Stock trader

A stock trader or equity trader or share trader is a person or company involved in trading equity securities. Stock traders may be an agent, hedger, arbitrageur, speculator, stockbroker or investor. A stock investor is an individual or company who puts money to use by the purchase of equity securities, offering potential profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value (capital gains). This buy-and-hold long term strategy is passive in nature, as opposed to speculation, which is typically active in nature. Many stock speculators will trade bonds (and possibly other financial assets) as well. Stock speculation is a risky and complex occupation because the direction of the markets are generally unpredictable and lack transparency, also financial regulators are sometimes unable to adequately detect, prevent and remediate irregularities committed by malicious listed companies or other financial market participants. In addition, the financial markets are usually subjected to speculation.

Wall Street

Wall Street is a 0.7-mile-long (1.1 km) street running eight blocks, roughly northwest to southeast, from Broadway to South Street on the East River in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial sector (even if financial firms are not physically located there), or signifying New York-based financial interests.

Anchored by Wall Street, New York City has been called both the most economically powerful city and the leading financial center of the world, and the city is home to the world's two largest stock exchanges by total market capitalization, the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Several other major exchanges have or had headquarters in the Wall Street area, including the New York Mercantile Exchange, the New York Board of Trade, and the former American Stock Exchange.

History

Early years

There are varying accounts about how the Dutch-named "de Waal Straat" got its name. A generally accepted version is that the name of the street was derived from an earthen wall on the northern boundary of the New Amsterdam settlement, perhaps to protect against English colonial encroachment or incursions by Native Americans. A conflicting explanation is that Wall Street was named after Walloons— the Dutch name for a Walloon is Waal. Among the first settlers that embarked on the ship "Nieu Nederlandt" in 1624 were 30 Walloon families. The Dutch word "wal" can be translated as "rampart". However, even some English maps show the name as Waal Straat, and not as Wal Straat.

Million Dollar Traders

Million Dollar Traders was a 2009 British reality television series devised by hedge fund manager Lex van Dam, which attempted to recreate the famous Turtle Traders experiment devised by Richard Dennis in the 1980s.

Background

Million Dollar Traders followed a group of twelve wannabe traders dealing in shares during the events of the financial crisis of 2007-2009 which was then whittled down to the final eight. The contestants came from various backgrounds, including a fight promoter, a day trader, an IT/banking recruitment consultant, a working mother, a retired IT engineer and a student, among others. During the series van Dam gave the London-based contestants the sterling equivalent of $1 million of his own money to trade for 2 months. Former professional trader Anton Kreil, was appointed as the manager of the group.

As with the original experiment, those who lasted the course broadly confirmed the claim that novices could become professional-level traders, making small profits or at least lower losses trading in very turbulent markets during the filming than professionals, who lost four times greater amounts over the same period. The three-part BBC series, narrated by Andrew Lincoln, was a part of the "City Season" programming on the BBC. It aired on BBC 2 in the UK at 9pm on Monday evenings between 12 and 27 January 2009.

'Stock Trader' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Aku no kyôten (2012)

Actors: Mitsuru Fukikoshi (actor), Takashi Miike (writer), Kôji Endô (composer), Takashi Miike (director), Saki Takaoka (actress), Takayuki Yamada (actor), Minami Ichikawa (producer), Shôta Sometani (actor), Ken'ichi Takitô (actor), Hideaki Itô (actor), Kento Hayashi (actor), Daniel Genalo (actor), Fumi Nikaidô (actress), Tomoyuki Imai (producer), Akihiro Yamauchi (producer),

Genres: Thriller,

Deeper and Deeper (2010)

Actors: Drew Waters (actor), Ann M. Doria (miscellaneous crew), Cyndi Williams (writer), Cyndi Williams (actress), Jon Michael Davis (actor), Mike Rembis (actor), David Lago (actor), Talon Rios (actor), Mariusz Kotowski (director), Mariusz Kotowski (writer), Mariusz Kotowski (producer), Seth Kozak (actor), Gilda Longoria (producer), Marissa D'Onofrio (actress), Ashley Serrao (actress),

Plot: Obsession and lust are a recipe for disaster in this psychological thriller directed by Polish born Director Mariusz Kotowski. Ryan (David Lago) is an insecure, lonely bank teller who is fated to always want what he cannot have. When the power driven, sexually aloof Angelica (Lisa Marie Lamendola) struts into his bank, his bizarre infatuation is set into high gear. Desperate to know everything about her, Ryan stumbles upon the perfect opportunity to position himself in a place of power and silent possession. He is hired by the needy, empty-nester Dolores (Cyndi Williams) to be her part-time maintenance man and surrogate son, as she sets him up in her dead son's apartment with a window directly across from his object of desire. From this new voyeuristic vantage point, Ryan's passion plummets safely down the barrel of a telescope. At a coward's distance, he witnesses the revolving door of suitors unqualified for his beloved's affections. Finally, convinced he is the only one to bring Angelica true happiness, he makes his move only to realize that he himself has unknowingly been the object of obsessive examination, which results in a staged tragic final escape. A provocative sexually charged game of cat and mouse where one never knows who laid the trap.

