Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Wade Bruce Cook (born October 9, 1949) is an American author and self-proclaimed financial guru. Cook claims to have started his success when he was a taxi driver in the 1970s. His first book, Real Estate Money Machine, was originally self-published in 1981. An updated version was published in 1996. In the 1990s, Cook was notorious for paid radio programs which he used to market investment seminars. He claimed he could teach people to double their money every 2.5 to 4 months. The government forced him to recant that claim.Cook is a proponent of rolling stocks (stocks that regularly vacillate between "predictable" highs and lows) and has been very vocal about stock splits being a good way to make money, claiming that many stocks rose post split (since the end of the 1990s bull market, Cook has not been as strong a proponent of this concept). One of his more famous phrases was meter drop. Cook said that as a cab driver he learned that money was made every time the meter dropped, and that it was better to take many small fares rather than one big one.