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  • #1
  • First Post: Jul 4, 2010 4:36pm Jul 4, 2010 4:36pm
Hello

Just interested to know what your favourite trading book, TV show or movie is...

It could be Fiction or non fiction

Me:

Show: "Wall street warriors" was ok

Book: "Wolf of Wall Street",
"How I made 2 million dollars in the stock market" Nicolas Darvas
"Ugly Americans" Prob my favourite


Movie: I enjoyed the movie about Nic Leason and his rise and fall, for get the name, but haven't seen too many.

What about you?
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  • #2
  • Jul 4, 2010 4:42pm Jul 4, 2010 4:42pm
"Boiler Room" is pretty good.
  • #3
  • Jul 4, 2010 4:44pm Jul 4, 2010 4:44pm
Quoting Lonestar
"Boiler Room" is pretty good.
Movie?
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  • #4
  • Jul 4, 2010 4:45pm Jul 4, 2010 4:45pm
Yup.
  • #5
  • Jul 4, 2010 5:15pm Jul 4, 2010 5:15pm
Favorite book- Market Wizards .No other book makes you more motivated to want to to learn how to trade.

Favorite Trading Movie - The Perfect Murder with Michael Douglas.
Pretty realistic in that Michael Douglas was a Futures trader who was going broke but hiding it from his wife.
" Master Your Set-Up , Master Yourself "
  • #6
  • Jul 4, 2010 5:20pm Jul 4, 2010 5:20pm
Quoting EZTrades
Favorite book- Market Wizards .No other book makes you more motivated to want to to learn how to trade.

Favorite Trading Movie - The Perfect Murder with Michael Douglas.
Pretty realistic in that Michael Douglas was a Futures trader who was going broke but hiding it from his wife.
Ah yes I've seen that one - good movie

You make me want to buy Market Wizards I'm gonna have to now
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  • #7
  • Jul 4, 2010 7:45pm Jul 4, 2010 7:45pm
Quoting CindyXXXX
Movie: I enjoyed the movie about Nic Leason and his rise and fall, for get the name, but haven't seen too many.
Was that Rogue Trader with Ewan McGregor as Leeson? Good movie.
  • #8
  • Jul 4, 2010 8:10pm Jul 4, 2010 8:10pm
Wall Street, hands down.
  • #9
  • Jul 4, 2010 9:23pm Jul 4, 2010 9:23pm
Wall Street Warriors - Season 1.

I'm not a fan of trading movies as Hollywood tends to embellish on how traders work and the market. Everything seems so exciting and fast past when we all know, trading for the most part is dull. I usually on get about 5-10 min a week of high octane trading action usually after Non-Farm or some other volatile news release. The rest of my days are: waiting for entry signal, enter trade or waiting for exit signal, exit trade.

Did not like WSW Season 2 as it wasn't based on real trading. Based on junior brokers on an ego trip for Scan Disk and a college graduate that "knows" she wants to work in the investment world but didn't prepare for this career during college.
  • #10
  • Jul 4, 2010 9:46pm Jul 4, 2010 9:46pm
Heat (1995) by Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. Lots of stuff related to trading.
  • #11
  • Jul 4, 2010 10:22pm Jul 4, 2010 10:22pm
Quoting Banker
Heat (1995) by Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. Lots of stuff related to trading.
Sure: If you spot the heat coming around the corner, drop everything and walk.

But that is countered by: It's worth the stretch.

De Niro offers some good risk mangement advice, and then doesn't follow it.

Quoting Jhig
I'm not a fan of trading movies as Hollywood tends to embellish on how traders work and the market.
They have to - most if not all jobs are boring to an audience.
  • #12
  • Jul 4, 2010 11:13pm Jul 4, 2010 11:13pm
Then there's my favorite Holiday movie, Trading Places. Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, and a nubile young JLC.
  • #13
  • Jul 5, 2010 1:32am Jul 5, 2010 1:32am
Quoting hanover
Was that Rogue Trader with Ewan McGregor as Leeson? Good movie.
Thats the one - Loved it!
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  • #14
  • Jul 9, 2010 10:06pm Jul 9, 2010 10:06pm
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  • #15
  • Jul 11, 2010 3:34am Jul 11, 2010 3:34am
Quoting CindyXXXX
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGEGP...eature=related
bump de bump
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  • #16
  • Last Post: Jul 11, 2010 3:41pm Jul 11, 2010 3:41pm
One of my favourite Movies is - "Lord of the Rings" series. The director made all the three movies at the same time which was a huge gamble..All the 3 parts are fantastic!

Some of my favourite shows are - "Friends/Seinfeld/Everybody loves Raymond/The Office"!

All are hilarious. My wife and I sometime wonder what sense of humour the cast and crew must be carrying to come up with such hilarious shows!
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