Novices Given $1 Million to Start a Hedge Fund on TV

Filed in archive Hedgetalk on January 23, 2009

Avanta is making its UK television debut with Million Dollar Traders on BBC2. Aired for 3 weeks in January, the series will play out at Avanta's Austin Friars business centre in London.

The program gives eight ordinary people a million dollars and two weeks of intensive training to help prepare them to launch their own hedge fund and try to make their fortune in the stocks and shares market.

The traders set up camp in one of the buildings grade A office suites, buying and selling in the stock market in an attempt to make their millions.

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