With his unruly hair, casually growing beard and slightly dated T-shirt, Dylan Collins, an unassuming figure standing in the crowd, may represent a different kind of professional trader than the conventionally well-dressed one.
Such traders do not want to be in the public eye, preferring to stay hidden most of the time, undisturbed by outsiders in their own trading world.
Astute enough, intelligent enough to seize trading opportunities in seconds, fearless enough to risk losing most of their net worth in one or two trades, disciplined enough and confident enough, perhaps they are born traders.
Mr. Dylan, who is only 25 years old, has earned $250,000 trading in the past two years and is now responsible for $3 million in capital, $2.7 million of which is funded by his boss and partner company, AMR
