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Hack attackIt's always nice when our little industry makes one of its rare forays onto the silver screen. Or at least it should be; unfortunately the only movies I can recall which have derivatives as their theme are the execrable Rogue Trader, based of course on the Barings fiasco, and now a documentary self-explanatorily titled Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room. Typical - always go for the failures. That said, I can't see Spielberg jumping at the chance to direct, Integrity, Transparency, Innovation: CBoT's Glory Years (starring Brad Pitt as Bernie Dan, naturally). Anyway, I digress: last week I saw an article in a British newspaper in which "derivatives trader" Duncan Baird gave his view on the Enron flick. All in all he's not terribly complimentary about it, describing it as "very biased" for, in his opinion, implying that everything Enron did was a catastrophe. For instance, he points...

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