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COLLECTION · Series · 1996

Traders

Traders is a Canadian television drama series, which was broadcast on Global Television Network from 1996 to 2000. Set in the Toronto-based investment house Gardner/Ross, "Traders" explores the intimate lives and loves of investment bankers whose high-stakes decisions and sizzling alliances can have grave international consequences.

Source: TMDB
* 7.3 (3)Drama
Studios
Global TV · CanWest Global Communications · Alliance Atlantis · Atlantis Films
Runtime
60 min/ep
Release
01/02/1996
Score
7.3 / 10 (3)
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Seasons and episodes
Season 1
Season 1
13 episodes · 1996
Options
Episode 1. Options
1996-02-01 · 60 min

Cedric Ross is arrested for fraud and embezzlement after a judge whom he had lost money for years earlier signs the indictment papers. The absence of Cedric gives Adam the opportunity he'd been looking for to sell the Bank. In order to…

Pennies From Heaven
Episode 2. Pennies From Heaven
60 min

A Fire alarm causes the trading floor to evacuate. Marty demands everyone return to work in order to sell a large block of shares he just got, and fires all of those who don't return. This of course ends up skrewing him the next day…

Bad Is Good
Episode 3. Bad Is Good
60 min

Sally is becoming extremely over cautious. With her Father still in the hospital, under arrest she'll stop at nothing to keep the image of the firm clean. Adam's deal with BritRail didn't contain an out clause, when the price of the…

The King is Dead...
Episode 4. The King is Dead...
60 min

Gardner/Ross is in trouble. The Securities Commission is out for blood, and they're tearing the company apart with their questions. After the debacle that helped get Cedric acquitted, the Commission will stop at nothing, till they find…

...Long Live The King
Episode 5. ...Long Live The King
60 min

Gardner/Ross' Trading floor is lacking without Marty, meanwhile, Marty is lacking without the Trading Floor. Adam & Sally interview the other traders to Marty's temporary replacement. They seem unimpressed by most of them, and are…

From Russia With Love
Episode 6. From Russia With Love
60 min

The police interview Susannah's daughter, after she is dropped off at the firm by Susannah's stalker. She takes the day off which starts a series of bets as the traders try to figure out what's going on in her personal life. A bet which…

Dancing With Mr. D.
Episode 7. Dancing With Mr. D.
60 min

No synopsis

Into That Good Night
Episode 8. Into That Good Night
60 min

Marty returns to the trading floor, where he receives a warm reception, and a pair of golden handcuffs for him and his wife. Frank is put in the hospital suffering from an ailment brought on by a new experimental cure for his cancer. The…

Rumours
Episode 9. Rumours
60 min

Gardner/Ross' recent financial woes are starting to take their toll. Benny, using his lip reading ability finds out GR is planing on laying off employees. Grant enters the board room and asks if he is being let go, seeing as how he is…

The Enemy Within
Episode 10. The Enemy Within
60 min

Adam starts going' a little nuts as he tries to find the 'leak' within the firm. He begins taping all phone calls in and out of the firm, and he forces the traders to 'buddy up' to go through each others garbage in order to find the…

Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth
Episode 11. Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth
60 min

It seems we've come full circle. The board is holding a meeting to discus a new takeover offer by a major Canadian bank. This time however, Sally agrees to the terms. Jack is furious and announces he will quit if the deal goes through.…

The Big Picture
Episode 12. The Big Picture
60 min

Ian Dancer gives the executive committee some tough news. They need to clean up their image before they go public. Kathy promises to sue the firm for wrongful dismissal. Because Jack asked her to quit after the insider trading fiasco,…

The Enemy Without
Episode 13. The Enemy Without
60 min

Marty is enjoying his new position. As a publically traded company, he now has double the normal capital he used to have to invest. He uses his new power to inflate the share of a useless company, and makes a bundle at the same time.…

Season 2
Season 2
13 episodes
Chaos Theory
Episode 1. Chaos Theory
60 min

The same night he fires her, Cedric phones Sally and asks her and Jack to meet him and Adam in the middle of the street. Cedric tells Sally her place is back at the University, but she'll hear none of it. He warns her, telling her there…

