Wait until that nerd masters futures trading, retires at 28 and shows up at his 10th reunion. Watch the women swoon the nerd...
That really is over simplifying it. Part of what makes a nerd a nerd is his or her fairly inept social skills. Mastering futures trading doesn't improve one's social skills. And nerds still have to compete with more charming, comparably successful individuals.
A lot of those women swooning at the nerd at the 10th anniversary are not great prizes themselves, and probably never were.
Women do consider financial success attractive in a man, but it's not the only thing. And as I said, it's not really that rare and the duds still have to compete with more dominant, more assertive, and more sexually appealing successful men. That swooning you mention is really overstated,