After working their way up in penny stocks, the two found their own company, Stratton Oakmont, in a leased auto body repair shop. The two begin to socialize and become friends, as he learns Donnie married his attractive cousin, Hildy, and do cocaine with each other. After impressing Donnie with his pay, Donnie quits his job to work with Jordan. While eating at a diner, Jordan befriends his neighbor, Donnie Azoff, who is impressed by his wealth and 1988 Jaguar, which is outside of the lot. Comparatively to the other employees, Jordan is extremely successful with his methods, and procures a decently high wage from it. With this information, Jordan starts smooth talking his way to customers, exaggerating the stocks in their exclusivity and marginal success. After getting situated by Dwayne, Jordan learns the small business specializes in penny stocks, but the earnings from it give fifty percent of the sale value.

But, on 'Black Monday', the largest one day stock market drop in history, Jordan loses his job and he must find work elsewhere.Īfter his wife's encouragement and scanning through a newspaper, Jordan gets a job at a boiler room brokerage firm on Long Island. Quickly, Jordan adopts the sex and drug fueled culture of Wall Street and focuses on getting every last cent from his clients, to amass his own fortune. Hanna takes Jordan to lunch later on that day, attracting Jordan with his lifestyle and beliefs, all fully displayed on that one afternoon by Hanna himself. Rothschild, meeting a hotheaded broker named Jerry Fogel and a senior broker, Mark Hanna. In 1987, Jordan Belfort is happily married to Teresa Petrillo, and has just secured a job as a Wall Street stockbroker for L.F.

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