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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.
Over the Hedge
Having spent his career creating enemies in the financial world, attorney Jake Zamansky is suddenly the trader's best friend.
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Hot News, Gossip and Celebrity Dish
Insider
By
Rich Blake
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David Moss
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Teri Buhl
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Hilary Lewis
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Vito Echevarria
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Leah McGrath Goodman
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Rock the Voce
Test Drive
By
Cristina Velocci
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Would a swank new cellphone concierge capably meet the needs of a demanding trader — or just drop the call?
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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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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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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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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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38
A new live set offers Jim Morrison drunk, disorderly, and disintegrating.
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Mr. Right
Pretty Boy
By
Cristina Velocci
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40
A San Francisco salon gives Bay Area traders a little California groomin’.
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The Shining
Reads
By
Nick Kolakowski
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A tale of trading chicanery, filthy lucre and shoe polish.
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Hang, Man
Art Class
By
Eric Capper
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42
Why buy a trading-inspired museum piece? Because that’s where the money is.
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High/Low
Around the World in 80 Trades
Risk/Reward
By
Rich Blake
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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.
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Market Mover
Performance
By
Jeff Heilman
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52
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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All Hail Hull
Hall of Fame
By
Lizbeth Scordo
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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.
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Hog Wild
The Trade
By
Jonathan Hoenig
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60
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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64
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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Exercise in Control
The Card Shark
By
Johnny Chan
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66
Put your ego aside. Sometimes smaller stakes can mean a smarter game.
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Profit Envy
The Head Coach
By
Doug Hirschhorn
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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.
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Over the Hedge
The Beat of the Street
By
Charles Gasparino
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70
Having spent his career creating enemies in the financial world, attorney Jake Zamansky is suddenly the trader’s best friend.
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Directions
Trader Monthly's 30 Under 30
By
Rich Blake
,
Teri Buhl
,
David Moss
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78
The future of trading is now. Meet the young guns tearing up the markets.
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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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Seeing Green
The Ask
By
David Moss
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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.
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The Ask
Cuffs & Links
Fashion
By
Ty Wenger
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Nick Kolakowski
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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
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Close
Call of the Wild
The Life
By
Cristina Velocci
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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.
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French Invasion
Wheels
By
Matt Carroll
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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!
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Precious Commodities
Watch List
By
Roberta Naas
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128
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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Watch List
Market Remaker
High Flyer
By
Robert Goyer
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132
The Citation XLS+ is Cessna’s latest bid at reincarnating
the world’s best-selling private jet.
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High Flyer
Premium Stock
Liquidity
By
Anthony Giglio
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134
Mexico’s most celebrated spirit has come a long way since that
trip to Tijuana that you don’t remember.
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Liquidity
Child's Play
Back Issue
By
Brian Dawson
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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.
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Articles
30 Under 30: The Honor Scroll
Meet the upstart young traders who almost made the list.
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