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Its a good movie.... for a stockbroker lol haha i used the film to help me with my old telemarketing job; other than that i dont think its Wall Street worthy :P

 

what blows my mind is that peope to this day still sell stocks over cold calling! the best realistic stockbroker job i could find was this

it doesnt get to the stockbroker part till 11:23

 

Let's be honest here, everyone on this site would be doing Boiler Room work at JT Marlin instead of banking if they could actually make that much money.

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aempireiLet's be honest here, everyone on this site would be doing Boiler Room work at JT Marlin instead of banking if they could actually make that much money.

I know a few retail brokers pulling in $90+ a month.

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ginNtonicI thought it was a fun movie with a lot of good quotes. It's not really a finance movie. If you want a finance movie I loved Margin Call.

I thought Margin Call was a little boring to be honest. It had promise but really flattened out towards the end.

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Boiler Room was a great movie. It isn't tremendously applicable to the industry today, but that doesn't detract from it's quality.

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This is how the movie starts out:

"I read this article a while back, that said that Microsoft employs more millionaire secretary's that any other company in the world. They took stock options over Christmas bonuses. It was a good move. I remember there was this picture, of one of the groundskeepers next to his Ferrari. Blew my mind. you see shit like that, and it just plants seeds, makes you think its possible, even easy. And then you turn on the TV, and there's just more of it. The $87 Million lottery winner, that kid actor that just made 20 million on his last movie, that internet stock that shot through the roof, you could have made millions if you had just gotten in early, and that's exactly what I wanted to do: get in. I didn't want to be an innovator any more, i just wanted to make the quick and easy buck, i just wanted in. The Notorious BIG said it best: "Either you're slingin' crack-rock, or you've got a wicked jump-shot." Nobody wants to work for it anymore. There's no honor in taking that after school job at Mickey Dee's, honor's in the dollar, kid. So I went the white boy way of slinging crack-rock: I became a stock broker. "

Fucking classic.

 

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