Trading Movies
I’ve been using Netflix streaming for about a month and watched my fair share of older movies. See Netflix streaming sucks if you want to see the latest movies. Its more of movie library of movies from a few years ago. They have some 2011 and some 2010 releases, but overall the selection is weak. However, they do have a good amount of National Geographic shows, PBS, and Documentaries which thankfully I love.
I got to watch “The Pit” today which focuses on the traders of NYBOT shortly before it was taken over by ICE and the traders shift, or lackof, from open outcry trading to electronic.
Floored, another documentary, this one focuses on the CBOE, in Chicago.
My Favorite movies about stock trading are the obvious. Wall Street is a classic. Trading Places as well. However, Wall Street 2, sucks balls. They try to smush 3 or 4 different buzz themes between CDS, Madoff, Carryover Trade, Hedge Fund takeover, that really doesn’t make sense. Some people loved Wall Street 2, but I hated it and I’ve still watched a few times to try and like it. Nope.
Boiler Room – also a classic. So reminds of those late 90s, early 2000 boom boom days.
The Wall Street Warriors series on Mojo that featured different traders including some at SMB Capital, and Timothy Sykes. This series was actually pretty awesome. When I saw this the market was doing its bull run from 2007 – right off the July 2006 bottom.
Also awesome, the Documentary about John Paul Tudor Jones. Check it out on Youtube.
I know I’m leaving out a few that I can’t remember at this point. If you think of a few leave em in the comments.
