Traders is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on Global Television Network from 1995 to 2000.

Although Global had locked up most of NBC's "Must See Thursday" situation comedies for their Thursday night broadcasts, they lost the rights to broadcast the medical drama ER to rival CTV. Traders was broadcast against ER in the Thursday at 10 p.m. time slot. Many critics at the time believed the show would die an early death against the time slot competition, as ER had even beaten the other American networks in the time slot in a convincing manner. However, despite the stiff competition, Traders got good ratings in part thanks to its lead-ins.

The show was set in a Bay Street investment bank, Gardner Ross. Bruce Gray and Sonja Smits starred as the firm's head partners, Adam Cunningham and Sally Ross. The cast also included Patrick McKenna, David Cubitt, Rick Roberts, Chris Leavins, Gabriel Hogan, David Hewlett, Peter Stebbings and Alex Carter.

The show, although one of the most popular Canadian television series of its era, was expensive to produce. In the 1998-1999 season, Global entered a joint production arrangement with CBC Television, and the series aired on both networks for several months. However, this arrangement didn't last into the show's next season.

Unlike many Canadian produced dramas which left their locale a question mark, Traders clearly takes place in Canada, and used Canadian locations, issues, celebrities and politicians as regular fixtures in the show.

Near the peak of its run Traders was frequently nominated in the Gemini Awards, garnering 28 nominations and nine wins during the run of the series. Most notable of the Gemini wins is the two consecutive awards for Best Dramatic Series in 1998. Also in 1998, McKenna became the only actor in the history of the Gemini Awards to win for best actor in a drama series (for Traders) and best actor in a comedy (for The Red Green Show) in the same year.

Traders reruns currently air on Canadian digital television station, CBC Country Canada, as well as TVtropolis and the W Network.

In the setting of the Toronto-based investment house, Gardner/Ross, Traders explores the intimate lives and loves, the mystique and monetary machinations of investment bankers whose high-stakes decisions and sizzling alliances can have grave international consequences. Written by Cale McCallum