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rothkowitz · Joined: 27 Apr 2006

10 grand NZ in a TV cricket competition.Only cost me a stamp.

Worked at an aluminium smelter as a holiday job one summer.
Xmas day double shift,triple(?)pay.Close to a grand NZ

ThePoet · Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 7:09 pm Post subject:

If I can get technical...

Back in high school, when I was going to a school for performing arts, a guy comes in to our class and asks if anyone wants to make some money saying lines for a commercial they are shooting.

I read two lines, and got 20 dollars. Now, if you multiply the number of minutes it took to say the two lines (2 minutes) times 20 dollars...technically I was making 3000 dollars an hour. Multiply that by an eight hour workday and thats 24,000 dollars.

Not bad for a days work...

Poet

toro · Joined: 11 Mar 2007

Got busted for 10 kilos cost me 80,000 or so U.S.

Now in Korea

rawiri · Joined: 01 Jun 2003 Location: Lovely day for a fire drill.

Yeah, i'm pretty sure that some of us could testify to making BIG coin by way of less than legal methods but given the podari's anti drug zeal it probably wouldn't be a good idea to go round skiting about it.

katsu · Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Location: here and there

got paid $4800.00 CAN in one day....(network marketing)

plokiju · Joined: 15 Mar 2005

Only 200,000 won I think. I feel sorry for myself now.

nwise · Joined: 22 Mar 2007

I made 35k USD or so overnight when the stock TASR was going parabolic back in 2004.(Think it was 04) Made about 120k that month from this stock buying it in pm and selling in a.m. Go ahead and flame me now and call BS. (but it is not)

Rapacious Mr. Batstove · Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Location: Central Areola

poet13 · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:44 pm Post subject:

About 175,000 US. Only took a minute. Divorce settlement.

Pak Yu Man · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Location: The Ida galaxy

About $90,000 US. Sold our apt in Daegu.

bobbyhanlon · Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Location: 서울

nah, i totally believe you.. i remember tasr... i made some money on that too, but i only had a small amount of it... i caught the bounce after the initial run-up and crash; i remember making 50% in a week on that thing. interestingly (for me) that trade was the turning point in my investing life... until then i had consisently lost money, and at that time i bought tasr, and luk (a great long term investment i would recommend to anyone) and made good money, as well as making money on some korean stocks. good times....

helly · Joined: 01 Apr 2003 Location: WORLDWIDE

About a grand, all teaching English in Korea (Regular job, multiple privates and a corporate workshop.) It was a long day.

nwise · Joined: 22 Mar 2007

gmat · Joined: 29 Jan 2003

In the late-1990's bull market, I heard a rumour from a friend in Boston (worked in finance industry) about some small Canadian stock. Bought in the morning sold the next morning for $30,000 gain. can't even remember the name of the stock Very Happy

. Paid off my younger sister's student loan with the proceeds. (What a crazy time that was in the market. Made about $100,000 in Sierra Wireless in my RRSP (Canadian version of IRA) in about a week around that same time. INSANE MARKET at that time.)

I do however remember the names of the stocks where I lost $30,000 in about 10 minutes. RFMD** and Copper Mountain : CMNT . Both were the stock disasters of the day on CNBC following earnings release (March 2000 at the bubble peak I believe). I was short naked puts on these two stocks. WTF was I thinking with naked puts. Confused

***I had made a lot of money on RFMD previously, but I certainly remember that loss.

nwise · Joined: 22 Mar 2007

GMAT

Yep, I've had my losers. 25k jnpr. 20k on some stock that billed itself as a defense stock but actually owned car washs. Unfortunetly, I did not know enough about the mkt to exploit the bubble back in 99.

Never did the options. Know a guy that owned 35 million worth of GOOG buying deep in the money calls. Dan Zanger.