Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), a Wall Street stock market tycoon in the United States, is a powerful figure in the financial world and is feared by everyone. In the financial wars that are staged anytime and anywhere, he can always win every battle. Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen), a fledgling New York University graduate, is ambitious, but has no place to report with his passion. By chance, he came into contact with Gekko and used a stock market insider information to help him make a lot of money and was reused, becoming one of Gekko's partners. In his desire for money, beauty, and upper-class society, Bud began to use everyone around him to spy on all favorable business intelligence for his own profit. Until in the process of acquiring Blue Star Airlines where his father worked, the greedy Gekko went back on his word and wanted to disband and sell it, which made Bud, who still had a conscience, wake up. He used all the stock market tactics that Gekko taught him to fight back against the tycoon Gekko and help his father save Blue Star Airlines. However, because of illegal manipulation of stock insider trading, Bud had to face the cold iron bars...