His whole narrative he crafted was really unbelievable. I watched a video of him explaining his story, expecting to hear some story of finding consistent signals that stayed alive for a long time or finding crafty wording in bond contracts, but the whole story was that he took a punt on the GFC being worse than the market expected, and he made low 8 figures. And somehow, because of this, by some measure, he was the best trader in the world.

I too was the best trader in the world when I got some skittles from my friend in the playground for free and sold them to another kid for a dollar making an infinity percent profit, but I didn’t feel the need to make a YouTube career out of it.