New York Magazine’s $72 Million Teenage Stock Trader Says He Made It All Up

By: Terrence McCoy | Washington Post

Sixteen-year-old Mohammed Islam wants you to think he’s a big shot. On his Web site, Ettaz Financial, he wears a pair of fogged-over glasses, expression serious, sporting a red tie on a snowy day. The New York high-school junior says he got interested in the financial industry “at the tender age of 8,” quickly fell into the third-rate world of penny stocks before graduating to the futures market after finding “a love for risk and volatility.” How much has he made? Millions, he said. His net worth has soared into the “high eight figures.