Why were these Pacific Coast traders leaning on the calls?
The stock had gone down from 160 to 138, and then inched its way back up to 150.1 guess they didn't think
it was going to go up anymore. On May 9 at 9:20 they stopped trading in Teledyne because of news pending. The
news comes across the tape: "Teledyne Announces a Stock Repurchase Program at $200 per Share."
Buying back their own stock?
Yes. The stock was at $155, and I owned the $180 calls. Overnight, I made millions. The stock eventually
went up to $300. The next four to five months were great.
What happened after that?
One of my goals in life was to become a millionaire before I was thirty and retire. Well, I was a millionaire
before I was twenty-five. I had decided to retire when I was thirty. On May 5, 1985, my thirtieth birthday, I walked
off the floor and said good-bye to everybody and that was it. I was never going to come back to the floor.
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