Wall Street II - seems everything else has a sequel

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Wall Street II - seems everything else has a sequel

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I've had this thought about making a movie based on the life of "daytraders" (used to mean pure daytraders, momentum plays, positioning) and how the market works today (and how it may well turn out to be in 5 years or so - you know the James Bond inventions are commercialized in real life at some point).

Looking for representative stocks whose 'trading stories' could be depicted, names changed of course and looking for the cast of lead characters. Your ideas are welcome. Hope you all can contribute and that we can protect the idea as emanating from SI ie. we don;'t want anyone ripping off the idea - is there a way to do this? Are there any attorneys out there in this field?

I think this would help get the story out to the public on both the good and bad stories surrounding the new "Wall Street" - where the 'wall' is superthin and it is amazing it doesn't break given all the chatter along side the walls.

Some stories:
1. the company that can extend your life
2. the company with the cure for cancer
3. the company that rises on apparent superb technology

Of course for the movie to sell, the stocks involved will need to be 'popular'. But, perhaps we should present some stocks that moved up 'quietly' - the Peter Lynch type thing of invest in the most boring stocks. To counter balance, a sexy stock.

As for a list of character types:
1. the big hedge fund manager - some days you make it and others, not

2. the stock market news channel or should I say channels, as we are talking the future - we are talking 24 hour trading - arbitrage in foreign currency and foreign equity markets (I have some great ideas here I think) - the personalities

3. the jammers - just who the heck pushed the jam button on the internet when I had my position open - and who flooded the phone lines with signals so that I could not get through to the on-line broker - or who moved the satellite in low earth orbit

4. the Tommy's - those who trade at work, but their systems admin won't open up a port in the firewall, so they lack real time data feeds, not market depth / level two, do not have the business channel commentary (and wonder why the heck something spiked) - why not , if Tommy and Jean Claude Van Dam can do it, I will imagine , focus, and let my intuition be my guide

5. the bashers - trying to scare you off a message thread

6. the surgeon, who comes home at night after a pressure filled day of life and death , and trades until 3 am on the markets in the Far East because it suits the schedule of a surgeon

7. the mom (or Mr. Mom) who have decided it is less worth while for both spouses to work given the cost of daycare/babysitters and taxation

8. the professional trading shop houses - trading anything and how we don;t even know what the company does

9. the old established investment houses

....
starring Gene Hackman, Arnold Schwarzenegger (sp) (I'm back), Robert Redford, Tommy Lee Jones, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, etc.

Taking casting and script writer auditions now.

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3	skip #9 - who cares about the old investment houses anymore! what about the s	BillCh	-	3/15/1999
2	Where can I get one of those watches you can use to pull the girls zipper down	TH	-	3/14/1999
1	Too much typing - fingers tired - more at a later point.	QuietWon	-	3/14/1999

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