About

Simon's biography

Simon Allerton Cawkwell (born October 1946) a British stock market commentator, share trader, and author, best known for writing a thrice-weekly diary at the now dissolved T1ps.com, publicly identifying companies whose share price he believes will fall and betting his own money on such falls.[1] He is currently an author, public speaker + podcaster, known as Evil Knievil, his best known output is Evil Diaries on the Master Investor website.

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Simon is the son of George Cawkwell, the historian and former Vice Master of University College, Oxford. He was educated at the Dragon School, in Oxford, and Rugby School.

His first job was an Articled clerk at accountancy firm Coopers & Lybrand. He worked in Zambia as a mines cost flow and taxation forecast accountant returning to the UK in 1973.

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Cawkwell was involved in exposing the fraud committed by Robert Maxwell specifically Maxwell Communication Corporation.

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Cawkwell did his first share trade in 1967 at the age of 21 and his first short position taken was MFI in 1973, it collapsed from 150p to 10p, he also made £1 million on short-selling shares in Northern Rock, Polly Peck and Amber Day.

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In the early 2000s, he made the correct prediction on the prices of gold stocks.

Cawkwell was listed amongst the World's top ten most famous traders of all time in 2019 by IG Group.