The LSE Directory / Trading influencers
Andrew Rader, known online as Rader Trader, is a young American equities and options trader who built his audience on TikTok under the tagline "Market Mechanic," posting content on tape reading, breakout setups, expansion zones, and how options market makers' hedging moves equity markets. He describes himself as a professional prop-desk trader with "years on a trade desk," was interviewed by TraderTV Live as a 19-year-old full-time trader in January 2022, and returned as a guest on the Toronto-based show in 2024; he also appeared on the Bears, Bulls & Bourbon podcast in 2022. He is the founder and author of The Rader Report (theraderreport.com), a subscription platform ($0 free tier, $35/mo Basic, $75/mo Pro) offering weekly trade-idea reports, seasonality and sector-rotation tools, open interest/gamma and expected-move dashboards, a Discord community, and weekly Zoom sessions. As of July 2026 his accounts show roughly 139K TikTok followers, 105K Instagram followers, 16.6K YouTube subscribers, and 4.8K followers on X.
