Retail Trader

About the work

We are building a dataset of real retail trading behavior: complete brokerage trade histories, paired with the trader's own explanation of how they trade and why they made their biggest decisions.

This is a one-time task, paid a flat $400 on completion.

Who we are looking for

• Location: United States only.

• Trading experience: at least 2 years of active trading on your own account, and at least 1,000 trades over that period (about 2 per trading day).

• Instruments: stocks; options count too.

• Broker: your account is with a U.S. retail broker, such as Robinhood, Schwab, Fidelity, E*TRADE, Webull or Interactive Brokers.

• Background: any. No minimum education and any field of study, from current college students to graduate-degree holders. Non-finance professionals, finance professionals and full-time traders all qualify. Current or former professional traders can take part using their own personal account only.

• Age: 18 or older.

• Willing to share your complete brokerage trade history, with no trades removed.

Not a fit

• Fewer than 2 years of history, or fewer than 1,000 trades

• Trading only through an account you don't own, such as a managed, employer or prop-firm account

• Trading mostly crypto or futures

Data license agreement

Taking part requires signing Mercor's Expert Content License Agreement, which covers how your trading history and annotations are licensed and used. You sign it as part of applying.

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.