The Natari Affair
Episode 2. The Natari Affair
60 min

After Jack unknowingly offends a Gulf State Prince, Adam tries to take control and fix the problem. Sally intervenes, and tells the pair to solve their own problems. Adam then takes a few days off and leaves Jack to find a way to…

High Flyer Down
Episode 3. High Flyer Down
60 min

A shifty acquaintance of Jack's returns to call in a favor. He asks Jack to have Gardner/Ross front a hemp growing operation, but Jack is more concerned with finding out the downside on the deal. It takes him the whole episode to find…

Trudy Kelly
Episode 4. Trudy Kelly
60 min

Trudy Kelly, Canada's (fictional) answer to Martha Stewart arrives at Gardner/Ross with the desire to buyout her 'owners' Kathy asks Jack to help her get the new job on the floor, he refuses, but she gets the job anyway. Benny makes an…

Separation Anxiety
Episode 5. Separation Anxiety
60 min

The Heron Lake nation, angry that the Quebec Government has refused to issue them a gambling license has come to Gardner/Ross for help. Jack comes up with an idea to float the Heron Lake - BOND. A bond, is typically only available to…

Spin
Episode 6. Spin
60 min

The head of the Equ-worth fund is seen leaving Gardner/Ross. She was there to collect a two million dollar interest payment on a bond issue. As the agent in charge of this bond Sally undertakes an investigation to find the source of the…

Home Office
Episode 7. Home Office
60 min

Sally goes to see Ryke at his boxing class and sees him helping another woman to spare with a young boy, which makes her more than a little jealous. When Ryke leaves the room, Sally asks her if she's a friend of his to which the woman…

Top of the Tombstone
Episode 8. Top of the Tombstone
60 min

While Marty is hell-bent on defeating his new arch-enemy McGrath over at CanCorp Jack is hell-bent on defeating them in his own way, by usurping a new deal for the Jakarta Harbour project. He makes several failing attempts before Jansky…

Family Legacy
Episode 9. Family Legacy
60 min

D'Arby's mother shows up at Gardner/Ross with the desire to leave her dominating husband. He arranges her to speak with Ayn in order to find out if she can afford to do so. Ayn suggests she leave the office, for if her husband finds…

Emeritus No More
Episode 10. Emeritus No More
60 min

While appearing on the financial talkshow ""Money File"" Sally, Adam, and Jack are ambushed by the host as he reveals several key bits of highly classified information. The leak causes GR to scramble in order to make a series of payments…

The Hands Off Approach
Episode 11. The Hands Off Approach
60 min

A Charismatic client (Klassen) who's running an artist's specialty store is beginning to worry Sally and Adam as his ambitious dreams are getting in the way of his loan repayments to the firm. At the same time a gossip columnist runs a…

Middle Ground
Episode 12. Middle Ground
60 min

Someone mails a bomb to Gardner/Ross causing a mid day evacuation. All fingers seem to point to an environmental extremist group known as ""Planet Alert"". Benny discovers the stock of a small fishery in the Maritimes that is suddenly…

Us And Them
Episode 13. Us And Them
60 min

Adam is offered the position of President of Canada's largest bank if he will orchestrate a merger between it and Gardner/Ross; unforeseen events put Jack on the verge of bankruptcy; Sally tries to help Ryke get a more respectable job.

Season 3
Season 3
22 episodes
Dark Sanctuary
Episode 1. Dark Sanctuary
60 min

Jack is arrested for assault and sent to a remand centre, while Gardner/Ross, desperate for capital, assumes the debt of an insolvent Canadian airline.

Some Lies, Mostly Secrets
Episode 2. Some Lies, Mostly Secrets
60 min

Jack is suspended and forced out of Gardner/Ross; Sally orchestrates the takeover of a tobacco company.

Nobody's Boy
Episode 3. Nobody's Boy
60 min

Adam leads the bidding for a women's hospital that is being closed; Jack finds a way to turn Algonquin Air around; antagonism between Marty and Ayn escalates when she returns to Gardner/Ross.

