10 Greatest Traders of All Time
10 Greatest Traders of All Time 1. George Soros George Soros, aka "the man who broke the Bank of England," was born a Jew in Hungary in 1930, survived the Holocaust, and fled the country then. He is one of the most popular and famous traders worldwide. In England, Soros worked as a waiter or railway porter before he graduated from the London School of Economics. This finally led him to the banking world when he became a merchant banker at Singer and Friedlander. With his father’s help, he moved to the US to work at a Wall Street Brokerage firm. After his successful results at various firms, George established his hedge fund in 1970 called "Quantum." Here he rose to fame. In 1992, Soros made a huge bet against the British pound and earned $1 billion in just 24 hours. Quantum accumulated 3.9 billion pounds, and Soros borrowed more to raise a total of 5.5 billion pounds. But the British pound started to fall. And Soros shorted all 5.5 billion pounds against the German...