This life of excess leads to divorce, remarriage, an investigation by the SEC and FBI, and many other problems for Belfort. With more money than he knows what to do with, he begins to do hardcore drugs like cocaine and Quaaludes he also throws huge, lavish parties, has sex with prostitutes and other random women, and lives a life of pure overabundance. Jordan finds a way to do this and begins to earn millions. He hires on his friends and teaches them all this technique, at first selling to small-time investors, but later, his wife suggests he try to sell penny stocks to investors who usually only deal in blue-chip stock. Jordan devises a technique which allows him to earn large sums of money and eventually opens his own firm, Stratton Oakmont. Penny stocks allowed brokers to receive 50% commission per transaction as opposed to blue-chip stocks, which offer considerably less. When Jordan takes his first call, he sells a huge amount of stock with little effort. Most of the guys who work at this firm don't have a lot of experience selling stocks. With the assistance of his wife Teresa (Cristin Milioti), he applies for a job at a small investment firm selling penny stocks. After Black Monday, Belfort loses his first Wall Street job and is broke. Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a young go-getter trying to make his way as a broker on Wall Street.
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