紐約高中生炒股勁賺5億
【明報專訊】美國紐約一名17歲高中生利用學校午膳時間炒股票，年紀輕輕已賺了估計7200萬美元（5.6億港元），不時帶朋友到餐廳吃貴價魚子醬。他明年的目標是賺到10億美元（約78億港元）。
學校午膳時炒股
17歲的伊斯蘭（Mohammed Islam）是孟加拉移民，現住在紐約皇后區。他9歲開始炒仙股，雖曾損手而回，但並未放棄，繼續鑽研股票並視著名對冲基金經理瓊斯（Paul Tudor Jones）為偶像，受其啟發學會屢敗屢戰精神。他常靠午膳時間炒期油、期金和中小型股，賺得千億身家。
常攜友享魚子醬
伊斯蘭現時擁有一輛寶馬汽車，但因未滿18歲，沒有駕駛執照，未能駕駛。他又在曼哈頓租了一個住宅單位，但父母不允許他搬出來獨居。他經常帶朋友到高級餐廳品嘗魚子醬及昂貴美食。他打算明年滿18歲後考取證券經理牌照，與朋友開設對冲基金公司，希望能賺得10億美元，但仍會繼續升學。
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紐約高中生炒股勁賺5億
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New York Magazine’s $72 million teenage stock trader says he made it all up
Seventeen-year-old Mohammed Islam wants you to think he’s a big shot. On his Web site, Ettaz Financial, he wears a pair of fogged-over glasses, expression serious, sporting a red tie on a snowy day. The New York high-school senior says he got interested in the financial industry “at the tender age of 8,” quickly fell into the third-rate world of penny stocks before graduating to the futures market after finding “a love for risk and volatility.” How much has he made? Millions, he said. His net worth has soared into the “high eight figures.”
The world is filled with teenagers like Mo Islam, who now says he never made a dime on the stock market. They play fast and loose with facts. But they don’t usually get the treatment Islam just got in Sunday’s issue of New York magazine.
Now the magazine has issued an apology for that story about the high school senior. “We were duped,” reads a statement released Tuesday and also posted as an editor’s note on the story itself. “Our fact-checking process was obviously inadequate; we take full responsibility and we should have known better. New York apologizes to our readers.”
The article, reported and written by staff writer Jessica Pressler, begins with a rumor. Someone — it’s unspecified who — said Mo had pocketed $72 million by trading penny stocks. “An unbelievable amount of money for anyone, not least a high-school student, but as far as rumors go, this one seemed legit,” Pressler wrote. The original headline: “A Stuyvesant Senior Made $72 Million Trading Stocks on His Lunch Break.”
“As part of the research process, the magazine sent a fact-checker to Stuyvesant [High School], where Islam produced a document that appeared to be a Chase bank statement attesting to an eight-figure bank account,” the magazine said Tuesday. “After the story’s publication, people questioned the $72 million figure in the headline, which was written by editors based on the rumored figure. The headline was amended.”
Coming on the heels of Rolling Stone’s disastrous story of a University of Virginia gang rape, though nowhere near as serious in its consequences, the story unraveled almost as quickly as it went viral. While the New York Post, the Daily Mail and the Guardian did their versions, New York Magazine’s was getting pounded in its comments section: “How dumb do you have to [be] to believe that this kid made $72M trading stocks during lunch?”
Then on Monday afternoon, Mo backed out of a spot on CNBC, confessing the $72 million figure was inaccurate. “The attention is not what we expected — we never wanted this hype,” he said. New York, however, stood by the story: “Our story portrays the $72 million figure as a rumor … we did not know the exact figure he has made in trades. However, Mohammed provided bank statements that showed he is worth eight figures, and he confirmed on the record that he’s worth eight figures.”
But now Mo says that was a lie, too. “You seem to be quoted saying, ‘eight figures,’” New York Observer editor Ken Kurson asked Islam in an interview on Monday. “That’s not true is it?”
“No, it is not true,” Islam said.
“Is there ANY figure? Have you invested and made returns at all?”
“No.”
“So, it’s total fiction?”
“Yes.”
The following morning, New York Magazine noted that interview with New York Observer: “Islam now says his entire story was made up. A source close to the Islam family told the Washington Post that the statements were falsified.”
In the hours since the story unraveled, Islam retained a lawyer and public relations firm, 5WPR, whose clients have included Snoop Dogg and Pamela Anderson. The firm’s president Ronn Torossian said Islam is a teenager “who is overwhelmed by all the attention he has received and he is sorry for anyone who has been hurt by this, but in the end of the day, let’s keep things in perspective.”
“He didn’t cheat anyone. He didn’t steal anything. He’s a kid who took a story too far,” Torossian added.
Islam’s lawyer, Edward Mermelstein, said the high school students’ folks were furious when they saw the story. “He’s holding up OK,” Mermelstein said in an interview. “But he’s obviously got to deal with his family, so that’s something that’s taking precedence.”
Mo Islam did appear to have a knack for stocks, Torossian said. But they were all simulated trades. At a high school investment club. With imagined revenues.
“ I had made even more than $72 million on the simulated trades,” Islam told the Observer. “… All I can say is for the simulated trades, I was very successful. The returns were incredible and outperformed the S&P.”
