F-Forex, Diary of a quant forex trader

Market Crash With DTRS

DTRS commentary from the Market Crash on May 6th, 2010, with added spice of music and video.

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Chris Dunn visits the Chicago Board of Trade

We went down to see the S&P 500 trading pit… our plane was delayed and we arrived at 3pm the Friday before a holiday. Needless to say, there was hardly any action, lol.

Tags: chicago, cme, pit, sp-500

1929 Wall Street Stock Market Crash

The most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States;
Its from my favorite documentary by PBS – New York.

This particular part about Wall Street crash of 1929 is from episode 5 of the series with title: Cosmopolis
there are lots of archive photos, footages and drawings throughout the series and in my opinion it was great work done with finding them.

series website:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork/serie…

“Archival shoots took place at various historical and cultural institutions, including the New-York Historical Society, the Museum of the City of New York, and the Library of Congress, and focused on the filming of particularly rare or large-scale archival prints, lithographs, maps, and photographs”

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Wall Street trader’s NYSE tour

Teddy Weisberg, who has worked on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange for 40 years, gives us a tour of the exchange.

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Trailer for the 2010 documentary “The PIt”

The Pit: one of the most primitive, yet highly ritualized arenas of the financial world, The New York Board of Trade floor. Amidst the shouting and hand signals, the Pit is also a chaotic masterpiece of eye-to-eye trading. Through relationships built during her time as an NYBOT clerk, director Johanna Lee was given unprecedented access to the Pit, where she captured intense competition for survival, personal dramas and trading tickets.

However, the Pit has quickly become a casualty in the technology race, as electronic trading has come to dominate the market. As Lee follows the lives of several traders who were forced to either adapt or lose everything, personal and emotional stories unfold for a film that is relevant and compelling; an intimate portrait of men and women struggling to survive on one of the last platforms of pure capitalism and a unique snapshot of the American Dream.

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My Word Is My Bond, A Documentary on the Chicago Board of Trade

The Chicago based video production company, Production Craft, produced this program which covers more than a century and a half of the Chicago Board of Trades (CBOT) history from its founding in 1848 through the recent merger with once rival Chicago Mercantile Exchange in 2007.

CBOT historians, members and former chairmen account the remarkable evolution of this great Chicago financial institution and its unique way of doing business.

“In Latin we say dictum meum pactum—my word is my bond. Theres no contract, not even a handshake, but just a nod of the head in acknowledgement, you made the trade.” Patrick H. Arbor, CBOT Chairman 1993-1998

Most Chicagoans relate the CBOT with its historic landmark building at LaSalle and Jackson and the chaotic trading floor. This documentary traces the progression of the futures market and tells stories about traders like Old Hutch who made a fortune in the wheat pit in 1881. Members discuss advancements in technology from the invention of the trading pit in the 1800s to current electronic trading platforms. The program reveals the significance of the exchange during the Civil War, World War II, the stock market crash of 1987 and its impact on our current credit based economy.

These stories are told by Chicago leaders including Charles P. Carey, CME Group Vice Chairman and former CBOT Chairman; Terrence A. Duffy, CME Group Executive Chairman; Rick Santelli, CNBC Business News On-Air Editor; George Seals, Trader and former Chicago Bear; and former CBOT Board members, Keith D. Bronstein, Richard L. Sandor, and Lee B. Stern.

My Word is My Bond was produced by Chicago based video production company, Production Craft, Inc. Since 1984 Production Craft has provided professional video production services and programming to broadcasters, businesses and organizations. A companion book of the same title written by Arlene Michlin Bronstein contains a collection of interviews conducted for the documentary.

To request the enire program, contact Production Craft at 312.829.0272 or info@productioncraft.com

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Damn It Feels Good to be Banker — A Wall Street Musical

Tags: banker, Leveraged Sellout, musical, wall street

25th Hour Trading Floor Scene

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FLOORED official trailer

A world that’s more riot than profession, the trading floors of Chicago are a place where gambling your family’s mortgage is all in a day’s work. Floored offers a unique window to this lesser-known world of finance. These men may not have degrees, but they’ve got guts, and penchant for excess that solicits simultaneous feelings of revulsion and admiration. But like many aspects of our economy, technology is changing the way these traders do business, and these eccentric pit denizens aren’t the type to take kindly to new tricks.

Floored the Movie

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