Writer’s Island: Time Travel

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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14 Responses to “Writer’s Island: Time Travel”

  1. paisley Says:

    did you know you can go to jail for insider information… look what happened to martha stewart!!!!LOL… very clever…

  2. keith hillman Says:

    So clever! Loved it.

  3. AnthonyNorth Says:

    A clever take on the prompt.

  4. Tumblewords Says:

    Absolutely love this - it’s become timely again. If only…

  5. gautami tripathy Says:

    in india, stock market is down. the best option is to lie low for a while.

    your post reminded me of that.

  6. Chris Says:

    Ingenious!

  7. parisparfait Says:

    Very clever and timely post!

  8. Just Jen Says:

    Make billions….ah I wish! I agree with everyone else, very clever! An original take on the prompt for sure!

  9. jeques Says:

    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

  10. preethi Says:

    Clever.. very clever…loved it

    read my take I live on…

  11. Brian Says:

    Or maybe Microsoft and Apple when they first went public.

  12. Susan Helene Gottfried Says:

    Oh, is that clever! What a great idea!

  13. Scout Says:

    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!

  14. LittleWing Says:

    ohhh, i so love stories with a happy ending…. he didn’t melt, he didn’t float he just made money… yeah!

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