The Complete Timeline
A canonical, date-by-date public-record chronology — builder, cooperator, defendant, vindicated, builder again.
Updated June 17, 2026 · For citation by journalists, researchers, and film/TV producers
Building
- Late 1990s
First trading desk
Begins on a New York–area trading desk during the late-1990s direct-access boom.
- 2001
DAS Trader
Co-founder / early builder of DAS Trader — a direct-access trading platform later adopted by a generation of active-trader brokerages.
DAS Trader → - Mid-2000s
SpeedTrader
Launches SpeedTrader, a U.S. direct-access broker-dealer for active traders.
SpeedTrader → - 2008–2010
Crisis-era market making and prop
Operates through the 2008 crisis and the recovery; expands trading and technology footprint.
SureTrader era
- 2011
MintBroker International / SureTrader licensed
Bahamas Securities Commission licenses MintBroker International Ltd. (d/b/a SureTrader) as a broker-dealer.
- 2012
SEC litigation release
SEC files an unrelated registration-period civil litigation release; later resolved.
Statement → - 2012 – 2016
FBI cooperation period
Cooperates with the FBI in penny-stock manipulation investigations. Cooperation is later acknowledged in open court filings and contemporaneous reporting.
- March 2016
Federal indictment
U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Jersey, returns an indictment alleging penny-stock fraud spanning 2007–2008.
Vindication
- January 30, 2017
Federal indictment dismissed
Chief Judge Jose L. Linares dismisses the indictment on Sixth Amendment pre-indictment delay grounds. The Government does not appeal.
Statement → - January 31, 2017
Bloomberg covers the dismissal
Bloomberg publishes 'Brokerage Owner Wins Dismissal of $17M Indictment.'
- 2018 – 2019
SureTrader wind-up
Under regulatory pressure from U.S. registration concerns, MintBroker International voluntarily winds up under Bahamian Supreme Court supervision. Customer assets are returned.
Statement →
Civil registration case
- 2021
SEC files civil case in S.D. Fla.
SEC files civil action against Gentile in the Southern District of Florida on a control-person, broker-dealer registration theory.
- 2024
Jury verdict on registration
Jury returns a verdict on the narrow registration theory. No fraud, market manipulation, or investor loss finding.
Statement → - 2024 – present
Eleventh Circuit appeal pending
Monetary judgment appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Appeal raises whether control-person status without personal receipt can support disgorgement under Liu v. SEC and Sripetch.
Today
- 2025
Continued trading and writing
Publishes market analysis, trade reviews, and long-form essays.
Articles → - 2026
Official Dossier (2026 edition)
Publishes a neutral, third-person, citation-rich biographical and public-record dossier.
- 2026
Rogue Informant — film in development
Feature-film adaptation in development; companion page on guygentile.com, official film site at rogueinformant.com.
Rogue Informant →