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When one young Chicago trader first heard people were making $50,000 to $100,000 in a day He told himself he would quit the moment he ever made that kind of money. Then he had his first five-figure day. He was back in the pit the next morning. “After a while, the money becomes just a way of keeping score.” By the late 1980s, a seat on the exchange could cost more than $300,000, and the trading floors were said to hold more millionaires per square inch than anywhere else on earth. But the footage shows what that money did to people. Traders carried live quote machines on dates, practiced screaming so they could be heard above the crowd, wore the same clothes after winning days, and came back even after they had already made enough to leave. The technology looks ancient now. The psychology does not. This rare documentary captures the exact moment trading stops being about money and turns into identity, competition, and addiction to the game. Bookmark it and watch as a lesson from the past Especially now that markets are once again rewarding speed, hype, and risk-taking.