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Modern stock trading was created in Amsterdam when a little known outfit called the "Dutch East India Company" became the first publicly traded company. To raise capital, the company sold stock and paid dividends of the shares to investors. One of those early investors, a farmer who had fallen on hard times, Uitstel Von Diamant, used the last of his savings to buy a few of those shares. When his bold investment was discovered by his family, he was shunned and spent the rest of his life in exile. He kept investing, however, and later when the DEIC consolidated, he made millions. He never sold his original shares though, and despite rumors that he had long since passed away, his estate continu...View all