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People search Guy Gentile and find court documents. Documents are one side of a story. Here is the other side — plainly, in order, with nothing skipped.
Guy Gentile has spent thirty years in a business that generates paperwork. Some of that paperwork is public and unflattering, and he has never asked for it to be hidden. What he asks is that anyone reading it also reads the rest — including the part where he cooperated with the federal government for nearly three years, and the part where a jury of twelve people heard the case against him and did not take a full day to reject it.
Has Guy Gentile ever been convicted of a crime?
No. Not once. He was indicted, spent nine years answering that indictment, and went to trial in federal court in Miami. The jury came back in less than a day in his favor. Everything else you will read about him is either a civil matter, a regulatory filing, or somebody's press release.
Did he really cooperate with the FBI?
Yes — about 31 months of it, including a body wire, recorded meetings and a great deal of pretending to be the dumbest man in the room. He was never paid for it and he did not ask for a medal. When his cooperation leaked, the same government he had worked for came after him. That is the whole spine of the memoir.
What was SureTrader?
SureTrader was the retail-facing brand of MintBroker International, a Bahamas-licensed direct-access broker-dealer he founded. It gave active traders leverage and execution that U.S. pattern-day-trader rules did not allow. Regulators on both sides of the water disagreed with how that business served American customers. Those proceedings were civil and regulatory. The firm wound down.
What about the penalties reported in the press?
Civil judgments and fines have been entered in those regulatory matters and reported widely, including figures in the nine-figure range. Guy's position — stated publicly and on the record with the press — is that the numbers are a regulator's arithmetic, not a finding that he committed a crime, and that his legacy is the thirty years of trading and the traders he taught along the way.
Why write books about all of this?
Because the alternative is letting a docket write your biography. Court filings are written by lawyers to win cases; they are not written to be true to a life. Guy put his version in print — names, dates, rooms, mistakes and all — so anyone who wants the story can read it from the person who lived it instead of skimming a PDF.
What is he doing now?
Trading his own money, every session, and writing. Four titles are out on Amazon: a memoir, a career story, a trading field manual and a book of rules on money and freedom.
Read the long version
The full account — the knock at the door, the wire, the leak, the indictment and the verdict — is in Bro, I'm Going Rogue. The career around it is in The Stock Operator. The method that made all of it possible is in Rogue Alpha.
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