Wall Street Pro Reacts to Movie Margin Call

Chris Haroun June 9, 2025
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Book a call with our team here so we can help you break into finance (investment banking, hedge funds, venture capital, private equity and more): https://cal.com/chrisharoun/meeting-with-chris In this video a former Goldman Sachs employee who worked in venture capital and at the top hedge funds reacts to the movie Margin Call, including the accuracy and lessons that investors must pay attention to. Key topics discussed are leverage, risk management, the crash of 2008, panic selling, office politics, money explained and much more. The video Wall Street Pro Reacts to the movie Margin Call contains closed captions. _____________________________ For all my Billions Episode Videos and Finance Movie Videos (i.e., Wolf of Wall Street, The Big Short and Wall Street movie, etc.), please see this playlist: → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw5p0liAEjI&list=PLTCsUVU-15hRsDk77nRZT5jmnAs7iQEZr _________________________________ → Get More Great Finance/Investing Tips - Subscribe → https://www.youtube.com/ChrisHarounVenturesCompleteBusinessEducation?sub_confirmation=1 _______________________________ Here are the Clickable Chapters for the video: 00:00 Introduction 00:38 What investment bank is this movie based on? 01:22 Risk management explained 02:06 Vesting options explained 03:05 VAR and volatility explained 03:56 Finance CEO roles explained 05:01 Market cap and “books” explained 05:50 Leverage explained 06:58 Billion dollar skill CEOs have 09:40 Three ways to win in finance 11:22 Ruthless finance CEOs 12:22 Ethics in finance 13:16 First mover advantage 14:37 Scapegoats in finance 16:53 Money explained 18:43 Unwinding a position explained 20:16 Swaps explained 20:57 Panic selling explained 21:44 Movie bottom line rating (Buy, Hold or Sell Rating?) 24:08 My next reaction video