Series: Profiles
Legends and characters of trading and forex
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Bill Lipschutz: the sultan of currencies who lost everything first
He turned a $12,000 inheritance into $250,000 in college — then lost it all on one trade. That loss made him one of the greatest currency traders alive.
JUL/13/20262 min read
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George Soros: the man who broke the Bank of England
On one day in 1992, a single fund bet $10 billion the pound would break — and a central bank surrendered. A clean lesson in price versus fundamentals.
JUL/13/20262 min read
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Jesse Livermore: the boy who shorted the 1929 crash
He made $100 million betting the 1929 crash would come — then lost every cent. The Boy Plunger’s real lesson isn’t timing; it’s discipline and risk.
JUL/13/20262 min read
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Andrew Krieger: the man who shorted an entire country
The 1987 legend who shorted the New Zealand dollar with a position bigger than the country's money supply — and what it really teaches about currency strength, liquidity and leverage.
JUL/12/20262 min read
