20 Best Trading Movies to watch on Netflix during Coronavirus lockdown

Sometimes watching Netflix is not a waste of time. Here is a list of movies to watch, about trading, markets and inside information.

Documentaries

1. Betting on Zero: The documentary follows billionaire and investment fund titan Bill Ackman and several former Herbalife distributors after Ackman makes a short sale on Herbalife, accusing it of being a pyramid scheme destined for collapse. The film also documents Ackman's enmity with Herbalife CEO Michael Johnson and investor Carl Icahn, and the resulting controversy over the company's short sale and business practices.
   
   
2. Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World is a 2016 documentary directed and produced by Werner Herzog. The film is about the impact of the internet, robotics, artificial intelligence, and other technologies on human life. The film was released on January 23 at the Sundance 2016 festival and was produced by NetScout. In the documentary several people appear who have participated in the development of the internet and technologies over the years. Among them are Kevin Mitnick, Elon Musk, Sebastian Thrun, Lawrence Krauss, who share anecdotes and opinions on the current and future of the internet.
   
   
3. Goldman Sachs - The bank rules the world: Ever since the stock market crashed, on the night of September 15th 2008, Goldman Sachs, or GS for short, has been popping up everywhere: in the collapse of the financial system, the Greek crisis, the plunge of the euro, and the campaign to prevent regulation of financial markets. The investment bank created in New York in 1868 has carved out its reputation and success by working silently behind the scenes. GS was THE bank, the financial institution that ran the world in working in the utmost secrecy. But today GS stands accused of myriad charges: playing a key role in the subprime loan fiasco, pushing several of its competitors into bankruptcy, helping countries like Greece hide their deficits before speculating on their downfall, precipitating the fall of the euro, and influencing the consumer price index. And yet GS has come out of this latest crisis richer and more powerful than ever. The film will take viewers right into the heart of THE BANK that runs the world. The story will unfold like a thriller, using “news” images interspersed with accounts from key players (bankers, finance ministers, victims, etc.) and analysts (economists, European deputies, journalists, etc.). It will take us from New York to Athens, with stops in London, Paris and Brussels.
   
   
4. Steve Jobs - Man in the machine: The documentary features Jobs' 1983 Apple keynote address introduction to the famous 1984 Super Bowl XVIII advertisement directed by Ridley Scott, during a look at the history of the Apple Macintosh, and includes behind-the-scenes footage of the making of the advertisement. In one segment the documentary shows the iPod nano advertisement that features Canadian singer Feist performing her single 1234 which helped both the nano and song gain notice in popular culture. When examining Apple's iPod and iPhone products, footage from the 1991 Wim Wenders film Until the End of the World is shown to highlight the social implications these products have had on human interaction and isolation.
   
   
5. Dirty Money: Dirty Money is a Netflix original television series which tells stories of corporate corruption, securities fraud and creative accounting. All six one-hour long episodes began streaming on Netflix on January 26, 2018. The show's executive producers include Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney. Each episode focuses on one example of corporate corruption and includes interviews with key players in each story. A second season of the show premiered March 11, 2020.
   
   
6. Puttin's hidden treasure: Since his twin “election victories” - the general election in December 2011 and the presidential election in March 2012 - Vladimir Putin has decided to take Russia in hand. Protests in major cities demanding his departure and denouncing his regimes corruption, defections in his own camp, and the media daring to criticize power, have proven too much for the King of the Kremlin. The government has thus started turning the screw with one thing in mind: to maintain Putin as the supreme leader at least until 2024, the end of a second successive 6-year mandate. Between the posts of president and prime minister, he will have already run the world's biggest country for 14 years during which he and his henchmen have proceeded with an unprecedented redistribution of wealth.The main beneficiaries: those close to him in the police, the army and the FSB. Putin himself is said to have become several billion dollars richer. Beyond that, the repression is going full-steam-ahead: Intimidation, phony trials, beatings, opposition leaders are now living in a climate of pressure and the threat of unheard-of violence.
   
   
7. Banking on Bitcoin: Banking on Bitcoin is a 2016 documentary about the beginnings of bitcoin and how it evolved to be what it is today. The film was directed by Christopher Cannucciari. The film starred many early adopters of bitcoin, including Charlie Shrem, Erik Voorhees, Gavin Andresen, David Chaum, and the Winklevoss twins. Banking on Bitcoin was released on Netflix and provided many people with an introduction and overview into the cryptocurrency world. The official soundtrack was composed and produced by Ben Prunty.
   
   
8. Saving Capitalism: is a 2017 documentary film directed by Jacob Kornbluth and Sari Gilman, following former Secretary of Labor and Professor Robert Reich, speaking about current state of our economic system, and presents ideas how to "save capitalism". The film was released by Netflix on November 11, 2017
   
   
9. The Final Year is a 2017 American documentary film directed by Greg Barker. The film is a chronicle of the Barack Obama administration's foreign policy team and the events of Obama's final year in office. While President Obama features at certain points, the documentary crew mainly followed the activities of Secretary of State John Kerry, UN Ambassador Samantha Power, National Security Advisor Susan Rice and Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes. Although the documentary does not feature Donald Trump, the emphasis among the main players switches as the final year progresses from enacting a foreign policy legacy to taking measures to protect that legacy from being dismantled by the incoming administration.
   
   
10. Silicon cowboys: You won’t walk away with a degree in business or psychology after watching Silicon Cowboys. But this documentary leaves you with a curious feeling that you've earned college credit in both, and gotten a few laughs as well.
    
    

Films

1.  The Trader Documentary: This documentary gives a rare look inside the world of one of the greatest money mangers of our time
   
   
2. Michael Covel’s Trend Following Film, Broke:  Covel does a great job showing how the economic system failed in 2008 and how trend following trading is a better path than gambling and buy and hold investing.
   
   
3. The Big Short: This is my all-time favorite trading movie. It told the stories of three traders that bet against the housing market bubble and won big.
   
   
4. Wall Street: A tale of all that is wrong with Wall Street insider trading.
   
   
5. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps: This is much better than the original, and tells the story of the comeback of Gordon Gekko.
   
   
6. Trading Places: The classic comedy where commodity traders try to turn a street hustler into a trader.
   
   
7. Margin Call: I really enjoyed this drama about traders inside an investment bank at the beginning of the 2008 financial meltdown. I wish this movie was longer.
   
   
8. Floored: This movie did a good job of showing how the trading life can turn your life upside down, or for some people, it can make you fabulously wealthy.
   
   
9. Boiler Room: This movie is about how a boiler room operation works by hawking non-existent stocks and bonds for non-existent companies to enrich the ‘brokers’ peddling these worthless stocks.
   
   
10. The Wolf of Wall Street: This is a raunchy, classless tale of greed based on the writings of Jordan Belfort, a stockbroker in penny stocks convicted of market manipulation. This movie may contain more drugs, sex, nudity, and cursing than you see in the other movies, but it’s ultimately a comedy and works as pure entertainment.

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