El Chapo gold engraved Beretta 92F in the DEA's museum. Bro had Versace grips with gold and diamonds and a golden suppressor with engravings.
📸DEA Museum: https://t.co/OVEiWMBoTv
When one young Chicago trader first heard people were making $50,000 to $100,000 in a day
He told himself he would quit the moment he ever made that kind of money.
Then he had his first five-figure day.
He was back in the pit the next morning.
“After a while, the money becomes just a way of keeping score.”
By the late 1980s, a seat on the exchange could cost more than $300,000, and the trading floors were said to hold more millionaires per square inch than anywhere else on earth.
But the footage shows what that money did to people.
Traders carried live quote machines on dates, practiced screaming so they could be heard above the crowd, wore the same clothes after winning days, and came back even after they had already made enough to leave.
The technology looks ancient now.
The psychology does not.
This rare documentary captures the exact moment trading stops being about money and turns into identity, competition, and addiction to the game.
Bookmark it and watch as a lesson from the past
Especially now that markets are once again rewarding speed, hype, and risk-taking.
🚨 TRUMP’S CRYPTO EMPIRE MAY GO DOWN AS ONE OF THE LARGEST RETAIL WEALTH DESTRUCTION EVENTS IN CRYPTO HISTORY.
Nearly 1 MILLION wallets that bought the TRUMP memecoin are now sitting at a combined loss of $3.81 BILLION.
At the same time, Donald Trump personally received a $636 MILLION payout from the same project.
And this was not some anonymous memecoin launched by random developers.
This was promoted directly to millions of people by a sitting U.S. President and his family.
“GET YOUR $TRUMP NOW!” was publicly posted while the token was exploding higher.
The coin eventually reached $75.35.
Today it trades around $1.76.
Down roughly 97%.
The entire structure heavily favored insiders from the beginning.
A small group of early wallets captured billions while retail investors entered after the hype already went viral.
Around 500,000 wallets reportedly made close to $4 BILLION in profits.
Meanwhile, nearly 1 million other wallets absorbed the losses.
And TRUMP is only one part of the story.
Trump-linked crypto projects have already wiped out over $51.4 BILLION in value:
• $TRUMP: -97.6%, wiping out $17.5B
• $WLFI: -88%, wiping out $12.3B
• $ABTC: -93%, wiping out $11B
• $MELANIA: -99.4%, wiping out $10.6B
At the same time, the Trump family reportedly made around $2.3 BILLION from crypto ventures with very little downside risk.
Most of the money came before retail investors even understood what they were buying, and they just became an exit liquidity.