Chapter 1: How did a chimpanzee named Raven outperform Wall Street?
So Monday, Volkswagen shares opened at €348, so that's up 66% from Friday's close.
Chapter 2: What illegal schemes did 14-year-old Jonathan Lebed execute?
They closed the day at $517.
Chapter 3: Why did Hertz's stock surge after filing for bankruptcy?
Tuesday, it got up to an intraday high of €999, which briefly made it the most valuable company in the world ahead of ExxonMobil and Microsoft before closing at €940.
Chapter 4: What triggered the famous Volkswagen short squeeze?
So for those who sold short on the Friday, if they had borrowed $100 million of stock
Chapter 5: How did a trading error lead to a $20 million windfall?
to sell short it would have cost them 450 million to buy it back welcome to stock club the podcast where we find and discuss stocks that anyone can buy many of which we believe will go on to grow your wealth mike how you doing this week i'm good i'm good i'm looking forward to this episode you uh you messaged me all excited with a bunch of gobbledygook but uh it does make sense
Chapter 6: What lessons can be learned from the chaos of the stock market?
We're going full quirk today because Mike, stock markets have existed for hundreds of years.
Chapter 7: What is the significance of Investicon and its upcoming event?
Amsterdam 1602 to be precise.
Chapter 8: Which story from the episode resonated most with the hosts?
And consequently, in such a system, there has been the inevitable collection of zany events that are either too much to believe or ludicrous and in some cases, downright funny. So this week, I suggested to you that we dive into the trivia of life and pitch each a few stories from the annals of the stock market, stock markets from around the world.
And I guess as usual, what we'll do at the very end is we'll just pick our favorite. We're not going to split 10 grand.
10 grand on the flash crash from someone's bedroom.
And the more you dive into this subject, you're like, that is wild. And then you find another story and it's even wilder. So as I understand, you're going to pitch two stories.
I was supposed to do three, but then I got so into one. And it's one of my favorite articles online. So I got really deep into that. So I didn't have time to do three. So I've gone very deep on one. I maybe forgot a small bit about the second one.
So what about we go me, you, me, you, me. Perfect. All right. Okay. Well, I'm going to keep my pitches fairly short because as you said, you're going to go deeper on one of them. And the first story, crazy story from the world of the stock market is the one where a chimp beat
wall street as opposed to my wall street and in 1999 at the height of the dot-com bubble there was a chimpanzee this is very bubble activity already like yeah oh it really is yeah i remember this her the chimpanzee chimpanzee's name was raven and she made stock picks uh through the traditional way by throwing darts at a list of 133 internet companies that were pinned to the board Right.
So they give Raven darts. She lashed them at the board and the resulting portfolio that she picked it basically with ballistics returned 213% in the year. And Raven finished as the 22nd most The 22nd most successful money manager, the 22nd most successful money manager in the United States that year.
And she later appeared as the most successful chimpanzee investor in Wall Street history, which is hardly surprising.
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