Aziz did not grow up wanting to be a trader. He grew up in Iran, lost his father young, emigrated to Canada, and earned a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of British Columbia. The pivot to markets came after a layoff in the early 2010s, when he started day-trading US equities from Vancouver and writing about the journey on what would later become bearbulltraders.com. His 2015 self-published How to Day Trade for a Living turned that journey into a category bestseller — it has since been translated into 20+ languages and is still listed among Amazon's best-selling day-trading books a decade later.

Bear Bull Traders, founded in 2016, grew out of reader questions about the book. It is a paid education and chat community with a multi-thousand member base, daily live trading rooms, simulators and a moderated mentorship program. Aziz himself trades a relatively orthodox US-equities momentum playbook — gap-and-go, opening-range, ABCD setups on mid-cap stocks — and his more recent work as founder of Peak Capital Trading (a Vancouver-based proprietary firm launched in 2020) extends the same edge to a funded-trader model.

Aziz is also, off-screen, an unusual public figure for the day-trading category: a serious mountaineer who in 2024 became the first Iranian man to summit all Seven Summits, carrying the Iranian flag to each peak. He is an active X presence under @BearBullTraders, frequently posts long personal threads about loss, divorce, and identity rather than trade-of-the-day content, and is the kind of modern, public, contactable trader the trading-tournaments.com directory was built to surface.