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Floored - Documentary on the shift from trading pits to electronic markets
Floored is a documentary movie about the Chicago futures trading pits. This is a brilliantly done documentary that focuses on the lives of traders who go in daily to do battle on the trading floor, risking their personal wealth, making or losing ten's of thousands of dollars a day. This documentary provides a fascinating insight into trading, traders, and the futures markets. It also gives a background on what futures contracts are, and how they came about, and of course, how people make money buying and selling at the exchange. Of course it also looks closely at the shift from "open outcry" (the trading pits), to ... (full story)
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