Wall Street Warriors: Season 1

For those who would tune into WALL STREET WARRIORS; believing that this series is some satirical view on capitalism, this may not be for you. WSW is a surface look at the wheels that keep Capitalism rolling along. I find the show to be a breath of fresh air, when it comes to showing how the pursuit of profit, can drive some people in their business activities. I rate this show up there, with APPRENTICE, Season 1. I will definitely be adding this series to my DVD collection. For all TRUE CAPITALIST out there reading this......WELCOME HOME!!

I deceided to buy the entire season 1 based off the first show. It may not be for everyone, but if you enjoy finance and intrested in how the Wallstreeters are living.......you may enjoy. My wife would fall asleep trying to watch this, but seeing their hunger, work ethic, and picking up a tip here and there is what keeps me intrested in the show.

This show was based on a series of interviews with various Wall Street folks.While somewhat interesting in places, overall I was disappointed.Any advice about investing or success on Wall Street was extremely vague, and mostly sounded like standard business platitudes.The common theme from the traders shown was that their job life is frenetic. The pace and style is, ironically, exactly opposite the tried and true methodology for the vast majority of successful INVESTORS (i.e. as opposed to speculators) - as described by legendary folks like John Bogle and Warren Buffett.Timothy Sykes, a day trader who had made a killing in the post-internet market collapse (as a microcap short biased trader -- he was obviously in the right place at the right time) was a perfect example of the hyperactive, overconfident, and self-congratulatory 20-somethings that are playing the Wall Street game. These folks seem to have NO clue that making $10 million to $100 million on Wall Street by trading is about as realistic for 99++% of traders as the ghetto kid who is convinced he'll make the NBA by playing basketball instead of studying. I guess the youth get their drive from dreaming big.(To his credit, Tim does admit he was lucky when he made his big gains). On the other hand, he talks about the need to control emotions, but is constantly very emotional when he trades and discusses his trading. He also seems completely random to me as he trades -- basically, he's a technician who gets his contrarian ideas from Wall Street and technical publications. Not exactly unique. Not exactly insightful, though apparently delusional.Another common theme was an extreme attachment to wealth and the arrogance the taste of wealth (like a house in the Hamptons, a fancy car, and fancy food, etc) gained clearly implied -- that folks who couldn't afford such a thing are clearly inferior to the folks that can. I guess this is all too predictable, but I was hoping folks who are supposedly so brilliant or talented or socially in tune would have a BIT of perspective or social insight into how the world works.Most of the folks, like a specialist or a futures floor trader just explained the basics of what their jobs entail. Nothing insightful there at all.I was hoping to get some meaningful insight into what some of the truly genius folks on Wall Street do and how they think. maybe some useful insight into what to read or how to do research (more sophisticated than seeing how prevalent a brand of blue jeans are in certain stores).If you are an investor looking to actually learn something - take a big pass on this title.

As one of the stars of this show, I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out. Most reality shows are pretty rigged, but I'm here to say that this was one is pretty true to real life. Sure, I come off a little too cocky sometimes, but then again, I kind of am; as bad as that sounds, you need that supreme confidence in yourself when you're trading and risking so much money. I do wish they'd focused a little more on my trading itself as some of the edits don't really make sense, but television still hasn't found a visually appealing way to show how intense trading actually is. The cool thing is that all this media exposure I've gotten actually played a large role in inspiring me to write my upcoming book, "An American Hedge Fund."Anyway, I just bought my own copy of the DVD and the bonus features on Disc 2 with all the outtakes are hilarious. I highly recommend this product.

I trade stocks from home a little bit and the show inspired me. Best parts were the trading floors, Alex and Tim turning $16,000 into $1.5 million. It doesn't get very detailed on the technical side of finance, which I guess is good because that would be kind of boring. I've caught a few episodes of the new season on TV - it's pretty entertaining, especially the 28-year-old Hedge-fund Manager who runs a $100 million fund - Damn! I got to go back to school!

As I do trading for a living, I can identify some of the traders' day to day life. It shows different traders/Fund mgr' typical days are like, but nothing special. It surely lacks Drama! It's ok to watch just once, but I won't watch it again. Too boring!Perhaps, Gordon Gekko doesn't exist in real Wall street.

Accurately described item was safely and promptly shipped.Poor script.

Some of this is great for any budding young banker - but it hypes alot of the reality - the lawyer - what does she do ? She has no idea about finance or how to trade - all she does is look pretty and try to get clients- that is very poor -the young so called hedge fund start up - reason why no money is coming your way is because you have no solid wall street background - i do like it but it over sensationalises so called wall street - i was hoping for more but nonetheless i do remain drawn to it