About the Book: How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market
Hungarian by birth, Nicolas Darvas trained as an economist at the University of
Budapest. Reluctant to remain in Hungary until either the Nazis or the Soviets
took over, he fled at the age of 23 with a forged exit visa and fifty pounds
sterling to stave off hunger in Istanbul, Turkey. During his off hours as a
dancer, he read some 200 books on the market and the great speculators, spending
as much as eight hours a day studying. Darvas invested his money into a couple
of stocks that had been hitting their