The Bulls and the Bears is a documentary film about a game - a zero-sum game called Futures Trading which requires nerves of steel and a lot of money to play.
The traders in the film speculate on the movement of interest ratest on a minute by minute basis. They can win big, because they are only required to place a small amount of their bet on the table, as it were. But when they loose, they loose the lot.
The events in the film took place over a ten month period in 1998 - the year after Asia’s financial meltdown - and the final days of the trading floor at the Sydney Futures Exchange.
