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The world of stock trading is full of dynamic individuals. From founders and traders to financial experts, influencers, and even those who have fallen from grace, the personalities of stock trading find themselves in the headlines every day. These are the market movers who are responsible for some of the largest gains (and losses) in the world of option trading.
Jim Cramer is a famous financial commentator that tackles the US public markets as well as retail investments on his CNBC show “Mad Money”. On the show, which airs every weeknight, Cramer makes investing accessible to everyday person and covers the daily state of the markets.
Since the start the bear market in 2022, Jim Cramer has had bad luck calling out stocks and having the stock do the opposite of what he predicts. This happens so frequently that a Twitter parody account called Inverse Cramer ETF (Not Jim Cramer) was created.
The legendary investor Warren Buffet can move stocks in either direction when his company, Berkshire Hathaway start buying or selling stocks.
This happened recently in 2022 with Taiwan Semiconductor ($TSM).
Bill Ackman is the found and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management–a hedge fund with over $20 billion of assets.
Elon Musk is the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and now Twitter. Elon Musk has been known for triggering Dogecoin rallies, and his own company, Tesla.
On May 2020, he made posted a tweet saying, “Tesla stock price is too high imo”. The price of Tesla share declined 7% at the opening of the market.
ARK Invest is a US-based investment management firm founded by Cathie Wood. The firm manages several exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that are primarily made up of high-risk, disruptive bets like AI, biotech, and blockchain investments.
During the 2020 and 2021 crypto bull markets, these ETFs saw immense gains, but have since had their values cut by 70%+. Cathie Wood is an esteemed authority on growth investing, and she stands by her investments.
Michael James Burry is famously known for calling the housing bubble in 2008, and making his fortune of shorting the mortgage bond markets. As a Twitter personality, he’s known for tweeting out, “Sell.” and deactivating his account a few days later.
Michael Burry calls out for the “mother of all crashes” is underway for 2023.
The 52nd Speaker of the House of Representatives has been known as one of the biggest insider traders known demand, via her husband.
Pelosi was known to have Nvidia option contracts that were purchased in July 2022. In August2, 2022 she visited Taiwan and the Nvidia stock soared from a red day to a green day.
The former president of the United States, Donald Trump has had his commenting on Twitter lookalike application since he was banned from it, and pumping his SPAC company, DWAC, over 1000% in a single day.