Trading Movies?

Freefall is a good BBC fictional drama from a few years ago, not trading related directly.

More about the subprime mortgages, how they were packaged by banks and sold by brokers to people who could only afford the teaser rate.

It is a very good drama, definitely worth watching if you have 90minutes to kill.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JAReCTPaHY

9 parts in total.

I really enjoyed the way they showed the different atittudes to sex and relationships between the three main player types (banker,broker,buyer).
 
I just watched this. Although you don't see any trading, you do see Jeremy Irons making the decision to cut losses asap - worth watching it for this alone.


Margin Call

"A thriller that revolves around the key people at a investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the financial crisis."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615147/
 
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I just watched this. Although you don't see any trading, you do see Jeremy Irons making the decision to cut losses asap - worth watching it for this alone.


Margin Call

"A thriller that revolves around the key people at a investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the financial crisis."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615147/
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Saw it. Decent flick. Although not as entertaining as some others, it's definitely the most realistic as far as the floor layoffs, shaving guy, bridge guy, etc. It's still entertainment and not a documentary, so don't get mad at the occasional tacky lines. Anyone who was on the street during the end of 2008 will feel nostalgia! The nameless bank featured in the film takes place in AMEX tower (Lehman's old place).

I heard it had a tiny budget, maybe less than $1m (not sure though) - all I remember is looking at that old $90k Aston DB9 in the movie and thinking, 'well I bet that took up 15% of the budget...' :D
 
+1 for the positive review for margin call. one of my favorite lines is when seth of gossip girl fame says to will emerson:

seth: this is really gonna affect people isn't i?
will: yeah - it's gonna affect real people like me!

haha spoken like a true trader. i'm still waiting for an et movie where all of the famous et'ers are on one trading floor and we follow them for the day. here's the first scene...

a trader going by the screen name 'betterthanSAC' puts on a monster NG position 2 minutes ahead of the weekly inventory number. he pops open a red bull. and waits. he never understood why some traders get bored during the day. if you're bored just double your size. as the clock ticked down to 10:30 EST his heart pumped faster and faster. it was soooo cold last week. there would be a huge drawdown - it was only a question of how big.

NG drops 3% in a nanosecond. WTH? is this a bad quote? he punches NI<GO> into his bloomberg and finds the inventory number story. a drawdown of 53 bcf vs 150 expected. there is no justice in the world. he quickly did the mental math to see how much he lost. $0.45 x 10,000 x 100 cars = speed dial suicide hotline. it could've been worse - he could've been trading with real dollars instead of virtual ones.:D
 
after watching Margin Call, I have to watch Trading Places again, see how trading have evolved, both are good movies.

if you want movie about sales, Glengarry Glen Ross is classic, I was working in sale before, I can relate to it.
 
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