TABLE OF CONTENTS
30 Under 30
September 2007
The 2007 Trader Monthly 30 Under 30
The future of trading is now. Meet the young guns tearing up the markets.
Seeing Green
Credit Suisse's carbon-emissions emissary, Paul Ezekiel, set aside a life of healing the sick for a chance to prescribe changes to heal the planet -- and make his employers a bundle.
Open Outcry
Our first-ever reader survey, taken by over 2,500 readers, replete with everything you always wanted to know about trading...but were afraid to ask.
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Cell Side
Ask the Dream Doctor
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Imprisoned by doubt, one trader yearns to break free.
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Ardour for Wardour
Night Moves
By
Nigel Windsor
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Peter Stringfellow’s extravagant new club is a playground every City trader will love.
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Hang, Man
Art Class
By
Eric Capper
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Why buy a trading-inspired museum piece? Because that’s where the money is.
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Downward Trend
Cojones Q&A
By
Doug Donaldson
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Competitive cliff diver Frederic Weill is equally adept at flinging himself into the markets. Look out below!
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Sound Investment
150 Grand Well Spent
By
Hilary Lewis
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This boffo stereo system will rock your world -- and your wallet.
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Nocturnal Omission
Doctor’s Orders
By
Cristina Velocci
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Is sleep deprivation killing you?
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Door Jams
Tunes
By
Hilary Lewis
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A new live set offers Jim Morrison drunk, disorderly, and disintegrating.
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High/Low
Around the World in 80 Trades
Risk/Reward
By
Rich Blake
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More than a decade ago, Jon Auerbach and David Grayson set out to
cover the entire world. What a long, strange trip it’s been.
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Market Mover
Performance
By
Jeff Heilman
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Ditching his desk for something a little more his speed, Chuck Hackett found an entirely new way to trade the physical.
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Hog Wild
The Trade
By
Jonathan Hoenig
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When will traders finally figure out the most sizzling commodities play of all? When pigs fly.
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Night Shift
Life After Trading
By
Cristina Velocci
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Matt Abramcyk quit the hedge-fund game for frenzied action of a different sort: the rigors and rewards of New York nightlife.
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Profit Envy
The Head Coach
By
Doug Hirschhorn
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It's OK to want more. Just remember to focus on what you have — not what you don't. Otherwise you could end up with nothing.
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Directions
Trader Monthly's 30 Under 30
By
Rich Blake
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Teri Buhl
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David Moss
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The future of trading is now. Meet the young guns tearing up the markets.
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Seeing Green
The Ask
By
David Moss
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Credit Suisse's carbon-emissions emissary, Paul Ezekiel, set aside a life of healing the sick for a chance to prescribe changes to heal the planet — and make his employers a bundle.
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Cuffs & Links
By
Ty Wenger
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Nick Kolakowski
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With today’s sleek cuts and vibrant colors, “golf fashion” is no longer an oxymoron. To herald this trend, we brought two London-based traders to the venerable Old Course at St. Andrews and arrayed them in the latest styles — just the right looks to help you handle the swings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Photographs by Ian Spanier | Fashion Director: Jennifer Lee Stylist: Laura Shelley for targetmodels.com | Text by Ty Wenger and Nick Kolakowski
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Open Outcry
Reader Survey
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Want to know if your fellow traders would act on insider info? What they really think about Dick Grasso and Eliot Spitzer? And whether they trade for the thrill or the money? Behold our inaugural reader survey, taken by more than 2,500 of you, replete with everything you ever wanted to know about trading . . . but were afraid to ask.
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Close
Micro Managers
Gadgets
By
Mark Spoonauer
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Downsize your trading desk — and haul it around with you — with the help of these small wonders.
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Call of the Wild
The Life
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The world’s highest bungee jump! Cage-diving with Great White sharks! Kloofing (whatever that is)! South Africa offers the planet’s most astonishing collection of daredevil acts — and sybaritic resorts in which to rest your weary, if not broken, bones.
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French Invasion
Wheels
By
Matt Carroll
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We set a London-based trader and the stunning new Audi R8 loose
in the hills and hamlets of Provence. Our goal: to be noticed.
Our mission: accompli!
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Precious Commodities
Watch List
By
Roberta Naas
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We scoured the initial public offerings at this year’s international watch festivals to unearth these: the top new timepieces of 2007.
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Market Remaker
High Flyer
By
Robert Goyer
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The Citation XLS+ is Cessna’s latest bid at reincarnating the world’s best-selling private jet.
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Premium Stock
Liquidity
By
Anthony Giglio
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Mexico’s most celebrated spirit has come a long way since that
trip to Tijuana that you don’t remember.
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