Trading Pit Hand Signals is a retrospective look at the history and function of open outcry trading pits with a specific focus on the trading floors of Chicago, New York, London, Paris and Singapore.

2010年2月24日 · A 'saying' that I often heard was that "there are old traders and there are bold traders but there are no old, bold traders." It took years to fully understand it and in general it's true except for very rare exceptions.

Since the 1980s, the open outcry systems have been steadily replaced by electronic trading systems (such as CATS and Globex). Floor trading is the meeting of traders or stockbrokers at a specific venue referred to as a trading floor or pit to buy and sell financial instruments using open outcry method to communicate with each other.

The trading pit, historically synonymous with the bustling energy of financial markets, represents an essential aspect of trading culture. As we delve into its significance, structure, and evolution, we will explore how the trading pit has adapted to the digital age while retaining its core principles.

2015年3月30日 · The 19 minute documentary provides a great retrospective of SGX's origins which were initially developed upon the trading pits of SIMEX and is a mix of vintage trading …

2015年11月15日 · That brought an end to a 167-year tradition of price discovery via a raucous group of mostly men crowded into pits and gesturing with their hands to buy and sell a wide range of commodities and financial instruments. The vast majority of futures trading at CME is now conducted electronically.

2014年2月27日 · Random bits of history and artifacts from open outcry futures pit trading. Cleaning up the computer I came across this batch of CBOE photos from either 1997 or 1999 which features the OEX, SPX and AOL pits. It's 83 photos in all and although I've never done much on the CBOE, figured I'd put these up.

2021年5月5日 · When CME Group announced most "open outcry" commodity trading pits won't reopen after pandemic closures, it marked the official end to an era that helped cement the city as a Midwest hub—and...

In the latter decades of the 20th century, the trading floors teemed with thousands of traders pressed together in the pits, where they flashed hand signals and shouted orders in a crackling,...

Traders are calling it an "end of an era" after news late Wednesday that CME Group, the parent company of the Chicago Board of Trade and other exchanges, is shutting down most trading in its 21 pits in Chicago and New York. Those sites are where people establish prices by flashing hand signals and shouting at each other on a trading floor.