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A curated collection of films, documentaries and trading-related videos exploring market psychology, trading culture and the mindset behind professional trading.
It includes both iconic movies and rare documentary projects that reveal the behind-the-scenes of the exchange industry, help understand the psychology of successful traders, and capture the atmosphere of high-stakes financial games. The Westernpips team created this section because we believe that learning and motivation are not always about dry charts and tables. Cinema allows you to experience more deeply the emotions, strategies, and risks traders face. The stories of real and fictional characters give our clients a new perspective on HFT trading, inspire them, and strengthen their determination to succeed.
Our goal is not just entertainment, but broadening horizons, shaping the right mindset, and providing a constant reminder: outstanding results in trading are achieved by those who combine knowledge, experience, and inner drive.
A mysterious pill that enables the user to access 100% of his brain's abilities transforms a struggling writer into a financial wizard, but it also puts him in a new world with many dangers.
Quants are the math wizards and computer programmers in the engine room of our global financial system who designed the financial products that almost crashed Wall street. The credit crunch has shown how the global financial system has become increasingly dependent on mathematical models trying to quantify human (economic) behaviour. Now the quants are at the heart of yet another technological revolution in finance: trading at the speed of light.
The film chronicles the 2008 financial crisis, focusing on the collapse of Lehman Brothers investment bank and the subsequent ripple effects on the global economy. As the firm's negotiations with potential buyers fail due to toxic assets and regulatory obstacles, the firm declares bankruptcy, triggering market chaos.
Viktor Sovetov, co-founder of the HFT company Lynx Capital, a specialist in parallel computing and high-load systems, developer of smart routing algorithms and compliance filters for trading on U.S. stock exchanges.
In 1987, Jordan Belfort takes an entry-level job at a Wall Street brokerage firm. By the early 1990s, while still in his 20s, Belfort founds his own firm, Stratton Oakmont. Together with his trusted lieutenant and a merry band of brokers, Belfort makes a huge fortune by defrauding wealthy investors out of millions. However, while Belfort and his cronies partake in a hedonistic brew of sex, drugs and thrills, the SEC and the FBI close in on his empire of excess.
The Risk Of High-Frequency Trading - Should we believe big brands their ethical claims? Are big brands violating regional and international laws? The strategies and underhand tactics of global corporations are exposed in this unsparing documentary. High-frequency trading - a practice invented by Wall Street. Thousands of computers are linked together, buying and selling thousands of market shares.
Margin Call (2011) is a financial thriller set during the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. The story takes place over a 24-hour period at a large Wall Street investment bank, where junior analysts discover that the firm holds toxic assets that could bankrupt it. As the crisis unfolds, executives scramble to make decisions that could save the company but devastate the market. The film explores themes of greed, moral compromise, and the human cost of high-stakes finance.
EP 088: A former-high frequency trader talks speed, market structure, and dark pools—Dave Lauer Dave Lauer is a former-high frequency trader for firms such as Citadel and Allston Trading. He’s worked specifically in various areas of the HFT pipeline, including; research and modelling, building hardware, and programming and operating strategies—which are measured in millionths of a second (or microseconds).
What a great movie. In my opinion, it is one of the best stock market movies with a lineup of excellent actors – Brad Pitt, Steve Carrell, Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale, and more. The only problem with this movie, in my view, is that it relates to a very specific time and place. It explains perfectly the 2008 financial crisis, the corruption of the US financial system, and the way some traders and hedge fund managers exploited the stock market crash (that is the big short).
Time is Money. In high frequency trading the fastest data network makes the deal. Computers trade against computers solely committed to the logic of their algorithms. Essentially, they are warring bots – money bots. In the beginning, the intention was to use greater predictability and faster infrastructure to increase the stability of financial markets.
Cousins from New York, Vincent and Anton are players in the high-stakes game of High Frequency Trading.
Their dream? To build a fiber-optic cable straight line between Kansas and New Jersey, making them millions.
Together they push each other and everyone around them to breaking point on their quixotic adventure, while their old boss Eva Torres will stop at nothing to beat them at their own game.
A thriller about a genius algorithm builder who dared to stand up against Wall Street. Haim Bodek, aka The Algo Arms Dealer. After Quants: the Alchemists of Wall Street and Money & Speed: Inside the Black Box. This is the final episode of a trilogy in search of the winners and losers of the tech revolution on Wall Street. Trading on the financial market is not longer dominated by humans, but by super fast computers and algorithms.
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