Trading Pit Blog
Random bits of history and artifacts from open outcry futures pit trading.
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Moving Day
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I'm happy to point out that the main tradingpithistory.com site has finished it's redesign and the blog will no longer be at...
Monday, March 30, 2015
Rum brokering to futures clearing
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image source: thedrinkingcup.net Of all the financial firms which participated on the trading floors, none has more interesting orig...
Sunday, February 22, 2015
Trading Pit Hand Signals book video trailer
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We've taken a long while to finishing the Trading Pit Hand Signals book trailer but it's great to finally release it as the video ...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Followup on futures trading pit closure
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Well, I guess I should remark a bit more on the closure of the futures trading pits now that I've had a chance to reflect upon thin...
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
End of futures pits in July
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Time to break out the trading jacket and cards one more time and card up a floor trade for the first time since 2005..... CME Group to Cl...
Friday, December 12, 2014
Dancing in the pit
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I'm a bit busy lately so will just put up this video of a guy dancing in one of the currency pits at the old Merc.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Singapore Exchange documentary
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To celebrate 30 years as the premier Asian futures exchange, the Singapore Exchange recently released the above video, entitled Founding ...
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