Stock Market and Wall Street Related Videos for the Holidays

Are you looking for a few videos to watch during the holidays? Or maybe you are looking for a great video gift for a friend who is interested in investing and the stock market. Pick up a couple of these interesting videos, a few of which you my not be familiar with.

Limitless is about an author who takes a new drug which causes him to become extremely intelligent  and astute. He becomes a stock trader who turns $12,000 into $3 million in a week.

Wall Street, a classic Wall Street movie starring Michael Douglas.

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is the sequel.

Wolf Of Wall Street is the extreme Martin Scorsese movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio, about Jordan Belfort, the infamous pump-and-dumper.

The Wolves of Wall Street is about a Wall Street guy who turns into a werewolf. Not my kind of movie, but if you are into this kind of campy genre...

Startup.Com is an interesting documentary about the rise and fall of govWorks.com, during the dot com boom and bust.

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is an expose on the Enron scam, and the people behind it.

Mugshots: Enron - Wall Street Scammers is another good documentary about the Enron crooks.

The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron is a movie, not a documentary about what else, Enron.

Too Big To Fail is a movie about the financial crisis of 2008, starring James Woods.

Unraveled is a documentary about a financial con man.

Inside Job is an Academy Award winning documentary about the financial crisis of 2008, Starring Matt Damon.

The Flaw is a documentary about the credit bubble and economic crash.

The Startup Kids is a doc about the young startup founders of Vimeo, Soundcloud and Dropbox.


Boiler Room is  a movie I really enjoyed, since it is based on a true story and gives insights into how a stock brokerage firm operating as a boiler room works.

Have I missed any? Any investment related movies that you would recommend? If so, enter it in the Comments section.

Investing in One Lesson

If you are a novice investor, or maybe you are an experienced but unsuccessful investor, you need to read Investing in One Lesson by Mark Skousen, Ph.D. I have been a subscriber to Skousen's newsletter for many years, and he has an outstanding track record. So he knows what he is talking about.

For those who have never invested before or are just starting to dip their foot into investing, Skousen makes investing easy to understand. He talks about risk and the factors that cause investment losses. He also covers the importance of dividends and diversification.

In  Chapter 10, he breaks down the factors that go into choosing a good investment, and in Chapter 11, he describes the "Golden Seven" stock market categories.

He makes the book interesting with lots of stories and unusual concepts, such as why good news for the economy is often bad news for the stock market.

The book was published in 2007 but is timeless. If you want to get a handle on the stock market and investing, I strongly recommend Investing in One Lesson.

Stock Market Trivia

Stock Market Trivia, the book

 

Who said Wall Street is boring? Do you know what stock traded for over a million dollars a share, the stock that had the symbol OO, or the stock that paid $8.5 million for a domain name? The new book, Stock Market Trivia: With a Special Section on the Weird Words of Wall Street, has this information and much, much more unusual and fascinating financial trivia.

Stock Market Trivia is a compilation of numerous interesting facts about Wall Street and the stock market. The book covers everything from the billionaire investor who was in a soap opera to Baby Bonds to Wall Street jokes to the stock that owned a rock that had George Washington's graffiti on it. It is an easy read that would make a great gift for the person who invests in the stock market. The book, published by CreateSpace, retails for $19.95.

The book is available from Amazon 

"It is refreshingly different and very fun. It is very much out of the ordinary and unusual."
~ Ken Fisher, CEO of Fisher Investments, Forbes columnist, billionaire, and author