Mohammed Islam, a 17 year old high school student, has made $72 million playing stock markets. The kid from Queens has achieved all this by trading stocks on his lunch breaks, New York magazine reports in its 15th Dec issue.
Islam considers Paul Tudor Jones as his guru and is targeting a billion dollar by the end of next year. He hopes to start a hedge fund after he turns 18.
Read the full report here:
http://nymag.com/news/articles/reasonstoloveny/2014/mohammed-islam-stock-trading/
Update as on 16th Dec 2014: The whole story was fake and boy has admitted it in a separate interview. Read the full post here:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/mohammed-islam-boy-who-made-dollar72m-in-his-lunch-break-admits-he-made-the-story-up/ar-BBgRm6B
Rumour.
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