Old trading docs
Last week, MrMacroMarkets tweeted a link to an old documentary on FX trading called Billion Dollar Day. It was amazing, and sent me down a rabbit hole of old trading videos.
Bulls and Bears, 1998 – Follows a group of futures traders in the late 1990s including John “Rambo” Moulton, a sarong-clad American working out of Queensland.
Trader, 1987– Paul Tudor-Jones in the 1980s is peak Wall Street in the 1980s.
Billion Dollar Day, 1985– Follows currency traders in the financial centres of London, New York and Hong Kong. This one is brimming with charming anachronisms
Let’s Deal Direct, 1984– Not a documentary per se but more of an educational advert for Bear Stearns’ mortgage-trading desk, of all things. Features some, umm, questionable acting and dialogue: “Could you use the bonds?” … “Yes sir, I CAN use the bonds” etc.
Black Wednesday, 1997– The BBC looks back at 1992’s Black Wednesday. It’s not quite as swash-buckling as some of the other videos on this list, but it does have some good trading colour from the day the Bank of England intervened in the currency market.