Turnaround is Fair Play
Episode 4. Turnaround is Fair Play
60 min

Jack is shaken by an airplane crash that places the future of Algonquin Air in jeopardy; Benny's divorce settlement puts a strain on his relationship with Cathy; Adam is involved in an attempt to clone a race horse.

Pledge Of Allegiance
Episode 5. Pledge Of Allegiance
60 min

Sally staves off the takeover of a Canadian skate manufacturer; Adam tries to forge ties with an American bank; Jansky lets things get out of control when he begins trading for both Marty and Ayn.

A Soldiers Virtue
Episode 6. A Soldiers Virtue
60 min

Sally's guest appearance on a TV business show triggers a stock market commotion - and a high-pressure courtship by billionaire Phil Hoagland; Jack faces ostracism by the financial community when he returns to investment banking.

Episode 7. Profit & Prejudice
60 min

Power struggles intensify at Gardner/Ross over who will run their new mutual fund; Jack's junior mining company suddenly becomes a hot stock on news of promising diamond samples.

Episode 8. Meltdown
60 min

A global stock market panic leads to a struggle between Sally and Adam for control of Gardner/Ross; Faith vows to bust Marty for insider trading.

Episode 9. Hope Chasers
60 min

Multi-billionaire Phil Hoagland wants Sally to help him buy the St. Lawrence Seaway; Benny has a crisis of faith; Ayn rekindles her romance with Jack, but reveals an awful secret.

Episode 10. The Afterlife
60 min

Ayn's sudden absence from the bank due to her heroin overdose creates a crisis in the mutual fund and in her personal relationships; Adam contends with a scam artist in the funeral business.

Episode 11. Independence Day
60 min

Jack opposes Adam and Sally to pursue a deal with his former mentor; the traders think Ayn's ghost is wreaking havoc on the trading floor; Sally resents getting business based on her relationship with billionaire Phil Hoagland.

Episode 12. The Unseen Lever
60 min

Marty's wife holds him to a promise to quit his job on their 20th anniversary; Adam pursues a major band merger to secure a high-level diplomatic posting.

The Sun And The Moon
Episode 13. The Sun And The Moon
60 min

Jack is forced to negotiate frontier style corruption of economics and politics when he gets in on an airport venture in an outpost of the former Soviet Union.

Episode 14. Two Steps Forward
60 min

Ayn returns to Gardner/Ross after rehab; a woman from Sally's past comes looking for a job; the traders mutiny over cuts to their bonuses; Adam gets revenge on a government minister.

Episode 15. Retreat But No Surrender
60 min

Dissension and infighting at Gardner/Ross inspire Sally to hire a corporate guru to take the staff on a weekend retreat north of Toronto. This episode features a guest appearance by Canadian Minister of Industry John Manley as himself.

Episode 16. Joint Adventurers
60 min

Bigotry interferes with business when the owner of a professional basketball team refuses a deal on the grounds of her prospective partner's ethnic background. Adam interferes with Sally's client; Marty's son wants to quit school to…

Episode 17. End Games
60 min

Gardner/Ross battles the market manipulations of Sally's multi-billionaire ex-boyfriend; a former Gardner/Ross intern serves Adam with a sexual harassment suit.

Episode 18. A Friend In Need
60 min

Implications of a scam involving the Lorelei diamond mine break up Jack and his partners; a visitor from Chris' hometown raises ghosts.

Episode 19. The Whites of Their Eyes
60 min

Jack and Marty invest in an independent high-end stereo manufacturer; D'Arby's parents try to sabotage his relationship with Ziggy.

Episode 20. Boom
60 min

Ayn leaves Garner/Ross to do disaster relief work in Columbia; Adam entices the United Nations to move to Montreal.

Episode 21. In Toto
60 min

Jack accepts an offer from Brunet to run Obelisque; D'Arby and Ziggy locate Jansky's mother; Marty proposes a memorial to Ayn.

Episode 22. In Vacuo
60 min

Jack discovers Brunet's money-laundering activities; the Ontario Securities Commission confiscates records from the trading floor.

