Jesus, can't make a buck in this market, country's going to hell faster than when that sonofabitch Roosevelt was around... too much cheap money sloshing around the world. The biggest mistake we ever made was letting Nixon get off the gold standard.
Lou Manheim, Wall Street
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PS: Funny thing is, for you that know the movie, just before you see the NYSE and hear the bell with "1987" across the screen.. you hear Lynch with his pre-market blurb... appears the script is different from the movie..
The stentorian voice of OFFICE MANAGER HIERONYMUS LYNCH booms over the intercom.
We see him peering from behind the glass partition in hit office; tall, balding with a perpetual worried look on his face.
LYNCH Attention. Please. Office Production is down ten percent this week. I recommend that you all go through your clients' investments for any portfolio adjustments. And don't forget -- double commissions today on our 'A' or better bond funds. (looking in Bud and Marv's direction) Especially you rookies. Also, remember, the sales contest ends tomorrow.
Bud and Marvin roll their eyes. The digital clock flashes 9:30. The CREDITS close.
BUD And they're off and running!
The room rises to a subtle but new energy level with the clatter of the ticker, speakers, teletype machines, newsprinters' Dow Jones and Reuters, phones ringing off the hook. Brokers are shouting orders, running for tickets, dodging each other; it's a controlled riot. BROKERS Here's a hot lead... Have I got one for you.... sell ... dump it all!! ... 500 at an eighth, an eighth!... July fifties. April thirties...how bout those Decembers? You see where they're going? ... Morgan is selling a billion one at the close. Yeah. That's right, they're selling all over the place... we're still long on the treasuries -- $110 million. What about the Japs? ...Where am I? (confused at all the phone lights) We gotta lot of lights here! Let's pick 'em up.
BUD (on phone) Jack, take 50 Gulf, with a 3/8 top, forget the hundred. What about Delroy? I can go long at 23, let's go long...Conwest Air -- let me check it...
"When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk." Tuco (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)
"An umbrella with holes is better than no umbrella at all." Dr. Alexander Elder on using stops.
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