Forex Industry Overview & Market Landscape

Rogue Trader

Key TakeawayRetells how Nick Leeson brought down Barings Bank, underscoring risk controls, human greed, and structural loopholes. It is a visceral lesson for anyone entering trading.

The Rise of Bitcoin

Key TakeawayA superb primer on the crypto frontier, tracing Bitcoin’s rise from geek experiment to global asset while covering both believers and skeptics to explain the market’s volatility and potential.

Inside Job

Key TakeawayAn Oscar-winning deep dive into the 2008 crisis that interviews insiders across government, finance, and academia to answer how it happened and who was responsible—essential viewing on systemic flaws.

Wall Street

Key TakeawayInterviews top Wall Street bankers, traders, and analysts to explore modern market mechanics, the aftermath of 2008, and the sweeping impact of financial innovation.

Introduction to Behavioral Economics

Key TakeawayThough not a trading doc per se, it reveals how human psychology systematically departs from rationality and drives predictable investing errors—essential for reading market sentiment.

Billions

Key TakeawayOften hailed as the definitive finance drama, following a hedge-fund titan and a U.S. Attorney locked in mind games that mix elite trading tactics, market manipulation, and moral gray zones.

Dirty Money

Key TakeawayEach episode dives into a new corporate scandal, revealing how firms chase profit at the expense of governance and ethics—vital context for understanding market and compliance risk.

Industry

Key TakeawaySet in a 1980s London investment bank, it follows young graduates through a world of greed, drugs, and brutal workplace dynamics—capturing the raw culture of high-pressure finance.

The Big Short

Key TakeawayCharts contrarian investors who shorted the U.S. housing market in 2008, using witty devices—like celebrity bathtub explainers—to demystify CDOs and the double-edged nature of financial innovation.

Margin Call

Key TakeawayCondenses the 24 hours before the crisis, focusing on traders at an investment bank as they discover risk and grapple with ethics, survival, and the weight of their decisions.

Default Day

Key TakeawayRecreates the 1997 Asian crisis through Korea’s lens, showing how officials, financiers, companies, and households confronted national default—revealing how macro shocks shape markets and lives.

Smart Money

Key TakeawayBased on true events of Queens blue-collar workers who leveraged bowling expertise to spot inefficiencies in betting markets—a great case study in niche edge and arbitrage.

Arbitrage

Key TakeawayRichard Gere portrays a hedge-fund titan scrambling to hide a fatal mistake while selling his firm, exposing the pressure, deceit, and moral compromise lurking behind success.