It's simply a story, wherein those with the intellect above that of an aphid won.

Risk? I made my bones as a leased seat Merc Jerk. No income from selling classes or trading techniques. Simply me against the pit. Didn't set the world on fire, but I made it ... not by filling paper ... not by taking the "edge" (legalized stealing against a deck) ... but by being right, more than I lost when I was wrong.

Talk New York. Talk Chicago (makes Mogadishu look like a Sunday regatta at the yacht club) ... They can scream, howl, and screech like a mohammedan ...

Intelligent, well educated risk takers took the other side ... and guess what? They won.