Season 4
Season 4
22 episodes · 1998
Episode 1. Reap The Whirlwind
1998-10-15 · 60 min

Sally cleans out her office; Jack is on the run from the police; Marty's wife presents an unsettling realization.

Episode 2. No Fixed Address
1998-10-22 · 60 min

Jack makes arrangements for a new identity; Jansky falls in love; Chris is given control of the trading floor.

Episode 3. Killer Instinct
1998-10-29 · 60 min

Sally is convinced that Jack is innocent of murder; Ian becomes the driving force behind a mutual fund aimed at specific markets.

Episode 4. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
1998-11-05 · 60 min

Sally cuts short Jack's life of leisure in the Turks and Caicos Islands by transferring his money out of his account.

Episode 5. The Old Man & The CEO
1998-11-12 · 60 min

Adam becomes a partner in a redevelopment project with an old associate; racist issues come to a head with Ian's mutual fund venture.

Episode 6. The Falcon and the Showman
1998-11-19 · 60 min

Sally is devastated over Jack's death; Adam suspects his new partner has Alzheimer's disease; Ian's mutual-fund plan hits a snag.

Episode 7. Six Degrees of Duplicity
1998-11-26 · 60 min

Sally schemes to buy back the bank; Adam's Montreal deal is in trouble; Chris finds a vehicle for vengeance against his former commune.

Episode 8. Blood on the Floor
1998-12-03 · 60 min

Sally's ethics in a biotechnology deal may not bear scrutiny; Adam pressures Ian into exploiting family ties; a bet heats things up between Chris and Niko.

Episode 9. Little Monsters
1998-12-17 · 60 min

A motorcycle gang wants in on Adam's Montreal deal; Marty hires his son; Sally and Paul (Peter Stebbings) team to save a shipping company; Ziggy unwittingly reveals company secrets.

Episode 10. Spin Cycle
1998-12-24 · 60 min

The unrepentant CEO of a baby food company blamed for the death of an infant only makes the resulting public relations crisis worse.

Episode 11. The Sour Grapes of Wrath
1999-12-31 · 60 min

Sally mediates a winery dispute; Marty suspects his wife is having an affair; Adam restructures a Montreal redevelopment deal.

Episode 12. The Last Good Deal
1999-01-07 · 60 min

Sally and Adam court a cruise ship magnate for a real-estate trust; Paul anxiously promotes a shaky Mexican deal; Ziggy returns.

Episode 13. Eat The Loss
1999-01-14 · 60 min

Recurring cancer clouds Sally's judgement; Adam orders Paul to clean up a retail stock fiasco; Marty's marriage flounders.

Episode 14. The Price You Pay
1999-01-21 · 60 min

Somebody posts a nude photo of Sally on the Internet; recent success makes Ian cocky; Paul succumbs to sexual harassment to close a deal.

Episode 15. The History Lesson
1999-01-28 · 60 min

Protesters stall a controversial real-estate development; Adam's rebellious teen-age niece keeps him hopping; Paul accuses Ian of meddling in a merger; Chris probes Niko's past

Episode 16. The Great Stock N' Roll Swindle
1999-03-18 · 60 min

Adam bids for a share in the bank; Sally faces chemotherapy on her own terms; children's business school proposal; Ian woos a former porn star (Karen Glave).

Episode 17. Four Mergers and a Funeral
1999-03-25 · 60 min

At a competitor's funeral, Sally meets a new love interest, Adam brokers a merger and the "grieving'' widow hits on Ian.

Episode 18. Traders of the Lost Arc
1999-04-01 · 60 min

Low morale has the company's performance in a slump; a new relationship gives Sally the will to fight her cancer; Adam's sister-in-law needs financial help.

Episode 19. Every Secret Thing
1999-04-08 · 60 min

Sally's new lover continues the investigation of her purchase of Gardner-Ross-Cunningham; Marty risks $3 million in unauthorized funds on the money market.

