneurs to Watch. Here we take a closer look at her career and thoughts, as part of […]

Who is The Trader Jennifer Fan?

Jennifer Fan grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and attended Bard College at Simon’s Rock, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. She enrolled at New York University at the age of 16, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Finance and a Bachelor of Science in Statistics, at the age of 19. Here we take a closer look […]

Is Margin Call Based on Lehman Brothers?

Margin Call is a 2011 film written and directed by J. C. Chandor. It stars Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Paul Bettany, Zachary Quinto, Simon Baker, Penn Badgley, Demi Moore, Mary McDonnel and Stanley Tucci. The film’s subject is the ,2007-2008 financial crisis and it charts the pivotal 24 hours at the start of the crisis, […]

Matt Wage – The Altruistic Trader

Matt Wage became a poster boy for the effective altriusm movement after graduating from Princeton University in 2012, but what is he doing now? While at univeristy, Wage started the Princeton chapter of the Giving What You Can organisation. He also helped his professor Peter Singer start The Life You Can Save, an organisation that […]