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Rating:  - Excellent movie!!
I recently became a big fan of Ewan McGregor. While I was looking through all the movies he's been in and reading the reviews, I was unsure whether to buy this. Not having any knowledge of the stock market, I didn't know if I'd like it.
Not only did I wind up loving this movie, it made me very interested in how the stock market works. Ewan McGregor's performance was amazing. I wasn't bored for even a minute. There were no drawn out parts at all...making this movie only 90 minutes was ... Read More
Rating: - Rogue Trader: Real-Life ~Wall Street~
For viewers more interested in this story, I suppest Nick Leeson's autobiography which the film is based upon. The book has valuable nuggets like his claim that the BoE's report(him, the lone scapegoat)and the SFO's inquiry were canards lacking the due diligence of the Singaporean investigation & subsequent report.
"Most of us enter the investment business for the same sanity-destroying reasons a woman becomes a prostitute: It avoids the menace of hard work, is a group activity that ... Read More
Rating: - Great trading movie.
Great movie to watch if you are a trader or day trader.
I trade and watch this movie once a year to remind me to keep my risk under control.
Rating:  - More excuse than expose, but slick enough
Rogue Trader is a surprisingly slick and enjoyable number just as long as you can overlook its very distant relation to truth about the downfall of Barings Bank in the wake of massive losses and fraud perpetrated by one of its Singapore traders. There's at least two generations who grew up never realizing that producer David Frost used to a vicious satirist, and this is the movie equivalent of one of his interviews, going along with his subjects' account of events no matter how outrageous the excuses ... Read More
Rating: - Great Movie
Great movie about what happens without the proper controls. One trader brings down all of Barings Bank. All based on a true story.
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