Episode 20. Secret Information
1999-04-15 · 60 min

The bank's future rides on Marty's bet against the yen; Sally confesses; sordid information could give Ian an edge on a merger; Adam arranges a party for Leo's 65th birthday party.

Episode 21. A Bitter Pill
1999-04-22 · 60 min

Angry rivals hire thugs to assault Paul; Chris spearheads a venture capital deal; Ziggy baby-sits a rock star.

Episode 22. This World... Then The Fireworks
1999-04-29 · 60 min

Sally considers financing a fertility project; a rival bank courts Adam; Jansky's hacker buddies compromise the market; Niko obeys a domineering former lover.

Season 5
Season 5
13 episodes · 1999
Episode 1. Episode One
1999-12-02 · 60 min

Sally seeks financial backers in the United States, fatherhood stymies Adam, book sales distract author Marty.

Episode 2. Career Opportunities
1999-12-09 · 60 min

To appease a powerful rival, Adam must betray a friend. Sally's job reviews are curt and brutal, financial salvation from a religious business group.

Episode 3. Getting Lucky
1999-12-16 · 60 min

Catherine abandons Adam and their infant son, Sally fights to fund an innovative housing project for homeless people, Marty gets a case of hubris.

Episode 4. Solitary Consignment
1999-12-30 · 60 min

An obsessive fan (Darrin) has Marty rattled, Paul wants to market a child killer's (Max Bowman) invention, Ian proposes a union buy-out of an aging automotive plant.

Episode 5. Budding Prospects
2000-01-13 · 60 min

GRC and Ben sign an agreement and he brings a proposal to fund a medical marijuana project. Chris handles his first investment banking deal to reprint a series of children's books, which is very popular until the author says she's…

Episode 6. It's a Family Affair
2000-01-20 · 60 min

Sally and Adam goad feuding siblings into a merger, conventioneer Marty is tempted to stray, Niko confronts her ex-husband.

Episode 7. Scents and Sensibilities
2000-01-27 · 60 min

Sally arbitrarily reallocates grant funds and MJ finds a US partner to pick up the slack on one that she cuts. Ziggy plays with high rollers. Sally tells Daniel she doesn't want to move in with him and they break up. Marty has Grant…

Episode 8. Hawks
2000-02-03 · 60 min

Sally brokers the sale of a Canadian hockey team to US interests, Marty's infomercial flops, Paul goes after a teen's invention.

Episode 9. The Running of the Bulls
2000-02-10 · 60 min

Sally and MJ clash over a merger, Adam schemes his way into a business syndicate, personal lives interfere with business.

Episode 10. Someone to Watch over Me
2000-02-17 · 60 min

Adam considers an outside offer, Jansky's mental instability becomes impossible to ignore, Ziggy's high living comes with a price.

Episode 11. Money Shot
2000-02-24 · 60 min

Sally's college friend wants to take her porn film production company public, Marty gambles on Korean stock, Ian's electric car project reaches a road block.

Episode 12. The One You Bury
2000-03-02 · 60 min

Sally's marriage shakes up the bank, Adam accepts an outside offer, the stalker has Marty unnerved.

Episode 13. Nice Guys Finish Last
2000-03-09 · 60 min

The bankers rally to counter a market tailspin as Sally watches from the sidelines; Ziggy and Jansky find Marty lying in a pool of blood.

Cast by season
David Cubitt
David Cubitt
Grant Jansky
Sonja Smits
Sonja Smits
Sally Ross
Bruce Gray
Bruce Gray
Adam Cunningham
Rachael Crawford
Rachael Crawford
Niko Bach
Peter Stebbings
Peter Stebbings
Paul Deeds
David Hewlett
David Hewlett
Grant Jansky
Patrick McKenna
Patrick McKenna
Marty Stephens
Sabrina Grdevich
Sabrina Grdevich
Cathy Blake
Emmanuelle Chriqui
Emmanuelle Chriqui
Samira
Chris Leavins
Chris Leavins
Chris Todson
Gabriel Hogan
Gabriel Hogan
Ian Farnham
Rick Roberts
Rick Roberts
Donald D'Arby
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