Stock traders may be an agent, hedger, arbitrageur, speculator, stockbroker. The stock speculator, a swindler, vanishes. His father was a farmer, contractor, part-time banker and real-estate speculator. There are two basic financial market participant categories, Investor vs. Speculator and Institutional vs. Retail. He had been a lawyer, prospector, land speculator, and journalist. Forrest was well known as a Memphis speculator and Mississippi gambler. Allen Hamilton became a successful Fort Wayne businessman and a land speculator. Malloch Brown has been closely associated with billionaire speculator George Soros. He was a struggling farmer and cattle speculator who lived in the Texas Hill Country. Julia Wolfe bought and sold many properties, eventually becoming a successful real estate speculator. Jerome was a flamboyant and successful stock speculator. Moses' father was a successful department store owner and real estate speculator in New Haven. These trades are described from the point of view of a speculator. He later moved to New York City, where he became a stock speculator and promoter. He was a major speculator in a distressed financial paper.