Must-Watch Movies for Traders

The MBS-pools were rated up to AA with a ton of non-performing loans. IIRC 8% nonperf resulted in a technical default. So you go 90-days no pay and boom. You had desks shorting CDS in AA-A paper while shorting subprime outright. The AA was just high-priced dog shit that had further to fall.

Ahem. AIG. LEH's 5%ers.

Margin Call acted as if this one risk-dept had an "a-ha" moment. Completely implausible and pandering.


Mmmm, I cannot fathom much of what you mentioned there about the rated paper, but it sounds like it was a clusterfuck in the making. Do you see this scenario developing now, or are all these folks calling for another recession due to corporate debt and sub-prime autoloans just doing the chicken-little thing? Should we be worried, as bulls?
 
Mmmm, I cannot fathom much of what you mentioned there about the rated paper, but it sounds like it was a clusterfuck in the making. Do you see this scenario developing now, or are all these folks calling for another recession due to corporate debt and sub-prime autoloans just doing the chicken-little thing? Should we be worried, as bulls?


The world deleveraged, so I don't see a similar scenario playing out. I do see stagflation and massive job losses in 2020. The deficits will result in flat to negative GDP and recession.

For example, I am heavily short automakers (globally).
 
A quirky 80's film 'Quicksilver' staring Kevin Bacon. He is a down & out bike messenger in San Francisco, a washed out trader that went bust that gets one more chance to hit it big time trading.

You can watch fo free on

 
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One more trading film 'Billionaire Boys Club', based on a true story - the dark side of trading OPM. Privileged kids set out to make a fortune trading futures, they end up killing their investors to cover their loses.



Have you actually SEEN the remake? The worst movie of the decade.
 
The world deleveraged, so I don't see a similar scenario playing out. I do see stagflation and massive job losses in 2020. The deficits will result in flat to negative GDP and recession.

For example, I am heavily short automakers (globally).

Well yeah, I hope you were short in that POS Tesla. Just the idea of Musk's personality made me believe that thing was dogtown. Asshole electric cars.

And now England has a prime minister who thinks all energy for electric cars comes from that magical fount of ephemerism, the PLUG!

 
What are some TV series that traders can watch and learn useful things? Billions is a TV drama about hedge funds but I don't know what useful stuff can be learnt from there.
 
What are some TV series that traders can watch and learn useful things?

The second season of Black Monday is out on Showtime. You might not learn anything, but it is funny as hell. This time it is the American Savings and Loan....
 
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