New York schoolboy made $72M trading stocks on his lunch breaks

How much money did he start with? Why not publish his complete trading history? With these kind of stories we are never given the actual data and I think it's dangerous as it encourages others to speculate with money they can't afford.

There was a story on CNN yesterday where a person said instead of paying off their student loan they had invested in the stock market and they were doing going great. Of course they neglect to mention that he started investing in 2009 and not in 2007.