The Shark of Wall Street
The journey of an outsider from India who refused to accept Wall Street’s script — and began writing a different one with World Trade Factory, AI, and a sharper view of how the world really trades, invests, builds wealth and manages risk across global markets, stocks and trading.
01 · From India to the Street
No Ivy League pedigree. No family fund. Just a person from India obsessed with how money really moves — ships, trade lanes, interest rates, and the quiet decisions that never make the headlines. In the background: a real education in wealth, personal finance, long-term investing and stock market behaviour, built from the outside in.
Regular childhood, irregular curiosity
While most people watched stock prices, Sage was drawn to the boring stuff: trade data, balance of payments, deficits, containers at ports. The question was simple and relentless: “Who actually controls the future?”
The answer wasn’t just “Wall Street.” It was supply chains, central banks, technology, and a world that was rewiring itself faster than the old guard wanted to admit — the real plumbing behind global wealth, capital flows, equity markets and currency moves.
Landing in the heart of the machine
Years later, Sage finds himself deep in the financial world — learning the rules, seeing the blind spots, and realizing just how much of the system runs on assumptions and narratives that no one ever questions out loud.
That’s where the idea takes shape: instead of trying to join the club, build something outside of it – something that reads the world differently and calls the turns ahead of time in equities, indices, credit and cross-border flows.
The moment the shark shows up
The “Shark of Wall Street” isn’t about greed. It’s about refusing to swim with the school. It’s the moment an outsider stops taking notes and starts contesting the script – calling out where markets are going, not where the commentary says they are.
This site is the hub for that story: the real-world journey, the frameworks behind it, and the platform being built to take on much bigger players with conviction, code, and compounding insight in stock market strategy, macro trading and global investing.
02 · A Story Built for Screen & Page
The Shark of Wall Street is designed as both a non-fiction book and a cinematic arc – grounded in real trades, real macro turns, and the psychology of building something from nothing in modern finance, wealth, markets and trading.
Act I · The outsider
India. A regular family. No inside connections. Just late nights, charts, and a brain that can’t stop asking “why?” as the world lurches from crisis to crisis.
Act II · Building World Trade Factory
Early drafts, broken dashboards, people not taking it seriously. The slow grind of building an AI + macro engine while everyone else is chasing the next hype in finance and technology.
Act III · Taking on the Street
Calling turns before they become consensus. Clashing with the traditional playbook. Trading a safe career path for a shot at changing how serious people see the world, allocate capital and build wealth.
A tight, high-velocity book (or limited series) that moves between personal narrative, macro events, and live trades – including the real decisions behind portfolio shifts, risk management, stock selection and global trade calls – as one continuous thread.
Ports, terminals, AI dashboards, quiet apartments lit by laptop glow, and the contrast between shiny institutions and the reality of building alone — a visual mix of trading floors, freight yards, balance sheets and human moments.
A simple question: can a regular person, with no safety net, really build something that forces the big players to pay attention? What does it cost to try — in money, in time, in relationships, and in the compounding risk of betting on your own read of global finance?
03 · World Trade Factory: The Engine
Underneath the narrative is a real platform: World Trade Factory – an AI-augmented, macro-intelligence and investing ecosystem built to read the world differently and help serious capital act on it across equities, indexes, sectors, commodities and global trade-driven strategies.
Macro & trade intelligence
Global trade flows, FDI, credit conditions, policy shifts, and real-economy indicators stitched into one living view of where the world is actually heading — and what that means for stock markets, wealth allocation and portfolio construction.
AI & LLM research stack
AI models that digest filings, earnings calls, tariff updates and macro reports – surfacing what’s changing, what’s breaking, and what no one is pricing yet across stocks, sectors, countries and asset classes.
Built by an outsider
No committee. No legacy stack. Just a founder designing an engine he wishes existed when he started out: transparent, sharp, and relentlessly global in how it reads wealth, finance, risk and opportunity.
04 · How People Describe It
The reactions so far aren’t about hype – they’re about recognition. People see a story they don’t usually get: no inherited edge, no safety net, just compounding work in markets, wealth and investing.
“It feels like if Moneyball, a macro journal, and a coming-of-age story were smashed together around one person’s obsession with trade and markets.”
“Most finance stories start inside the system. This one starts far outside of it – and that’s exactly why it’s interesting.”
“It doesn’t glamorize anything. It shows the grind, the doubt, and the small wins that eventually become something nobody can ignore.”
05 · Screenplay & Direction · Andrew Johnson
To bring this story to the screen, Andrew Johnson is attached to develop the screenplay and direct the cinematic adaptation of The Shark of Wall Street – pairing the world trade and macro story with an eye for grounded, character-driven filmmaking.
Exploring humanity one frame at a time
Andrew is a working indie director, producer, and screenwriter whose work is centered on humanity, struggle, and meaning. His filmmaking journey began in the Pacific Northwest, writing and directing short films, and continued through his time at Michigan State University, where he recently graduated.
There, he directed the senior capstone and his latest award-winning film, “Orientation” (2025) – a project that showcased his ability to balance grounded realism, character tension, and emotional payoff.
Current work: America’s backbone
Andrew is currently developing a docuseries on blue-collar workers in America, following the lives of two vibrant personalities in the moving and storage industry. The series focuses on the deep, often unseen stories of the people who keep the country running.
That instinct — to explore real people, real stakes, and the quiet weight of work — is a natural fit for a story about a regular person taking on global markets.
Why this story, why now
Andrew grew up loving films like Jaws and Star Wars, with a lifelong goal to direct meaningful, original features that leave a mark. He’s drawn to stories where ordinary people are thrown into extraordinary systems — and have to fight for agency.
The Shark of Wall Street gives him a canvas that blends global macro stakes with intimate, personal evolution: a person from India, blue-collar realities, AI and trade, and the emotional cost of refusing to follow the script.
Screenwriting range
Andrew’s script portfolio spans fantasy, drama, gritty period action, sports drama, supernatural thriller, and coming-of-age sci-fi, including projects such as:
- Land of Aura: Energy of the Past – Fantasy adventure
- Lone – Last man on earth drama
- Aborigine – Gritty tournament-to-the-death period piece
- Salted Wounds – Trauma & aspiration through a magician
- Heart of the Wolf – Coming-of-age sports drama
- Beyond the Garden – Supernatural thriller teleplay
That range — from intimate drama to mythic stakes — is what he brings to the adaptation of The Shark of Wall Street: grounded yet cinematic, global yet deeply personal.
06 · Book / Film & Collaboration
If you’re a publisher, producer, investor or collaborator who sees the potential in this story and the platform behind it, this is the line to reach Andrew directly.
Direct contact · Andrew Johnson
Email: filmandrew1@gmail.com
Phone: 425-440-1603
Andrew is actively looking to work with agents, producers, and filmmakers on projects that have something real to say about how people live, work, and navigate systems much bigger than themselves.
For investors & operators
If you’re more interested in the World Trade Factory platform than the book or film, mention “World Trade Factory” in your message and include a line about your mandate or the kind of capital / business decisions you’re making — family office, fund, treasury, corporate strategy, trading desk or personal wealth.
Serious interest in the platform, macro intelligence, or potential collaboration around data, investing strategy or trading research will be routed appropriately.