Nicolas Darvas

How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market

Darvas introduces himself through his work as a nightclub dancer and an unusual proposed payment for an engagement. The performance did not take place; he says he bought the shares with his own money, then treated the unexpected gain as an invitation to enter a market he barely understood. This self-portrait establishes the novice whose later confidence the book repeatedly revises.

Author’s own opening account in Chapter 1; not an independently verified biography or transaction record. · lines 111–129