Recently New York Magazine ran that story about a high school student who made $72 million by trading stocks.. Well… New York Magazine f**ked up and f**ked up bad. The million dollar kid everyone has been raving about ,is 17 year old Mohammed Islam, and he has already came out and admitted he made the whole story up. The Mohammed Islam Story Is A Lie and His net worth wasn’t just “a bit blown out of proportion”, it was completely fabricated.