Collapse Files · CF-004
My Life Was Failure. The Man Who Made $100 Million And Lost Everything.
Over nineteen years, Arthur Mead executed every trade for James Lavery, who became America's richest private trader after predicting the 1929 crash. However, Lavery lost everything three times before tragically taking his own life on November 28, 1940. Arthur is the only person who knows the four words he left as a note.
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