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Whiz kid stock picker: I didn't actually make $72M trading
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Whiz kid stock picker: I didn't actually make $72M trading
Scott Wapner | @ScottWapnercnbc
18 Mins Ago

The improbable story making the rounds today of the 17-year old whiz kid of Wall Street who is rumored to have made $72 million trading the markets, while still in high school, is being widely disputed.

Mohammed Islam, the alleged teenaged prodigy, said he had no idea where that dollar figure came from and that it's not accurate.

Instead the figure is believed to be a few million dollars, but Mr. Islam declined to be more specific.

"The attention is not what we expected – we never wanted the hype. This was about friends trying to make something exciting together, " Mr. Islam said in an exclusive CNBC interview.

Mr. Islam and one of his colleagues were scheduled to appear on CNBC's "Halftime Report" following the publication of a New York Magazine profile. The ensuing publicity however, and pre-interview by CNBC, prompted them to reconsider.

"We expected a regular article about what we hope to do" in our career, he said. "The way we were portrayed is not who we are."