It takes a certain type of character to succeed on Wall Street. It takes someone who combines a supreme level of self-confidence with analytical skills to accurately forecast a fall or rise in the value of an asset or company.
Stock trading is a cut-throat environment where sympathy for loss-making traders is in short supply. Those who play the stocks game know what they’re getting into and how brilliantly or badly it could go for them.
Every so often comes along an investor who manages to see something that most others don’t and put their neck on the line by shorting or going long on certain stock. When it comes off, they look like geniuses and they can enjoy their new-found reputation along with the millions they earned from their astute trading decisions.
Here is an infographic from Easy Life Cover which profiles 10 of the greatest trades of all time, including the men who correctly foresaw shock events such as the Wall Street Crash and the collapse of Enron.
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