London
(ANI):
Transformers
star
Shia
Labeouf
has
revealed
that
after
his
role
in
Oliver
Stone"s
Wall
Street:
Money
Never
Sleeps
he
has
become
quite
an
expert
at
investing.
LaBeouf,
23,
played
a
young
Wall
Street
whizzkid
opposite
Michael
Douglas" ruthless
Gordon
Gekko
in
the
movie,
and
he
prepared
for
his
part
by
training
at
one
of
the
world"s
largest
discount
brokers,
Charles
Schwab.
“Before
I
did
anything,
before
I
even
met
Oliver
Stone,
I
went
into
the
Schwab
office...
I
get
out
to
New
York,
I
meet
all
these
amazing
people,
and
I
said,
alright,
I"m
gonna
put
some
money
into
it," the
Daily
Express
quoted
him
as
saying.
“If
I"m
ever
going
to
invest,
and
I"ve
always
wanted
to,
this
was
the
time
to
do
it.
So
I
put
12,500
pounds
in.
And
that
20,000
pounds
turned
into
305,625
pounds.
I
looked
at
it
yesterday
(18Feb10)...
I"m
pretty
good
at
it,"
he
said.
But
LaBeouf
admits
the
big
payoff
also
came
with
big
risks.
“Really,
it"s
who
gets
the
information
first...
four
of
the
nine
guys
I
was
training
with
got
arrested
and
are
in
jail
now
for
insider
trading,"
he
added.