Million Dollar Traders TV Show

Million Dollar Traders is a 2009 British reality television series created by hedge fund manager Lex van Dam in an attempt to recreate the famous Turtle Traders experiment in the 1980s. Eight ordinary people are given a million dollars and a fortnight of intensive training to run their own hedge fund. During the series, van Dam gave the London-based contestants the sterling equivalent of $1 million of his own money to trade for 2 months. The contestants come from various backgrounds, including a fight promoter, a day trader, an IT/banking recruitment consultant, a working mother, a retired IT engineer, and a student, among others.