New BBC Reality show Eight ordinary people are given a million dollars, a fortnight of intensive training and two months to run their own hedge fund. Can they make a killing?

The experiment reveals the inner workings of a City trading floor. The money is supplied by hedge fund manager Lex van Dam: he wants to see if ordinary people can beat the professionals, and he expects a return on his investment too. Yet no-one foresees the financial crisis that lies ahead.

The traders were selected in spring 2008, before the US credit crisis gathered pace. The successful candidates were chosen, trained and dispatched to their specially created trading room in the heart of the Square Mile. Among them are an environmentalist, a soldier, a boxing promoter, an entrepreneur, a retired IT consultant, a vet, a student and a shopkeeper.

As the novices learn the dark art of trading stocks and shares, the financial markets start to buckle. Making money takes second place to basic survival as the brutal realities of global economics take their toll on the traders. How do they cope? Will they secure themselves a bonus, or walk away with nothing?

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=gVcMCrwc9UE

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Julian:2tu:

Nice Video's Julian
Just got through the first two episodes now having a short break then I'll watch the third.
Short note what I liked were a couple of quotes
"Stocks have no memory"
"Stocks don't care"
"Get used to losing money it will happen"
And poor old Simon as it shows not everyone is cut out to do it,
Just leave your emotions at the front door
it's a good viewing & some of the experiences, they go through hits home.
Thanks again for that Julian

Hi Romelio just finished watching the first episode, talk about a crash course in learning how to trade, no wonder there breaking under the pressure where was the months of paper trading, i think anybody that wants to trade for a living should watch this show.

Julian

Shame this video is not available anymore sounds like it would have been great to watch