Senior At New York City's Stuyvesant High School Mohammed Islam Makes $72 Million Playing The Stock Market, Says He And His 2 Friends Hope To Make $1 Billion By Next Year

He’s a high-school student that has been dubbed by the New York Post as the “teen wolf of Wall Street.” Seventeen year old Mohammed Islam has reportedly made $72 million, trading stocks during his lunch break.

The financial prodigy began dabbling in penny stocks when he was 9-years-old, where he initially lost some money he’d made from tutoring. He swore off trading and thought, “I didn’t have the balls for it.”

But after studying modern finance and getting inspiration from the likes of billionaire hedge-fund manager Paul Tudor Jones, he began to succeed in what he was doing. Today, together with two of his friends, they intend to make a billion dollars by next year- before they even reach the age of 21.

The NYMag has ranked Islam’s success story as No. 12 in its 10th annual “Reasons to Love New York.” The Business Insider has listed him as one of the “20 Under 20,” teen traders who are trying to take over the finance world.

He says though that it’s not just about the money. Together with his friends, they intend “to create a brotherhood.” But it’s not just any brotherhood it seems, it’s one that has in it a lot of resources and influence. He mentions the Koch brothers as his inspiration; the sibling oil magnates who are worth $40 billion each.

Despite his success and the fact that he has bought a BMW that he can’t drive and a house in Manhattan, his parents who are immigrants from South Asia, won’t let him move out of the house just yet.

Though already a millionaire, Islam still aims to attend college majoring in finance and economics. “My main future plan is to continue trading,” he told the Business Insider, “learn from the best, and hopefully be able to find a mentor who is a great trader.”

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