Million Dollar Traders - 12_18.flv Video

Eight ordinary people are given a million dollars, a fortnight of intensive training and two months to run their own hedge fund. Can they make a killing?

The experiment reveals the inner workings of a City trading floor. The money is supplied by hedge fund manager Lex van Dam: he wants to see if ordinary people can beat the professionals, and he expects a return on his investment too. Yet no-one foresees the financial crisis that lies ahead.

The traders were selected in spring 2008, before the US credit crisis gathered pace. The successful candidates were chosen, trained and dispatched to their specially created trading room in the heart of the Square Mile. Among them are an environmentalist, a soldier, a boxing promoter, an entrepreneur, a retired IT consultant, a vet, a student and a shopkeeper.

As the novices learn the dark art of trading stocks and shares, the financial markets start to buckle. Making money takes second place to basic survival as the brutal realities of global economics take their toll on the traders. How do they cope? Will they secure themselves a bonus, or walk away with nothing?

Trouble is these ...
Trouble is these guys can't see potential when it's? there. If they just tell the broker to reverse all Simon's trades then they'd have a profit making machine.

That girl is? ...
That girl is? stupid. Just as bad as the old man.

PEACE? SIMON!!!
PEACE? SIMON!!!

SEE YA? SIMON, SEE ...
SEE YA? SIMON, SEE YA!