Season 2 Episode 1-5
Episode 1 Season 2 "Up On Futures"
Larry, the floor trader, shows us how trading OJ futures in the outcry pits can be more intense than any game in Vegas. Laetitia, the rookie, graduates from NYU and goes to her first nerve-wracking job interview on Wall Street. Jim and Lance, stockbrokers to the rich, reveal how they are betting all of their clients money on one “sure-fire” stock. Brett, the 28-year-old fund manager, investigates a new private bank in Connecticut and grills the bank president over his business plans.
Episode 2 Season 2 "Holding Patterns"
Jess, one of the few women on the trading floor, explains how she holds her own in a trading pit full of men. Brett, the fund manager, is late for a meeting in Cairo and calls in a helicopter to whisk him off to JFK. Meanwhile, the stockbrokers explore the art of the phone pitch and the hard sell. Laetitia, fresh out of business school, waits for news if she has landed a trading job that will allow her to break free of her parents.
Episode 3 Season 2 "The Hate Index"
Tempers flair in the trading pits as factionalism breaks out and Larry explains the deep seeded hatred among the cliques. Meanwhile, Laetitia, the rookie trader, starts her first day of work and is overwhelmed by the speed of the market data she has to comprehend. The brokers, Jim and Lance, berate their junior brokers for getting them bad leads while Brett, the fund manager, test drives a $300,000 speed boat and throws an elite party for his wealthy friends in the Hamptons.
Episode 4 Season 2 "The Spread"
Laetitia has made it through her second week as a day trader, now she has to survive her first performance review. Brett, the fund manager, networks with clients while running the New York triathlon. Jim and Lance wait for the Fed to release the new interest rate and watch to see how it effects their “sure-fire” position in the market. Larry and Jess, in the open outcry pits, explain how pit trading really works. Later, all the brokers have a New York poker party.
Episode 5 Season 2 "Open Outcry"
One of the biggest days in the OJ pits as a crop report number comes out. Larry hasn't slept in days and stands to lose millions if his bets are off. The pressure mounts on Laetitia as she nears the end of her fifth week of training and she has to make an important decision. Brett flies out to a horse ranch in Connecticut to see if it's a good place to invest his fund's money.
