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'£830,000,000 – Nick Leeson and the Fall of the House of Barings', sometimes referred to as 25 Million Pounds, details the collapse of Barings Bank in the mid 1990s primarily by a broker called Nick Leeson, who lost £827 million ($1.3 billion) by speculating on futures contracts. The film...

'Inside Job' provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through...

A close look behind the scenes, between late March and mid-October, 2008: we follow Richard Fuld's benighted attempt to save Lehman Brothers; conversations among Hank Paulson (the Secretary of the Treasury), Ben Bernanke (chair of the Federal Reserve), and Tim Geithner (president of the New York...

A respected financial company is downsizing, and one of the victims is the risk-management division head, who was working on a major analysis just when he was let go. His protégé completes the study late into the night, then frantically calls his colleagues in about the company's financial...

Based on a true story, this humor-tinged docudrama follows F. Ross Johnson (James Garner), the CEO and president of the massive food and tobacco corporation RJR Nabisco, as he attempts to buy the company. Before long, other major players become involved, most notably ruthless executive Henry...

Three separate but parallel stories of the U.S mortgage housing crisis of 2005 are told. Michael Burry, an eccentric ex-physician turned one-eyed Scion Capital hedge fund manager, has traded traditional office attire for shorts, bare feet and a Supercuts haircut. He believes that the US housing...

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The Definitive Index of Trading Arcades / Prop Trading Firms Please add a reply to this thread with any Arcades we've missed, or to update the entries if any of the details shown are incorrect. Contents The5%ers Trading Fund Better Options Amsterdam FCT Group of Companies (London, Gibraltar...

WD Gann was a trader in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In 1909 his trading was invigilated for the month of October when he made 286 trades of which 264 were successful and his capital increased by 1000% Of all methods, it is his swing trading techniques which have maintained...

Kaufman gives us the following formula for calculating the risk of ruin: risk_of_ruin = ((1 - Edge)/(1 + Edge)) ^ Capital_Units Note: "Edge" is the probability of a win. We can see that the mechanics of the formula are such that the larger the value of Edge the lower will be the risk of ruin...