Rogue Trader (1999)

Ninick Leeson is an ordinary employee of Barings Bank in the UK. He wants to be a trader on the exchange. Make a fortune in the world of finance. Everything seemed to be destined, and the opportunity to display his talents soon came. He was first sent to Jakarta to deal with a long-stalled bond dispute. Such a task was a piece of cake for Nick, and things quickly calmed down. Fortunately, he also met the young and beautiful Lisa there. The two fell in love at first sight, and soon arranged a wedding and got married.

The new expenses after marriage made Nick work harder. With his own cleverness, he soon discovered that using the difference between the customer's futures account opening margin and maintenance margin for turnover was a way to make a fortune. After a stock loss, Nick repeated his old tricks, and the situation was not optimistic. Fortunately, the Nikkei futures he held rose all the way and finally made up for the loss. His wife was shocked when she learned about this, and Nick promised not to take such risks again.

Because of the high fee income generated by the astonishing transaction volume, Nick was appointed as the general manager of Barings Bank Futures Company in Singapore, and became the envy of his peers. Soon after, he became the "ace" trader on the exchange. Nick's deals kept getting bigger and bigger, but occasionally he failed. For this reason, he set up an error account 88888 to temporarily store those incorrect transactions, but gradually, the error account changed its purpose in Nick's hands. He included his failed trades to cover up his losses. As his position rose, he became more and more stressed. He was busy working all day long and inadvertently ignored his newlywed wife. Nick didn't realize this fact until Lisa gave birth due to neglect.

But it was already too late. Nick's gambling was getting bigger and bigger, to the point where he was in an uncontrollable situation. He does deception every day and lives a life of fear. Finally, during a company audit, Nick's wrong account was exposed. This time he will not only face losing a job, but spending the rest of his life in prison. In the face of irreversible defeat, Nick and Lisa chose to escape. Just when they were proud that they could successfully escape, the police appeared on the plane and Nick was arrested. Nick was sentenced to six years in prison on multiple charges, but was released after four years in a Singapore prison after he was diagnosed with cancer. But at this time, his beautiful wife Lisa has moved on.