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Money jobs: The truth about trading

Films make commodity trading look very intense and totally make or break. We find out if it's really like that with a real life trader. Plus, some jargon busting explanations.

We all love a good financial film, we might not all fully understand what鈥檚 going on the whole time, but they鈥檙e always really intense with a make or break ending, but is working as a markets trader really like that?

This is the latest episode from our Business Daily鈥檚 series on high value, high transaction jobs you might read about, see on the TV or glamorised in films.

In episode three Leanna Byrne looks at how some of the most famous financial films depict working as a commodities trader and compares that with what a real life commodities trader, Warren Goldstein, tells us about working in the industry. If, even as your read this, you鈥檙e thinking hang on what鈥檚 a commodity trader? Don鈥檛 worry, Katie McGarrigle, show host for Options Trading Concepts Live on the tastylive network, is our jargon buster for this episode.

Presenter/producer: Leanna Byrne
Image: Traders on the floor; Credit: Getty

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Wed 14 Dec 2022 08:32GMT

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