Jim is the cockney boy wonder who can read stock charts like 50 ft road signs. His uncanny talent has taken him from tea boy to trading superstar. Is he a genius, or a fluke? He doesn't know. The mysterious Max Davas, emperor of trading, makes billions dealing US Treasuries using more computing firepower than NASA. But now his models are telling him that something is about to go catastrophically wrong. Are predictions fate? Or does the cockney kid hold the key to the Armageddon trade?