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Floored
2009 · Film · documentary · 77 min
Directed by James Allen Smith
Enter a world where pandemonium reigns and reckless ambition rules: the trading floors in the financial canyons of downtown Chicago. Here, men use strange hand signals to buy and sell everything from pork belly to soybeans while wearing the weight of our complex economy on their shoulders - along with their neon jackets. It's a physical, bruising place, one where a slight gain creates heroes, rich beyond what their high school educations should ever afford. But the wrong move on the wrong day can ruin lives. At a time when millions have lost fortunes in the fickle stock market and fear abounds about the faltering financial system, FLOORED is a gripping, honest look behind the curtain of the trading floor that few have ever seen
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Speaking as a software developer at one of the exchanges, I thought these comments were accurate and insightful. A lot of people think that colocation is inherently unfair, but they don't realize what a huge improvement this is over the old system of a limited number of floor traders.
One slight correction: I think the movie about floor traders in Chicago is called "Floored". There is another another movie about floor traders in NY called "The Pit".
Floored -- A documentary of the floor traders working on Chicago's floors and how the electronic business is changing their lives. http://flooredthemovie.com/community/