Simon Cawkwell

Cawkwell spoke about his gambling life, Business Accounting, and the difference between stock market investing and betting in three interviews in November 2021.

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

He had a dispute with Sportingbet regarding the ball crossing the goal-line without a goal being given in the 2018 soccer World Cup competition. In 2014 he was reported to have made £150,000 in one week of sports betting.

He was forced to resign as a company director of Kryso Resources (renamed China Nonferrous Gold in 2013) after he was found to have broken the rules of the AIM stock exchange by buying shares during a prohibited period.

Simon Cawkwell also known as "Evil Knieval" lost £150,000 in 2012 due to the collapse of the Spread Betting Company World Spreads. World Spreads went into administration after its clients' accounts were found to show a shortfall of £13 million. The Financial Conduct Authority FCA publicly censored the Chief Executive Officer of Worldspreads for market abuse and banned him from performing any roles linked to regulated activity.

His short selling activities were curtailed by the Short-Selling Prohibition disclosure rules in 2008 requiring notification if the short position covered more than 0.25% of a company's shares, this expired in May 2020. Further short-selling notification thresholds were announced in January 2021.

Cawkwell trades on the betting exchange Betfair, he had a long-running dispute with the firm when his wager that Niall Quinn would not become permanent manager of Sunderland AFC was lost, despite Quinn's stating that he was taking the job only temporarily. Roy Keane took over the role a few weeks later in August 2006, after Betfair had settled the market. Betfair suspended Cawkwell's account in January 2020.

In March 2001, Cawkwell issued a $1 million legal claim against former Russian Deputy Prime Minister Boris Fedorov, in response to moves to take control of the Russian oil and gas company Gazprom. He was a director of Tranquillo, a major shareholder in Gazprom.

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

Cawkwell started his own accountancy firm in Jermyn Street, Mayfair. He also founded Company Communications Centre with two former directors of Oyez Group in 1978. Cawkwell was a director of Virgin Atlantic.

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.

Cawkwell did his first share trade in 1967 at the age of 21 and his first short position taken was MFI Group 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.

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. He is currently an author, public speaker + podcaster, known as Evil Knievil, his best known output is Evil Diaries on the Master Investor website.