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How an Upper-Crust Trader’s Stock Disaster Spiraled Into Suicide

‘DEVASTATING’

William Tyler Allen’s parents say the 27-year-old should never have been allowed to make risky trades, as he was “quite impulsive” after suffering a traumatic brain injury.

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A cognitively impaired Connecticut man who died by suicide in 2021 after losing $700,000 trading stocks online never should have been allowed to make the highly risky investments, his family says.

William Tyler Allen’s traumatic brain injury made him “quite impulsive, which often led him to act without fully considering the...

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