Traders are people who attempt to analyze trading activity and move their money accordingly in an attempt to take advantage of trends. It’s not recommended that the average investor attempt this, and it’s rare to make it big by trading. But some people have made such spectacular trades that their decisions have resulted in an extreme profit and landed them at the top of the trading game. Today, the top trading leaders are Paul Tudor Jones who shorted the 1987 stock market crash, George Soros who shorted the value of the British pound, and John Paulson who shorted the real estate market that caused the Great Recession, making billions while the global economy floundered.