It was 1997.
For weeks he had waited, today is the day as he watched the stock continued to tumble across Asia because of the Asian crisis. No daring soul is willing to stake their hard earned money into the market just yet. But he did the opposite.
By the end of the day, he had invested all his money as he accummulated the remaining stocks. Soon enough the stock prices, true to his prediction began to stablized. Within a year, the Singapore economy recovered and his stock rose to way above the mark that he had waited. Then he dumped his stock and earned close to a billion dollars
Earlier in 1996,
he had sold everything including his business to raised the funds after browsing through the internet. By a stroke of luck, it brought him to ratanaong blog dated 15 Feb 2008. On a page titled, Writer’s Island: Time Travel, he saw this article.
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did you know you can go to jail for insider information… look what happened to martha stewart!!!!LOL… very clever…
So clever! Loved it.
A clever take on the prompt.
Absolutely love this – it’s become timely again. If only…
in india, stock market is down. the best option is to lie low for a while.
your post reminded me of that.
Ingenious!
Very clever and timely post!
Make billions….ah I wish! I agree with everyone else, very clever! An original take on the prompt for sure!
I love crazy ideas!
Luck
Taking risks
Best sellers
Inventions
Innovations. . .
first present themselves as just crazy ideas, hard to believe. Nobody believes. Only the innovators, the icons, the dreamers do.
I wish you well.
~ Jeques
Clever.. very clever…loved it
read my take I live on…
Or maybe Microsoft and Apple when they first went public.
Oh, is that clever! What a great idea!
Neat! As I was reading this, Erica on All My Children was arrested for Insider Trading. I had to laugh at the “timeliness” of it all!
Nice piece of writing!
ohhh, i so love stories with a happy ending…. he didn’t melt, he didn’t float he just made money… yeah!