Experience

The Bear Traps Report

• United States
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Macro Research & Client Relationships

  • Jul 2019 - Present

  The Bear Traps Report is an elite investment research publication focusing on global political and systemic risk with actionable trade ideas, published weekly. The service is tailored for asset managers, hedge funds, financial advisors, traders and more. Our report allows investors to spend a lot less time diving through research reports. We strive to get to the meat of what is moving markets. Along with actionable trade ideas, we provide clients with a timely, first-hand look at global political market moving events. Our teams on the ground in New York, Toronto, Washington, Puerto Rico, London, Brussels, Dublin, Rio (Brazil) and Beijing (China) bring you closer to what is moving markets. As governments and central banks drive markets, we turn these policy decisions into actionable trade ideas for clients around the world. Credit and political risks have a lot more impact on central bank policy decisions than economic data. Today, there is nothing more important than staying on top of global political systemic risk, these factors are moving markets like never before. Our independent investment research stems from an elite team of analysts and strategists with real trading floor experience. Bear Traps was founded by Lawrence McDonald, who has spent 30 years working on Wall Street. He was formerly a senior distressed debt trader at Lehman Brothers and was part of the team that made $2 billion betting against the U.S housing market. Show less


Blue Resources
• Ghana
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Managing Partner - Commodity Trading Company

  • Mar 2017 - Jun 2019

MBS Trading
• Germany
• Online and Mail Order Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Commodity Trader

  • Sep 2008 - Feb 2017

AGYSOFT
• France
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Communication Manager

  • 2002 - 2006

Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie Française au Canada
• Canada
• International Trade and Development
• Marketing Manager

  • 2000 - 2002