Keywords: ambulance, apartment-building, bank, bank-teller, bathtub, coffee-bar, coffeehouse, deceit, dream-sequence, erotica
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller,
Taglines: In a world of obsession, there's no telling who will fall. Close your blinds...you never know who's watching.

The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

Actors: Steve Tisch (producer), Carol DePasquale (miscellaneous crew), Thandie Newton (actress), Ming Lo (actor), Unjoo Lee Byars (miscellaneous crew), Will Smith (producer), Will Smith (actor), Kurt Fuller (actor), David Fine (actor), James Karen (actor), Dan Castellaneta (actor), Andrea Guerra (composer), George Cheung (actor), Joslyn Rose Lyons (miscellaneous crew), Jim Lau (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Based on a true story about a man named Christopher Gardner. Gardner has invested heavily in a device known as a "Bone Density scanner". He feels like he has made these devices. However, they do not sell as they are marginally better than the current technology at a much higher price. As Gardner tries to figure out how to sell them, his wife leaves him, he loses his house, his bank account, and credit cards. Forced to live out in the streets with his son, Gardner is now desperate to find a steady job; he takes on a job as a stockbroker, but before he can receive pay, he needs to go through 6 months of training, and to sell his devices.

Keywords: 1980s, ambition, american-football, based-on-true-story, blockbuster, break-up, bus, chinatown-san-francisco, eviction, father-son-relationship
Genres: Biography, Drama,

Quotes:

Christopher: You're a good papa.

Christopher Gardner: You gotta trust me, all right?::Christopher: I trust you.::Christopher Gardner: 'Cause I'm getting a better job

Christopher Gardner: I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old. I made up my mind that when I had children, my children were going to know who their father was.

Christopher Gardner: Hey. Don't ever let somebody tell you... You can't do something. Not even me. All right?::Christopher: All right.::Christopher Gardner: You got a dream... You gotta protect it. People can't do somethin' themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it. If you want somethin', go get it. Period.

Christopher Gardner: There's no salary?::Jay Twistle: No.::Christopher Gardner: I was not aware of that. My circumstances have changed some.

Martin Frohm: What would you say if man walked in here with no shirt, and I hired him? What would you say?::Christopher Gardner: He must have had on some really nice pants.

Christopher Gardner: [about the spelling mistakes in the graffiti of a building] It's not H-A-P-P-Y-N-E-S-S Happiness is spelled with an "I" instead of a "Y"::Christopher: Oh, okay. Is "Fuck" spelled right?::Christopher Gardner: Um, yes. "Fuck" is spelled right but you shouldn't use that word.::Christopher: Why? What's it mean?::Christopher Gardner: It's, um, an adult word used to express anger and, uh, other things. But it's an adult word. It's spelled right, but don't use it.

Christopher Gardner: Probably means there's a good chance. Possibly means we might or we might not.::Christopher: Okay.::Christopher Gardner: So, what does probably mean?::Christopher: It means we have a good chance.::Christopher Gardner: And what does possibly mean?::Christopher: I know what it means! It means we're not going to the game.

Christopher Gardner: It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?

[repeated line]::Christopher: Where are we going?

Crime Ring (1938)

Actors: Stanley Blystone (actor), Harry Depp (actor), Edward Earle (actor), Jim Farley (actor), Paul Fix (actor), Byron Foulger (actor), Sumner Getchell (actor), Jonathan Hale (actor), Sherry Hall (actor), Chuck Hamilton (actor), Vinton Hayworth (actor), George Irving (actor), Selmer Jackson (actor), Tom Kennedy (actor), Allan Lane (actor),

Genres: Crime, Drama,

The House of Rothschild (1934)

Actors: Holmes Herbert (actor), Gilbert Emery (actor), Frank Hagney (actor), Paul Harvey (actor), Harry Allen (actor), Oscar Apfel (actor), Harold Entwistle (actor), E.H. Calvert (actor), Lumsden Hare (actor), Martin Faust (actor), Harry Cording (actor), Matthew Betz (actor), Max Davidson (actor), Nigel De Brulier (actor), Brandon Hurst (actor),

Plot: The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. From humble beginnings the business grows and helps to finance the war against Napoleon, but it's not always easy, especially because of the prejudices against Jews.