SIGN UP FOR MORNING CALL
A daily email with the latest trading news.
Enter your email address.
MOST POPULAR
Not Your Father's Financial District
Experience our interactive map of New York and its changing faces.

Top 100 Traders of 2007
It took at least $1 billion this past year to be one of our Flush Five.

TraderTV
Videos of Trader Talk, our Wall Street Boxers, our events.

CAREERS
Company: Wellington Management Company
Position: Sr Trade Administrator - Massachusetts
City: Boston

EVENTS
Investment Consultants Forum
Opal Financial Group's Investment Consultants Forum is a conference that provides a unique environment for developing dialogue between plan sponsors, managers and consultants.
Date: Dec 15
City: New York City
READ MORE

POLLS
Click here to play Trader Bowl



TABLE OF CONTENTS
30 Under 30
September 2007

18 trader monthly cover 120x145
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.

Over the Hedge
Having spent his career creating enemies in the financial world, attorney Jake Zamansky is suddenly the trader's best friend.
Open

Hot News, Gossip and Celebrity Dish
Insider
By Rich Blake , David Moss , Teri Buhl , Hilary Lewis , Vito Echevarria , Leah McGrath Goodman | Page 26
> read more

Rock the Voce
Test Drive
By Cristina Velocci | Page 34
Would a swank new cellphone concierge capably meet the needs of a demanding trader — or just drop the call? > read more

Cell Side
Ask the Dream Doctor
| Page 34
Imprisoned by doubt, one trader yearns to break free. > read more

Sound Investment
150 Grand Well Spent
By Hilary Lewis | Page 36
This boffo stereo system will rock your world -- and your wallet. > read more

Downward Trend
Cojones Q&A
By Doug Donaldson | Page 36
Competitive cliff diver Frederic Weill is equally adept at flinging himself into the markets. Look out below! > read more

Nocturnal Omission
Doctor’s Orders
By Cristina Velocci | Page 38
Is sleep deprivation killing you? > read more

Door Jams
Tunes
By Hilary Lewis | Page 38
A new live set offers Jim Morrison drunk, disorderly, and disintegrating. > read more

Mr. Right
Pretty Boy
By Cristina Velocci | Page 40
A San Francisco salon gives Bay Area traders a little California groomin’. > read more

The Shining
Reads
By Nick Kolakowski | Page 40
A tale of trading chicanery, filthy lucre and shoe polish. > read more

Hang, Man
Art Class
By Eric Capper | Page 42
Why buy a trading-inspired museum piece? Because that’s where the money is. > read more

High/Low

Around the World in 80 Trades
Risk/Reward
By Rich Blake | Page 46
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. > read more

Market Mover
Performance
By Jeff Heilman | Page 52
Ditching his desk for something a little more his speed, Chuck Hackett found an entirely new way to trade the physical. > read more
Keywords: Performance

All Hail Hull
Hall of Fame
By Lizbeth Scordo | Page 56
A former king of the derivatives world who walked away with a freighter full of cash, Blair Hull will forever be remembered for a single trade 20 years ago that changed the course of history. > read more

Hog Wild
The Trade
By Jonathan Hoenig | Page 60
When will traders finally figure out the most sizzling commodities play of all? When pigs fly. > read more

Night Shift
Life After Trading
By Cristina Velocci | Page 64
Matt Abramcyk quit the hedge-fund game for frenzied action of a different sort: the rigors and rewards of New York nightlife. > read more

Exercise in Control
The Card Shark
By Johnny Chan | Page 66
Put your ego aside. Sometimes smaller stakes can mean a smarter game. > read more

Profit Envy
The Head Coach
By Doug Hirschhorn | Page 68
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. > read more

Over the Hedge
The Beat of the Street
By Charles Gasparino | Page 70
Having spent his career creating enemies in the financial world, attorney Jake Zamansky is suddenly the trader’s best friend. > read more

Directions

Trader Monthly's 30 Under 30
By Rich Blake , Teri Buhl , David Moss | Page 78
The future of trading is now. Meet the young guns tearing up the markets. > read more
Keywords: 30Under30

Open Outcry
Reader Survey
| Page 92
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. > read more

Seeing Green
The Ask
By David Moss | Page 98
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. > read more
Keywords: The Ask

Cuffs & Links
Fashion
By Ty Wenger , Nick Kolakowski | Page 106
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 > read more

Close

Call of the Wild
The Life
By Cristina Velocci | Page 114
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. > read more

French Invasion
Wheels
By Matt Carroll | Page 122
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! > read more

Precious Commodities
Watch List
By Roberta Naas | Page 128
We scoured the initial public offerings at this year’s international watch festivals to unearth these: the top new timepieces of 2007. > read more
Keywords: Watch List

Market Remaker
High Flyer
By Robert Goyer | Page 132
The Citation XLS+ is Cessna’s latest bid at reincarnating the world’s best-selling private jet. > read more
Keywords: High Flyer

Premium Stock
Liquidity
By Anthony Giglio | Page 134
Mexico’s most celebrated spirit has come a long way since that trip to Tijuana that you don’t remember. > read more
Keywords: Liquidity

Child's Play
Back Issue
By Brian Dawson | Page 136
We scoured the Trader Monthly “archives” to unearth this short-lived magazine for kids — and excerpted just a few of its many timeless insights. > read more

Articles

30 Under 30: The Honor Scroll

Meet the upstart young traders who almost made the list. > read more
Keywords: 30Under30

Scan

Previously » June/July 2007

More recently » October 2007

Current » November/December 2008