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10 Of The Best Bets On The Stock Market

Some people simply are gifted at spotting opportunities in the world and putting bets on something that can earn them thousands or even millions and even billions

let's dive in and look at 10 of the best and biggest bets in the financial sector that have paid off well for those that took the chance.

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Bill Ackman is a billionaire hedge fund manager. He had a feeling that the market and layoffs could pay off big for him. He made some defensive hedge bets in March 2020 and turned his $27 million position into a $2.6 billion gain.

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Bill Ackman

Andrew Hall

That paid off well for him as in 2008, in the nick of time on his bet, oil reached $100 and Hall cashed in on $100 million for his employer, Phibro, and got a giant portion of that $100 million for himself as well.

Neil Woodford

Twenty years ago, British hedge fund manager Neil Woodford invested in tobacco stocks, which were falling in price before the first dot-com bubble burst. 

David Tepper

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He made big investments in Bank of America and other then-struggling companies. He basically bought an enormous amount of distressed bank assets. That ended up netting his hedge fund $7 billion.

Simon Cawkwell

Simon Cawkwell is a British spread-better who in 2007 predicted the failure of the bank Northern Rock. He made a $1.2 million profit by short-selling shares of the doomed to fail bank.

Kyle Bass

Kyle Bass

Kyle Bass did. He made $4 billion by buying credit default accounts after the housing market collapsed in the last recession in the U.S.

Louis Bacon

Louis Bacon

Kyle Bass did. He made $4 billion by buying credit default accounts after the housing market collapsed in the last recession in the U.S.

Paul Tudor Jones

Paul Tudor Jones

Paul Tudor Jones was one of the few people to predict the Black Monday crash. He saw it coming, shorted his holdings on the stock market, and saw a 200% return for his investors and a $100 million paycheck for himself.

Andrew Krieger

Andrew Krieger

He made $300 million for his employer Bankers Trust when his sell positions were more than the entire money supply of New Zealand

George Soros

George Soros

1992 Black Wednesday UK currency crisis when he made $1 billion in one day after anticipating the British government would devalue the pound. He became known as the "man who broke the Bank of England