still? he "appeared" as a master trader during the dot-com boom, no?
i'd be surprised if he ever made any income from trading - otherwise, why write a book??
i think it's more like he wrote the book, then blew most of the profits in the markets...but i could be wrong...i'm biased because a)his books are crap; b)his books are crap.
either way you look at it, the quality of his books suggests that he apparently knows zero about the markets.