Anyone who believed this was gullible to the max.
There are no one-way fortunes to be made in the stock market.
Most successful speculators were pathetically inept at trading in the beginning and will tell you that.
Others had a good run going and lost it all and then some while shorting or using leverage.
Even if you were investing since you were 5, unless somebody was fronting you a lot of cash, there is no WA could be worth that much money in such a short period of time.
However, it’s certainly true that during the 90’s, a monkey, or cattle making cow pies on a grid, could make you serious money with four and five digit ROI’s.