Quote Originally Posted by Ice View Post
I did this last Fall in Econ 351 Money and Banking. It was when the market was going CRAZY and I mean crazy. I'd short the entire market using futures and it would drop 500 points or something. I had 500,000 to start and turned around 50% profit. I think I finished near the top of my class.
Well done! I myself barely managed to scrape by with 10% profit. But this was back in high school, and I didn't care much for it.