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How One Salmon Trade In Norway Made Millions

Some trades you forget by lunch. Others stick with you forever.

For me, one of those came early in my Wall Street career, when I was working for legendary hedge-fund manager Steve Cohen at his firm, SAC Capital.

I wasn’t managing hundreds of millions of dollars for Steve yet – that came later. At the time, I didn’t have a whole lot of experience under my belt.

What I did have was intuition… and it came in handy when I got a shot at a huge trade in – of all things – fish farms. As I’ll explain, this once-in-a-lifetime trade taught me some investing lessons that I still use today…

This post originally appeared at DailyWealth.