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At the beginning of the show, Marty fires several of the trading staff after they leave the floor in response to a fire alarm while in the midst of executing a large trade. Jack approaches Navadyne, a GPS company with highly marketable technology products but lacking management expertise and capital to meet demand for its products. In looking for
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This ain't easy street …it's Wall Street and Larry can't remember the last time he slept. One of the biggest days in the OJ pit has just arrived and he stands to lose millions if his bets are off. Laetitia is feeling the pressure mount as well. As she approaches her 5th week of training, she contemplates her fate as a day trader and makes some hard
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This BBC Horizon documentary looks at the arrival of the age of "big data". While data has been around since the dawn of time, only recently has the technology evolved that has allowed us to more efficiently capture, store and interrogate the data. This has profound implications for financial markets, but it also has many other real world applicati
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This documentary from VPRO Tegenlicht examines the global commodities futures markets and aims to understand the role of speculation on food prices. The presenter raises a small pool of capital to trade agricultural commodities so he can gain a first hand understanding of the role of the speculator. He travels to Tunisia - a country where rising
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George Soros is one of the most interesting, inspiring, and influential investors of our time. From his upbringing during World War 2, to his large hedge fund positions that broke the Bank of England. George Soros is a self-made billionaire, hedge fund manager, philanthropist, and philosopher; certainly an individual we can learn from. This video
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This short documentary explains what the old LIFFE (London International Financial Futures Exchange - now a part of NYSE Euronext) was and how it worked. The LIFFE was established in 1982 at the Royal Exchange in The City of London in order to facilitate trading of currency futures and other financial derivative contracts; later expanding into a br
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This lecture by microfinance pioneer and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus, outlines the history of microfinance - the origins of the idea, how it works, and what the future holds. Microfinance is a fascinating and empowering innovation in finance, and essentially deploys the power of the market to help people help themselves. The main point
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"What happens after sorry?" During the financial crisis UK banking giant, RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland), revealed the biggest losses in British financial history. The chief of RBS, Fred Goodwin publicly apologised for their part in the banking crisis. Panorama asks "what happens after sorry?" in the wake of significant losses for shareholders, massi
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Jack Schwager has found fame through his 'market wizard' book series where he wrote up detailed interviews with some of the world's most successful traders. Be they stock traders, futures traders, currency traders, commodity traders, or mutual fund traders; the market wizards he interviews have all developed a winning method and style that helped t
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This BBC Panorama documentary essentially seeks to answer the question: 'have investment bankers and financial institutions learned any lessons from the meltdown or is it back to the old days?' I would say that it's back to the new days, and certainly this documentary shows the desperation to get back to business as usual - albeit with a few tweaks
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