That’s all well and good. But how was he able to convince a reporter into thinking those returns had not only been real — but that he was worth “high eight figures?” A source close to the Islam family who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue told The Post Islam had “created some bulls—t thing on the computer with blacked out numbers. He said she could look at it for 10 seconds, and pulled it away.” The Washington Post couldn’t independently verify that claim.
In an editorial note published on Monday, New York Magazine had said the problems with the piece rested solely with the story’s headline, which it changed. The new one? “A Stuyvesant Senior Made Millions Picking Stocks. His Hedge Fund Opens as Soon As He Turns 18.”
Pressler is reportedly headed to Bloomberg News to write about the “culture of wealth and money.”
This story has been corrected and updated to add the magazine’s statement. An earlier version misstated Islam’s age and grade.
Seventeen-year-old Mohammed Islam wants you to think he’s a big shot. On his Web site, Ettaz Financial, he wears a pair of fogged-over glasses, expression serious, sporting a red tie on a snowy day. The New York high-school senior says he got interested in the financial industry “at the tender age of 8,” quickly fell into the third-rate world of penny stocks before graduating to the futures market after finding “a love for risk and volatility.” How much has he made? Millions, he said. His net worth has soared into the “high eight figures.”
The world is filled with teenagers like Mo Islam, who now says he never made a dime on the stock market. They play fast and loose with facts. But they don’t usually get the treatment Islam just got in Sunday’s issue of New York magazine.
Now the magazine has issued an apology for that story about the high school senior. “We were duped,” reads a statement released Tuesday and also posted as an editor’s note on the story itself. “Our fact-checking process was obviously inadequate; we take full responsibility and we should have known better. New York apologizes to our readers.”
The article, reported and written by staff writer Jessica Pressler, begins with a rumor. Someone — it’s unspecified who — said Mo had pocketed $72 million by trading penny stocks. “An unbelievable amount of money for anyone, not least a high-school student, but as far as rumors go, this one seemed legit,” Pressler wrote. The original headline: “A Stuyvesant Senior Made $72 Million Trading Stocks on His Lunch Break.”
“As part of the research process, the magazine sent a fact-checker to Stuyvesant [High School], where Islam produced a document that appeared to be a Chase bank statement attesting to an eight-figure bank account,” the magazine said Tuesday. “After the story’s publication, people questioned the $72 million figure in the headline, which was written by editors based on the rumored figure. The headline was amended.”
Coming on the heels of Rolling Stone’s disastrous story of a University of Virginia gang rape, though nowhere near as serious in its consequences, the story unraveled almost as quickly as it went viral. While the New York Post, the Daily Mail and the Guardian did their versions, New York Magazine’s was getting pounded in its comments section: “How dumb do you have to [be] to believe that this kid made $72M trading stocks during lunch?”
Then on Monday afternoon, Mo backed out of a spot on CNBC, confessing the $72 million figure was inaccurate. “The attention is not what we expected — we never wanted this hype,” he said. New York, however, stood by the story: “Our story portrays the $72 million figure as a rumor … we did not know the exact figure he has made in trades. However, Mohammed provided bank statements that showed he is worth eight figures, and he confirmed on the record that he’s worth eight figures.”
But now Mo says that was a lie, too. “You seem to be quoted saying, ‘eight figures,’” New York Observer editor Ken Kurson asked Islam in an interview on Monday. “That’s not true is it?”
“No, it is not true,” Islam said.
“Is there ANY figure? Have you invested and made returns at all?”
“No.”
“So, it’s total fiction?”
“Yes.”
The following morning, New York Magazine noted that interview with New York Observer: “Islam now says his entire story was made up. A source close to the Islam family told the Washington Post that the statements were falsified.”
In the hours since the story unraveled, Islam retained a lawyer and public relations firm, 5WPR, whose clients have included Snoop Dogg and Pamela Anderson. The firm’s president Ronn Torossian said Islam is a teenager “who is overwhelmed by all the attention he has received and he is sorry for anyone who has been hurt by this, but in the end of the day, let’s keep things in perspective.”
“He didn’t cheat anyone. He didn’t steal anything. He’s a kid who took a story too far,” Torossian added.
Islam’s lawyer, Edward Mermelstein, said the high school students’ folks were furious when they saw the story. “He’s holding up OK,” Mermelstein said in an interview. “But he’s obviously got to deal with his family, so that’s something that’s taking precedence.”
Mo Islam did appear to have a knack for stocks, Torossian said. But they were all simulated trades. At a high school investment club. With imagined revenues.
“ I had made even more than $72 million on the simulated trades,” Islam told the Observer. “… All I can say is for the simulated trades, I was very successful. The returns were incredible and outperformed the S&P.”
That’s all well and good. But how was he able to convince a reporter into thinking those returns had not only been real — but that he was worth “high eight figures?” A source close to the Islam family who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue told The Post Islam had “created some bulls—t thing on the computer with blacked out numbers. He said she could look at it for 10 seconds, and pulled it away.” The Washington Post couldn’t independently verify that claim.
In an editorial note published on Monday, New York Magazine had said the problems with the piece rested solely with the story’s headline, which it changed. The new one? “A Stuyvesant Senior Made Millions Picking Stocks. His Hedge Fund Opens as Soon As He Turns 18.”
Pressler is reportedly headed to Bloomberg News to write about the “culture of wealth and money.”
This story has been corrected and updated to add the magazine’s statement. An earlier version misstated Islam’s age and grade.