TABLE OF CONTENTS The Best Trades of 2006 December 2006/January 2007 Trades of the Year Celebrating 2006's biggest, best, most brazen positions across all markets -- it's the third annual Trader Monthly Awards, as nominated by you, our readers. Let the monumental moneymaking commence! The Survivor Chris Gardner's journey has taken him from homeless father to Wall Street broker to wildly successful founder of his own financial firm. The Exchange A collection of blue-chip holiday buys wrapped up all up in the season's finest fashions.

Sleepless in Chicago
Trading Spaces
By Andrew Barber | Page 32
When night falls, Transmarket Group chairman Ray Cahnman climbs into bed with his day job. > read more
Keywords: Trading Spaces

Lonesome Dove Western Bistro
The 5,000-Calorie Meal
By Hilary Lewis | Page 34
It's meat-masticating mayhem! Apocalypse cow! Bring it on, pardner -- yee-haw! > read more
Keywords: The 5,000-Calorie Meal

Dance Macabre
The Truth Squad
By Andrew Barber | Page 36
Was Michael Milken really once the subject of an avant-garde ballet? > read more
Keywords: The Truth Squad

Loss Leader
Pretty Boy
By Alex Koppelman | Page 36
British fitness guru Mark Anthony wants to pump you up -- in a hurry. > read more
Keywords: Pretty Boy

Is Trading Killing My Eyesight?
Doctor's Orders
By Cristina Velocci | Page 40
> read more
Keywords: Doctor's Orders

Market Bauble
Test Drive
By Hilary Lewis | Page 40
Can a New Age titanium necklace reduce traders' stress? > read more
Keywords: Test Drive

Bello!
Who Knew?
By Andrew Barber | Page 42
How an Italian vegetable merchant launched America's biggest bank. > read more
Keywords: Who Knew?

Captain Cook
10 Grand Well Spent
By Cristina Velocci | Page 42
The TurboChef oven gives new meaning to "fast food." > read more
Keywords: $10,000 Well Spent

The Wall Street Charity Fund
My Charity
By AnnaMaria Andriotis | Page 42
August Hoerrner, president, Chapdelaine > read more
Keywords: My Charity

Tribal Warrior
Hall of Fame
By Lizbeth Scordo | Page 46
He helped create computerized trading and used technology to notch a staggering track record. Rather than rest easy, Ed Seykota has now emerged as the trading world's shrink. > read more
Keywords: Hall of Fame

Set in Concrete
My Best Trade
By Haissam Arabi | Page 50
A prescient parlay on Dubai's construction boom enabled my fund to cement a small fortune for our clients. > read more
Keywords: My Worst Trade , My Best Trade

Wheat Sprout
The Trade
By Jonathan Hoenig | Page 52
With prices and volatility soaring, wheat futures are rapidly becoming the contract of champions. Game on! > read more
Keywords: The Trade

Turbo Charged
Risk/Reward
By Leah McGrath Goodman , Rich Blake , Cristina Velocci | Page 56
Don't talk to Idar Vollvik about eggs or baskets. Going all in is what powers the legend of the Turbo Trader. > read more
Keywords: Risk/Reward

Tackling Block
The Ask
By Mark Whistler | Page 60
As head equity trader at Putnam Investments, one of the industry's biggest buy-side firms, Richard Block calls the shots that make the whole Street sing. > read more
Keywords: The Ask

Shipshape
Three Rules
By Leah McGrath Goodman | Page 64
Having to endure the Enron shipwreck taught Pierre Aury how to survive any storm. Now this seafaring trader shines a beacon of navigational know-how. > read more
Keywords: Three Rules , Five Rules

Stick to Your Guns
The Card Shark
By Johnny Chan | Page 66
"Stay the course" might have been a bad campaign mantra, but it's often sage wisdom in poker -- and in trading. > read more
Keywords: The Card Shark

It’s a Wonderful Irony
The Lord of Discipline
By Ken Grant | Page 68
As Enron's Jeffrey Skilling heads to the Big House, it's interesting to consider what might have been. > read more
Keywords: The Lord of Discipline

Not Missing a Thing
The Head Coach
By Doug Hirschhorn | Page 70
An overwhelming need to get in on the action can lead to overtrading. Sometimes the sidelines are the place to be. > read more
Keywords: The Head Coach

The Trades of the Year
Feature
By Andrew Barber , Leah McGrath Goodman , Rich Blake | Page 74
Celebrating 2006's biggest, best, most brazen positions across all markets -- it's the third annual Trader Monthly Awards, as nominated by you, our readers. Let the monumental moneymaking commence! > read more
Keywords: List

The Game Within the Game
Feature
By Alan Schwarz | Page 82
Each winter, baseball's braintrusts and the game's top agents gather in conference rooms to stare each other down in a game of financial chicken. Who blinks first -- or who misreads the market -- could make a million-dollar difference. Welcome to bid-ask brawling at its best. Welcome to your box seat at baseball's arbitration season. > read more

The Survivor
Feature
By Andrew Barber | Page 92
What do you do once your life has become a best-selling book? Or when it's turned into a major motion picture starring Will Smith? If you're Chris Gardner -- a man whose journey has taken him from homeless father to Wall Street broker to wildly successful founder of his own financial firm -- you set your sights on saving a nation. > read more
Keywords: Directions

Rule Britannia
Home Equity
By Laura Latham , Cristina Velocci | Page 100
Real estate may be turning a bear market in the U.S. Not so in London, where a slew of spectacular properties -- and skyrocketing prices -- has buyers bullish on Britain. > read more
Keywords: Home Equity

The Exchange
Fashion
By Michael Callahan | Page 110
Buying holiday gifts for your significant other is the very definition of an efficient market. Choose well, and you'll be rewarded. Choose poorly, and it could be a cold winter indeed. To help hedge your bets this yuletide rally, we've compiled a collection of blue-chip buys, then wrapped it all up in the season's finest fashions. > read more
Keywords: Fashion

Pilots of the Caribbean
The Life
By Matt Carroll | Page 120
Why waste time on overcrowded cruise ships or risk island-hopping on some airline's puddle jumpers? For true Caribbean luxury travel, only a private jet will do. > read more
Keywords: The Life

Hot Dates
Watch List
By Norma Buchanan | Page 126
These highly coveted perpetual-calendar watches never take a day off. > read more
Keywords: Watch List

Wedding Crasher
Wheels
By Magnus Greaves | Page 128
Our fearless founder had a simple mission: chauffeur his good friend to his upcoming nuptials. For that, he clearly needed the 400 horsepower and refined luxury of the new Maserati Quattroporte. > read more
Keywords: Wheels

Bigger, Better, Flatter
Gadgets
By Mark Spoonauer | Page 134
Behold the newest generation of luscious big-screen TVs -- enough high-def pixels to plaster the walls of every room in your home. > read more
Keywords: Gadgets

Small Wonder
High Flyer
By Robert Goyer | Page 138
Have some extra room in your garage? The revolutionary new Cessna Citation Mustang, one of the world's smallest bizjets, might be just the plane to fill it > read more
Keywords: High Flyer

Bubble Market
Liquidity
By Anthony Giglio , Hilary Lewis | Page 142
This time of year, we all down the bubbly -- but only the discerning quaff Têtes de Cuvée > read more
Keywords: Liquidity

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