They won millions but I still think they could have made more, far more easily, by just putting it all into the SP500: http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winners/?ncid=edlinkushpmg00000135&te=Newser
Jesus, that's alot to read -- anything beyond four, bottom line sentences or so...I start to easily lose my focus and train of thought. Get to the point. It's like a nuclear missile...only 1% or 5% is the plutonium, active ingredient...while the rest of the 95% of it is just noise and fluffer or rocket fuel mass to get it there.
lol...Yeah I was going to warn that there was some not very relevant fluff in the article, but it's easy enuf to just skip over. Still, kinda interesting how, in the first part, a retired non-pro numbers hobbyist figured it out. You'd think someone like Phil Ivey would have also found out and and just ripped 'em for huge bucks. But then, he's probably not likely to spend 10hrs a day sifting through thousands of dollar tickets!
You don't need to challenge me to an official trading competition, per se. If you're able to trade/predict/manage the SPY/SPX/ES broad market chart on a daily basis...then you've matched wits with me. Amplify that skill...with leverage, options. -- and Live happily ever after. That's all he wrote. The End. If you're able to do that...you will have all the money you will ever need, or want. And That's...something to High-Five` about. -- Making Your Life, and Trading, Great Again. 2018, all the best,
1- What a fascinating story! 2- The editor of that piece should be fired immediately. Holy crap there was a lot of drivel included to get to the chase.