I suspect this thread may have been done. It's inspired by the fact that the Big Short just popped up on Netflix. That's a great film. And then I thought - I can't think of many others. Maybe Margin Call. There must be others. Or alternatively, really bad ones...
The poker boom was in part caused by many people seeing Rounders. Betfair needs a break through film like that!
Best trading films
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northbound
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Wall Street, a 1987 movie starring Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen
Also Million Dollar Traders
Not a film but a very good documentary all the same
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6ciY8u04Kk
Not a film but a very good documentary all the same
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6ciY8u04Kk
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wearthefoxhat
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Wall Street Warriors
Season 1 Part 1 --->6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuzSItFhJLg
Season 2 Part 1 ---->6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tiLkEaOPso
Season 1 Part 1 --->6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuzSItFhJLg
Season 2 Part 1 ---->6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tiLkEaOPso
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marksmeets302
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I agree, Wall Street is the best. These are also nice:
The Forecaster, about Martin Amstrong. It's more like a documentary, about a guy that claims to be able to predict market turns. There's a book that's almost similar but written from someone else's perspective. It's called Not my grandfathers wall street.
And of course Trader - The documentary. About Paul Tudor Jones. I heard it's a bit hard to come by, Tudor Jones wasn't too happy with the movie and he bought all copies. But the internet is the internet, and with a little effort you should be able to find it. Hopefully one day they will make a movie out of Pitbull, the book by Marty Schwartz. I have been reading that book at least once a year since 2000 or so.
The Forecaster, about Martin Amstrong. It's more like a documentary, about a guy that claims to be able to predict market turns. There's a book that's almost similar but written from someone else's perspective. It's called Not my grandfathers wall street.
And of course Trader - The documentary. About Paul Tudor Jones. I heard it's a bit hard to come by, Tudor Jones wasn't too happy with the movie and he bought all copies. But the internet is the internet, and with a little effort you should be able to find it. Hopefully one day they will make a movie out of Pitbull, the book by Marty Schwartz. I have been reading that book at least once a year since 2000 or so.
Plan to watch that - subject to spousal agreement! - tonight. It's on Amazon video, which makes it easy.
(I still find it astonishing how easy it is to get music and films these days. Kids will never really know that feeling!
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ShaunWhite
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I remember handing over the derivatives trading module my team had written to Barings. I told them a tick from Compliance should be mandatory, they said it would show things down and allowed the traders to effectively self certify as they did their compliance checking, such as it was, overnight. We changed it... The rest is history. The City has always been run by cowboys, public school idiots and gobshites who think they're too cool for rules. I don't know how more people from Barings didn't end up in jail, but I suspect their daddy's do; one of the guys I worked with had a father who was a Lord so fill in the blanks.
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Kafkaesque
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Perhaps more character-driven than specifically on the gritty of trading compared to some of the suggestions so far, but Billions is well worth a watch imo.....despite being a series rather than a film as the subject line dictates 
