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.


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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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…

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…

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…

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.…

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,…

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.…


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…

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…

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, 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.


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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
Implications of a scam involving the Lorelei diamond mine break up Jack and his partners; a visitor from Chris' hometown raises ghosts.
Jack and Marty invest in an independent high-end stereo manufacturer; D'Arby's parents try to sabotage his relationship with Ziggy.
Ayn leaves Garner/Ross to do disaster relief work in Columbia; Adam entices the United Nations to move to Montreal.
Jack accepts an offer from Brunet to run Obelisque; D'Arby and Ziggy locate Jansky's mother; Marty proposes a memorial to Ayn.
Jack discovers Brunet's money-laundering activities; the Ontario Securities Commission confiscates records from the trading floor.

Sally cleans out her office; Jack is on the run from the police; Marty's wife presents an unsettling realization.
Jack makes arrangements for a new identity; Jansky falls in love; Chris is given control of the trading floor.
Sally is convinced that Jack is innocent of murder; Ian becomes the driving force behind a mutual fund aimed at specific markets.
Sally cuts short Jack's life of leisure in the Turks and Caicos Islands by transferring his money out of his account.
Adam becomes a partner in a redevelopment project with an old associate; racist issues come to a head with Ian's mutual fund venture.
Sally is devastated over Jack's death; Adam suspects his new partner has Alzheimer's disease; Ian's mutual-fund plan hits a snag.
Sally schemes to buy back the bank; Adam's Montreal deal is in trouble; Chris finds a vehicle for vengeance against his former commune.
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.
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.
The unrepentant CEO of a baby food company blamed for the death of an infant only makes the resulting public relations crisis worse.
Sally mediates a winery dispute; Marty suspects his wife is having an affair; Adam restructures a Montreal redevelopment deal.
Sally and Adam court a cruise ship magnate for a real-estate trust; Paul anxiously promotes a shaky Mexican deal; Ziggy returns.
Recurring cancer clouds Sally's judgement; Adam orders Paul to clean up a retail stock fiasco; Marty's marriage flounders.
Somebody posts a nude photo of Sally on the Internet; recent success makes Ian cocky; Paul succumbs to sexual harassment to close a deal.
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
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).
At a competitor's funeral, Sally meets a new love interest, Adam brokers a merger and the "grieving'' widow hits on Ian.
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.
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.
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.
Angry rivals hire thugs to assault Paul; Chris spearheads a venture capital deal; Ziggy baby-sits a rock star.
Sally considers financing a fertility project; a rival bank courts Adam; Jansky's hacker buddies compromise the market; Niko obeys a domineering former lover.

Sally seeks financial backers in the United States, fatherhood stymies Adam, book sales distract author Marty.
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.
Catherine abandons Adam and their infant son, Sally fights to fund an innovative housing project for homeless people, Marty gets a case of hubris.
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.
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…
Sally and Adam goad feuding siblings into a merger, conventioneer Marty is tempted to stray, Niko confronts her ex-husband.
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…
Sally brokers the sale of a Canadian hockey team to US interests, Marty's infomercial flops, Paul goes after a teen's invention.
Sally and MJ clash over a merger, Adam schemes his way into a business syndicate, personal lives interfere with business.
Adam considers an outside offer, Jansky's mental instability becomes impossible to ignore, Ziggy's high living comes with a price.
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.
Sally's marriage shakes up the bank, Adam accepts an outside offer, the stalker has Marty unnerved.
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.
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