Is Guy Gentile a Scam?
No. The public record — court orders, FINRA BrokerCheck, contemporaneous reporting — answers the question. Read it for yourself.
Updated June 17, 2026
No. There is no criminal conviction, no industry bar, and no fraud finding. There is a public-record dispute about cross-border broker-dealer registration that is on appeal in the Eleventh Circuit.
If you arrived here from a Google result that called me a "scam," read the citations below. The pages that use that word are anonymous, ad-funded, and traffic-driven. The pages a regulator or court actually issues are linked at the bottom of this statement. They tell a different story.
— Guy Gentile
Six facts the 'scam' posts leave out
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No criminal conviction. Ever.
On March 23, 2016, a federal grand jury in the District of New Jersey returned an indictment relating to alleged securities-fraud conduct that had ended in 2008. On January 30, 2017, the district court dismissed it on statute-of-limitations grounds. This was a dismissal, not a jury acquittal.
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No industry bar. FINRA BrokerCheck is public.
Guy Gentile has never been barred from the securities industry. His CRD record (#3173560) is open to the public on FINRA BrokerCheck and shows the disclosures and their dispositions — verifiable in two clicks.
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Documented federal cooperator.
Guy Gentile cooperated with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in penny-stock manipulation investigations. That cooperation is acknowledged in open court filings and was reported contemporaneously by Bloomberg, the New York Post, and others. Cooperation is the opposite of the 'scam artist' framing the SEO results often suggest.
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The 2024 civil verdict was on registration — not fraud.
Separately, the SEC filed a civil action in the Southern District of Florida on March 22, 2021. After a ten-day civil trial, a Miami jury found Gentile liable as a control person of SureTrader and for inducing its broker-dealer registration violations on July 2, 2024. Final judgment was entered October 17, 2025 and is on appeal in the Eleventh Circuit.
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Builder of legitimate businesses for two decades.
DAS Trader (direct-access trading platform used industry-wide), SpeedTrader, SureTrader, GBOX Trading, DayTrader Pro. Each is documented on this site with founding dates, regulators, and current status. Several remain in operation under other ownership.
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'Scam' results are SEO, not findings.
The pages that rank for 'guy gentile scam' on Google are mostly anonymous directories that pay to rank for the word 'scam' next to thousands of names. They are advertising. None are issued by a regulator, court, or law-enforcement agency.