Richard Dennis was around 23 years old and he was reported to have borrowed $1,600 and turned it into $200 million in about 10 years trading commodities. Borrowed $1,600 from his family and used $1,200 to pay for his seat and then started trading with only $400 trading capital. In 1970, he increased that $400 to $3,000. In 1973, his trading capital was $100,000 In 1974, he made $500,000 in profits just trading soybeans and at the end of that year, he was a millionaire and he was just shy of his 26th Birthday.
