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‘God works in mysterious ways’: I became a Nvidia millionaire playing ‘World of Warcraft.’ Am I smart — or just lucky?

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In 2010 , a man quit his job and got a surprise pension check from the company for over $4,000 .

He decided to put it all in Nvidia stock; it was literally the first stock he ever bought.

In 2018 , Nvidia made a ride-or-die push to upgrade those graphics cards by revamping the graphics processing units.

Financial advisers have all sorts of methods for choosing stocks.

But there are no guarantees, even for the most forensic stock picker.

Technical analysis bypasses the underlying company’s fundamentals and instead looks for statistical patterns on stock charts that might foretell future price moves.

The idea here is that stock prices already reflect all the publicly available information about a particular company.

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