Ace is a trader who’s spent his life believing the markets are manipulated.
Fugazi stock market rallies always seemed at odds with a real economy that was suffering.
He’s adept at navigating live volatility one of the best in the game. In the intraday chaos, alongside the bots and algos that devastate anyone trying to beat the machine, Ace miraculously comes out ahead quarter after quarter, year after year.
He is a 1 percenter.
Not only did his accurate predictions make him popular among trading magnates, they also struck fear into Wall Street who worried their stock could be picked off next, causing heavy losses.
Ace’s central idea was simple: if a business was real and profitable, it was worth owning; if it wasn’t, he would apply insurmountable pressure to force the owner’s hand.
He was feared by Wall Street and revered by Main Street.
His eyes were set on a new business that generated no apparent income and offered no innovation. Worse, its supporters were dangerous, capable backers with seemingly endless capital. But that didn’t stop him.
Friends, family members, and former mentors urged him to let this one go. He had come this far, and there were other opportunities elsewhere. But he couldn’t shake the feeling that they were getting away with it.
He launched his campaign against the company and inflicted severe damage on the stock, but wave after wave of capital propped it back up. His leverage and his deployable capital was all but exhausted.
He was done.
With no access to fresh capital after his adversaries cut off funding, he was sued for his trading practices crippling his ability to act. The same practices the giant funds deployed; yet, alas, he was defeated.
Before leaving the world of markets, he whispered these predictions: