The Greatest Trades of All Time

1. John Paulson’s bet against subprime mortgages made his hedge fund a cool $15 billion in 2007, that is billion with a ‘B’. he is only one of a very exclusive club that was able to make this call and win with it. That was a call of a lifetime that everyone was blind to even deep into the crises.
2. Jesse Livermore’s call on the Crash of 1929, Jesse Livermore did not need any computer models, technical indicators, or derivatives to make $100 million dollars ($1.2 billion in today’s dollars) for his own personal account during a time where everyone was bullish and then everyone lost through shirts. It is an amazing day when you come home and your wife thinks you are ruined and you had the second best trading day of anyone in history.
3. John Templeton’s invested heavily into Japan during  the 1960s, when Japan was beginning its three-decade long economic miracle, Templeton was one of the country’s first

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