This kid wiped out $1 Trillion from the stock market.

He did it from his bedroom in under 40 minutes.

Wall Street panicked and lied to the public for years.

Here's how a gamer almost got away with the biggest trade in history:

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Navinder Sarao didn't start out rich.

He grew up poor near the Heathrow airport.

Quiet kid, with few friends.

His only passion was gaming.

More specifically, FIFA.

Sarao had one rare skill: Hyperfocus.

He would obsess over tiny details.

In FIFA, he was ranked among the world’s top 200.

The trick? Study his opponents' patterns...

Then do the exact opposite.

In college, a roommate introduced him to trading.

He quickly got obsessed.

Within weeks, he was trading nonstop

At first, he lost most of his student loans.

He called it "tuition" for his real education.

Sarao landed a job at a London trading firm.

He specialized in "scalping"—

Rapid trades, tiny profits.

His secret? Patience, patterns, precision.

But soon, he noticed big traders cheating the system.

Large firms were "spoofing":

Placing massive fake orders, then canceling at the last second.

They tricked the market, killing Sarao’s profits.

Nav decided to beat them at their own game...

He built his own trading bot.

His bot placed giant fake orders, tricking other bots into panic-selling.

Then he’d scoop profits as prices crashed.

In minutes, he made more than his parents' house was worth.

May 6, 2010: Sarao launched his boldest move.

He flooded the market with fake orders worth hundreds of millions.

Wall Street’s bots went crazy.

They dumped stocks automatically—no human control.

$1 trillion disappeared in 36 minutes.

Nav calmly ate dinner in his parents' kitchen.

Meanwhile...Wall Street was burning.

His algorithm kept printing money.

In under an hour, he'd earned $800,000.

Nobody suspected a thing.

Sarao continued trading from his bedroom for years.

No flashy cars.

Still rode a cheap scooter.

Nobody knew he had $65 million in offshore accounts.

But Wall Street needed someone to blame.