New York schoolboy who made $72MILLION trading stocks on his lunch breaks

Discussion in 'Wall St. News' started by trader99, Dec 14, 2014.

  1. Jerry030

    Jerry030

    Did anybody see the news story where the kid admitted too making up the whole story?
     
    #51     Dec 20, 2014
  2. kut2k2

    kut2k2

    Apparently lots of people believed. The author of the original NEW YORK magazine article and her editor, whoever recycled it in the UK Daily Mail, the OP of this thread, and wrbtrader.
     
    #52     Dec 20, 2014
  3. Paper trading + yellow press.
     
    #53     Dec 21, 2014
  4. traderob

    traderob

    And good to see ET traders (most) saw through the BS as soon as it was published.
     
    #54     Dec 21, 2014
    Occam and Aj2014 like this.
  5. Aj2014

    Aj2014

    never was a story more obviously a load of bollox than this one, lol
     
    #55     Dec 21, 2014
  6. Butterfly

    Butterfly

    let's not forget that the majority of people are dumb, that's why we have wars, Facebook, Religion, and blind Capitalism.
     
    #56     Dec 22, 2014
  7. blakpacman

    blakpacman

    #57     Dec 23, 2014
  8. Girls just want to have fun. This doesn't mean all are dumb.
     
    #58     Dec 23, 2014
  9. copa8

    copa8

    Better like being in HK, then say, Nigeria or Democratic Republic of Congo. :eek:
     
    #59     Jan 8, 2015
  10. kut2k2

    kut2k2

    Wow, you really went the extra mile to get that racist dig in. Must be hell being a klanboy: so many kneejerk reactions pulling you this way or that way. :p
     
    #60     Jan 9, 2015