Martin S. Schwartz, known in the stock trade as Buzzy, is a formidable day trader who serves as example to virtually all aspiring stock traders. His first year as an independent stock trader netted him $600,000; he doubled this figure in the following year. Schwartz is quoted as revealing that he used to make about $70,000 per day trading, and on one day he actually netted several million dollars. As his frenetic trading consumed his life, a health related wakeup call forced him to slow down, and he has lived in a self imposed semi retirement and only participates in scaled backed trading from his Florida home.

Mister Copper, or mister 5%, was the lord of the copper. His reign was the London Metal Exchange (LME) which for years led the dancing.

From Tokyo, Yasuo Hamanaka, 48, moved 5% of the whole copper for sale on the planet. Until one day, he meet George Soros and the gang of American hedge funds and leave the house he worked for Sumitomo, the more big financial hole ever in the history of world markets.

George Soros has been credited by the magazine Forbes as the twenty-ninth richest person in the world with a net worth estimated at $ 11 billion.

On September 16, 1992 (Black Wednesday), Soros became famous by selling short more than $ 10 billion sterling, taking advantage of the reluctance on the part of the Bank of England is to increase their interest rates to levels comparable with those of other countries (the European Monetary System) is leaving the exchange rate of the floating currency.

In the seventies the U.S. economy was characterized, as in Europe, a rising rate of inflation. Hunt's family, one of the richest families in Texas, decided to protect themselves from the proposed devaluation of the dollar. Since U.S. laws prohibiting the possession of gold, the brothers William Herbert and Nelson Bunker Hunt pointed on silver slowly raking the metal sold. In 1973 the price of silver was $ 1.5 an ounce.