Chris Dingman

He made $100 million in a single day while cameras were rolling, then spent years trying to erase every copy of the film. In 1987 a 32-year-old named Paul Tudor Jones was running $125 million out of a small New York office. A PBS crew followed him for months as he stared at one chart: the 1920s Dow overlaid on the 1980s. Correlation: 92 percent. He told them the market would climb toward 3,200, then produce an “earth-shaking” crash that would dwarf anything in living memory. Ten months later Black Monday arrived. The Dow dropped 22.6 percent in one session. Almost the entire Street was wiped out. Jones made roughly one hundred million dollars that day. Afterward he did everything possible to kill the documentary. He bought every VHS copy he could find and demanded PBS stop airing it. For decades the only way to see *Trader* was through bootlegs that changed hands for hundreds of dollars among traders who treated it like sacred text. Inside the footage he delivers the single rule that actually built the fortune: “I risk 10 cents to make eight bucks.” Everything else is noise. The full hour is free on YouTube right now. Seventeen thousand views. Almost no one currently managing serious money has ever watched it.