How I hacked the game of Wall Street


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How I hacked the game of Wall Street

When I was 21 years old I had two finance jobs.

Well, technically I had one job - and two incomes.

I was working as a trading assistant at Fisher Investments.

And my investment banking job had paid me (ahem, deferred me) to take the year off.

It was 2001 and I was making close to $125,000.

But was that a gift? Or a curse?


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