L'Argent ne dort jamais Série-Collection : Thema : Le Triomphe de l'argent

Alain Lasfargues
1999 - 52 min - France

On the financial markets, money circulates at the speed of light. How does this whirlwind work ? Who are the people who navigate in these uncertain waters ? How do they manage to stay on course ?
In the trading room at Crédit agricole Indo-Suez, we witness a dizzying operation : in less than one hour, every evening, two operators invest the balance of the bank's funds. On this particular day, the sum is enormous, two billion one hundred million euros !
On the telephone, they negotiate with operators officiating in other trading rooms, in other banks across the world, in a gigantic game of poker.
In the USA, simple speculators are called "day traders". They learned the job by following a five day training course in a company that rents by the hour technical spaces. When the market opens in the morning they have nothing. And in the evening, they sell everything before closing.